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A Better Approach To Demoing Can Turn Sales Around

The Secret PM Handbook

A Sales Demo Challenge. At one of my previous companies our new logo sales – that is, new customers – were tanking. The account reps were not hitting quota on new logos. The sales engineers felt this was due to a large degree to our “story” on agile. Our product was not as strong as some of our competitors for managing agile projects.

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The Only Product Metric that Matters by Josh Elman

Mind the Product

As product managers we spend a lot of our time thinking about product metrics, and all companies, from startups to corporates, spend a lot of time figuring out whether their metrics are good enough. Are the metrics good enough to raise money, or good enough to keep working on a feature or product, or good enough to believe the product will grow into something much bigger someday?

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Understanding Complexity in Product Management with Cynefin

The Product Guy

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).

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How to Get People to Help Each Other, Online and Off

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Max Ogles, who writes at MaxOgles.com. On March 27, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally attacked and killed in the open streets of New York City. What makes Genovese’s story so tragic is that police later discovered numerous people were aware of Genovese’s distress but never came to her […]. The post How to Get People to Help Each Other, Online and Off appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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A Better Approach To Demoing Can Turn Sales Around

The Secret PM Handbook

A Sales Demo Challenge. At one of my previous companies our new logo sales – that is, new customers – were tanking. The account reps were not hitting quota on new logos. The sales engineers felt this was due to a large degree to our “story” on agile. Our product was not as strong as some of our competitors for managing agile projects.

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Building Great Product Teams

The Product Guy

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).

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MVP is not Just for Startups: The Importance of Finding Your Company's MVP

Generation Focus

What comes to mind when you think of Uber? Probably a fully developed feature-rich app. But did you know that Uber, and other apps like it, started as a minimum viable product? Uber took years to perfect and the company avoided wasting development costs by releasing their features bit by bit. But what if you’re a big company? Isn’t this approach only for lean startups?

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A Better Approach To Demoing Can Turn Sales Around

The Secret PM Handbook

A Sales Demo Challenge. At one of my previous companies our new logo sales – that is, new customers – were tanking. The account reps were not hitting quota on new logos. The sales engineers felt this was due to a large degree to our “story” on agile. Our product was not as strong as some of our competitors for managing agile projects.

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Pokemon Go: One Year On

Mind the Product

A year ago I wrote an article about the explosion of Pokemon Go. According to ComScore , PoGo scored 28 million active daily users at its peak and has stabilized at five million. Niantic, the game maker, confirms this. The game rakes in about $2 million every day and at the time of writing sits at #7 top grossing game in the iTunes store. Given this, I wanted to revisit my original article and talk about how the game has evolved in the last year, and what lessons there are for us product manage

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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.

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Your Next Product Management Job

The Product Guy

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….

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10 Questions: Jay Stansell of the Product Coalition

Clever PM

At some point in my meanderings online, I heard tell of a Slack channel that had been set up for Product Managers to engage with each other and discuss topics of concern to those in the profession. And, being the Clever PM that I am, I had no choice but to check it out — […].

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MVP is not Just for Startups: The Importance of Finding Your Company's MVP

Generation Focus

What comes to mind when you think of Uber? Probably a fully developed feature-rich app. But did you know that Uber, and other apps like it, started as a minimum viable product ? Uber took years to perfect and the company avoided wasting development costs by releasing their features bit by bit. But what if you’re a big company? Isn’t this approach only for l ean startups ?

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Gadi Weiszlovits Lahav and Richard Still – Scaling up without slowing down

Mind the Product

Gadi Weiszlovits Lahav (Head of Product at FT.com) and Richard Still (Technology Director at FT.com) tell ProductTank London how to scale quickly and successfully. Their advice is to focus on the right technology, agile processes and great people to create the culture and operation you need. Digital Growth of Traditional Publishers is Possible. The FT.com has grown extraordinarily quickly into a profitable, digitally-centric publisher over the last 2 years.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Managing Product, Vision or Execution?

The Product Coalition

Amidst it’s countless definitions in the tech industry, let’s all agree to one point?—?product management can either be vision-driven, or it can be execution-driven. Of course, there are overlaps and there’s no rule that makes the two exclusive?—?but in terms of ideology, as a PM, you will either be driven by a greater good that your product aims at serving, or you will be driven by smaller, tighter, one-step-at-a-time executables that your product arms solves your customer problems with.

