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Launching A New Product? Don’t Forget The Rest Of The Company.

The Product Coalition

Align everyone in sales, marketing, product, customer success, and professional services. Photo by Jungwoo Hong on Unsplash You’ve been planning this launch and everyone involved in the process knows everything they need to know. Or, do they? In addition to Sales, Professional Services, Customer Success, Support teams need to be part of communication and alignment plan since they work with customers and prospects more often than you think.

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User Personas: Traps And How To Overcome Them?

UX Studio

Do you love user personas? Turns out, not everyone is a fan. At UX studio, we recently had a great conversation about user persona creation which showed us that most designers and researchers have their doubts. We still think personas have proven themselves a necessary technique, but where does the controversy come from and how can we create good ones?

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Deconstructing Being Agile

The Product Coalition

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit. Organizations began looking to consultants to help them become more agile, and an entire Agile industry was born.

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Roadmaps are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps! by C. Todd Lombardo

Mind the Product

Do you ever feel like breaking up with your roadmap? In his talk from #mtpcon San Francisco, C. Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. Why do we Ship the Wrong Thing? In modern product management, we have multiple frameworks and tools designed to help us understand what to build.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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“I Have An Idea” – How I Evaluate Product Ideas

The Secret PM Handbook

People are always asking me “Hey, I have a product idea. May I run it by you and get your input?”. Of course, I say yes. They tell me the idea, and it’s usually “ a technical thing for some kind of team.”. And my response is, “Well, that sounds neat, but….” And then I ask some questions. The answers to those questions tell me if the idea is any good.

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Sales Presentations: Calculating Your Buyer Relevance Quotient (BRQ)

Product Management University

Nothing accelerates the sales process more than a presentation that simply “nails it.” Here’s a quick test to determine the B uyer R elevance Q uotient (BRQ) of your sales presentations. The Playbook: Go find a sales presentation you’d consider to be one of the best. Count the number of slides where at least 80% of the content on the slide is about the buyer’s business (not about the product).

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7 Years of Amazing Product Talks

Mind the Product

For the past 7 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco and #mtpengage in Hamburg – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. We invite some of the top product thinkers and practitioners from all over the world to share their experiences, insights, and lessons, and now we invite you to watch the entire library of talks!

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Keys to being an Effective Product Manager

The Product Guy

What do you think it takes to be a highly effective product manager? The answers may surprise you! Here, enjoy listening to a true product management expert’s perspective and check out more great product management information. Enjoy! Jeremy Horn. The Product Guy.

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How to ramp up your Customer Support team using Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

As your business grows, having an excellent customer support team who can keep up is critical. Ramping up that support team, however, is easier said than done. If you don’t have a process or tools in place to help scale your support team, you’ll be reinventing the wheel each time you onboard a teammate – redirecting precious time and resources away from the customers you should be helping.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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Why “Uber for X” startups failed: The supply side is king

Andrew Chen

Remember all the “Uber for x” startups? A few years ago a ton of “Uber for x” startups got funded, but very few of them – maybe none? – worked out. It sounds good but ultimately most failed on the supply side. Let’s explore why. Rideshare has better economics, at the same acquisition cost. Rideshare is special. Acquiring a broad base of labor for driving is expensive, often $300+.

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Why can’t we settle the “is a hot dog a sandwich?” debate?

dscout People Nerds

dscout asked nearly 600 people the oft-debated question… and then asked them to record their answers in the moments they were chowing down. Here’s what our in-context research told us about the underlying, surprising reasons we just can’t shake the great “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” debate.

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Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops

First Round Review

While at Pinterest and Grubhub, Casey Winters relied on content loops, an overlooked path to growth. Now a scaling advisor to companies such as Eventbrite and Reddit, he shares a 5-step process and three more advanced strategies for using this approach to achieve steep and sustainable growth.

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Video Bots: The future of sales automation

Intercom, Inc.

