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.
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?
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UX Studio: Product Management
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. We all hate email : endless exchanges with our colleagues to reach decisions… We’ve all seen that. As a product manager, you know the drill. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag.
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.
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The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
From The Best Product Person of 2016, Chris Butler, …. Looking Forward. > What trends do you see in product management? positive trends? any negative trends? Agile and lean organization product managers are getting good at dealing with ambiguity and are open to unknown situations. This still isn’t the whole of product roles however. I think as a product needs to exist in the community of the world this is just going to be a bigger and bigger part of the daily job.
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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.
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 […].
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.
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
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
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….
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.
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.
Andrew Chen
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Raising money is hard. And it’s even harder if you’re an entrepreneur from outside the Bay Area. Entrepreneurs from outside of Silicon Valley often struggle to raise money here. There’s issues with culture and style, differences in expectations, as well as our emphasis on growth over monetization. I’m reminded of this every time I travel and meet startups.
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.
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
Brian Balfour
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
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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.
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Is there an opportunity to enter the U.S. market for cigarettes? Image Credit: flickr.com/volver-avanzar !!! No matter how you personally feel about smoking, you have got to admit that the market for cigarettes is huge. You can hardly go into a gas station without being confronted with an entire wall of different brands of cigarettes all of which have just slightly different product development definitions.
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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
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.
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 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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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
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.
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.
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.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
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.
Roy Madden
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
At Feedly, we care passionately about the success of our customers. With more than 1,000 organizations relying on Feedly Teams for connecting to the content they need to accelerate research, marketing, and sales, we are growing our customer success team to continue to deliver a 7-star onboarding and support experience. WHY FEEDLY? Massive opportunity.
Miro
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
7 ways to knit a virtualteam together According to a 2015 survey by Polycom conducted among 25,000 workers in 12 countries, 32% of employees work remotely, while 62% are “regularly taking advantage of flexible working practices offered to them.” The companies have been riding the wave and welcome distributed teams in their workforce more than […].
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