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[Infographic] Software Marketer’s Black Hole: Shedding Light on Trial User Engagement

Revulytics

With all the news about the upcoming total eclipse , we thought it would be fun to shed some light on a related topic: the free trial black hole. Software marketers have powerful tools to drive prospects to their websites and download a free trial of their software. Unfortunately for many of them, visibility into what happens after the download is eclipsed, and they have no idea how those free trial users engage with their application.

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How to Get People to Help Each Other, Online and Off

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Max Ogles, who writes at MaxOgles.com. On March 27, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally attacked and killed in the open streets of New York City. What makes Genovese’s story so tragic is that police later discovered numerous people were aware of Genovese’s distress but never came to her […] The post How to Get People to Help Each Other, Online and Off appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How Can Product Managers Make The World Ready For The Return Of Crystal Pepsi?

The Accidental Product Manager

How will Pepsi product managers make people want Crystal Pepsi? Image Credit: DVNET. Over at Pepsi the product managers are facing a bit of a problem. In the U.S. the amount of cola that is being drunk is currently at a three decade low point. What appears to be happening is that their customers are changing their drinking preferences and are now starting to select bottled water and other non-cola beverages.

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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

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7 roadmap templates for creating organization-wide alignment & communication

Roadmunk

Roadmapping isn’t an exercise reserved solely for product teams—or rather, it shouldn’t be. Roadmaps are communication tools and are perfect vehicles for teams of all kinds to share their priorities and goals with the rest of the organization. To help you out, we created seven templates that can be used across your organization to boost visibility into high-level business strategy and more tactical team-based goals. 1.

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The Importance of Accessibility Testing

Userzoom

Are your web sites and applications accessible to people with disabilities? If not you could be missing out on millions of people all over the world who would be loyal customers, employees, and social media followers. The benefits of accessibility. Fortune magazine estimates that in the US alone people with disabilities spend a trillion dollars each year – and more than $200 billion of that is discretionary income.

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Good product manager characteristics–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 18, 2017

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. What good product managers have in common from the perspective of a product management intern. A few of the common characteristics include working cross-functionally, being experts at customer interviews, and prioritizing features for implementation.

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MVP is not Just for Startups: The Importance of Finding Your Company's MVP

Generation Focus

What comes to mind when you think of Uber? Probably a fully developed feature-rich app. But did you know that Uber, and other apps like it, started as a minimum viable product ? Uber took years to perfect and the company avoided wasting development costs by releasing their features bit by bit. But what if you’re a big company? Isn’t this approach only for l ean startups ?

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Announcing Create Your Successful Agile Project

Johanna Rothman

I have a new book in beta, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. (The in beta part means that it is in copyediting, and then onto layout and print. It’s a process.). I’m so excited about this book. My three most recent Pragmatic Manager newsletters were about jelled teams: The Case For Stable Teams, Part 1.

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Accessibility Isn’t Enough – Designing Digital Properties to be Usable and Accessible For All

Userzoom

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR. Accessibility Isn’t Enough – Designing Digital Properties to be Usable and Accessible For All. Accessibility Isn’t Enough - Designing Digital Properties to be Usable and Accessible For All Today, there are many things to consider when designing digital products. A delightful experience and great usability are rocketing to the top of the list as more and more companies understand that experience is a key differentiator for the modern consumer.

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Announcing TSIA’s B2B Social Engagement Rating

TSIA

The old adage, “Happy customers tell three people, and unhappy customers tell ten,” has become very outdated, with unhappy customers complaining to millions via Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. As the airlines learned this year, one negative customer experience can not only go viral on social, it can wind up as the headline of the five o’clock news.

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MVP is not Just for Startups: The Importance of Finding Your Company's MVP

Generation Focus

What comes to mind when you think of Uber? Probably a fully developed feature-rich app. But did you know that Uber, and other apps like it, started as a minimum viable product ? Uber took years to perfect and the company avoided wasting development costs by releasing their features bit by bit. But what if you’re a big company? Isn’t this approach only for l ean startups ?

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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