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Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London

Mind the Product

Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference. Read more » The post Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London appeared first on Mind the Product.

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12 Best Product Research Tools to Empower Your Strategies

Userpilot

With the right product research tools, you can dissect vast pools of data, gather actionable insights, and create products that align directly with your user’s needs. But how can you build the right product research tech stack to achieve your product growth goals? For that reason, we’ll go over 12 of the best tools you should use when conducting product research.

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The Power of Continuous Learning in Product Management

Amplitude

Gain insights from product expert Wil Pong into using continuous learning via experimentation to craft exceptional products.

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Positioning Value – The Simplest Things Are The Hardest to Say

Product Management University

To all of you product marketers out there, you totally understand this situation! When it comes to positioning value, sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to say. A good friend of mine is leaving his corporate job and going out on his own as a consultant with an amazing track record of success. He put up a website and asked me to give it a look.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

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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From Niche to Success: How To Make Vertical SaaS a Worthwhile Startup Investment

The Product Coalition

Now! It’s difficult to find a SaaS company that isn’t already in the niche you wish to enter! The solution? Vertical SaaS! Vertical SaaS has had a tremendous run during the last decade. The growing number of public vertical SaaS winners worth billions of dollars, such as in health sciences (Veeva), construction (Procore), restaurants (Toast), and banking (nCino), demonstrates how cloud-based and mobile app development specialized to certain industries can become giant businesses.

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Building an Agile Product Roadmap: Tips and Best Practices | Productboard

ProductBoard

Agile product roadmaps are the cornerstone of scaling businesses. Rooted in agile development methodologies, these roadmaps speed up development and time-to-market, leveraging adaptable, clear visual representations of the product’s strategic direction and ideal outcomes. All roadmaps include or connect to a product’s key goals, features, and milestones over time.

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How to Build a Habit-Forming Enterprise Product

Nir Eyal

For companies building products for enterprise customers, increasing customer retention by just 5 percent increases profits by 25 to 95 percent. Yet keeping customers isn’t easy. Eighty percent of B2B buyers say they switch suppliers at least once in two years. User retention is perhaps the most important metric for SaaS providers, who offer products or services that must engage customers regularly to ensure they don’t churn.

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Car Product Managers Prepare To Go Electric

The Accidental Product Manager

The future is coming, will car product managers be ready? Image Credit: American Tobacco Campus If you are a product manager for a car, then you have a pretty well-defined life. Every couple of years, you work with your team to create an updated version of your product, work to get it manufactured, do the marketing, and then go do battle with all of the other car product manager.

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Tired of Fake Agility? Choose When to Experiment and When to Deliver

Johanna Rothman

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. Those create a serial lifecycle approach with too little experimentation. Worse, sometimes the team doesn't demo or deliver.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Top product management reads in November

Mind the Product

From questions about how technical a product manager should be, or how to manage your career or how to master cross-disciplinary collaboration, here’s a look through our most-read posts in November. Read more » The post Top product management reads in November appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Navigating the Product Manager Role: Salaries and Career Advancement

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 2024, the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their careers.

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How to run a better win-loss analysis and improve win rates with Alchemer

Alchemer Mobile

Improve win rates with more effective customer feedback By Jasper Lipton, Alchemer Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing Sales leaders are being asked to deliver more revenue with fewer resources, and a strong win-loss analysis program can boost win rates by up to 50%. With powerful customizability and robust automation, Alchemer enables sales teams to collect strategic feedback that helps them understand why they win or lose deals—and driv

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Understand How A Business Works and Makes Money

The Product Coalition

The best product managers are business managers. I hosted an event recently where a panel of experienced product management professionals discussed the state of product management. One of the topics that surfaced as part of the discussion is that the best product managers are business managers. Product managers can only be great by understanding how a business works and makes money.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock

Mind the Product

In her keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Claire Woodcock, Director of Product, ML, at Mozilla explains how to keep your head about generative AI, when everyone else loses theirs. Read more » The post How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Unlocking Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 202 4 , the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in December of 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their c

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Alchemer Adds ServiceNow, Jira, Oracle Cloud, and HubSpot Always-On Workflow Initiators 

Alchemer Mobile

Listen to events from CRM, marketing, HRIS, and project management software systems so you can collect feedback in context of your customer’s experience. By Justin Falk, Alchemer Product Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing Every month, we add to the library of Alchemer Workflow Initiators so that you can create always-on surveys and feedback by listening to events in the systems your business runs on, such as CRMs, marketing automation, HRIS, and project ma

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The age of AI-based Copilots has arrived?—?but does this mean for the future?

