1 Focus on Goals and Benefits. MORE

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. To help your product create value in the future, the team requires time to learn their skills and to investigate new technologies and tools. Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. MORE

Putting Technology In Its Place Upgrading Yourself distraction news technology triggers unhookedAround the election, in a desperate search for answers about our nation’s future, I found myself scrolling, reading, and watching everything I could. I was trapped in an endless pull-to-refresh cycle of consuming more news, tweets, posts, and videos than was good for me. I told myself that I was staying informed, that this was […]. MORE

Through talks and discussions with expo exhibitors, I noticed four key challenges the industry faces today: focusing on technology over value, analysis-paralysis in both platforms and security vendors, and the challenge of educating the IoT […]. MORE

IoT Technology The Business of IoTNews flash: If you’re building your own IoT infrastructure, you’re wasting time and money, and jeopardizing the quality of your product. MORE

Upgrading Yourself addiction distraction technologyIs the world more distracting? Sometimes it seems that way. MORE

There are plenty of fantastic ways to keep your product management skills sharp and keep up with evolving industry trends and new technologies. There’s no shortage of product management blogs, podcasts, and reading lists out there to keep you in the know. MORE

Featured Posts Getting Started - Intro to IoT IoT and Big Data IoT Security IoT Technology IoT User Experience (UX) The Business of IoTIn this post, I share the IoT Decision Framework I developed to help Product Managers tackle the complexity of IoT products. MORE

And the job itself has evolved – from traffic managing releases, through a dark period of just writing agile stories, to a more enlightened and collaborative role that brings together the best of user experience, business, and technology. MORE

Recently, the Pokemon Go phenomenon has reigniting the question of technology’s role in changing behavior. To put things in perspective, I wanted to share the main points of an article I published on the topic titled, Who’s Really Addicting Us to Technology?, The post The Four People Addicting You to Technology appeared first on Nir and Far. Putting Technology In Its Place addiction bad habits distraction Facebook Habits technology triggers MORE

2017 SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools and Technology Study. I’m pleased to announce the findings from our 2017 SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools and Technology Study , which looks at what tools and technologies are being used by b-to-b product managers. SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit is Next Week! I’ll be in Las Vegas next week for the SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit , which runs from May 16-19. MORE

You may not fully understand the value it should create for its users and customers, the features and user experience (UX) it should provide, the business goals it should serve and the business model it should use, and the technologies that should be used to develop it. MORE

There are more layers of technology, more users to please, and more teams to coordinate than ever before. Throughout the years, UX practices have evolved and adapted to the latest technology trends, from the […]. IoT Technology IoT User Experience (UX MORE

The fundamental reason we use technology of all sorts, from stone tools to the latest iPhone, is to make us feel better. Building Better Products Triggers That Move People emotion placebo technology UXAll products and services, everything we buy and use, have but one job—to modulate our mood. To prove the point, consider how perception of relief is tantamount to actual relief. Consider the so-called placebo […]. MORE

Getting Started - Intro to IoT IoT TechnologyHardware decisions impact your IoT product’s cost, user experience, application capabilities, and more. But only about 20% of IoT Product Managers have experience managing hardware. MORE

The post How to Build Technology that Feels Like a Friend appeared first on Nir and Far. It’s impossible to ignore all the buzz about AI bots. Last month, Facebook’s David Marcus announced that over 30,000 bots have been built since the opening of its Messenger app to bot developers in April. Other companies like Google, Amazon, and Slack are welcoming bot-building developers to their platforms with open arms. MORE

As the managing partner of Proficientz, John has worked with more than 2000 organizations that span high technology, business services, telecom, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and many others. Contributed by John Mansour. MORE

Building Better Products How to Start-Up engagement startup technologyIf you’ve started a tech company to make a lot of money, chances are you’re bad at math—or simply delusional. Statistically speaking, your odds of a big-time payday are somewhere between zero and almost zero. Ninety-two percent of startups fail within three years. Only one percent of apps in the Apple App Store are financially successful. […]. MORE

The product team is closest to the customer and the technology and is in the best position to assess what’s feasible and desirable. I’ve been thinking about the challenges of managing product teams by outcomes. MORE

Changing Your Habits Putting Technology In Its Place distraction focusHaving a hard time focusing lately? You’re not alone. Research shows interruptions occur about every twelve minutes in the workplace, and every three minutes in university settings. In an age of constant digital interruptions, it is no wonder you’re having trouble ignoring distractions. In their new book, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech […]. MORE

Product Management is a unique mix beween business, technology and UX. Business intersection job job description Product Management responsibilities technology user experienceStarting a new role forces product managers to think of the basic principles the guide product management. MORE

What does technology do to society? When technology and human ingenuity gets together, everybody in society profits. Overall though, technology makes everyone healthier and richer. The most important thing in technology is AI. MORE

