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The 7 Ts of Product-Led Transformation

ProductPlan

Transformation is a word that isn’t commonly favored by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. However, Transformation Programs incur significant costs. According to the CIO magazine, Global spending on digital transformation technologies and services was $1.3 trillion in 2020 of which 70% of that spend is wasted.

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The Power of Agile — You Asked, We Answered

280 Group

Last month, we presented the webinar, How Teams and Leaders Can Unleash the Power of Agile. You can view the accompanying blog post as a primer to learn about how to optimize the relationship between these roles. We received so many great questions on the topic and have included answers to the top questions below. Thank you all for engaging in our webinar!

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Are AI Writing Tools Going to Conquer the World?

DevelopmentCorporate

AI writing tools are here to stay. Market leader Grammarly just raised $290 million at a $13 billion valuation. Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and its GPT 3 technology. I have seen firsthand the benefits of basic AI-enabled writing tools. On a year-to-date basis, my blog traffic is up 21%. While AI writing tools may have some drawbacks, they are not going to conquer the world.

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Four Key Product Management Lessons from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur

Alchemer Mobile

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. From learning more about their career path to predicted trends to general tips and advice, there’s no shortage of lessons to be learned that can ultimately help you develop and become a better product expert yourself.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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Make better decisions faster: The 6 stages of quick, effective decision-making

Intercom, Inc.

Your decision-making process is slowing you down. . Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . They’re considered heedless, overly luck-dependent, and almost treasonous by those of us in the data and research domains.

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Expectations and agreements in product management

Mind the Product

As product people, expectations management is all around us in our daily job. In this article, Viktor Nagy summarizes a few areas where expectations play a crucial role, and what we can do to manage them well or sometimes turn them into agreements. [.] Read more » The post Expectations and agreements in product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Cultivating a Product Mindset: How “No” became “YES, if…” became “Yes, IF…”

The Product Coalition

One of the hardest lessons a product owner has to learn is when to say no. Many people who seek a product role do so because the idea of what is possible entrances them. The type of person who looks at what exists and finds fulfillment in realizing their vision of what it could be. That kind of mindset clashes with the need to keep a well-groomed backlog that admits only a fraction of the requests customers send your way.

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Welcoming new senior leaders to Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

I’m excited to welcome three new senior leaders and a new Board Member to Intercom, to help deliver even more breakthrough value to our customers at an exciting moment for the company. We welcome former Smartsheet CMO Anna Griffin and former Lumileds Chief Legal Officer Cheree McAlpine to the executive team as Chief Marketing Officer and General Counsel respectively.

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A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First 1,000 Community Members

First Round Review

Pivots, MVPs and Community: How Joseph Quan, Founder & CEO of Knoetic, got his startup back on track by making community his wedge. He shares his hard-won wisdom and his six-step guide for building a community like a product.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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Designing a successful product marketing strategy

Mind the Product

With the right marketing, a company can know its product's place. This step-by-step guide will help you to design a successful product marketing strategy for customers old and new. [.] Read more » The post Designing a successful product marketing strategy appeared first on Mind the Product.

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3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Setting Goals for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. Photo by William Warby on Unsplash L. was the COO of a Series C startup.

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Getting Into Product

The Product Guy

The most effective way to become a product manager is to work on a project you are passionate about (even a hobby) and bring it to market. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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From concept to user: the complete guide of UX research

TryMyUI

Form concept to user, this guide will take you through everything you need to know about UX research, from its methods to how it benefits your company. We'll even touch on when and where UX research should be used. The post From concept to user: the complete guide of UX research appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Product design: Let’s get emotional

Mind the Product

This Sunday Rewind, we travel back to a 2018 and a post by Terry Corderio where he suggests a variety of ways for us to 'get emotional' when designing our products. [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Product design: Let’s get emotional appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Startup Vanity Metric Trap

The Product Coalition

Few people are strangers to vanity metrics. Focusing on the wrong metric for a startup however, can be detrimental to the startup. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Leadership Tip 16: Decide When to Choose Power-With or Power-Over

Johanna Rothman

All decisions are a form of power. We exercise our personal power (power within) in many ways: when we decide where to live, what to wear, and what to eat. Not only that, we also choose our jobs, who we vote for, and where to go on vacation. We have a ton of personal power. Healthy teams often need to decide together. They use power-with, where people decide what to do as collaborators.

