TechEmpower - Product Management
JULY 24, 2023
At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. A lot of startups think they have PMF and try to enter the growth phase prematurely — usually due in part due to VC pressure to grow or simply not having a way to measure and validate how strong your PMF is — which can be disastr
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The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 30, 2023
The Metaverse has arrived, are you ready for it? Image Credit: Juska Wendland Ok, so I think that we all have to agree: the metaverse has arrived. For anyone who didn’t realize that Facebook has renamed themselves to “Meta”, the metaverse is going to be a big deal. If you enjoyed the book / movie “Ready Player One” you know what I’m talking about.
AB Tasty
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Let's examine the 5 mandatory elements of an effective ecommerce product page plus some examples of the most successful product pages by industry that you can get inspiration from.
Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations
ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!
Product Talk
OCTOBER 18, 2023
A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. It’s one of the highest value activities we can do. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. And those that do, don’t do nearly enough. I want to change that. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?
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Mixpanel
MARCH 16, 2023
Mixpanel’s core value has always been to unlock growth for digital products and the companies behind them. The way we provide it is by arming our customers with powerful and easy-to-use behavioral analytics that can help them reach: New-user acquisition growth or increases in the number of prospects signing up to be a new user of a product Existing-user engagement growth or increases in the number of current users regularly re-engaging with a product to find value Historically, a lot of these an
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Marc Abraham, Product Director at financial services business Backbase, shows us how to learn from our product mistakes and offers a framework for failing better Read more » The post How to F.A.I.L. better in product by Marc Abraham appeared first on Mind the Product.
Userpilot
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Are you a product-led or sales-led kind of SaaS? Or perhaps you’ve managed to marry the two strategies and embraced product-led sales? If not, but you’d like to learn more, then why not watch the talk that Ben Williams , known as the Product-Led Geek, delivered at the recent Product Drive hosted by Userpilot? Let’s dive right in! Ben Williams talk on product-led sales.
Business Acumen Institute
MAY 8, 2023
Not a day goes by without a debate about the pros and cons of artificial intelligence (AI). So many sources indicate how AI equals or exceeds the intelligence of humans. As companies pour money into AI, I’d like to offer some thoughts that may adjust your mindset. While there is certainly promise in technologies that can contribute to many areas, such as reading, writing, speaking, and even product design, we cannot ignore some basics, including reading, writing, and math.
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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.
Roman Pichler
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. This sounds simple enough. But in practice, organising teams around products can be challenging, especially when a company lacks a clear understanding of what a (digital) product is and if it does not embrace a product-led way of working.
Product Innovation Educators
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. She oversees product strategy, definition, and launch activities for Kymeta’s mobile satellite communications product line, which is making mobile broadband connectivity around the world ubiquitous.
The Product Guy
JANUARY 1, 2023
Greatness starts with talking to users, talking to prospects, talking to someone who has direct outside access to your product. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.
Product Management University
OCTOBER 19, 2023
The best product launches are like the cream cheese frosting on a decadent chocolate cake! You’ve just built some cool new A.I. enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. Existing customers have greater confidence you’re keeping pace with or staying ahead of the technology curve in ways that benefit them.
Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive
Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.
Business Acumen Institute
APRIL 25, 2023
Wouldn’t it be great if your path to profits was easier to navigate? TLDR: Every successful company is adept at finding and solving problems. After all, every product or service that’s sold is a solution to a customer problem! Your company’s path to profits is more easily paved when managers and leaders become more adept at problem-solving.
Business Acumen Institute
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Why Business Acumen Matters to the IT Profession Whether you’re in the C-Suite as Chief Technical Officer, an IT Director or an IT project manager, it’s imperative to ensure that your initiatives are aligned with the firm’s strategic intent, and that you are part of a team moving in the same direction. Why is this important? According to research done by Business Acumen Institute , 62% of people who work within the information technology ecosystem are working on projects that don’t contrib
Business Acumen Institute
MARCH 23, 2023
There’s no shortage of advice for leaders that cover an array of things to do to move into the C-suite. The truth is that everyone doesn’t have to have the same aspiration. Yet, some characteristics successful executives demonstrate might inspire us as we progress in our business careers. From another standpoint, people in business tend to manage their careers within the context of their discipline (engineering, marketing, etc.).
Business Acumen Institute
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Recorded Webinar Resources Discussed In The Webinar Free: Try Two Modules of The Business Acumen Online Course Free: Take the Business Acumen Self-Assessment Free: Download the Business Acumen Canvas Free: Download the Business Acumen Handbook Executive Summary Purchase: The Business Acumen Handbook Get in Touch: Send our host, Steven, an email Webinar Brief: Most people know that to get a promotion, they must be strong in their functional discipline.
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
Roman Pichler
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] As simple as this sounds, there is a catch: To create value with Scrum, you must understand who the users and customers are, why people would
Product Talk
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Many teams, like sales and marketing, have time-bound goals, like reaching $X in bookings or generating Y leads by a specific date. Product teams are also held to time-bound goals. Empowered product teams, for example, are asked to deliver outcomes each quarter. But sometimes companies take this too far. They ask product teams to deliver specific features by specific dates.
Roman Pichler
APRIL 4, 2023
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Head of Product Role in a Nutshell A head of product manages a group of product people —individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product managers or product owners. Depending on the company size and org structure, the role might also be referred to as Director of Product Management, VP Product, and Chief Product Officer.
Roman Pichler
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. Let’s make this more concrete by looking at a popular product discovery tool, Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree (OTS). [2] Before I proceed, let me point out that I am neither
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Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y
Roman Pichler
MARCH 14, 2023
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? Who are the users and, if appropriate, who are the customers? Why would people want to use and buy it?
Product Talk
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
You don’t necessarily need anyone’s permission to get started with continuous discovery. In fact, some steps—like story mapping and identifying your assumptions —don’t even require anyone else to participate. You can easily go through these activities on your own. But at the same time, continuous discovery shouldn’t always be a solo activity. There’s a reason why Teresa often refers to the product trio : Continuous discovery is more effective when you avoid turf wars and bring in different persp
Product Talk
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. As an individual contributor, you’re focusing on your own projects and progress, but as a leader you are now responsible for the team (or teams) that report up to you. You may find yourself less involved in the day-to-day work of discovery and delivery and more focused on higher-level strategy.
Product Talk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.
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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.
Roman Pichler
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview The GO Product Roadmap consists of five elements, as the image below shows: Date, name, goal, features, and metrics. The most important element is the goal: It describes the outcome you want to achieve or the benefit you want to provide. Sample goals include “acquiring new users,” “increasing conversion,” and “reducing cost.
Product Talk
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Let’s say you’ve got a good thing going with continuous discovery. You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers , you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. Everything is going great right up until one of your stakeholders , like your CEO, approaches your team with a shiny new idea.
Product Talk
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. The root of the tree is your desired outcome—the business need that reflects how your team can create business value. Next is the opportunity space. These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome.
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