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The product guru complex

Mind the Product

It's time to ditch the dogma and introduce a strong dose of pragmatism if product management is to avoid an existential crisis, argues Becky Yelland. Read more » The post The product guru complex appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Lead Your Product Teams to Success in 2024

Gocious Blog

We're two months into 2024, and your Q1 product initiatives are likely well underway. Setting a strong cadence for effective team processes at the beginning of the year is crucial, especially when deliverables in the following quarters depend on the success of current projects. What can your teams do to ensure their projects continue to progress smoothly?

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Beyond the Book: Navigating the Real-World Challenges of Managing a Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

“The value is in what gets used, not what gets built”. — Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Fires sparked to life left and right, yet there were no firefighters in sight, and I had no tools to fight them. Every hour, a new fire seemed to materialize from an unknown direction with no warning. I was on a path, a journey, to a new and wonderful destination.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower - Product Management

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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What Makes An Effective Product Management Process

Product Management University

A great 30-minute conversation with Paul Heller , Chief Evangelist at Sopheon. But we didn’t discuss the process itself. We talked about value-driven product management, what it takes to get the rest of the organization on board and how to help other disciplines see the benefit to them. 30 minutes never went so fast. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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The 7 Most Important Laws of UX Design in 2024

UX Planet

Just as the physical world operates under predictable cause-and-effect relationships, so too does the world of User Experience (UX) design. Behind every interaction on every digital interface, lies a series of cause-and-effect relationships, dictating the predictable outcomes and human behaviors we encounter as users. UX designers refer to these predictable cause-and-effect relationships as the “laws” of UX design.

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Free vs Paid Analytics Platforms: How to Choose One (+ Best Tools in Each Category)

Userpilot

Analytics tools offer a competitive advantage for companies investing in prolonged product growth. However, not all companies can invest precious resources in an analytics tool. In reality, some companies are better served using free vs paid analytics platforms. Which camp would you belong in? In this article, we’ll present the advantages and disadvantages of paid analytics platforms versus their free version counterparts and the best tools for each category.

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‘Niching’ Down

The Product Coalition

“No niche is too small if it’s yours”  — Seth Godin We’ve all heard the saying, “if you try to please everyone, you please no one.” This is especially true for startups and new products. Focus and being able to find a niche can be a huge unlock for products. Square started as a POS (Point of Sale) device, Lululemon started as yoga clothing for women, and Amazon started as an online book store.

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What They Don’t Tell You About Designing For Responsible AI Products

UX Planet

In part 5 of the Human-Centered AI methodology series, we uncover how to design for Responsible AI products to users.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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479: Beyond the pint glass–Learnings from creating the new Molson Coors Non-Alcohol portfolio – with Marlon Hernandez

Product Innovation Educators

Product management insights from Molson Coors’s non-alcohol portfolio transformation I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This discussion is with Marlon Hernandez, whose session is titled “Beyond the pint glass: Learnings from creating the new Molson Coors Non-Alcohol portfolio.” After over 233 years of brewing beer, Molson Coors announced its name change to Molson Coors Beverage Company to ref

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Tools of the Trade: Using Pendo to Manage Customer Requests

Product Talk

When you’re building a product, you can easily get overwhelmed by ideas. There are the ideas your product trio comes up with based on your discovery work, the ideas that come from your customers in the form of specific requests, and the ideas that come from stakeholders within your company like your customer-facing teams or CEO, to name a few. While some of these ideas are unsolicited and may not relate to your current outcome or the opportunities you’re pursuing, that doesn’t mean you want to i

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Navigating economic uncertainty with OKRs

Mind the Product

Malte Scholz outlines the benefits of implementing OKRs during economic uncertainty, the challenges that come with them and how to overcome these with the right tool. Read more » The post Navigating economic uncertainty with OKRs appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Digital Transformation Strategies for Enterprises: Key Elements

The Product Coalition

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? The digital revolution is no longer a distant wave on the horizon, but a powerful tide reshaping every industry. To navigate this dynamic landscape, embracing digital transformation is no longer optional, but crucial for survival and growth.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How to successfully launch on Product Hunt (when it’s right for your startup)

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Don’t miss Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr.

