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6 Product Management Nightmares

280 Group

6 Product Management Nightmares Just when you thought your strategy was safe — your product vision clearly defined and your roadmap carefully scheduled and planned — we introduce the new and disturbing PRODUCT NIGHTMARES, coming to you in the form of 50s and 60s B-horror flicks. Stay aligned or beware — these nightmares will start consuming you alive!

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Creating products that people love: London highlights

Mind the Product

Some of the stand-out talks from past Mind the Product conferences on building products that people love Read more » The post Creating products that people love: London highlights appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How do you make Resource Allocation decisions for products and teams?

Fearless Product

Are you a product leader trying to effectively allocate people and time across your product portfolio? In this 7-episode miniseries on alignment, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.

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The Enduring Obsession: Big Brands and NFTs?—?A Tale of Hope and Uncertainty

The Product Coalition

The Enduring Obsession: Big Brands and NFTs — A Tale of Hope and Uncertainty NFTs: A Shaky Start for the Big Fish When it comes to the world of NFTs, even the biggest brands are not immune to the initial turbulence. Major brands, like GameStop, once hyped up their NFT marketplaces, hoping to ride the NFT craze to success. However, it’s been a bumpy ride.

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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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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 9 of 10 – The Best Product Launches Launch the Story, Not the Product

Product Management University

The best product launches are like the cream cheese frosting on a decadent chocolate cake! You’ve just built some cool new A.I. enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. Existing customers have greater confidence you’re keeping pace with or staying ahead of the technology curve in ways that benefit them.

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Lean Experimentation: Step-By-Step Guide for Product Teams

Userpilot

In this article, we’ll explain how you can generate ideas, run experiments, generate a falsifiable hypothesis, validate multiple hypotheses with analytics , and use what you learn to drive growth. Let’s get right into it! TL:DR Lean experimentation is a systematic, scientific process for testing and validating hypotheses about products , services, and features using the least amount of time and resources possible.

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Product Managers Look For New Ways To Detect Counterfeits

The Accidental Product Manager

Finding counterfeits is half the battle Image Credit: cce Just imagine if you were a product manager who was responsible for a very popular product. Perhaps this is a fashion product or a high tech product that everyone wants. Yes, your sales would probably be exploding; however, something else would be exploding at the same time – counterfeiting of your product.

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Navigating Product Initiative Approval: Agile vs. Stage-Gate

Gocious Blog

Developing a new product is a complex process that demands the cooperation of various product teams, the collection of resources, and a significant budget. But before development can begin, there needs to be a product plan and approval from senior executives.

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Strategic Prioritization in Product Management: Core Notions and Insights

The Product Coalition

In product management, prioritization is the compass that guides teams towards their ultimate goal: delivering a product that pays off and truly resonates with their audience. It’s the practical tool that helps managers navigate the complex path of development. At JetStyle , we are enthusiasts of the product development approach, and we’ve dealt with dozens of most common issues related to prioritization.

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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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A case study: How to build useful AI features with a cross functional ‘AI Squad’

Mind the Product

Lightful has been building features with AI tools with a fairly novel approach with an 'AI Squad'. The organisation has been working through daily iterations with a cross-functional team trying to apply product and design theory to the practical part of building AI products. In this case study, Jamie Eliott, Head of Technical Operations shares the team's key learnings from the perspective of tech, design, and product parts of the process.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 7 of 10 – Portfolio Positioning Is What Makes Your Product Positioning More Strategic

Product Management University

Here’s a simple example of portfolio positioning and how it makes your product positioning more strategic. Your accounts payable product improves the customer’s cash flow. It sounds strategic. What CFO doesn’t want a stronger balance sheet? Your accounts receivable product further enhances cash flow. Even more strategic when customers use both, right?

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Deliver Impact: Why Startups Win with Amplitude

Amplitude

Starting at $49 a month, Our Plus plan lets startups and small teams quickly scale their business with an integrated solution that includes analytics, feature management, and CDP.

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Navigating the Transition from a Senior to a Lead Product Manager

The Product Coalition

As I sat across from my boss, the words “I recommend you for a promotion to Lead Product Manager (LPM)” reverberated through the room.

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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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AI, failings, and product villains: 9 lessons from #mtpcon London

Mind the Product

After months of build-up and excitement for our flagship event #mtpcon London, we were finally back at the Barbican, London, to reconnect with old peers, interact with new friends, and indulge in some great words of wisdom from some of the most amazing product leaders around. Read on for a quick recap of what we learned this year at #mtpcon London 2023.

