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Effective Product Roadmaps

Melissa Perri

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. The truth? Even the most experienced Product Managers still don’t have them fully figured out. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap, in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines.

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Statistical Factors that Contribute to High Performance on Product Teams

bpma ProductHub

Contributed by Greg Geracie. Actuation Consulting has been conducting research on what separates high performance product teams from the pack. Over the last five years our surveys, coupled with regression analysis by an independent statistician, have helped us to identify over 25 statistically significant contributors to success on product teams. To learn about our latest findings in-depth, don’t miss the Feb 16 BPMA event on “The Six Key Factors of High-Performance Product Teams”.

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Supercharge your team’s motivation

Lead on Purpose

The most successful companies have motivated leaders, and those leaders inspire motivation at all levels of the organization. Is it possible to create an environment where great work happens and everyone is motivated?

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Why you Need a Product Analytics Playbook

Mind the Product

When it comes to successfully implementing a data-informed approach to product analytics, it’s easy to find lists of tips and tactics. It’s much harder to put together a strategy you can return to time and again. Every product is different, of course. There’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. But we do have common methodologies for framing questions and answering them, for figuring out what’s interesting in your data, experimenting, learning, and growing.

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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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Effective Product Roadmaps

Melissa Perri

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. The truth? Even the most experienced Product Managers still don’t have them fully figured out. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap , in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines. I received lots of feedback on the post, much of it praise, but also some criticism.

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Biggest Product Regret

The Product Guy

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).

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Product Management is About Making Mistakes

Mind the Product

Once upon a time, I met a product manager of a company who was leading a freemium model product, with some success. He regularly interviewed users to work out their needs, he gathered and analyzed usage data of the product to extract new requirements, and he defined new features with a high level of detail. A Shiny new Feature. One day, he devised a new feature that promised to increase the free-to-paid users conversion rate by 5%.

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Product Management for Dummies

Product Bookshelf

Not just for dummies, this book is for everyone. Whether you’re new to product management, want to add to your skills, are hiring product managers, or creating a product management process this book has something for you. Product Management For Dummies by Brian Lawley and Pamela Schure. Although the title makes is sound like a book for beginners, Product Management for Dummies has a lot to offer product managers at any level.

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Hiring Agile Product Owners – Where to Find the Best Ones

Product Management University

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. What’s the ideal background for an Agile Product Owner and where should I look to find them? The Agile product owner is a hybrid role that’s part surrogate user and part product expert. The ideal product owner has strong expertise in the following areas: The job of the user — what they do, why they do it, how they do it and how they’re measured (on their performance review).

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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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Explaining UX to Kindergartners

Pragmatic Marketing

Plus a Few Lessons for UX Designers. A few months ago, my son’s kindergarten teacher asked me to share what I do after I drop my son off at school. I had to follow on the heels of one mother who is the vice principal of a middle school and another who is a professional stylist for children. My curious 5-year-old was able to enthusiastically recount in great detail what the other mothers do for a living and their impact on the world.

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Innovation: Best Practice for Product Leaders

Mind the Product

In a world where the pace of change is constantly increasing and becoming more complex, can you really afford to stay still? Living and working in the United Arab Emirates, with its blindingly rich cities and unbelievably luxe lifestyles, I see that the value of innovation is obvious. After all, how does this crazy-wealthy region plan for the future?

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A Product Manager’s Approach To Finding Love Online

The Accidental Product Manager

Love can be tricky to find online – unless a product manager helps out Image Credit: Moni Sertel. Let’s talk about love, shall we? I fully understand that your job as a product manager probably takes up a lot of your time and you really don’t have a lot of time left over to think about such trivial things as love, but it’s all around us if you’d just take a moment to look.

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Product Training for Sales – More Buyer, Less Product!

Product Management University

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. Product training for sales is one of the more daunting tasks for product managers and marketers and one of the biggest product rollout challenges in high-tech companies. You’ve created textbook sales and marketing materials. You’ve spoon fed the information to the sales team on several occasions and in varying formats.

