BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Speak to a Learning Advisor.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Last October I took part in Digital Wave , a conference in Bournemouth that brings together over 1,000 young people between the ages of 14 and 19 to learn about the opportunities offered by a career in the technology sector. I started the project in response to challenges I had recruiting entry-level product managers for Crowdcube.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

The technology and platforms both Sales and CS use often have similar capabilities. Both roles also share processes, such as engagements, external communication, and risk management. While it requires more of a technical background, as a CSM, you come with the perspective of knowing the customer’s needs and goals.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is an ecosystem moat and how can product managers build one? These are the key questions that Austin Yang , the Lead Product Manager at Softr , discussed in his presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. What is an ecosystem in technology? Want to see some go examples? Are you intrigued?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2023

Net promoter score ( NPS ) shows how willing customers are to recommend your product to others by comparing the number of promoters and detractors. If NPS scores are high, it means customers are realizing your value since they are willing to advise others to use your product. What are the stages of the value realization process?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Look for onboarding software which is code-free, contains in-app communication, good analytics , and robust segmentation technology. You can think of onboarding as the ongoing process of educating your customers in how to get the most out of your SaaS product. Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding."

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Unintentional test kitchens for products occur when a company realizes they have created a product to solve a problem for themselves that could solve the same or similar problem for others. I refer to examples of both below. We partner with clients to build complex digital products that have the power to transform industries.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. Product tours generally include a welcome screen , a survey to segment users, a checklist , and experience flows for each of the key activation points.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. These are just a few examples of IDEO’s notable clients and the positive impact created by a company with design thinking. . Sketching your ideas. Mindmapping.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. For example if a customer is refused insurance by an automated system they can call and ask for a manual review.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step, interactive guide to your product that will ultimately lead your users to activation. Exactly what constitutes activation will vary for different use cases of your product. Hmmmmm… All this product does is highlight how confusing and complex it is. Lower support costs.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career?

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career?

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? It’s impossible for one person to do.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more.

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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! From Product Manager to Partner: An Interview with Ashley Carroll of @SocialCapital Click To Tweet.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. 00:04:00] Then much, much later, after dropping out from architecture school, I opted to take a more generic course in multimedia and communication technologies, and it was there when I was introduced to the disciplines of ergonomics and usability.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Tradeoffs for the General Manager model are outlined in my post retrospective on Implementing Amazon’s single threaded owner model. Organize cross-functionally within engineering, embed product and design It is common for Engineering to organize along functional lines. For example, Frontend and Backend teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. That should happen.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

And that can leave product managers feeling a little bit like visitors to this town in Ireland. All successful product managers are concerned about retention. So picking the best user retention tools and software depends on a lot of factors specific to your business and your product. Source: commons.wikimedia.org.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

And that can leave product managers feeling a little bit like visitors to this town in Ireland. All successful product managers are concerned about retention. So picking the best user retention tools depends on a lot of factors specific to your business and your product. Source: commons.wikimedia.org.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

I like to use a really simple example of this. So, when our teams tell us about outputs we give them feedback on outputs and usually our feedback is not our expert manager feedback, it’s our preferences as an individual person. Now a lot of these examples I’m using, they come from a Netflix example that I created.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This is an example of that question being answered by 731 Slack users. Therefore, Slack has Product-Market Fit. Okay, so today that may seem abundantly obvious, but the purpose of this example is to show you just how hard it is to beat this benchmark. Here’s another example. 51 is greater than 40.

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