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3 Trends in Financial Services that Product Managers Must Tackle by Upskilling

280 Group

Download the Brief: Industry Trends in Financial Services with Product Management Transformation. Digital transformation initiatives heated up in organizations across multiple industries during the pandemic — and the momentum continues. According to Flexera, 54% of companies worldwide are prioritizing digital transformation, and Grandview Research projects the global digital transformation market size will reach $400.34 billion in 2021.

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That Pesky REQUEST A DEMO Button! Keep It or Chuck It?

Product Management University

Here’s the deal. That REQUEST A DEMO button on your website is offering demos to anyone who wants to see your products. You’re on the hook to give them a demo, and if they want to play hardball, they’re not the least bit obligated to tell you why they’re interested. Is this a good way to drive high-quality leads into the top-of-the-funnel?

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The Heart of Your Product Strategy: Selecting to Win

The Product Coalition

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. You have to identify insights, clarify goals and assumptions, and align with multiple stakeholders. While all steps are vital, I have often seen that successful strategies come to life in a moment of truth: when you select those insights, that will truly make the difference.

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ProductTank in a post-pandemic world

Mind the Product

Down here at the end of the earth we have had a bit of a different experience to the rest of the ProductTank world, with our elimination of COVID-19 in the community allowing in-person events to be run for most of the second half of 2020 and most of 2021. So, we have been able [.] Read more » The post ProductTank in a post-pandemic world appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Strategic Team Alignment: Elevating the Executive Gate Review [+Webinar]

280 Group

Join our upcoming webinar, Cultivating a Strategic Product Team, Part 2: Elevating Executive Gate Reviews , to learn more about the process in-depth. After completing a recent Phase/Gate workshop for a fintech client, the VP of Product Management walked over to me and asked, “Could this process really be used to do ‘status updates’ at the executive level for five projects in 30 minutes?

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Agile and People: The Transformation Will Happen Naturally

The Product Coalition

The Buddha said that nothing exists on its own and everything changes. His students called these the two core truths of all existence i.e. emptiness and impermanence. 2500 years later, despite the aid of countless wise men and women explaining these apparently simple concepts, millions of us are still trying to make sense of them. In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise.

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Essential KPIs for data-driven product managers

Mind the Product

In the following article, we’ll explore the importance of KPIs in tracking product success. Taking into consideration various performance indicators can be essential in providing managers with the necessary data to identify this. These KPIs are even more useful when interpreted correctly. They can help you draw important conclusions and drive continuous improvement.

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How to Ask Great User Research Questions with Amy Chess of Amazon

UserInterviews

Great user research projects start with great research questions. Amy Chess explains how to choose the right UX research objectives and questions to understand what you don’t know.

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Better Meetings Make for Better Days — 20 Tactical Ideas to Try Out With Your Team

First Round Review

We're spending more time in meetings than ever. The sharpest folks we've interviewed share their best tips for making sure this time is well spent.

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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 Transition from Engineer to Product Manager in Seven Steps

The Product Coalition

So you’re looking to switch up your career path from engineer to product manager? This can be a difficult transition for some people but… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Why you need to know about different product manager types

Mind the Product

Have you ever heard a product management talk from another Universe? It’s when you realize that your product management world is in another universe from the speaker’s one. It appears that you do one thing and the speaker does something else. Then you hear another talk and see another world. It’s so confusing, it’s not [.] Read more » The post Why you need to know about different product manager types appeared first on Mind the Product.

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345: How to use Jobs-to-be-Done to be a market detective – with Dave Duncan, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Skills for product managers to deeply understand customers’ problems and goals. Today we are talking about how to understand what provides value to customers by giving them what they need to solve a problem or complete a task. Clayton Christensen described this as the job to be done. It is a topic our guest, David Duncan, knows well, as he co-wrote the Jobs-to-be-Done book Competing Against Luck with Clayton Christensen and has more recently written The Secret Lives of Customers: A Detecti

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Conversations in Tech: UX Research and Anthropology

Nulab

Conversations in Tech is a live video podcast (via YouTube and Facebook Live ) where we interview professionals in the tech industry to learn more about their work, experiences, and how they’ve become who they are today. Viewers can ask questions during the show and have them answered by our guest speakers. UX Research and Anthropology. In this episode, we invited Crystal Tan , UX Researcher at Seedly , to be our guest on the show.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Why All Great Products Start Off Looking Terrible

The Product Coalition

Good ideas are commonplace. Good ideas that look terrible are rarer, but they are where the real value is: that’s what your competitors… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Impossible outcomes by Bruce McCarthy

Mind the Product

In this #mtpcon Digital Americas keynote, Bruce MaCarthy, co-author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched, Founder of Product Culture and President of the Boston Product Management Association analyses the learnings of product-led organisations that achieved the impossible and changed the world. Watch the video to see Bruce’s talk in full (Mind the Product members can also watch the [.

