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How to write a product vision statement

ProductBoard

Sometimes when we’re really excited about something, we perhaps become a bit prone to flights of grandiosity. And while having a grand vision for our company or product can be a powerful motivator, plans tend to go awry. Paul Graham once said: “If you have some kind of big visionary plan, you’re probably Webvan.” It’s best not to think of a product vision like some pie-in-the-sky goal.

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Product Love Podcast: April Dunford, Speaker and Author

ProductCraft

This week on Product Love, I sat down with April Dunford, a positioning consultant, keynote speaker, and the author of “Obviously Awesome.” Per her book title, our conversation was obviously awesome (cue the tomatoes). April has spent 25 years successfully running marketing and product teams for startups. In fact, most of the startups she’s worked. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: April Dunford, Speaker and Author appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Validate for product success

Obo

No one likes the idea of pouring precious time and effort into creating a product or product functionality that bombs in market.

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Data-Driven Product Management: How To Become an Insight-Driven PM

280 Group

This article discusses how data-driven product management can help you use the right data, to uncover the right insights, and ultimately build the right product. Join our upcoming webinar, “ Becoming Expert: From Data-Driven to Insight-Driven Product Management – A Critical Key to Your Product’s Success. The Buzz Around Data-Driven PM. There’s been a lot of talk lately about “Data-Driven Decision Making” (DDDM).

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Three steps toward creating market-leading products

Lead on Purpose

The goal of every company and product leader is to invent products (or services) that become recognized market leaders. Creating a new product category is icing on the cake, but also rare and extremely difficult.

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Product is Hard by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

We are all learning how to manage product in the internet age. There have been many successes and failures, and there are still lots more to come. Marty Cagan has worked at plenty of internet successes and failures, including eBay, Netscape and HP. He now heads up Silicon Valley Product Group, where he works with product managers and senior leaders to help them generate value through their products.

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A Candid Letter From a Product Management Instructor

280 Group

Believe me when I say that I’ve poured my heart and soul into our online training program. Recently I was conducting a Beta test of our new Virtual Instructor Review program. Names popped up on the list as students logged in, and I checked it carefully. It turns out that people are shy on the phone. They keep their thoughts to themselves. They think that what they have to share and ask isn’t worth talking about.

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The evolution of how we celebrate Pride at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

It is 50 years this month since the Stonewall riots in New York City, which were a response to discriminatory police raids against the LGBTI+ community. The Christopher Street Liberation Day March which marked the anniversary of the riots is considered to be the first ever Pride. This major anniversary has been inspiration for us at Intercom to pause and re-evaluate our approach to Pride.

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How Mobile Apps Improve the Effectiveness of Customer Loyalty Programs

Alchemer Mobile

According to RetailMeNot, approximately 80 percent of customers are more loyal to brands that offer rewards programs and 70 percent are more likely to participate in a loyalty program if they can access it through their mobile device. Given this, 88 percent of retailers plan on investing more in mobile marketing than any other channel. Customers now expect to gain points and achieve milestones for purchases made through apps.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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How we set up our Team for Continuous Product Discovery

Mind the Product

The Dilemma With Product Discovery. Usually, we use a discovery period intending to understand the users’ problem, define a solution, and then decide what to build in the so-called “delivery” Many companies have their specific budgets for these week or month-long periods and a super-important meeting at the end of the discovery to present the findings to the leadership team so that they can decide on the next steps.

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Method to the Product Madness

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Terri Boshoff (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Bill Walsh's The Score Takes Care of Itself

Sachin Rekhi

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. The first philosophy is often characterized by first setting an overall vision; then coming up with mutually agreed upon goals, often in the form of objectives and key results (OKRs), and holding teams accountable to those results; and finally delegat

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How to write surveys for user research that aren’t terrible

Userzoom

When you use survey questions in your user research , you want them to be designed well. It’s really easy to make bad surveys, and plenty of companies do. Surveys are admittedly overused and often ineffective on their own — the self-reported data that you pull from survey questions is biased and has questionable accuracy. It’s typically much more valuable to gather insights from data on actual behavior and user interviews.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Crazy Busy Product People – Rian van der Merwe on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

The Head of Product at Wildbit, Rian van der Merwe has spent his career being crazy busy – and he’s had enough of it. He joined us to talk about slowing down to speed up, making sure your team(s) are productive, and managing yourself to provide the most value to everyone around you. Quote of the Episode. We’re crazy busy taking on too much responsibility and not trusting our teams enough.

