First Round Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a lightweight "jobs-to-be-done" framework for early-stage product teams, along with templates and go-to-market tactics.
Innovatemap
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
We know the many benefits of utilizing software that makes life easier. (Hello, video conferencing in 2020!) And yet, executive buy-in for implementing internal software solutions is often at the bottom of the budget and resource list. Company leaders will quickly invest in solutions that make their product or service better for customers. But they are more hesitant to invest in technology to be utilized internally.
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Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Do these stories reflect your experience? Yes, the stories reflect my experience. Let me offer a little history. My History, Not Anyone Else's History. I started to work as a programmer in the mid-1970s.
Alchemer Mobile
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
As a business concept, we’ve talked about digital transformation for the better part of a decade. But in 2020, digital transformation as we know it barreled ahead at a dizzying pace—causing product and marketing teams to make fast, learn-as-you-go decisions impacting billions of dollars. Due to stay-at-home orders enacted across the globe in response to COVID-19, the mobile channel has seen particularly extreme changes in how companies leverage it to support their broader business goals.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Welcome to S.H.O.P. , our series examining the changes in retail and commerce. Over the course of four weeks, we’re exploring some of the key topics around the past, present, and future of retail, looking at the technologies and behaviors that have enabled – and transformed – shopping as we know it. This week, we’re looking at the tools and infrastructure needed to facilitate the move Online.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
In this ProductTank London talk, Paavan Buddhdev – previously Product Designer at AND Digital and now Founder of Sound Off – discusses the concept of product vision through design lens. Here are the key areas discussed: Vision: a prerequisite to strategy Properties of a vision statement How do we get there: Hills and Storytelling framework Conclusions: an [.].
Alchemer Mobile
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Welcome to the third installation of our digital transformation interview series, where successful product and marketing leaders share what’s top-of-mind, how to overcome obstacles, where the marketplace is going, and tips for success. If you missed our last interview with Liz Jensen from Visa , we recommend giving it a read, too! __. As a business concept, we’ve talked about digital transformation for the better part of a decade.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Companies that automate support are 4x more likely to see CSAT improvements, according to a survey we conducted with support leaders. That’s an incredible statistic – but how can these benefits be realized? Today, support teams are navigating an increasingly demanding support landscape. With customer expectations and conversation volumes on the rise, businesses need a way to effectively deliver on-demand, personal support while maintaining customer satisfaction.
280 Group
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
Celebrating the Nominations. We are thrilled to announce that several of our blog articles have made it to the finalist round of the 2020 Product Management Today MVP Awards ! We’d like to thank our readers who help drive our content initiatives to produce proven, practical, and actionable strategies. It is our mission to empower product professionals so they can gain the tools and knowledge needed to build better products.
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Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Day two of #mtpcon Digital welcomed more incredible product speakers to our virtual stage. Our keynote speakers, Cennydd Bowles, Asha Haji, and Marty Cagan covered tech and the new normal, pivoting, and the greatest challenges of product management, while our session speakers delivered a range of thought-provoking discussions on OKRs, leadership, strategy and more.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. People who have that quality exist everywhere. Getting a computer science degree or starting in an associate product management role right out of college is not a prerequisite for good judgement.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
At Intercom, we are highly focused on delivering products that actually solve problems for customers. That intense focus means we are careful not to spend precious time and resources over-engineering our solutions. That’s why we aim to build “boring” software and why we’re committed to running less software , choosing to build on standard technologies and outsource the undifferentiated heavy lifting.
Product Management University
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
B2B Product Manager November 2020 Issue. We hope your 2020 is winding down on a positive note, all things considered. This month we take a closer look at sales effectiveness, customer retention and bundling vs. solutions. As the pandemic economy has forced all of us to completely rethink everything, we also give you a list of things to consider for product management, product marketing and sales in 2021.
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Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Following awesome keynotes by Benedict Evans, Spectra (Adaora) Asala, and Mary Poppendieck, plus six interactive breakout sessions covering topics such as inclusive design, building teams, and tricks to winning the leadership game, day one of #mtpcon Digital (the Autumn edition!) got our final 2020 conference off to a flying start! As always we began the [.].
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The little-known framework that you need in your Product Management Toolbox. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
First Round Review
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a lightweight "jobs-to-be-done" framework for early-stage product teams, along with templates and go-to-market tactics.
Product Innovation Educators
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The importance of an organizational game plan for product managers. I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager. It gave me a framework for integrating what a product manager does, and I have since taught it to many other product managers. .
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Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
It’s been drilled into our heads time and time again – as product people, we know that we are not the customer. What follows is that we need to get to know our customers, to figure out what their problems are, how they perceive & prioritise them, and how they react to the solutions we [.]. Read More. The post Product Research Rules – C.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Exploring the myth around stakeholder involvement as not required other than the Sprint Review in Scrum Photo by Gabriel Benois on Unsplash ‘Stakeholders are not allowed to attend any Scrum event other than the ‘Sprint Review’ that occurs before the end of the Sprint’ How many are familiar with such similar misunderstandings around Stakeholder involvement in Scrum events?
First Round Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Steve El-Hage picks his head up and shares his biggest lessons as a first-time founder from the 8-year, heads-down journey of building Drop.
Amplitude
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
You might claim to have a customer-first approach to your product development strategy—but is that actually the case? While many organizations say they uphold a customer-first philosophy, sales goals often prevail. Your customer-first approach should be focused on building solutions around your users’ needs, not around what your competitors are doing or what’s likely to be the most profitable.
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Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
I’m currently on the brink of launching a major product update – one that will affect many of our high value clients. And yes, it’s stressful. The questions swirling around in my head include: Does the functionality work in production? How do the users respond? How does this impact operational cost? In other words, do [.]. Read More. The post Stress-free Feature Releases – A Simple Guide to Progressive Rollouts appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Business Innovation & Seasonal Allergies. The Next Big Thing? Recurring seasonal allergy symptoms are already a serious life-disruption for many. Now we also have COVID 19 and worsening allergy seasons to contend with. Here’s why business innovation could become a key resource in the struggle against pollen allergy in the near future. A Growing Market Allergic rhinitis already affects between 10%-30% of the entire world population.
Strategyzer
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
In our previous post we explained that, to bring clarity to any conversation on innovation, you need to distinguish between three different types of innovation , heavily borrowed from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen: efficiency, sustaining, and transformative innovation.
Amplitude
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Introducing the Series: Principles for Product Instrumentation Success. I meet lots of teams that are apprehensive about deciding what to measure. They are worried they will be unable to answer important questions. Worried they will track the wrong metrics, and pick the wrong KPIs. Worried that they’ll end up with unusable and untrustworthy data. And worried they’ll waste their developer teammate’s time.
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
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Benedict Evans, Analyst and former Partner at Andreessen Horowitz analyses the huge impact the Covid-19 crisis has had on the technology sector, demonstrating how acceleration and experimentation are destructively ushering in a new normal. Watch the video to see his talk in full. Or read on for an [.]. Read More.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
How to Stop Wasting your Money on Worthless AB-Tests Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
UserInterviews
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Get inspired and make your work easier with these flexible and (mostly) free customer journey map templates and examples.
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