ProductCraft
OCTOBER 27, 2020
“Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.” Clayton Christensen (for more great PM lessons from Clayton, read 8 lessons product managers can learn.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
One of the most impactful things a product leader can do to help their team succeed is to point everyone in the same direction—to channel all of the team’s energy, focus, and resources towards an aligned outcome.
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280 Group
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Congratulations! You’re on the verge of one of the most exciting and fastest-growing careers today. Over the past several decades, I’ve interviewed hundreds and hired dozens of Product Managers at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and burgeoning startups.
Nir Eyal
OCTOBER 26, 2020
The post Be a Schedule Builder, Not a To-Do List Maker appeared first on Nir and Far.
Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University
You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
This is my complete guide to Product Discovery in 2020.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Roman Pichler
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Enter the Cycle. Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. But as long as innovation, change, and risk are present, this approach is ineffective.
Melissa Perri
JANUARY 4, 2020
I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. We've come a long way but we still have far to go. These are a few of my observations and personal experiences. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Guest post by Gabe Nelson Great leaders inspire. Great leaders don’t dominate a room, they motivate it.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.
Indicative
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Everyone on your team has personal responsibilities beyond their jobs. If they’re parents, they’ve likely become full-time caretakers to their children. They might also be navigating a spouse’s unemployment or a family member’s illness.
Product Talk
MAY 13, 2020
I’m excited to add Hope Gurion as an official author on Product Talk. She has guest posted here before and has worked with me for years. She coaches teams using my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum and is helping me bring the Continuous Discovery Habits workshop to more companies. Help me in welcoming Hope as an official author. You’ll see she’s starting with a great contribution below and I’m excited to read more from her in the coming months.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The start of any journey begins with consulting a map. But if you’re a product designer starting out on a new project, you might find yourself with a blank page, and the job of drawing the map: of defining the high-level design direction that your team is going to use to chart their course. Mess it up, and you could find yourself quickly marching your team off a cliff.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In this ProductTank London talk, John Pagonis – then UX Lead at ‘The Mortgage Works’/Founder of Zanshin labs, shares his experience of creating an evidence-based backlog. Watch the video to see the talk in full, or read on for an overview of his key points: Product Waste – Do you really have time and money to waste [.]. Read More. The post Evidence-Based Product Backlogs, by John Pagonis appeared first on Mind the Product.
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President of Tyner Blain, Product Management and Strategy Consultant
What we build are features, intended to add value for our customers and advance our company's financial goals. To know what to measure, you have to unearth your assumptions of how each feature will make things better, and form testable hypotheses. See how to build an impact map, understand leading indicators, and write disprovable hypotheses - which are the inputs to your experimental design.
Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Product is hard, sometimes you just need a good laugh ?? #1: The ruthless PM #2: Feature Parity #3: Great idea, let me just write that down… #4: We’ll get around to it one day #5: One does not simply skip discovery #6: Just let me have this one… #7: #darkmode #8: Nice idea, but no! #9: Just book some time in #10: Immovable dates #11: “Responding to change” #12: Decision making 101 #13: But we’re at capacity #14: Goddammit, sales were right!
The Product Guy
APRIL 9, 2020
Guest Post by: Niveditha Jayasekar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman]. Have you ever had to talk a difficult customer down from the ledge? Or work with a difficult person, period? What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month?
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
It takes an insane amount of hard work and effort to become a Great Product Manager (I’m very much still on the journey myself). And once you get there, it takes more consistent work to stay at the top of your game.
Speaker: Data Robot
Enterprise AI maturity has evolved dramatically over the past 5 years. Most enterprises have now experienced their first successes with predictive AI, but the pace and scale of impact have too often been underwhelming. Now generative AI has emerged and captivated the minds and imaginations of leaders and innovators everywhere. Join our DataRobot experts to reflect on lessons learned from helping hundreds of enterprises grow their AI maturity over the past 5 years.
Roman Pichler
DECEMBER 1, 2020
OKRs in a Nutshell. OKRs are a method for setting and tracking goals. An objective describes what is to be achieved. The key results state how we accomplish the objective. Let’s say, for example, that the objective is to “increase engagement.” The key results might then be “simplify user journey A” and “enhance feature alpha.”. OKRs can be used to create cascading goals—goals that are systematically linked.
Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
MARCH 1, 2020
In this post, I describe the five layers of the IoT technology stack and how Product Managers can incorporate them into their product strategy and roadmap. You’ve probably heard a lot on how the Internet of Things (IoT) will revolutionize many areas of our life. And even with all this potential, many Product Managers are […]. The post Quick Guide: the 5 Layers of the IoT Technology Stack appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.
dscout People Nerds
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Researchers often want to include people with access needs in their studies but don’t know where to begin. This 3 part series covers the various considerations for adapting your practice to include people with disabilities.
Indicative
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A business analyst will tell you that funnels are a crucial part of understanding a customer’s journey from their first site visit to revenue generation.
Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
When customers leave your product ecosystem, they often leave you puzzled about the reasons behind their departure. Maybe your product was once the best option on the market, but due to missing features and difficulties, its competitive edge has dwindled. Alternatively, customers might encounter challenges in using the product, thereby undermining the initial value proposition that drove their adoption.
Product Talk
JULY 8, 2020
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Continuous Discovery Habits. It’s the opening to my chapter on Opportunity Mapping. Read to the end for an exciting new announcement. “To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry—these are the essentials of thinking.” John Dewey , How We Think. “Structure is complicated.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 25, 2020
We all know what a conversation between two people sounds like. “Hey, can you help me a sec?”. “Sure. What’s up?”. “I just can’t make sense of this dashboard.”. Human conversation is a sequence of verbal exchanges – what linguists call turn-taking. This rhythmic exchange is deeply hardwired into our social neurophysiology, as call-and-response bonding in animals is likely hundreds of millions years old.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 4, 2020
Currently, there are thousands of products, apps, and services driven by machine learning (ML) that we use every day. As was reported by Crunchbase, in 2019 there were 8,705 companies and startups that rely on this technology. According to PWC’s research, it’s predicted that ML and AI technologies will contribute about $15.7 trillion to global GDP by 2030.
Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Product managers most often reach out to me for advice when they are in the midst of contemplating their next role. In our discussions, we talk about all the usual things: their ultimate career aspirations; their understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses and the skill gaps they hope to fill; as well as the specifics of each role they are considering, including scope, responsibilities, title & compensation, and manager.
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The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Two friends share tools they learned from improv comedy to help you on your product journey By Becca Groner and Gabby Zilkha As product managers with improvisational comedy training, we’ve been surprised how often our improv skills have helped us be more effective in our roles. We, Becca and Gabby, have been improvising since our college improv troupe days and have learned a few tricks of the trade.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Guest Post by: Carlos Ruiz (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. At the end of October, Mr Jeff was announcing a couple of very big hits. Firstly, Jeff as a new umbrella brand for all the new services will be providing to our customers; Secondly, a new business line called Beauty Jeff was opening the very first venue in Argentina.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Over the past decade, I have worked extensively with many B2B enterprise software companies. My role has principally focused on the individual and collective performance of the product management and the development management functions. This has included the assessment, formation, development, and re-engineering of the product management function.
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