At a high level, Ellen points out that stakeholders – who she refers to as “product partners”- can be categorized into three groups: customer, business and technology. “A Technology. MORE

Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” How do you get started with machine learning? -. Arthur C. I remember that every time I search for an old photo in Google Photos, filter an image in Prisma, talk to my Amazon Echo, or select a Smart Reply in Gmail. Machine learning is changing the face of MORE

It's become painfully evident to me in recent years that there is a gender gap not only in technology but in the workplace in general. In technology, I am one women out of a team of five. career competition Leadership mentor Product Management technology women MORE

Contributed by Greg Geracie. Actuation Consulting has been conducting research on what separates high performance product teams from the pack. MORE

To understand technology addiction (or any addiction for that matter) you need to understand the Q-tip. Designing Ethically addiction bad habits ethics Persuasive technology technologyPerhaps you’ve never noticed there’s a scary warning on every box of cotton swabs that reads, “CAUTION: Do not enter ear canal…Entering the ear canal could cause injury.” How is it that the one thing most people do with Q-tips is […]. The post Tech Companies are Addicting People! MORE

If we look at the same history, we can see that with each technology, with each methodology, we are starting to answer different questions earlier in the process. Product management is evolving quickly. MORE

They can change the plan because they are working together – both the business side (sponsors / customers / stakeholders / users) and the technology side (the team creating the product or solution). MORE

Aparna has over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, as a computer scientist, engineer, and product leader, starting with helping build the world’s first content delivery services at Akamai technologies. MORE

This interview was part of a Heleo Conversation on the topic of technology obsession, work-life balance, and challenging assumptions in order to change behavior. Changing Your Habits Putting Technology In Its Place addiction workNir’s Note: Below is the transcript of an interview I did with David Burkus, an award-winning podcaster and author of Under New Management: The Unexpected Truths about Leading Great Organizations. MORE

When I asked Sara how she got into Product management, she shared that she started using network technology in graduate school for her.[continue MORE

I want to see Boston continue to be a hub of technology innovation well into the future. In addition to a technology focus, I often need to be more involved in the business or product side. Last fall, I had the opportunity to begin a six month mentorship program through the BPMA. MORE

Sales, operations, technology… all of it should be working toward a common vision. While you might “own” the product, your product’s vision should be coming from the top of the house. It should be driving everything in your organization, not just product development. MORE

We’ve been busy at SiriusDecisions with a lot of new research and resources for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers: The ABCs of Product Management Technologies. In my first post for the new SiriusDecisions Marketplace, I cover The ABCs of Product Management Technologies. SiriusDecisions Marketplace™ is a first-of-its-kind online destination for sales, marketing and product teams to learn from their peers and do research on technology and service providers. MORE

Leading a product management organization is a unique role in modern technology companies, and one that was quite uncommon until fairly recently. Product managers may or may not be the “CEOs of product,” but how do you boss around a bunch of CEOs? MORE

It was called the Business, Science, and Technology Initiative (known to the cool kids as BSTI). In 2007 I joined an innovation swat team at Cornell in the Johnson Graduate School of Business. MORE

Results From Our 2017 Study — summarizes the findings from our 2017 SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools and Technology Study , which looks at what tools and technologies are being used by b-to-b product managers. Upcoming Events. Summer is shaping up to be a busy one for me, with lots of presentations and events already booked. Here’s some of what’s coming up in the next few weeks — hope you can join me at one of them! MORE

Talking with Technology’ is an engaging and thought-provoking talk about how Artificial Intelligence is changing the interface between humans and machines. The post The Future of Talking to Technology appeared first on MindTheProduct. MORE

In this interview with Max Ogles, McGonigal discusses impact of future technologies on behavior, habits, and the way […]. The post The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology appeared first on Nir and Far. Nir’s Note: Jane McGonigal is a game designer at The Institute for the Future and bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. She’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. You can register here!) MORE

Our personal technology is becoming more pervasive and persuasive. Instead of offering another knee-jerk reaction, here’s my take on the perils and promise of persuasive technology. The post Technology is Distracting and Addictive. Designing Ethically Putting Technology In Its Place ethics Persuasive technologyCritics claim it is addictive, irresistible, and hijacking our brain. MORE

While my focus is primarily on technology-powered software products, services and devices, I’m also very interested to find other industries where the techniques of modern product are used to disrupt their spaces. Of all the amazing technology achievements of the past decades, I personally find this one the most impressive. Most people by now have read Marc Andreessen’s Why Software Is Eating The World. MORE

You’d naturally insist that VP Sales candidates have been successful at selling, and then run a sales organization… that VP Engineering candidates have built great technology and overseen tech teams – what Ron Lichty calls managing the unmanageable. MORE