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Top 10 Metrics to Measure Freemium and Free Trial Performance

Amplitude

Discover ten essential freemium and free trial metrics. Use these metrics to measure your monetization performance.

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Building products to tackle the opioid crisis: Omer Kaplan (Head of Product, Sonara Health)

Mind the Product

For many of us in product, building products that have long-lasting impacts on people's lives is a life goal. In this episode, we speak to Omer Kaplan from Sonara Health. We discuss his mission in forging a path in healthcare technology to combat the opioid crisis. We also explore the principles of equity-first design and the meticulous testing strategies that ensure their technology serves everyone effectively.

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Desirable, Valuable, and Feasible Goals

The Product Coalition

The DVF framework: How might we use the Venn diagram to set clear goals for team members and satisfy the user personas?

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok. Prior to TikTok, Ray spent six years at Google helping scale Google Shopping globally.

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How Square Used Amplitude to Enhance the Seller Experience and Power Growth

Amplitude

Read how adopting Amplitude Analytics and Amplitude Audiences allowed Square to facilitate projects like multi-product onboarding and homepage redesign, leading to double-digit improvements.

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SUNDAY REWIND: A guide on breaking into product

Mind the Product

Tom Dyson’s post from 2021 looks at some of the actions you can take to land a first job in product management. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: A guide on breaking into product appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Can CRM Marketing Help Predict A Customer’s Needs?

The Product Coalition

Let’s explore how CRM marketing helps to better anticipate customer behavior. Understanding your customers is key, but simply understanding their demographics isn’t enough. Predicting their future behavior allows you to anticipate their needs, personalize their experiences, and ultimately, drive conversions and loyalty. So, how can CRM marketing help you achieve this elusive power of prediction?

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product — Andrew Bosworth —or Boz, as most people know him—is the chief technology officer at Meta and head of Reality Labs, the company’s augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) organization, which he created in 2017.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Recently, I did a little experiment. I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. It gave me two photos of a smartly-dressed young, white man in a corporate office setting. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male.

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Let’s hear it for the women working in product

Mind the Product

In celebration of International Women’s Day we’ve rounded up some recent seminal #mtpcon talks given by a few of the many outstanding women working in product management. Read more » The post Let’s hear it for the women working in product appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Smart Use of Principles

The Product Coalition

Principles are a very powerful tool in product leadership. They can help you create clarity and alignment, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Here are a few ways to use them in your everyday tasks, and some cases where they are not the right tool. My husband and I grew up very differently. Generally speaking, my parents’ approach to parenting was “Life is hard and our job is to prepare our kids to face whatever life throws at them”, whereas my husband’s parents were more like “We’ll work as

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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Did Substack make newsletters too mainstream (and irrelevant)?

NextBigWhat

Remember the excitement of discovering a well-written newsletter? That niche corner of the internet where someone shared passions, insights, or curated content with a devoted audience? There was a certain… The post Did Substack make newsletters too mainstream (and irrelevant)? appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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How to Build Custom Funnel Reports in SaaS

Userpilot

Funnel reports are a popular analytics tool used to optimize customer journeys and user flows. Our guide explains how to build and analyze funnel reports for actionable insights. Let’s get to it! TL;DR Funnel reports are analytical tools for visualizing the stages of the customer journey and analyzing how users progress from one stage to another.

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Purposeful Leadership in Product Management

Ronke PM

In March, we celebrate women's accomplishments, reflecting on their monumental role in product management. We owe our progress to those women who trailblazed our path and laid our foundations, mentoring us to be exceptional and formidable. From their experiences, we meet our moments with integrity and grace. They are a testament to breaking barriers and shattering the glass ceiling.