Product Talk
MAY 10, 2017
I’ve been thinking about the challenges of managing product teams by outcomes. Most leaders want their teams to have the autonomy to go after an outcome, but they struggle with trusting that their teams will do the right things. Most teams want that autonomy, but they struggle with communicating their progress toward an uncertain outcome. These shortcomings create a vicious cycle.
The Product Guy
MAY 8, 2017
Nominate a great product manager you know today @ [link] ! Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel @ [link]. Thank you to everyone who made it to our latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group at Digital Ocean , as well as to our other sponsors, Yext , BKLYN and many more. Over the course of the night a few of the highlights were… Featured Product: Spacious exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from the human layer to living in analytics.
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The Secret PM Handbook
MAY 12, 2017
“Communication” by Joan M. Mas. See below for image credit. Effective Communication is Challenging. Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build.
Mind the Product
MAY 10, 2017
Here’s a scenario nearly everyone finds themselves in at some point in this line of work: You’re psyched about a new product or feature in the works. You’ve got requirements, design vision, and even a development timeline. You’ve got feedback from potential buyers and they love it. You’re ready to roll, and then you’re asked, “So how much money will this make?”.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Roman Pichler
MAY 10, 2017
Balancing Specific and Generic Skills. To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. They include a deep understanding of the users with their needs, the competition, and the market trends.
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The Secret PM Handbook
MAY 12, 2017
“Communication” by Joan M. Mas. See below for image credit. Effective Communication is Challenging. Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build.
Mind the Product
MAY 11, 2017
Rosemary King educates us on the importance of involving stakeholders (especially those in senior positions) in the research phases of your products. Collaboration. Collaboration is important. As a product manager you enjoy being in control, but at times this control can be detrimental to a product. Rosemary cites a number of examples where collaboration with stakeholders is important: they may have specialist knowledge you don’t have; you need to keep them on the same page in terms of project g
Nir Eyal
MAY 9, 2017
Nir’s Note: This guest post is excerpted from Nathalie Nahai’s best-selling book, Webs Of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. – Alan Rickman, Actor What Makes Video Special? Compared to other media types on the web, […].
The Product Guy
MAY 11, 2017
Out of thousands of product management blogs, we are very excited and proud to have been recently named one of the Top 40 Product Management Blogs. Thank you to all our readers! Filed under: product management Tagged: award.
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The Accidental Product Manager
MAY 8, 2017
People are concerned about their health and it’s hurting sales of Coke Image Credit: Hanna Pritchett. When it’s hot out and you are thirsty, what do you want to drink? No, I’m not talking about a beer – let’s talk non-alcoholic drinks. Due to years and years of spending on enormous advertising campaigns, many of us instantly think of drinking a Coke when we want something cold and sweet.
Mind the Product
MAY 9, 2017
Jenine Lurie is Founder and Lead Strategist at Disruptive Experience, a New York based design consultancy that applies unique user-centered design strategies to create intuitive and delightful experiences that connect people to products. She has over 15 years experience building world-class products for global brands such as American Express, Kaplan, Sony Entertainment, Financial Times, IBM, and JPMorgan.
Good Product Manager
MAY 9, 2017
SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit is Next Week! I’ll be in Las Vegas next week for the SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit , which runs from May 16-19. If you’ll be there, let me know and it will be great to meet up in person. If you’re not attending — why not? It’ll be a great experience for product management leaders — in fact, it’s been named one of “ 7 events no product manager should miss this year ” and a “ product management conference not to
The Product Coalition
MAY 6, 2017
Wish lists are a pain. It looks like a small request?—?at best. It comes top down, it guts your strategy, it unbalances all the hard work you put in prioritising and forces you to make difficult trade-offs. Great news: you need to validate that it’s actually useful and/or important, Less-great news: If they clearly aren’t important enough to be done, then they don’t belong on the backlog.
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Revulytics
MAY 10, 2017
Nearly a century ago, Albert Einstein prophetically and poetically framed what remains one of our chief challenges with analytics. “Not everything that can be counted counts,” he said, “and not everything that counts can be counted.” With so much data, leveraging information that helps us ask the right questions and draw the right insight to solve business problems is a constant struggle.