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The top 8 illustration styles

Imaginary Cloud - Design

Illustrations can be extremely versatile, and according to illustrators worldwide, one of the fundamentals to succeed in this art is to discover an authentic and creative way to illustrate. This article shares our top eight favorite illustration styles and further explains, with examples, what each consists of. Table of Contents. What is illustration?

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The ROI of UX Research

UX Studio: Product Management

Knowing how to sell UX research is an important part of every UX researcher’s toolkit. This might not seem like the most exciting news for you. “I didn’t get into research to end up doing sales,” might you say. I’m sure you haven’t. However, the number of doors this key will unlock for you is well worth the detour of reading this article. I’ve made it concise and to the point for you.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. Here is the complete guide on how to do it effectively. Photo by Ale Maciel on Unsplash On their weekly coaching session, one of the participants of the CPO Bootcamp raised the following question: can you help some

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Empowering teams in business transformations – Martina Hodges-Schell and Teresa Leighty

Mind the Product

What holds most Product people back? Hint: it’s not ability. For this week’s podcast, we talked with Martina Hodges-Schell and Teresa Leighty about how to make changes in your company’s environment that actually work, for you, and your teams. Featured Links: Follow Martina on LinkedIn, Twitter and her Website?Follow Teresa on LinkedIn and Twitter | Northshore | John Chambers article ‘The key to business transformation?

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Positive Deviance: Rachael Dietkus on the Abundance of Empathy and Curiosity

dscout People Nerds

Social Workers Who Design Founder and Principal, Rachael Dietkus, takes us through her journey of blending social work with design and the untapped collaboration potential between the two sectors.

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Unblock Your Team

The Product Guy

There are many common things to being a good product manager, but to be great be the best at unblocking your team’s ability to make an impact. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Agile Marketing: Your Action Plan to Go from Zero to Hero

The Product Coalition

10 steps plan with workbook and cheat sheet for Marketing teams to get started now with Agile and make the most out of it. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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5 Tips for Product Managers: Membership Only Content Sneak Peek

Mind the Product

Every month, product experts from around the world share their ideas and insights in our Prioritised and MTP Leader content and every month we recap some of their finest tips. So, whether you’re a member who’d love a quick recap or a non-member who’d love a glimpse inside some of our membership content, we’ve got [.] Read more » The post 5 Tips for Product Managers: Membership Only Content Sneak Peek appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Give us feedback in the Nulab Community!

Nulab

In the past, we have used the Typetalk Feedback forum to collect valuable feedback from users. With the launch of the Nulab Community , we’ve decided it would be best to start collecting feedback where our users are already talking. Please leave us feedback in the Nulab Community! Check out the new Nulab Community , where you can chat with other Typetalk users as well as our Nulab Moderators about best practices, tips & tricks, and relevant trends.

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Continuous Discovery Habits with Teresa Torres

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

In this episode of the Enterprise Product Leadership podcast, join me as I chat with Teresa Torres about her new book Continuous Discovery Habits. or Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | Spotify Episode Details – Continuous discovery habits with Teresa Torres Today we are joined by expert discovery coach […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Tips on Making that Product Leadership Leap from Being a Hero to Creating Teams of Heros

The Product Coalition

Whether you are a product manager or managing a group of them, there is often a career milestone when a PM can get stuck or feel like they’ve reached a career plateau. Leadership coach Gordon Tredgold recently wrote a piece in Entrepreneur, The Real Difference Between Leadership and Management, and Why Most People Struggle to Make the Grade , on understanding how you can set yourself up for success in climbing the leadership ladder.

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How to find product market fit by Harpal Singh

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Dubai talk, Harpal Singh, Product Consultant and Interim CPO explains the elusive art and science of finding product/market fit (P/MF). He provides a framework for getting a clear understanding of P/MF and how to go about achieving it. Watch the video to see his key points in full or read on for [.] Read more » The post How to find product market fit by Harpal Singh appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Manager Role – Everything You Need to Know

Userpilot

What exactly is the product manager role? It can seem a little nebulous if you don’t have the right information. And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager.