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Core Concept: Getting Engineers to Embrace the Product Trio

Product Talk

The Core Concepts series addresses common questions and concerns within the world of continuous product discovery. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at common questions about the product trio. Did you miss the previous posts in this series? You can find them all here. Today’s post is about getting your engineers more involved in your product trio.

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How to Improve Product Adoption: Proven Strategies for Product Managers

Alchemer Mobile

Product adoption is a key piece of any successful customer acquisition strategy or onboarding program. Understanding how, when, and why (or why not) customers become power users or high-value customers can drive ROI, inform future product roadmap decisions, and lower customer acquisition costs (CAC). So, what is product adoption? Product adoption refers to the way in which customers embrace and use a product.

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The influence of psychological safety on product management

Mind the Product

Psychological safety has recently become one of the buzzwords in many workplaces. Many leaders might understand its importance but they often misunderstand what exactly it means and how to establish it. Missing psychological safety in a product-led organization will diminish innovational strength, meaning either missed economic opportunities or even becoming obsolete.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Cecile Leroux, Group Vice President, Product Research & Innovation at UKG

280 Group

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed Cecile Leroux, Group Vice President, Product Research & Innovation at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group). View the full list of this blog interview series to learn the stories of more women product leaders. How did you get into product management? Product management wasn’t something that I went for outright.

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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 Strategy 101: How to Continue When There Isn’t a Right Answer

The Product Coalition

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. Moreover, it’s not like there is a right answer that is objectively true (and even if there was, you wouldn’t be able to know it). Sounds confusing? It is. But here are quick methods to take you out of the talking and into action. Photo by Cup of Couple from Pexels W. is the CPO of a startup in transition.

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How to motivate a product team

Mind the Product

A motivated team is a happy team. A happy team is more creative, provides better solutions, and to top it off, it’s also more productive. In today’s post, I would like to introduce some techniques and ideas that I have been refining over the last 20 years focused on motivating product teams. Embark them on [.] Read more » The post How to motivate a product team appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. However, I don't see too many self-organizing or empowered teams at my clients. Not because my clients are stupid—far from it. Everyone does the best job they know how to do. However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. Instead of talking about empowerment, let's discuss how we trust teams and people to do their best job.

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How To Define Customer Problems: Part 1 of 5?—?Solving Problems

The Product Coalition

A five-part series on defining and solving product problems — Part 1 — Solving problems. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Intercomrade Spotlights: Serena Fritsch

Intercom, Inc.

Intercomrade Spotlights is a series that features stories of Intercom employees, exploring their careers, interests, experiences, and hopes for the future. Meet Serena Fritsch, Product Engineer at our Dublin office. Serena joined us six years ago and has become an integral part of the engineering team. We chatted to her about why she chose Intercom, her dreams, and her advice for women looking to get into engineering.

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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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Getting to the bottom line of valuation – Giff Constable

Mind the Product

Understanding your company’s business model is a key skill for all product people, but understanding how that affects your valuation is what takes things to the next level. What are you maximizing for and how does your pricing model impact that? We talked with Giff Constable, ex-chief product officer at Meetup, about all this—and much [.] Read more » The post Getting to the bottom line of valuation – Giff Constable appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The 30 Best Bits of Advice We’ve Heard on Our Podcast (So Far)

First Round Review

As our new podcast crosses the 30-episode mark, we've listened back to each one and plucked out our favorite pieces of advice shared by startup leaders at companies like Notion, Lambda School, Plaid, and Segment. Whether you're a long-time listener or haven't pressed play yet, we hope you find a new idea to put into practice.

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The Common Sense Series?—?Never Neglect Your Internal Stakeholders

The Product Coalition

The Common Sense Series?—?Never Neglect Your Internal Stakeholders 4 ways to make sure people will follow you to the moon Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Sounds really straightforward doesn’t it? And yet it seems like buy-in from internal stakeholders is very often taken for granted. I can hear you protesting from your remote office somewhere out there?

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Freezer Product Managers Become Popular Because Of Covid-19 Vaccines

The Accidental Product Manager

It turns out that Covid-19 vaccines need to be kept cold Image Credit: proteinbiochemist. The life of a freezer product manager is generally fairly boring. Your product development definition tells you to create more and more efficient products in order to replace the older units that your customers are using. You replace the ones that wear out and you are always looking for new customers.

