A product manager walks into a bar…
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 1, 2019
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10 Scaling Tips for Product People
Roman Pichler
APRIL 2, 2019
1 Involve the Right People. A small group of qualified individuals who have the right skills and motivation can be more productive than many individuals who lack the necessary expertise and act out of obligation. This is true for product people and development team members alike in my experience. Therefore, make an effort to involve the right individuals.
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Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World
Centercode
APRIL 2, 2019
Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How does your strategy conform to different development methodologies? What should you tackle in-house, and what should you outsource? How you involve real users in beta testing? In our interview with Adam Satterfield , director of Testing and Quality at Anthem, we dive deeper into these questions and the importance of test strategy on the whole.
What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Business
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
APRIL 1, 2019
Create strong culture, stay laser-focused on problems, and set wildly ambitious goals
Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics
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An Engineer’s Journey To Become A Data Scientist
Piyanka Jain
APRIL 2, 2019
Unsplash Neha has an engineering and MBA background. She was looking to rejoin the workforce after several years on a personal sabbatical. Her last role had involved business process analysis, planning, and market research. It wasn’t something she wanted to go back to. When she started exploring options for a more satisfying career, analytics emerged as a strong contender.
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The Best Thing about being a Product Manager
The Product Guy
APRIL 4, 2019
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. 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.
Surviving the Existential Crisis of life as a product manager
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
APRIL 1, 2019
In the world of product management, there’s one question that remains difficult and frustrating to answer no matter if you’re a newbie or…
3 career tips for SDRs who want to become AEs
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 2, 2019
For many Sales Development Representatives, the natural next step in your career is to move into an Account Executive role. But bridging the gap from SDR to AE and proving you’re ready to take the next step isn’t always straightforward. The skills and mindset required to be an AE are quite different from that required of an SDR. While SDRs play an important role in acquiring and qualifying new sales opportunities , AEs are tasked with taking that initial interest from a prospect and turnin
Creative Leadership by John Maeda
Mind the Product
APRIL 5, 2019
Moore’s Law isn’t really a law, but semantics aside it essentially stipulates that computers have been doubling in speed roughly every two years. The compounding effect of this doubling is sometimes difficult to comprehend, but it means that today’s computers are two billion times faster than they were just a few decades ago. And if you extrapolate that compounding effect forward, the numbers get even stranger – by roughly 2040 that computer will be nine quintillion times
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.
Product Management Management
The Product Guy
MARCH 31, 2019
How do you know you (or someone you are managing) are a great product manager? How do you continuously push the quality of product work higher in your organization? How do you identify what is ‘great’ product work anyways? This talk will give methods to help product managers grow and be great. It will be helpful for people that are product manager managers today, those who want to be managers, and any product manager that wants to take their skills up a level.
Five Tips to Combating Ageism in Hiring, Part 1 - Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
APRIL 1, 2019
About a year ago, I wrote “Hiring Trap: Don't Hire Anyone Older Than….” Unfortunately, ageism is still rampant. If you are a candidate over the age of 40, you have encountered ageism. If you are also unemployed while you are looking for a job, you might feel as if you are up the proverbial creek.
What we shipped: 8 new features to create a best-in-class customer journey
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 3, 2019
In the past few years, companies have increasingly realized the value of personalization in acquiring and retaining customers. Adding a personal touch shows your visitors and customers that you care, making visitors more likely to become customers and customers more likely to become advocates for your brand. At Intercom, personalization is at the heart of our product – we help companies engage with their customers in a more personal way.
Peace in the Valley: Tips for Growing Product Managers by Rob Crook
Mind the Product
APRIL 1, 2019
In this #mtpengage Manchester talk, Rob Crook of Moonpig talks about product management mastery, and how to overcome imposter syndrome. He says that Robert Green calls it mastery, Tim Ferris calls it becoming superhuman, and Cal Newport says you need to practise it for 10,000 hours. There’s a modern obsession with self improvement – millennials spend double the amount that baby boomers spend on self-improvement activities.
10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra
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Identifying a Great Product Manager
The Product Guy
APRIL 2, 2019
Good or great? Or something else? What skills should you develop to differentiate yourself and accelerate your path to greater success? Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.