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459: CX Design for products customers love – with Debbie Levitt

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can promote human-centered design I wonder if you can relate to this frustration—the pressure to get products and product updates released quickly sometimes means making compromises on design quality. It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. Speed is more important than quality.

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Behind the Scenes of Our PLG Strategy Evolution

Amplitude

Check out the Amplitude Blog to learn about digital analytics, product strategy, and product-led growth from our experts. Read the latest tips and examples to bring power to your products.

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How AI Transformation Impacts the Digital Marketing Industry

The Product Coalition

With AI technology, marketers can identify microtrends and even predict trends, saving time and resources through automated digital marketing services. Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to transform all facets of our professional and personal lives. The marketing industry is not immune to this digital transformation, as prominent brands are beginning to take advantage of the opportunities it presents.

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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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Accessibility is not an add-on feature—it’s the product itself

Mind the Product

Sommer Panage, Senior Engineering Manager of Accessibility at Slack (prev. Apple, Twitter) shares tangible takeaways for product engineering teams to learn and evaluate the accessibility of their products, highlighting the need for all products to be accessible to be usable for millions. Read more » The post Accessibility is not an add-on feature—it’s the product itself appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Best Funnel Optimization Tool for SaaS [Top 10 Compared]

Userpilot

What’s the best funnel optimization tool for SaaS companies? If you’re looking for the answer to this question, I don’t envy you as there are plenty of excellent platforms out there. In this article, we look at 10 product analytics tools that you should consider when making your choice. Let’s get right to it! TL;DR Funnel optimization involves improving conversion rates at various stages of the customer journey or acquisition funnel.

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Unlock the Power of Amplitude for Less

Amplitude

Get started with Amplitude’s new all-in-one self-serve offering that combines Amplitude Analytics, CDP, and feature management capabilities.

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Stakeholder Relationship Building

The Product Coalition

Mastering First Impressions: Essential Tips for Product Leaders Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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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: 8 lessons for adopting agile by Jonathan Smart

Mind the Product

In this Sunday rewind, we look back to #mtpcon London+EMEA keynote in 2021. Jonathan Smart, Business Agility Coach and Author, shared some key lessons on ways of working by adopting agile to deliver better value, sooner, safer, and happier, offering lessons in creating an outcome-focused product culture. Read on to hear his eight key lessons. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: 8 lessons for adopting agile by Jonathan Smart appeared first on Mind the Product.

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What is an Active User? Definition And How to Increase Stickiness

Userpilot

How you define an active user matters. When you use the wrong criteria, you end up building for the wrong users. This affects your decision making process and sets your product up for failure. This article helps you avoid mistakes by explaining what an active user is and why it varies for different products. As you read, you’d also learn: Key metrics for measuring active users How to track active users for your tool How to improve active users with better onboarding and other strategies TL

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Upgrade Your Product-led Growth Strategy with Amplitude

Amplitude

Starting at $49 a month, Our Plus plan lets startups and small teams quickly scale their business with an integrated solution that includes analytics, feature management, and CDP.

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B2B vs B2C Product Management: 4 Hidden Differences to Know

The Product Coalition

What hidden differences can we point out about B2B product management compared to a B2C environment?

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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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How to transform teams and products – Mel McVeigh (Condé Nast, The Telegraph, Vogue)

Mind the Product

In this week's podcast, we had the pleasure of hosting Mel McVeigh, the Vice President of Product at Condé Nast. Our engaging conversation delves into the distinctive hurdles encountered when developing products within a worldwide mass media powerhouse. Tune in to gain insights from Mel as she shares her expertise on product transformation and product team strategies.

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Product Marketing Analytics Data VS Marketing Analytics

Userpilot

Like any form of analytics, product marketing analytics is all about capturing key data and optimizing the customer experience using that data. Unlike marketing analytics which focuses on replicating marketing successes, product analytics focuses on improving the product. In this article, we explore some of the differences between both. We also dive deeper into the tools and processes needed for product analytics.

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The Crucial Difference Between Distraction and Diversion

Nir Eyal

Because I write about distraction and how to avoid it, I often get asked the question “Aren’t distractions sometimes a good thing? Don’t we all need some distraction in our lives?” Nope! The post The Crucial Difference Between Distraction and Diversion appeared first on Nir and Far.

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