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Doing Effective Product Management

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Amazon Product Managers Prepare For War With Walmart Product Managers

The Accidental Product Manager

Amazon is getting into a next-day delivery war with Walmart Image Credit: Kyle Brazil. Amazon is a large and powerful company that dominates the world of online selling. Walmart is a large and powerful company that dominates the world of bricks & mortar selling. These two firms are starting to come into conflict when it comes to next-day home delivery as Walmart starts to move into online sales and Amazon starts to move into home delivery.

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Flowchart: Should We Build This Feature?

ProductCraft

Product managers get a lot of feature requests. Some come from customers, others from execs, and still others from the product team itself. Unfortunately, you can’t build them all. And choosing which feature to work on next isn’t all that easy, with limited resources and competing priorities acting as major constraints. So, how do you. Read more » The post Flowchart: Should We Build This Feature?

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? David Gledhill , DBS Bank Chief Information Officer. Bank customers’ requests are rapidly changing. Providing flawless branch services and keeping clients’ money safe is no longer enough.

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First-time Product Person

The Product Guy

So, you are finally a product manager. What should you REALLY be doing? How should you REALLY be doing it? How can you maximize your decision quality? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Learning Japanese Business Etiquette to Build Trust with Japanese Clients and Coworkers

freshtrax

Japanese business etiquette can be quite complex and intimidating as there are many rules, customs, and traditions to follow. However, their proactive attitude toward showing respect is what helps them build better and stronger relationships. For those truly interested in forming sincere bonds with Japanese business partners and colleagues, it is well-worth learning.

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Why This Engineering Leader Thinks You Shouldn’t Aim for Zero Regrettable Attrition

First Round Review

As Greenhouse’s CTO, Mike Boufford built an engineering team that grew from one to 60 in its first five years — with zero regrettable attrition. Here, Boufford shares the recruiting tactics and culture practices that made engineers want to stay, and then opens up about why he started encouraging them to consider leaving the nest.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Don’t limit yourself to one “superpower” as a PM

The Product Coalition

Last month , I spoke a bit about how it’s worth it to do what it takes to grow your product?—?whether that means picking up a new skill or other functional roles when it’s needed at different stages of the company. We often underestimate the value of recognizing when these “sprints” are needed to be taken by members of a product development team, and how impactful that can be in the future of both the company and your own career.

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Three KPIs All PMs Should Know How to Measure

ProductCraft

Today’s product managers, particularly those in the B2B SaaS space, have access to enormous amounts of data. And while more data is typically a good thing, it can be a challenge to separate signal from noise. In the early days of product management, product delivery was the only metric that really mattered. Now, product managers. Read more » The post Three KPIs All PMs Should Know How to Measure appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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The Merits of Storytelling in Digital Marketing

AB Tasty

Why has storytelling become a decisive element for the most successful digital marketing campaigns? Discover how to breathe life into your brand! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as The Merits of Storytelling in Digital Marketing.

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Why This Engineering Leader Thinks You Shouldn’t Aim for Zero Regrettable Attrition

First Round Review

As Greenhouse’s CTO, Mike Boufford built an engineering team that grew from one to 60 in its first five years — with zero regrettable attrition. Here, Boufford shares the recruiting tactics and culture practices that made engineers want to stay, and then opens up about why he started encouraging them to consider leaving the nest.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Insights of a Product Manager: Surviving Product Manager Role using OKRs

The Product Coalition

Product Manager’s OKRs OKRs stand for Objectives and Key Results. The Objectives tend to be the desired outcomes that you want(“ What ” do you want to achieve?), and the Key Results are the measurable ways to reach them(“ How ” do you want to achieve it? or Track it). For e.g: An Objective for a product manager can be like , “What do I want to achieve in this quarter, ?

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11 Essential Mobile Analytics Books for User Engagement and Retention

Amplitude

Mobile usage has nearly eclipsed web usage over the last decade. With access as close as your pocket or purse, it’s no surprise that mobile devices are the new wave. In fact, 58% of site visitors came from mobile in 2018 (versus desktop). As mobile usage increases, so does the need to analyze user behaviors on mobile websites As mobile usage increases, so does the need to analyze user behaviors on mobile websites and apps. and apps.

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10 Online Communities Product Managers Should Join

ProductPlan

As product managers, there are some things we just have to learn through experience. You’ll never know what it really feels like to present your product roadmap to your executive staff, for example, until you call that meeting and do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re on your own as a product manager. You don’t have to learn every strategy, challenge, and pitfall of the profession through trial and error.