280 Group

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome to 2024, a blank canvas awaiting our strokes of strategy, innovation, and success. In this blog, I’ll share insights and strategies gathered from the product management ecosystem to help you harness the power of 2024 and soar to new heights. Product Managers – Master the Language of Business Beyond the basics of discovery, UX design, and iterative delivery, understanding financial indicators is imperative.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feat

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award. This award recognizes senior technology leaders who are driving innovation both within their organizations and across the broader technology community.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 15, 2024

Malte Scholz, CEO and CPO of Airfocus delves into the product ops craft, and explains how it is key for effective collaboration. Read more » The post How product ops can enhance cross-functional collaboration in large enterprises appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. Let’s explore how and why this matters. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free edition ✨ of Lenny’s Newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: My favorite decision-making frameworks Why you should add a work trial to your interview process The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay Subscribe now P.S.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

(Above: No, it doesn’t really look like this — and yes it’s mostly office parks and tech billboards. But I like to pretend) You’ll never regret spending time in SF If you work in tech, you’ll never regret spending 3-5 years in the Bay Area. This is advice I’ve been giving to people for years, and it’s shaped by my own experience — after all, I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and it completely changed my life.

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Amplitude

MARCH 12, 2024

The mobile release process doesn’t end as soon as your update goes live. Monitor the rollout to ensure the new version remains stable and isn’t negatively impacting key metrics or revenue.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2024

Understanding how end-users interact with your product is crucial to identifying user experience bottlenecks. It also helps identify better ways to engage users. When combined with product analytics , end-user behavior monitoring can help you boost product usage and retention rates. It can even help maximize feature adoption. But how do you track and analyze end-user behavior?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.

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freshtrax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Kit Kat , a globally recognized chocolate brand, has not only won the hearts of chocolate lovers worldwide but has also achieved remarkable success in the Japanese market. The journey of Kit Kat in Japan is a fascinating tale of cultural adaptation, innovative marketing strategies, and a bit of serendipity. In this article, we explore how Kit Kat made its mark in Japan, turning a simple chocolate bar into a cultural phenomenon.

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Product Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

I’m hosting several free events over the next two weeks. I’d love for you to join one of them. March 25th: The What & Why of Continuous Discovery In this webinar, I’ll introduce participants to the continuous discovery framework I introduced in my book Continuous Discovery Habits. We’ll cover: The difference between discovery and delivery My definition of continuous discovery Why continuous discovery matters What a good continuous discovery team does week over week How you can develop your o

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. In the field of UX research, Systems Thinking can bring many benefits to strategic planning, allowing for a broader and more integrated view of the user ecosystem.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2024

Customer feedback provides cross-functional teams with confirmation that they are on the right path, which leads to the development of products that bring value to customers - products that impact their lives for the better. Ronke Majekodunmi dives in. Read more » The post Customer feedback is product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Dragonboat

MARCH 11, 2024

A rapid scaling journey for a product organization is no small feat. The larger the company, the more significant the challenges become: team cohesion, strategic direction, and maintaining alignment throughout the organization. Recently, the CPO Series had the pleasure of hosting Rob Seidman, Chief Product Officer for the POS and lending division at U.S.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 22, 2024

Five mindsets every product manager should cultivate I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This discussion is with Matt Phillips, whose session is titled “The Mindsets of Breakthrough Innovators.” Matt shared that successful innovators and entrepreneurs think differently from other people.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. PMs and VPs), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!).

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 31, 2024

Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users Incentive programs often don’t perform The people you attract with referral programs, free trials, coupons, and gamification — folks who are “incentivized” as a broad umbrella category — are usually MUCH WORSE than organic ones. Worse LTVs, worse conversion, less engaged, and so on.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Learn how we’ve strengthened the power of Amplitude's Digital Analytics Platform with the addition of Session Replay and Experiment for web.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2024

Customer journey insights enable marketing, product, design, and customer success teams to make informed decisions and create better customer experiences. In this article, we explain: What customer journey insights are. How they are linked to customer journey analysis and customer journey mapping. Why you should use customer journey analytics. How to extract and use them to optimize the customer journey.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

Calling busy product professionals! We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. That’s why we’re here to lend a helping hand. At ProductPlan, we’re committed to empowering product leaders and teams with everything they need to navigate the complexities of the product development lifecycle and ensure they make the right decisions and deliver on strategic initiatives.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 8, 2024

In March, we celebrate women's accomplishments, reflecting on their monumental role in product management. We owe our progress to those women who trailblazed our path and laid our foundations, mentoring us to be exceptional and formidable. From their experiences, we meet our moments with integrity and grace. They are a testament to breaking barriers and shattering the glass ceiling.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Continuous discovery is not a linear journey—as much as we might want it to be. Like a lot of learning, it often feels messy and chaotic. Continuous discovery is not a linear journey—as much as we might want it to be. Like a lot of learning, it often feels messy and chaotic. – Tweet This But if you stick with it, you may eventually find you can look back and see how much you’ve progressed.

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NextBigWhat

MARCH 8, 2024

Remember the excitement of discovering a well-written newsletter? That niche corner of the internet where someone shared passions, insights, or curated content with a devoted audience? There was a certain… The post Did Substack make newsletters too mainstream (and irrelevant)? appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 28, 2024

In this article, Samir Azizov, CFO at Global Financial Innovations, cover how to launch a Fintech product under compliance and regulation, including where to start and what to pay attention to as well. Read more » The post How to launch a Fintech product in alliance with compliance appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.  Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused. Some context: The typical product manager ( PdM ) gets dozens of new requests and demands and ideas and suggestions and escalations and bug reports and customer compl

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UX Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Background With 19k Twitch followers, 8k+ Instagram followers, and partnerships with countless high-profile brands, DJ Lani Love is a prolific DJ with a vast following across the world. Lani came to me looking for a website refresh to match her rising success. Discovery First, I conducted a discovery call to learn about her goals. I learned that she wanted to attract more deals with luxury brands, particularly in fashion.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Check out my recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. PMs and VPs of Product), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!

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