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7 reasons to join Productboard’s Toastmasters club

ProductBoard

Meet new people. Advance your career. Have fun. There are many benefits to joining Productboard. Free membership to Toastmasters International is one of them. This nearly 100 years old organization that helped many people become better versions of themselves through public speaking and leadership skills development. Here are our top seven reasons for joining Productboard’s Toastmasters club.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Lessons from onboard mobile-app users

Mind the Product

An average smartphone user has 40 apps installed on their mobile phone, taking just two taps to pull your users away from your app and into another. The truth is that getting a user to download your app is only a small part of the battle. [.] Read more » The post Lessons from onboard mobile-app users appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Why You Should Hire an Associate Product Manager

The Product Coalition

APM (Associate Product Manager) Programs were a mainstay of the tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley, and were a reliable entry point for aspiring Product Managers. However, thanks to the pande…yeah that thing…most of the biggest and most prestigious APM programs got put on hold. Even before the world went nuts, the APM job role got a little bit lost.

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4 Product Prioritization Frameworks & How To Use Them

Dragonboat

Due to having limited time and resources, every product manager must make difficult trade-off decisions when prioritizing their roadmap. Inspiration for new product features may come from a myriad of sources and as the list grows, it gets increasingly difficult to separate the best ideas from the rest. Fortunately, there are several product prioritization frameworks […].

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Design Courses: A detailed list of UX online and offline design certifications

TryMyUI

A UX certification is a great way to demonstrate your skills and knowledge of user experience design. In this post, we will be covering the best picks of 10 UX design certification programs with both offline and online modes of pursuing them and all the details required for the choice. The post Design Courses: A detailed list of UX online and offline design certifications appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Moving from PM to Founder – Alexander Hipp on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

This week on The Product Experience, we talked with Alexander Hipp — co-founder of Beyond, formerly of Xing and N26 — about why he made the decision from PM to Founder, what it's been like so far, and what he'd advise anyone making a similar decision. [.] Read more » The post Moving from PM to Founder – Alexander Hipp on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Build a Brand on Amazon

The Product Coalition

Photo by ANIRUDH on Unsplash Amazon owns over 80 different private label brands. Even Amazon, one of the most powerful eCommerce companies globally, understands the use of leveraging smaller businesses. Establishing an Amazon brand has multiple advantages over selling other people’s products. This article will address many of those advantages. We will leverage the experience of Milos, a successful eCommerce, and Amazon specialist with five years of experience.

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5 Technical Concepts for the Non-Technical Product Manager

ProductPlan

Although there’s plenty of debate on this topic, product managers don’t need to be technical. A deep understanding of the programming languages, APIs, databases, software, and information architecture used to build and run a product isn’t essential to the job in most cases. Regardless of how helpful that knowledge may be. The non-technical product manager should understand a handful of technical concepts.

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Organizational politics: Good? Bad? Here’s what you need to know

Nulab

The term ‘organizational politics’ probably conjures up images of cliques and office gossip. But there’s much more to it than that. Organization politics refers to the personal agenda of an individual within a company. As you’ve probably guessed, it can spell trouble. When dysfunctional politics spiral out of control, it can be enough to sink an organization.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Operational excellence – product operations by Christine Itwaru

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Regional Collaboration, Christine Itwaru, Senior Director of Product Operations at Pendo, explains why product operations came to be and how product teams can use it to achieve operational excellence. [.] Read more » The post Operational excellence – product operations by Christine Itwaru appeared first on Mind the Product.

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An Organic Farm Startup Onboarding Strategy

The Product Coalition

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. The most important takeaway is that like many other startup founders, Startup V (named changed) too had a clear technology vision for the tech-driven farming concept but had missing strategies, goals & measures spanning across managing the partner ecosystem

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Building and scaling successful product ops teams

ProductBoard

Building a successful product organization is a lot like cooking, says Anabela Cesário, Director of Product Ops at OutSystems. Making lasagna for 100 people as opposed to a family of four is not just about increasing the amounts of ingredients you use. You also need to streamline some processes (and get better tools) or else you’ll end up with a giant mess.

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