Mind the Product
MAY 8, 2017
Fourteen billion years ago the universe was immensely hot, dense plasma. Then, as the universe expanded after the Big Bang, the gases within it cooled. When these gases reached a temperature of around 2,700°C (billions of years before galaxies existed) protons and electrons were able to combine into hydrogen atoms, releasing energy in all directions in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
Good Product Manager
MAY 9, 2017
SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit is Next Week! I’ll be in Las Vegas next week for the SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit , which runs from May 16-19. If you’ll be there, let me know and it will be great to meet up in person. If you’re not attending — why not? It’ll be a great experience for product management leaders — in fact, it’s been named one of “ 7 events no product manager should miss this year ” and a “ product management conference not to
DISQO
MAY 11, 2017
On paper, product managers and UX teams should happily work together. Both aim to ultimately build and ship a successful product; both collect data to make necessary product decisions; and both work with development teams to bring products to fruition. The disciplines are two sides of the same coin on whom the success (or failure) of a product rests.
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Userzoom
MAY 10, 2017
For executives and user experience professionals. As mentioned in an earlier post on my blog, for at least ten years now I have been collecting User Experience (UX) and Customer Experience (CX) Maturity Models. I’ve never really been completely satisfied with the ones I’ve found, and the main reason has been that I felt that the framework and level of detail was not appropriate for the executives with whom I’m engaging with regularly.
dscout People Nerds
MAY 10, 2017
A People Nerds interview with Christian Madsbjerg.
Good Product Manager
MAY 9, 2017
SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit is Next Week! I’ll be in Las Vegas next week for the SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit , which runs from May 16-19. If you’ll be there, let me know and it will be great to meet up in person. If you’re not attending — why not? It’ll be a great experience for product management leaders — in fact, it’s been named one of “ 7 events no product manager should miss this year ” and a “ product management conference not to
Roy Madden
MAY 10, 2017
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DISQO
MAY 11, 2017
On paper, product managers and UX teams should happily work together. Both aim to ultimately build and ship a successful product; both collect data to make necessary product decisions; and both work with development teams to bring products to fruition. The disciplines are two sides of the same coin on whom the success (or failure) of a product rests.
TSIA
MAY 11, 2017
Whereas TSIA’s Strategic Services offerings were designed to give our members the hands-on, customized assistance they need to meet their business objectives, our Strategic Certifications programs put these accomplishments to the test, and enable companies to receive recognition for being the best in the industry. We’re thrilled to announce that TSIA member company and cloud software provider, Intermedia , has recently gone through several of these rigorous certification processes an
ProductBoard
MAY 10, 2017
Reading the Sirius Decisions 2017 Product Management Tools and Technology Study this morning , I was struck by their finding that we are on the cusp of a major shift in how product leaders manage their products. Here at productboard , we’ve witnessed the shift ourselves. Changing attitudes in just the last six months have meant more product leaders are seeking an alternative to prioritization spreadsheets, roadmap powerpoints, and user feedback spread across a variety of systems.
Mironov Consulting
MAY 9, 2017
Steven Haines hosts the Sequent Business Network podcast. I was able to join him for this episode , focused on the symptoms of missing (or weak) product leadership, and its impact on individual product managers. We talked through some of the symptoms (“shipping your org chart,” inability to say no to sales requests) and coping strategies for individual product managers.
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DISQO
MAY 11, 2017
On paper, product managers and UX teams should happily work together. Both aim to ultimately build and ship a successful product; both collect data to make necessary product decisions; and both work with development teams to bring products to fruition. The disciplines are two sides of the same coin on whom the success (or failure) of a product rests.
TSIA
MAY 9, 2017
In an earlier blog post of mine , we explored the concept of Relationship Equity, which is the trust that Services Delivery teams have engendered with their clients that allows them to ask the questions that salespeople can’t. They are able to uncover problems, challenges, and opportunities that customers would generally withhold from a salesperson, or even their account manager.
Product Warrior
MAY 7, 2017
Few awesome products are a mistake, they typically have great product teams focused on delivering value and being creative. To cultivate a prospering and innovative product organisation, product leadership have to focus on 4 key topics. Each topic fuels and supports the others - they are symbiotic and together support delivering amazing products. Continuous team development Product culture Product vision Product execution Team development deserves more investment and focus, engaged growing talen
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