When customers visit your website or use your app, there’s an opportunity to engage and connect with them to increase their likelihood of taking a desired action. Video is one of the best ways to capture someone’s attention, and when paired with our Custom Bots and apps, you can turn that attention into action, automatically. Whether it’s to help convert a key account, to promote your latest product, ask for feedback, or just prompt them to start a chat, video can help.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Full Transcript: Greg Coticchia on the Product Love Podcast

ProductCraft

If we ever looked into the history of product management, Greg Coticchia would probably be chronicled as one of the first trailblazers in the community. He’s spent many years all over the United States, consulting for product managers and helping out product teams in any way he could. Most recently, he’s written a book about. The post Full Transcript: Greg Coticchia on the Product Love Podcast appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Pricing Is Poker, Not Chess

Pragmatic Marketing

In her book, “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t have All the Facts,” Annie Duke started off with “Life is Poker, Not Chess.” Wow. Have you ever read a book that gave you a way of thinking that is just common sense, but you really needed someone to make it clear for you? Annie Duke’s book did exactly that for me. I couldn’t help but apply it to the world of pricing—over and over again.

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What Spotify and Metallica Can Teach Us About Data-Driven Event Strategy

Revulytics

On its recent earnings call, Spotify founder Daniel Ek revealed that Metallica is now leveraging data from the streaming music service to localize their performances, tailoring set lists based on the songs most popular among fans in that city. Digital Music News reported that Ek told those on a recent earnings call that, “We’ve never before been at a place in time where you could make as many informed decisions and understand your audience as well as we can do now as an artist.”.

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An upstanding brand – how team values influence how we work

Intercom, Inc.

A set of core values makes it easier for everyone to navigate behavioral expectations at Intercom, and for individuals to see how they might thrive here. As head of the Brand Studio , I’ve watched our team scale in a very short period of time. Defining a small set of true values is key to making sure teams like ours can grow and adapt quickly, without the need for demoralizing micromanagement.

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How To Manage Multiple Product Teams For Successful Development & Delivery

Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple

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Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops

First Round Review

While at Pinterest and Grubhub, Casey Winters relied on content loops, an overlooked path to growth. Now a scaling advisor to companies such as Eventbrite and Reddit, he shares a 5-step process and three more advanced strategies for using this approach to achieve steep and sustainable growth.

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Pricing Is Poker, Not Chess

Pragmatic Marketing

In her book, “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t have All the Facts,” Annie Duke started off with “Life is Poker, Not Chess.” Wow. Have you ever read a book that gave you a way of thinking that is just common sense, but you really needed someone to make it clear for you? Annie Duke’s book did exactly that for me. I couldn’t help but apply it to the world of pricing—over and over again.

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Customer-driven onboarding for growth & retention

ProductBoard

In our recent company announcement, we promised to share what we’ve learned along the way from our very first product prototype through to Series A. Here’s the first post in our new series! (Get them delivered to you ) Looking to acquire new users who will stick around for the long run? It’s all in your product onboarding. But not all onboarding is created equal, and.

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The Data On Why Product Managers Should Invest In Remote Team Management Skills

The Product Coalition

PMs should prepare for a future where many, if not most, of their teammates work in a different location Remote work has been building up steam for quite some time now. The advent of actually decent cloud-based productivity tools has made it easier to communicate and collaborate with teammates without being in the same room. Asana et al make task management easy and asynchronous, while Slack, Google Hangouts and more have made communication quick and in the best cases, personal.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Product Managers Investigate Car Subscriptions

The Accidental Product Manager

Do consumers want to subscribe to cars or own them? Image Credit: Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar Follow. So I want you to think back to the last time that you bought a car. Just exactly how did you go about doing this fairly major task? If you are like most of us, you at least spent some time thinking about what you wanted. You thought about how much stuff you generally haul around, how many people you give rides to, and just exactly how far you tend to travel on a daily basis.

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How to Navigate Growth as a Product Manager

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

The job of a Product Manager can be challenging at even the most mature companies. But how do you manage growth at a company experiencing rapid success? When business is booming, new challenges arise for getting features to market faster, scaling quickly, and differentiating your products from competitors. So how do you navigate growth as […].

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Trust in the Next Stages in Your #prodmgmt Career

The Product Guy

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. . Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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Product Love Podcast: Jeff Lash of SiriusDecisions

ProductCraft

How many days has it been since you last talked to a customer? Jeff Lash, vice president and group director of product management at SiriusDecisions believes this to be the very essential question for all PMs. This week on Product Love we talked about the fundamental mistakes that product teams often fall victim to, how PMs. The post Product Love Podcast: Jeff Lash of SiriusDecisions appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr