Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen).

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2020

Guest Post by: Daniel de Repentigny (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Shobhit Chugh]. When you first start as a product manager at a startup, the routine can be jarring and exhausting. Product Managers. Unlike other disciplines, product management has very little actual work product.

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Gainsight

MARCH 23, 2022

In the ideal world, you would release a product, it would be an instant hit, and customers would purchase it forever. Selling the most products and getting the best business outcomes starts with a smart approach to product lifecycle management. The Importance of Product Lifecycle Management.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

You must be liked, trusted, and respected to be an effective product leader 2. Being a product leader is a humbling opportunity and a privilege as you build consequential products that will impact your customers' lives. Use your position to lift others up as others have done for you. Table of Contents 1.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  But next year’s revenue is an outcome of the many things that we do as a company, and that each department does in support of those company-wide things.  ” I’m constantly talking with product leaders who have to build a next-year product plan without anything to hang it on. 

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2018

Lessons on identity for a notoriously amorphous profession Product management is one of the most in-demand roles in tech. There are more Product Manager job openings than any other job in Glassdoor’s top 10 (other than Software Engineer). It led me to build our new product Mural and I wanted to share some of my takeaways.

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Bryce York

MAY 9, 2021

Product snacks delivered fresh to your inbox. Send me product content. When designing an experiment, it’s best practice to set your success criteria upfront (so you don’t talk yourself into the outcome you want after the test ends). isn’t even possible for product experiments). Find the same content below.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 18, 2016

Here are two examples of decision making questions that effective decision makers might employ: Will the outcome of your decision matter in 10 minutes, 10 months, or 10 years? Over the past fifteen-plus years, Sarah has enjoyed roles in technology product development and IT project and program management leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Paulo Tavares leads the product onboarding team at OutSystems where his main goal is to help new customers make the most of their product during the trial phase and drive them towards purchase. Depending on the use case, the bot can then automatically send the most relevant product tutorials.

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BrainMates

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a product leader you might not have thought about it, but the qualities you seek in a high-performing product team sound somewhat similar to those in use everyday by working parents. So as a product leader, what can you do? Want more great product reads? 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link]. [4] 4] [link]. [5]

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2023

By Tremis Skeete for Product Coalition In today’s modern “post-pandemic” world where we all know at least one person who works from home or anywhere they choose — there’s an ironic yet curious idea going around. By the time the pandemic ended in 2023, people adapted to remote ways of working and achieved great levels of productivity.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. What have you achieved over the last year?

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Here are five questions you can ask yourself that will materially increase your ability to mitigate the effects of your own biases in data-informed product development. In product development, attachment often takes the form of fixating on specific results within specific timelines in order to keep your product or business afloat.

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Gainsight

JUNE 17, 2022

If you’re considering implementing—or have already implemented—a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, one of the first things you should determine are the metrics you’ll need to measure success. . Here’s how to pick out the perfect metrics for product-led growth. . How do product-led strategies contribute to business growth? .

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Amplitude

AUGUST 3, 2020

Implementing great product analytics requires product and engineering teams to work together. They align on target product outcomes, define an event taxonomy to measure those outcomes, and instrument tracking code. It’s a consistent responsibility that grows in scope the more you iterate on your product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Every product has a dark period and sometimes several. Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Why a feature matters.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Stuck on an outline for a learning path about a new product feature? What outcomes are your customers expecting? Let your existing customers know that there’s new training available to them that will help maximize their knowledge of your product, as well as to promote any feature upgrades that they may not be currently using.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

But don’t expect an immediate lift in sales or conversions. Here’s why: As mentioned above, data analysis is about using an existing dataset to create a model to predict an outcome. Just simply looking at who someone is or where they are searching from may not be enough to result in a noticeable sales lift.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The secret to product planning starts with “why.” ” In some cases, product planning focuses on what we’re building, completing, and what’s up next. To unlock the secret to product planning, product professionals need to develop a clear product vision. Putting Vision into Context.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases. This nimble approach to product management directly influences business outcomes, differentiating the most compelling products from lesser competitors and boosting adoption and customer satisfaction along the way.

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Piyanka Jain

AUGUST 6, 2019

Actionable recommendations like: ‘Let’s market product X to Merchant Y to drive $20m in incremental revenue’ with supporting models and insights would inspire quick actions by stakeholders. The recipe-driven insights stage reduces time to insight and recommendation stage ties it back to the outcomes and success metrics.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Product operations, or prod ops, is an emerging discipline designed to help product teams operate as effectively as possible. ” Therefore, Prod ops are to the product team what a trainer and nutritionist are to an elite athlete. What is Product Operations? Product Operations’ Job Responsibilities.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You will find several product management techniques useful during this transformation, such as roadmapping. Once considered the domain of product managers, roadmaps are useful in various contexts. Fortunately, our friend, the roadmap can provide a big lift here. Why IT departments use roadmaps. Communicate goals and intent.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. You probably even get suggestions from friends and family when you discuss your job and products. The entire product community—staff, partners, customers, prospects, and even analysts and members of the media—all might have ideas worth considering.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Product growth requires a push from your whole team. Unfortunately, if you’re not reaching product-market fit, the whole team might as well be banging their heads against the wall. Your product growth strategy hinges on a rock-solid product-market fit. What is product-market fit? Define your north star metric.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2020

So, how can you use everyday tools to create better practices, promote efficiency and productivity? Improve your productivity by giving you access to core Gainsight functionality within the solution you use the most— email and calendar. Being a CSM or any customer-facing role requires some heavy lifting right now.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It will take some time to discern just how fundamentally our political and social discourse will be changed by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, but just as with every revolution, it will lead to both positive and negative outcomes, to both delight and disillusionment. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses.

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Amplitude

JUNE 19, 2019

Like many B2B SaaS companies, at Amplitude we frequently get asked to provide prospect-specific ROI estimates for our product. What will our return on investment be if we purchase your product?” They can’t link their product decisions to impact. It’s a decent framing for the value of product intelligence.

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Split

JUNE 6, 2019

When the release branch was merged into master and pushed to production, new features riding on that branch would be launched to customers. By putting a feature behind a flag, product managers and engineers got access to a rudimentary switch they could flip on after code ship. Getting to Lift Off. 5 Launch Phases.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Avinash Kaushik offers an excellent guide on how to segment your users between source, behavior, and outcome. Every feature will have local metrics (did users click a button, or watch a video, etc) and every product will have global metrics (time spent in app, number of days users return, etc). appeared first on Mind the Product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 22, 2020

One of the most frequently asked questions from those aspiring to enter the product management field is: how technical do I need to be if I want to be a PM? PMs build and manage technical products. In this article, we will explore how technical a good product manager should be. Do I Need to Be Able to Code?

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Next year, we’ll see more and more digital business leaders double down on delivering customer outcomes. Leverage technologies that sequence human actions and trigger digital touches in tandem to improve customer outcomes based on signals like customer health. This mode of delivery is the textbook definition of scalable.

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Product Warrior

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For too many product managers, pressures and influencers wreck the the MVP by turning it into the first release of a new product or update which is ‘minimal’ enough to keep all stakeholders happy. In short, the outcome is usually a car crash. Here are 5 tips to help achieve learnings and position the MVP appropriately: 1.

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Gainsight

MAY 23, 2019

When it rains, it pours—products and features, that is! In addition to the exciting announcement of the Gainsight Customer Cloud at Pulse 2019 and new offerings that include Gainsight CDP, CX and RO, our product leaders also shared an incredible list of innovations to our existing products. Gainsight PX. Coming Soon.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Slide from Andy Johns’ presentation hosted on Youtube by First Round Review [link] Large companies love mini optimizations; they use many product teams executing tiny experiments that make small optimizations which add up significantly over time and by the end of the year, these optimizations may triple users.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Or on the flip side, wouldn’t it be great to know that the prospect you think would be a great fit for your product just raised a new round of funding and might have that ever-elusive budget to make a deal? Stay informed on your customers and prospects without lifting a finger. Enter: Company Intelligence. Surprises stink.

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