ProductBoard

JULY 29, 2019

Written by Brian Crofts, Chief Product Officer at Pendo, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. Show me a delightful, incredible product—something that inspires fandom in its users, and I’ll show you something that solves a big, hairy problem. Users talk about elegance, simplicity, and moments of delight when advocating for a product, but if you dig down.

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Gainsight

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AUGUST 2, 2019

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Messenger apps started as the simplest way to start a conversation online. Open the app. Select a person to chat with. Go. Today, those apps have seemingly endless ways for users to engage: video chat, send gifs, send emojis, send money, use a filter, buy and sell goods, play games, talk to bots, and more. So much, in fact, that the product leaders behind these apps are slimming them down.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2019

Product managers will encounter many forks on the road to growth and product success. Those forks always require answering difficult questions. For an early-stage company or new product, the question might be, How will we prioritize features before we have customers? Growing companies will ask, Is it time to scale up our product team ? At some point later in your product’s evolution, you might face another tricky question.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? Read on to learn how, through collecting and analyzing their operational data, a team was able to quantify and improve their processes on the path to being able to establish clear rel

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2019

What do you need to be an outstanding product manager? This is one of the key questions for every product organisation and it is also one that this talk from MTP Engage Hamburg tries – at least to some extent – to answer. I share some of the issues that I think play a critical role in becoming a super-successful product manager. Issues that I wished I had known (or someone had told me) when I moved from a UX role to a more holistic digital product management role over 15 years ago.

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Userzoom

JULY 31, 2019

In honour of us sprucing up our own Tree Test Results capabilities , we thought we’d update our classic beginner’s guide to Tree testing. Here we’ll be answering the following questions: What is tree testing? What are the benefits? How do I run my own tree testing? How will I possibly stop myself from making a joke about going into a forest, pressing up against a silver birch and saying, “yeah feels pretty woody, now let’s try another one”?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 30, 2019

We have never been more aware of how crucial healthy self-perception is to our well-being and success, with countless books , articles and podcasts dedicated to the importance of maintaining a healthy sense of confidence in ourselves. Our relationship with confidence affects multiple aspects of life, but many of us feel it most acutely in the workplace.

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

The Product Guy

JULY 30, 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.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. That’s useful – but she’s also found a way for you to engage your team in a creative way, using the model of the show Black Mirror , in an effort to make better decisions.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 29, 2019

I was first introduced to Annie Duke's concepts in a recent podcast with Stewart Butterfield interviewing Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen on the 10th anniversary of A16Z. In the interview Stewart asks Marc about any mistakes he believed he had made building A16Z. Marc starts off by referring to Annie Duke's work and the concept of resulting, which is the tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome, which is a risky and incorrect thing to do with any decision tha

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First Round Review

JULY 31, 2019

Startup leaders make tough calls every day. We spoke with 6 top operators to gather the tactics and strategies they use to make smart decisions under pressure, garner trust with stakeholders and execute with conviction.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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The Product Guy

JULY 28, 2019

Today’s product management tools just don’t show you the big picture. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2019

What blocks us from doing our best work? This is the question that Denise Jacobs, author of Banish Your Inner Critic , asks us in the opening keynote of #mtpcon San Francisco. We often think of our biggest blockers being external: a crazy CEO, recalcitrant CTO, surly engineers, or designers who just won’t do what we want them to. But what if our biggest blocks are actually in our own heads?

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Userzoom

JULY 30, 2019

Whether it’s evaluating a current website, testing a prototype, or iterating throughout the product development cycle, click tests are a fast and cost-effective way to ensure your design works for your users. So if you’re new to the world of clickmaps, heatmaps and darkmaps, let’s explore click testing and how it can benefit your product development… What is a click test?

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First Round Review

AUGUST 1, 2019

Startup leaders make tough calls every day. We spoke with 6 top operators to gather the tactics and strategies they use to make smart decisions under pressure, garner trust with stakeholders and execute with conviction.

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Ask Benny

JULY 31, 2019

Why product managers should be an all-in-one deal and should be involved in everything (sales, marketing, support, etc). Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Or should a product manager be “full spectrum”? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO). Sometimes companies split product management between outbound product managers that understand the market and discuss needs with customers and inbound product managers that understand the product and discuss requirements with engineeri

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 2, 2019

We launched the first cohort of the product management course last year, did a bunch of experiments on the content, format and the process – ranging from offline-only course, online-only, recorded to live sessions and we are now happy to have found the high impacting format + content + process. . Get Brochure. A blended format, with very deep focus on daily execution and long-term product thinking!

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dscout People Nerds

JULY 31, 2019

When a form prompts you to choose your gender, you’re usually given two options: male or female. Not infrequently, this is mandatory. Not surprisingly, this is excluding people. Here’s how we can do better. .

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First Round Review

JULY 30, 2019

There's no one-size-fits-all growth advice. Brian Rothenberg, former VP of Growth at Eventbrite, breaks down the three broad phases of the startup lifecycle. For each phase, he identifies key targets that startups should aim for to kick their growth strategy to the next level.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers learn to embrace the digital age Image Credit: Dave Dugdale. Crate and Barrel sells a lot of furniture. They are now faced with the age old question of how best to get their furniture noticed by their potential customers. In the past, the firm relied on what had always worked for them: still photographs. However, lately that has all changed.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

How to not screw up your product launch:spend some time thinking about the go to market plan in advance Every product team aspires to ship awesome products. My hypothesis is that a rigorous product development process is the main controllable ingredient to this. A tool that has been helpful as I think about this with my team is a specific product process (diagram above) with various documents depending on the stage of the product.

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dscout People Nerds

JULY 31, 2019

Author of Practical Empathy, Indi Young, breaks down why so many of us look for research patterns in the wrong places. .

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First Round Review

JULY 29, 2019

There's no one-size-fits-all growth advice. Brian Rothenberg, former VP of Growth at Eventbrite, breaks down the three broad phases of the startup lifecycle. For each phase, he identifies key targets that startups should aim for to kick their growth strategy to the next level.

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Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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ProductBoard

JULY 31, 2019

Product management blogs are a product manager’s secret weapon. By offering a glimpse into the world of product management, blogs are an extraordinary resource for staying up-to-date on best practices, strategies, and product-related news from key industry insiders. Stay in the know. Bookmark these top product management blogs today! Brandon Chu’s product management blog strikes an excellent.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 1, 2019

All of us today are inundated by digital marketing content—just think of all the promotional emails in your inbox, the sponsored posts in your social media feeds, and the ads in front of your YouTube videos. Over the past five years, digital ad spend has doubled and the cost of acquiring customers has steadily increased. Marketers are well aware that only highly relevant campaigns serving the right message to the right audience at the right time will stand out from the noise.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2019

This questions come up a lot. Below are some less obvious core skills. This is by no means a comprehensive list. You’ll need more than these skills to be a good PM, but these are core skills I find useful, would love to hear your thoughts about them. Here goes: Define the goal/problem?—?What are your trying to accomplish? What problem are you solving?

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