Product Management Today Summer Reading List
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
APRIL 1, 2019
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Creating Flow and Value in Product Development
Amplitude
APRIL 5, 2019
Let’s consider the time it takes to go from agreeing to do something to a customer receiving value. It may come as a surprise, but most of that time is not spent working. It’s spent waiting—waiting in backlogs, waiting for other people, waiting for feedback, waiting to be rolled out and adopted. In this 7-minute video, I explain why limiting work in progress, the scope of work, and handoffs between teams can increase flow and value in product development.
The Lizard Loop – How to Back up Rigour With Intuition by Roisi Proven
Mind the Product
APRIL 5, 2019
In this #mtpengage Manchester talk, Roisi Proven of Gower Street Analytics talks about the lizard loop, which she describes as “backing rigour with intuition, after you’ve already backed up your intuition with rigour”. System 1 and System 2 thinking originate from the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. System 1 thinking, also known as your lizard brain, and is responsible for fast, automatic, frequent, unconscious decisions.
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
Founder Exposed: Opening Up About Startup Failures and Vulnerability
First Round Review
APRIL 2, 2019
Jeff Wald knows firsthand that behind every startup success story is a stack of seldom discussed defeats. The investor and three-time founder opens up about why leaders should embrace vulnerability, and offers tools for extracting lessons from failure and getting back in the game.
Mapping: An introductory guide for product teams by Teresa Torres
Miro
APRIL 3, 2019
Mapping: An introductory guide for product teamsVisual thinking is one of the most valuable parts of the creative process. It helps you think: drawing makes you get specific with your ideas and see them in new ways, so you can continue to iterate.Visual thinking frees up mental energy, offloading some memory into external displays and […]. The post Mapping: An introductory guide for product teams by Teresa Torres appeared first on MiroBlog | A blog by Miro.
Product Managers Try To Find Stores To Fill Malls
The Accidental Product Manager
APRIL 1, 2019
Malls need stores, but what kind of stores? Image Credit: Rene Schwietzke. When was the last time that you went out to a mall? For most of us, it’s probably been a while. We used to always go to the mall – that’s where you could get stuff, especially during the holidays. However, with the arrival of online shopping most of us don’t go to malls as much anymore.
AI at an Early Stage Startup by Zara Tam
Mind the Product
APRIL 4, 2019
Zara Tam loves building things that make an impact. Now at Verve, she was formerly a product manager at Founders Factory, where she led a revolutionary AI recruitment product called Chosen. Built with the latest machine learning and search technologies, Chosen can help recruiters to find brilliant talent in a matter of minutes. In this ProductTank London talk, Zara shows how AI can transform the time-consuming processes that companies face when they scout for talent.
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Founder Exposed: Opening Up About Startup Failures and Vulnerability
First Round Review
APRIL 2, 2019
Jeff Wald knows firsthand that behind every startup success story is a stack of seldom discussed defeats. The investor and three-time founder opens up about why leaders should embrace vulnerability, and offers tools for extracting lessons from failure and getting back in the game.
Recruiting Tech Specialists for Research: Why it’s Hard and How to Make it Work.
Generation Focus
APRIL 4, 2019
If you have ever needed to recruit technical profiles for research, then you probably know that this is a challenging group to reach. We’ve spent time investigating the underlying causes of this issue and fool-proofing the outreach strategies that can give you the best chances of success in finding and engaging the people you need. Why technology professionals are hard to recruit: People who work in tech are difficult to engage for many reasons, but mainly because they are busy.
From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google
ProductPlan
APRIL 4, 2019
It’s been nearly five years since Sundar Pichai took the reins as CEO of Google. How did this relatively unknown product manager in his early 40s rocket through the ranks to take control of one of the largest and most powerful tech companies of all time? The short answer: By realizing that a decidedly unsexy yet strategically critical aspect of Google’s search business was vulnerable and turning it into the key driver behind some of the tech giant’s most influential products.
Managing Change – Joe Leech on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
APRIL 3, 2019
Just call him Mr Joe. A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Joe gave one of the most entertaining and engaging talks at Mind the Product in London 2018, so we followed up with him to get to the stories that he didn’t get to share on stage – including the surprising difference between purchasing a fridge and a washing machine.
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
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