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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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Making magic with balanced teams by Becki Hyde

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Louisville talk, Becki Hyde, senior product manager and leadership advisor at VMWare Tanzu Labs, explains some of the problems that many teams working in the tech industry face. She tells some stories about the issues she faced and then provides a framework for working in balanced teams. The key points of her [.] Read more » The post Making magic with balanced teams by Becki Hyde appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Track the influence of the largest US companies with Feedly

Roy Madden

What's New. Leo understands and can track Fortune 500 companies and their aliases. Traditional keyword matches fail to understand aliases, synonyms and abbreviations, and standard content monitoring tools don’t allow you to track segments or industries, which puts you at risk of missing key information that could help you monitor the major players in your industry.

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Reveal The Power of Food Tracker Apps for Dieters

The Product Coalition

Food tracker apps have gained immense popularity. It becomes a necessary tool since there is no better and faster way for diet people to create an effective nutrition plan. Currently, an enormous number of mobile app developments focused on digital health and wellness have been public on the app market. These apps have the potential to facilitate the tracking of health-related patterns and weight management.

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344: State of product management performance in 2021 – with Greg Geracie

Product Innovation Educators

Learn what sets successful product management teams apart. Today we are talking about a recent study that gives us insights into what’s going on in product management and product management teams. For several years, our guest has conducted the Study of Product Team Performance. The one for this year was rather different as it reflected on the impact of the COVID Pandemic, which we’ll get into in just a moment.

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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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SUNDAY REWIND: Reboot your team by Christina Wodtke

Mind the Product

You know what they say, teamwork makes the dream work but for that to be the case, you need a team that’s working well together. In this Sunday Rewind, we go back to 2018 and Christina Wodtke’s San Francisco talk about how to reboot the team you have or build a healthy one from the [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Reboot your team by Christina Wodtke appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How product success goals better than the business

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

The success-driven way of business in an ever-changing industry.

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How Can Product Managers Be Better Communicators?

The Product Coalition

The goal-setting process is a crucial one to any organization, but it is often done in a hasty manner. Here is how you can set goals… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Leadership activities for workplace and remote teams

Nulab

Whether you’re a musician or a chess player, being awesome at your job will come down to putting the hours in. The more practicing you do, the better. But to see the absolute best results, you need to be strategic about it. This means being purposeful with your time and ensuring your practice is a varied mix of theory and skill. The same is true of management.

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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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Scaling product teams for fun and profit by Claire Vo

Mind the Product

Whether you’re going from 0 to 1, 2 to 10, or 50 to 100 it can be disorienting when your team size multiplies and product lines scale. In this #mtpcon Digital Americas keynote, Claire Vo CPO at Color, former CPO at Optimizely covers the skills, processes, and non-negotiables to rely on as your product org grows [.] Read more » The post Scaling product teams for fun and profit by Claire Vo appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Can Workflow Impact User Experience?

TryMyUI

To maximize your workflow for UX potential, you need to practice a user-first design approach from the very beginning. The post Can Workflow Impact User Experience? appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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How To Define Customer Problems: Part 5 of 5?—?Testing Your Hypothesis

The Product Coalition

A five-part series on defining and solving product problems — Part 5- Testing your hypothesis. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Full Guide to Customer Research for SaaS in 2021

Userpilot

Some people say that Marketing makes the world go round. But what happens when Marketing doesn’t work? Is it a stable ground to rely on when it comes to growth momentum? The best SaaS teams in the world are using one simple and proven process as a guiding light : customer research. Let me guide you through the brass tacks of the only, may I say, “growth hack” that can safely lead your product to success.

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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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4 tips for working as a dream team

freshtrax

Are you currently struggling with team communication or collaboration? Is your team cross-cultural, cross-functional, and/or remote? At btrax like many other companies, we have been working remotely for the last year and a half as a cross-cultural, cross-functional team. I am proud to say that we have succeeded in creating a dream team to tackle all of our internal and client projects.

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How to create successful enterprise software – from idea to your first ten customers

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Product innovation is the process of creating new products that generate increased value for your customers and your company. This means that for products to be successful, they need to solve a pain that customers are willing to pay for. While at the same time generating a significant return on investment for their company. Product […]. The post How to create successful enterprise software – from idea to your first ten customers appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.

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The Efficiency Paradox (or, How to Maximize Value Through Inefficiency)

The Product Coalition

M. C. Escher’s “ Ascending and Descending” Most products are designed to make our lives easier?—?to make our everyday tasks more efficient, if you will. But a weird thing happens when “efficiency” becomes part of your brand: It becomes a hallmark not only of finished products, but of the ways in which they are created, too. And the result is almost always an inferior product.