Product Talk
MARCH 2, 2016
I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. Cagan defines discovery as “figuring out what to build” and delivery as “then building it.” – Tweet This.
Street Smart Product Manager
MARCH 14, 2016
In order to pursue any product idea — a new product, or a new feature for an existing product — you must make sure it’s a problem worth solving. If it doesn’t solve a tangible, real problem that lots of people are facing, and are willing to pay to have solved, it’s not worth spending … Continue reading "Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?".
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Nir Eyal
MARCH 17, 2016
Nir’s Note: My friend Jake Knapp just published a fantastic book titled, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. The book details a process he and his colleagues at Google Ventures use to quickly go from idea, to prototype, to live test. Jake put together an exclusive excerpt from the book for NirAndFar.com […].
Good Product Manager
MARCH 29, 2016
How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. We will be unveiling this research at SiriusDecisions Summit in May as part of our presentation The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs.
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.
Ken Norton
MARCH 23, 2016
How do you organize engineering around use cases? -. In an earlier newsletter, Don’t Ship the Org Chart, I encouraged you to organize your PM team the way your customers see the world, not around your code repository. I received several noteworthy responses and would like to share two with you. Organize engineers around use cases too Noah Weiss.
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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
MARCH 13, 2016
Internal tools are one of the most overlooked parts of any robust IoT solution. Product Managers usually focus on the customer-facing parts of the solution and leave internal tools as an afterthought. However, IoT solutions typically require a significant amount of monitoring, controlling, and behind-the-scenes operation. Related article: Internet of Things: A Primer for Product Managers If you don’t plan ahead and build […] The post How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solu
svpg
MARCH 10, 2016
In my last article on Discovery Sprints I mentioned the concept of Discovery Coaches and several people asked me about that, so I thought I’d describe more about what this role is and when it’s helpful. For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach.
The Product Coalition
MARCH 25, 2016
Can the world live without loyalty programs? To the business this means more loyal customers, more repeat purchases and more transactions to understand customer behavior so that the shopping experience can be improved. So everyone wins, doesn’t it? Certain businesses believe loyalty program is the dynamo behind higher customer life-time value. However, creating this loyalty requires a form of “customer retention” spend.
Good Product Manager
MARCH 6, 2016
Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle. We’ve been conducting research for some time now at SiriusDecisions on this topic and I’d appreciate if you can take 5 minutes to fill out this short survey and p
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Ken Norton
MARCH 30, 2016
How do you keep your email under control? -. Click for larger version A friend once joked that product management is 20% talking and 80% email. Even with modern collaboration tools like Slack, most PMs I know still send and receive lots of email. In my years at Google, I’ve developed a system that works for me. Several have.
Nir Eyal
MARCH 28, 2016
Last week’s Habit Summit was amazing! It was wonderful to see so many blog readers and friends enjoying the keynotes — not to mention the Stanford sunshine. Below is my opening presentation highlighting examples of companies changing user behavior for good. Let me know if you can think of more examples in the comments section below. BTW – […].
Product Bookshelf
MARCH 6, 2016
Even the best products cannot overcome a poor sales process. Match your sales culture to your customer’s buying culture to successfully introduce your product and close opportunities. Identify your product’s sales needs and select the right approach to one of four buying cultures. Why Killer Products Don’t Sell by Ian Gotts and Dominic Roswell.
Andrew Chen
MARCH 21, 2016
[Hi readers, I recently met some amazing folks at Mixpanel – Justin Megahan and Amelia Salyers – who interviewed me for their “Grow and Tell” series. This was originally published on the Mixpanel blog , and I’m excited to re-publish it here too. Thanks to Suhail , founder/ceo of Mixpanel, for helping set this up. Hope you enjoy the interview.
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DISQO
MARCH 18, 2016
It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.
Good Product Manager
MARCH 29, 2016
How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. We will be unveiling this research at SiriusDecisions Summit in May as part of our presentation The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs.
Ken Norton
MARCH 16, 2016
How do you make sure your new PM is successful? -. After much discussion, your startup – or division at a larger company – has decided it’s time to hire its first product manager. You can finally breathe a sigh of relief. How do you make sure they’re successful? I’ve written about the first days at a new company from the.
TSIA
MARCH 31, 2016
As adoption becomes the most important objective for education services organizations, it's important to keep in mind that not all adoption is created equal. Adoption falls along a gradient consisting of low, to high, to effective consumption of a product or service. When it comes to education services, the best way to gauge where someone is on the adoption gradient is to think about it in terms of the content you're providing, and how it's being consumed by your learners.
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In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
Roy Madden
MARCH 30, 2016
April 14th [fixed,updated]. The fixed app is now ready. You can update it directly in the App Store [33.0.4]. April 6th [submitted for review]. We’ve fixed the issue and submitted the app for review. It should be available for update within 7-10 days. March 29th [Issue reported]. We’re receiving emails from users who have had trouble logging into their feedly accounts on iOS using Google Authentication.
Product Management 2.0
MARCH 30, 2016
Product managers always feel the pressure to grow their business through innovation. When they can successfully create competitive differentiation, fill a gap in product technology or offer a more complete solution, they can drive business growth and gain market share. While innovation is key to business growth, so is time-to-market. That’s why smart product managers consider all their options for their innovation strategy.
Tyner Blain
MARCH 30, 2016
Product owners are likely to find themselves alone in the organizational wilderness. Their organizations expect them to connect the towers of long-term strategic planning with the frontiers of great new products. Iterative and incremental development of solutions can bring these two worlds together. There’s always a gap between strategy and execution – and product owners are ideally positioned to help fill that gap.
Good Product Manager
MARCH 6, 2016
Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle. We’ve been conducting research for some time now at SiriusDecisions on this topic and I’d appreciate if you can take 5 minutes to fill out this short survey and p
Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo
TIBCO - Thought Leadership
MARCH 29, 2016
Big data drives the modern enterprise. It is now routinely collected, shaped, and deployed to power applications spanning all aspects of operation—from production to ERP to supply chain to CRM, the list can go on and on. And the speed at which all of this transpires is astounding: Fast Data now drives near real-time customer interactions, instantaneously adjusts processes for optimization, and curbs security breaches automatically.
TSIA
MARCH 25, 2016
At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping services organizations both large and small grow and advance in the technology industry. We'd like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional service disciplines TSIA has to offer.
Oren Steinberg
MARCH 20, 2016
Patient engagement platforms are becoming more and more popular with healthcare providers and even pharmaceutical companies. The concept of patient engagement addresses unmet needs around a patient centric approach: empowering patients and family members to better manage their health and care. Sounds great, doesn’t it. So how come so many patient engagement platforms are still far from delivering on the promised value and ROI?
DISQO
MARCH 18, 2016
It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.
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Product Management 2.0
MARCH 16, 2016
Many of us in the field of technology product management are so familiar with market segmentation principles that we take them for granted. In fact, I would bet that many of you respond to the topic with a big yawn. So, you might be surprised to learn that we have found that too many product managers don’t go far enough with segmentation to get the results they need to grow their business.
Roy Madden
MARCH 15, 2016
If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If you create a piece of content, but no one reads it, does it exist? Despite investing time, money, and sweat into creating the content, driving readers to your content can be just as difficult. Whether you are a content marketer, a blogger, or a big publisher, this has becoming increasingly difficult in an accelerating world of online content and biased social feeds.
dscout People Nerds
MARCH 3, 2016
A People Nerds interview with Catherine Lovazzano.
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