Melissa Perri
JUNE 29, 2017
“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. It’s an interesting question and one that takes time to unpack. Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. When I started my career, I was called a Business Analyst. I did very little “business analysis” as we would look at it in traditional IT companies.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 26, 2017
In recent weeks I have interacted with several friends and family who are working through difficult situations. We’ve had informative conversations about what motivates them to keep going. Though their motivations vary, the commonality is their desire to succeed.
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Mind the Product
JUNE 26, 2017
“A prototype is worth a thousand mock-ups,” as the saying goes. By definition a prototype is interactive. At the start of a project, it can be helpful if you create rough prototypes without too much detail. Doing this allows you to have high-level conversations over the direction of the user’s journey, rather than get distracted by specific visuals or wording.
bpma ProductHub
JUNE 30, 2017
By Jeffrey Segarra – The precision and quality of your product requirements determine if your product will succeed or fail in the marketplace. Developing product requirements is part science and part art. There are many ways to deliver your requirements to your engineers but none is more effective than user stories. Why? Dale Carnegie said it best when he said, “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” A list of
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Melissa Perri
JUNE 29, 2017
“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?” It’s an interesting question and one that takes time to unpack. Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. When I started my career, I was called a Business Analyst.
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Brian Balfour
JUNE 28, 2017
This post is an introduction to a five part series where I explain for frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. Subscribe to receive the rest of the series. I’ve been lucky to have been part of building, advising, or investing in 40+ tech companies in the past 10 years. Some $100M+ wins. Some, complete losses. Most end up in the middle.
Andrew Chen
JUNE 26, 2017
The end of the cycle. One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Although he doesn’t directly talk about it, the end of a tech cycle has major implications for launching new products, growing existing product categories, because of a simple thing: It gets much, much harder to grow new products or pivot existing one
The Product Guy
JUNE 25, 2017
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 ).
Mironov Consulting
JUNE 30, 2017
I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. Here are some symptoms, root causes, and a few ideas to reduce the mutual frustration.
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Mind the Product
JUNE 28, 2017
For the past two months, I’ve been conducting research and discovery to help establish some ground rules for the Mind the Product Training Program. As an organization we’ve set some goals for what we want to accomplish with our training. These are: To offer the same best in class experience that our Mind the Product conference attendees get when they come to our events.
Amplitude
JUNE 29, 2017
Their name says it all, power users. Users with power. They use your product regularly and as a result, know it inside and out. If your product has special features, they know about them and use them religiously. If your product needs an update or two, power users will let you know. They’re your most engaged users, which make them valuable. They reach out to you first and give you feedback.
The Product Guy
JUNE 29, 2017
This past weekend we just held the global Session 6 closing for The Product Mentor where everyone shared highlights of their experiences and what they learned. All the mentors and mentees did a great job over the past 6 months. Some exciting stats…. 2 Mentees Promoted. 1 Mentee got a New Job. >50% of Mentees had accomplishments that rose to the C-Suite.
DISQO
JUNE 29, 2017
In his latest letter to shareholders, Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, distinguished between two corporate operating models : Day 1 and Day 2. The former requires an organization to be customer-obsessed, ignoring all other constraints. The latter, more traditional approach, is to appease a broad range of stakeholders, and to rely on existing processes and resources when making decisions.
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Revulytics
JUNE 27, 2017
You’re sitting in a meeting with leaders from marketing, sales, and a bunch of other important people, listening to the CMO detail the latest marketing trends within your product space. You keep your eyes locked on the screen as you reach for a bottle of water, all while displaying an expression you’ve brought to an art form over the years that balances the perfect blend of interest, impression, and skepticism.
Pragmatic Marketing
JUNE 28, 2017
Modern marketers have a myriad of choices-both print and digital-when it comes to sales collateral and tools. But are your current tools properly aligned with your buyer's journey and the way customers want to do business today? Besides your basic set of sales tools-brochures, product data sheets, sales presentation decks-how do you know which additional tools to prioritize?
The Product Guy
JUNE 24, 2017
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….
The Accidental Product Manager
JUNE 26, 2017
The Keurig Kold soda maker is gone. What happened? Image Credit: finance.yahoo.com. Once upon a time, the Keurig company, you know them – they are the ones who make that single sever coffee machine that uses those little plastic pouches, decided that they wanted to expand into new markets. Their product managers looked around and what they discovered is that the rest of us drink a great deal of soda.
Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O'Neill Stoll
Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng
DISQO
JUNE 30, 2017
When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap.
Pragmatic Marketing
JUNE 27, 2017
Want to hear a joke? What do you call a process that has multiple complex steps, requires detailed explanation and dogmatic adherence to rigid tenets defined by expensive consultants? Agile. Or at least, that’s the way it feels in 2017. If you aren’t using story points, spending hours building a backlog, reviewing burndown charts and using appropriate terminology, you’re “doing it wrong.” The entire thing makes me feel exhausted and locked into a process that doesn&
Bogdan Coman Says
JUNE 30, 2017
… citeva chestii si sa ma asculti si pe mine putin. Nu doar ca te-am votat dar mie mi se pare ca ai cumva obligatia sa ma asculti. Pentru ca in definitiv iti sint client social si, ca orice client, am orecare drepturi. Deci pe scurt niste chestii iar apoi iti explic mai pe larg: Inceteaza sa mai vrei sa fii un brand (produs, partid, whatever) pentru toata lumea.
TSIA
JUNE 29, 2017
In my infographic, “Navigating the World of Digital Transformation,” I outlined 6 key steps to thriving in today’s rapidly changing tech market. In my first blog of this series, I covered the many attractive aspects to customers of consuming enterprise technology on an “as-a-service” (subscription) basis. Today, I’m going to talk about the flip side of the coin—why some customers might object to the concept.
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DISQO
JUNE 30, 2017
When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap.
Sachin Rekhi
JUNE 25, 2017
I'm often asked what's the best way for a new product manager to learn the fundamentals of the role or for an experienced product manager to continue to master their craft. Most folks are looking for a pointer to a book or a class they can take on product management, but I always reply with a collection of blog posts from practitioners sharing their best practices.
DISQO
JUNE 30, 2017
When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap.
TSIA
JUNE 28, 2017
Do you have a dedicated Resource Management function inside your professional services organization? If so, what are the main tasks, activities, and responsibilities that they perform? The general belief is that resource management is about finding an able and available individual to be assigned to a delivery engagement/project. We at TSIA believe there’s more to it than that.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
TSIA
JUNE 27, 2017
Join us Thursday, July 13, for a free virtual summit about using social support technology and strategies to improve your customer experience, hosted by TSIA and our partners, Lithium Technologies and Miller Heiman Group. During this 3-hour event, you’ll learn how to successfully leverage social technology to improve your support and the customer experience.
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