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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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The Product Manager vs. the Strategist

Pragmatic Marketing

Your life is curated. The coffee you’re drinking, the videos you’re streaming and that pair of Converses you’re wearing—all your choices were driven by what was available and desirable. But who put those options there? Who decided that Nestlé should create an espresso machine? Who made YouTube a household name? Who told Nike to purchase Converse?

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How to Write a Perfect App Specification? (+Free Template)

Alty

Heads up, the hardest parts of launching a product is initially explaining its concept to the people who will work on it. You may not be the best writer (which is fine), but you need to structure your notes into a coherent, presentable document that your team will then use to: Provide you with an initial price quote & development timeline. Use the provided information to build an app you want (not the one they assumed you want).

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What are the critical strategies and tactics that every product manager must know?

DISQO

There has long been an ongoing struggle to quantify and define core product management practices. For a variety of reasons, the product management role differs, sometimes immensely, from company to company and industry to industry. Nevertheless, standardizing the key functions is of immense importance, as it enables practitioners and managers to recruit, onboard, benchmark, and set expectations more efficiently.

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Three Keys to a Successful Product Rollout

Product Management University

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. A product rollout is mostly tactical in nature and is focused primarily on internal readiness that prepares a company to market, sell, implement and support a new product, whereas a product launch is the execution of a marketing communications plan designed to call the markets attention to your value proposition.

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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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A Practitioner's Guide to Product Message Maps

Pragmatic Marketing

Indulge me for a minute. Before you read this article, click on your company’s website and view the page associated with your flagship product. Jot down the key message headings. Now open the datasheet for that product and compare the message headings to those you wrote down. Do they match? Are they even close? If your company is like most, the answer is “no.” That’s because few high-tech vendors take the time to create product message maps and apply them to their marketi

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How to Convert Your Website Into a Mobile App?

Alty

Mobile revenues are expected to hit $700 billion by the end of 2017. Do you feel like your business is missing out on those profits? Instagram, Uber, Snapchat and a bunch of others companies have already proved that mobile-first business model works darn great. So should you jump on the bandwagon if you already have a mobile-friendly website? Yep, you may want to ponder over that.

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What are the critical strategies and tactics that every product manager must know?

DISQO

There has long been an ongoing struggle to quantify and define core product management practices. For a variety of reasons, the product management role differs, sometimes immensely, from company to company and industry to industry. Nevertheless, standardizing the key functions is of immense importance, as it enables practitioners and managers to recruit, onboard, benchmark, and set expectations more efficiently.

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3 Dimensions of a B2B Product Portfolio Management Discipline

Product Management University

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. A product portfolio management discipline in B2B is more about your portfolio’s alignment to customer goals than it is to your own revenue and profitability goals. Why? If you’re going to be a market-driven organization, everything needs to be aligned with the business goals of your target customers to ensure there’s a common focal point that’s meaningful across product, marketing and sales teams.

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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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Begin Your Revenue Marketing Journey

Pragmatic Marketing

What has changed so much about B2B marketing in the last few years that we’re now using a term like revenue marketing? In a nutshell: accountability. Ask yourself these two questions: Do you currently have any kind of revenue accountability? And if you don’t have revenue accountability today, will you be held accountable in the next 12 months?

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How to Measure Managed Services Revenue Growth

TSIA

Managed services is a key growth engine in the tech industry, and as explained in Technology-as-a-Service Playbook: How to Grow a Profitable Subscription Business , can play a major role in the profitable transition to a XaaS business model. More and more cloud companies are recognizing the importance of managed services, but are also finding that managed services requires measurement on a variety of growth metrics in order to fully understand its impact.

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What are the critical strategies and tactics that every product manager must know?

DISQO

There has long been an ongoing struggle to quantify and define core product management practices. For a variety of reasons, the product management role differs, sometimes immensely, from company to company and industry to industry. Nevertheless, standardizing the key functions is of immense importance, as it enables practitioners and managers to recruit, onboard, benchmark, and set expectations more efficiently.

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Product Management Workshops That Mean Business

Sequent Learning

The post Product Management Workshops That Mean Business appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.

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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