Melissa Perri
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
When I first started in Product Management, I was told that my job was to keep my stakeholders happy. My stakeholders were members of the sales team. I understand that many Product Managers are taught better today that stakeholders include customers and users, but I was taught the term was reserved for internal folks who had a say in our product. Customers and users were considered separately, and handled differently.
The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Guest Post by: Jince Kuruvilla (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Rishi Kumar]. Regret, sorrow, disappointment – not all team check-ins and spec reviews end like this, but for a while, most of mine did. I mean, I was nearly a year into my first real Product Management position and I still didn’t feel like I knew what I was doing!
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Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Design Sprints allow you to get to the crux of your problem and explore a solution, quicker than other ways of working. They don’t give you a perfect solution or exact data, but they give you more than enough to decide what to do next by helping you glimpse into the future. Not only does this save a lot of time and money, it also results in better end products that people will love.
Product Innovation Educators
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Product managers can create a better organization. Product management is the economic engine of society. It drives value creation. Without products, whether they be a tangible item like consumer goods, such as toothpaste, a service such as Uber, a checking account, or any other product form, the economic system we enjoy would not exist. It is through innovation — the creation of new products — that value is created for customers and for organizations.
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.
UX Studio
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Deciding between multivariate testing vs A/B testing without knowing their advantages and limitations can pose extreme challenges. When optimizing a website’s conversion rate, A/B testing usually comes up first. Create two versions and see which performs better. Sometimes testing more alternatives proves necessary, for which multivariate testing performs well as a method.
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Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Roy Peer opens his presentation by introducing himself & discussing the virtual reality industry. He references a common question in the industry: whether or not virtual reality (VR) is a fad. Many people do not believe that VR is the future, and think that we will soon simply grow tired of our latest toy Roy, however, disagrees – he references the development of the automobile, when popular opinion was that “the horse is here to stay, and the automobile is only a novelty.
Product Innovation Educators
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How to break into product management – be curious. Product managers are often hired for their domain expertise and their application of product management practices. It can be a challenge to break into product management, and the path I most frequently recommend is to get experience in your current role.
Street Smart Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
How do you know if your product is going to be successful? How do you know if your product IS successful? When I ask product managers this question, I get answers like these: “We regularly ask our customers for feedback on our product.” “We have a customer satisfaction metric that we measure.” “We look at […]. The post Product success appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 23, 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….
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.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
It is well accepted that outcomes – such as product adoption, customer satisfaction, user experience, and product performance – rather than outputs and tactical tasks should be used in evaluating product managers. However, in practice, these outcomes are at least influenced by – and often determined by – external factors. What are these external factors and how do we account for them when evaluating product managers?
Generation Focus
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
One of the keys to building a good product is customer validation. Before you can get to that point, you need to listen to your customers and understand their pains & gains. You can do that through customer interviews. Every successful product should start with this foundation, here’s why. Customer Validation & Discovery Customer discovery is the process through which you identify a customer for your product and a product they’ll love.
Clever PM
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
I’ve been working on B2B solutions for a very long time (dating almost all the way back to the turn of the millennia), and in that time I’ve come to realize that far too many applications try to be everything to everyone, and as a result really wind up serving nobody at all. You can […].
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
You’ve started thinking in feature sets. Maybe you’ve experimented with rolling wave plans inside one quarter , so you can change and replan as you need to support your project or program. You’ve discussed flow-based roadmapping as a way to create MVPs and MVEs, release smaller value more often so you can make better decisions. You know you need more feedback and resilience in your project/program, so you’ve created a product value team to reassess the roadmap on a regul
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Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Five years ago, including embedded analytics in an application was a powerful way for product teams to differentiate their applications, reduce customer churn, and charge more for their products. Users were thrilled with the bells and whistles of charts, graphs, and dashboards in the applications they already used, and they were often willing to pay more for these business intelligence (BI) capabilities.