The Product Coalition

With thousands of tech companies rushing to adopt or integrate AI, we’re finally seeing AI-enabled products such as “Copilots” entering… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

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.

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Interviewing customers has never been more important – here’s how you do it

Mind the Product

A how-to guide for product managers on structuring customer interviews Read more » The post Interviewing customers has never been more important – here’s how you do it appeared first on Mind the Product.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic world of agile development, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Product Management stand as key players, each with its own set of principles and practices. While both are committed to delivering value to customers and responding to market needs, the intersection of these frameworks can be both a source of collaboration and a breeding ground for challenges.

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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

Userpilot

How do product managers identify market gaps? This is the main focus of the article, so if you’re after the answer, we’ve got you covered! Let’s get into it! TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience.

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How to Improve Conversion Rate Optimization Using Web Analytics

Amplitude

Learn how conversion rate optimization (CRO) using web analytics and A/B testing helps create better user experiences to drive more desired actions.

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A Comprehensive Checklist to Revamp Your Website & Increase Profitability

Unlock the power of a well-designed website with our eBook, 'Comprehensive Checklist: A Guide to Website Redesign.' Crafted by Brucira and ruttl founders, it's your ally in reshaping your digital presence. Welcome to a transformative journey!

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SUNDAY REWIND: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century by Genevieve Bell

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a #mtpcon Digital APAC keynote from 2021 in which Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute (3Ai), gives us a whirlwind tour of cybernetics, demonstrating how its transdisciplinary approach can be used to inform our product processes and systems. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century by Genevieve Bell appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Unlocking Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 202 4 , the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in December of 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their c

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What is a Retention Specialist and What Does One Do?

Userpilot

Tired of the increasing customer churn rate? Looks like it’s time to call in a retention specialist. A dynamic retention specialist will implement proactive strategies to improve the customer experience and increase loyalty, thus improving customer retention. In this article, we highlight the job responsibilities of a retention specialist, the skills needed to become one, and the resources these professionals can benefit from.

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Your Guide to Sharpening Scoring Skills & Reducing Bias

Gocious Blog

Product development teams are always eager to improve their products. This passion for the product and quest to make improvements leads to a flood of ideas pouring in on a regular basis. Naturally, everyone who submits an idea believes their suggestion is great and should be implemented. While their idea may be good, that doesn’t guarantee it’s the right idea to focus on next.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

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

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Navigating the AI job market – Hoang Nguyen (Director of Product)

Mind the Product

Navigating the job market, finding your specialization, and making career decisions that suit your needs can be a complex process. That's why we sat down with Hoang Nguyen , Director of Product at Westwing, to dig into these intricate topics and offer some insight. In the realm of AI, not only do we discuss its fascinating aspects, but we also delve into how to discover innate talents and develop a passion for product management within it.

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A Primer on Talking to Customers From Rob Fitzpatrick's The Mom Test

Sachin Rekhi

Everyone knows that a critical part of developing a new product is talking to potential customers. So most product managers and founders dutifully have customer conversations as part of their product development process. But what's insidious about the way that people talk to customers is that they often fail to glean any new insights or worse, get a false positive, causing them to over invest their cash, their time, and their team in an unvalidated product idea that ultimately doesn't sell.

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Step-by-Step Process for Performing a CRO Audit: 8 Steps

Userpilot

Looking to perform a CRO audit for your website and app? A detailed audit reveals the state of your platforms, showing your weak points and conversion drivers. Based on the insights you generate, you can create better experiences for website visitors and users, driving more engagement, conversion, and retention. This article provides a step-by-step guide.