Ken Norton
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Mother of all markets or a pipe dream driven by greed? -. In an essay entitled Ants & Aliens, I encouraged product managers to develop a thirty-year plan. Although it can seem preposterous, that time horizon can be liberating. It’s so far out it forces us to detach our vision from practicality. As I wrote, “Something appealing happens when you contemplate that.
dscout People Nerds
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
People Nerds on how to navigate the challenges of tight timeframes, feeling isolated, and stakeholder influence.
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Let me summarize what I’ve been talking about in these posts. The problem I’m seeing is that too many teams and organizations plan too much in too much detail too soon. Instead of architectural BDUF (Big Design Up Front), it’s project planning as BDUF. They expect one single person (a product manager or a product owner) to do all that planning.
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
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Where did your team go on their first big outing? For the recently-formed group-wide product team at Tes, our first major excursion as a group was to MTP 2017 – Europe’s largest gathering of product managers with more than 1,500 attendees. It was a total blast with a healthy mix of learning, networking and partying. Tes has published news for educators for over 100 years (formerly as The Times Educational Supplement) but is today better known globally as the site where millions of teachers
Revulytics
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Perhaps you are familiar with the concept of usage-based automobile insurance, which leverages telematics to more closely align premium rates with actual driving behaviors. Progressive, for instance, has an offering that monitors driving behavior with a plugin or mobile app and takes that data into account when calculating payments versus leveraging only the actuarial calculations that are traditionally used to form policies.
Brian Balfour
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Get the customizable Growth Interview Prep Worksheet that accompanies the post here. You walk into your growth interview after hours of preparation. You’ve perfected your 2 minute pitch, polished your work stories, and maybe even done some case prep. You’re ready to showcase your achievements and you have an answer ready for any question they throw at you.
Roadmunk
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
NBC News is in the middle of a digital transformation. They’re rolling out the best possible content experiences for both the old school and digital-savvy news consumer one step at a time. This initiative is being spearheaded by Moritz Gimbel , the organization’s VP of Product and Design. Moritz’s goal: continuing NBC News’ mission of serving quality news to every American.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
Generation Focus
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
One of the keys to building a good product is customer validation. Before you can get to that point, you need to listen to your customers and understand their pains & gains. You can do that through customer interviews. Every successful product should start with this foundation, here’s why. Customer Validation & Discovery. Customer discovery is the process through which you identify a customer for your product and a product they’ll love.
Good Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. While SiriusDecisions recommends reviewing product roadmaps regularly – most often quarterly – the look ahead to the new calendar year is often the time when there is a more concerted effort to refine and revise the future roadmap, especially when it is tied into annual pr
Hutwork
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Your product roadmap is critical to conveying strategy and vision to those who need to know. Sales, marketing, engineering, production, customer support, executives are all stakeholders, including the end-user or customer. When referring to a collaborative product roadmap , it’s not necessary that everyone should be able to edit and change it.
Sequent Learning
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
The post Away From My Desk – Don’t Run From Feedback! appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.
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
Product Warrior
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
I was nervous, would the investment of 40 man days, including two of the exec, turn out to be a waste of time? As we entered into the last day of the design sprint there was a sense of excitement coupled with a feeling of sadness knowing it's the last day the sprint team would be working together. As it was our first design sprint at Tes, and I had initiated it, I simply hoped we would end the day with good learnings.
Good Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. While SiriusDecisions recommends reviewing product roadmaps regularly – most often quarterly – the look ahead to the new calendar year is often the time when there is a more concerted effort to refine and revise the future roadmap, especially when it is tied into annual pr
Miro
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Interview On the future of Agile and developing a culture of innovation Gerard Chiva, an Agile coach Gerard Chiva is a highly experienced Agile transformation coach, but this definition is too narrow to describe his true value to the companies he has been working with since 2009. His strong background in software development and vast […]. The post Gerard Chiva, an Agile coach, on the future of Agile and developing a culture of innovation appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.
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