nulab
OCTOBER 14, 2020
No matter how creative you are, coming up with fresh ideas on-tap isn’t easy. The blank page can be an intimidating thing to look at, especially when deadlines are looming. The worst part is, the more you stress, the harder it is to be creative. This is where ideation techniques come in handy. Essentially, they’re ways to help you think creatively in any given situation.
Indicative
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Everyone on your team has personal responsibilities beyond their jobs. If they’re parents, they’ve likely become full-time caretakers to their children. They might also be navigating a spouse’s unemployment or a family member’s illness.
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280 Group
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Congratulations! You’re on the verge of one of the most exciting and fastest-growing careers today. Over the past several decades, I’ve interviewed hundreds and hired dozens of Product Managers at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and burgeoning startups.
Product Talk
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For this month’s Product Talk post, I recorded a video where I consider the difference between product managers and product owners. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. I want to talk about product managers and product owners. This is a topic that’s come up quite a bit for me in the last few weeks. I’ve had several companies ask me if they should be hiring product managers or product owners.
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.
Alchemer Mobile
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. Every customer has unique preferences, tastes, likes, and dislikes. Intuitively, customer individuality makes perfect sense. We’re all different. Yet at the end of the day, many brands know little about their customers on an individual, human level.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
280 Group
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For our next installment of the Trailblazing Women in Product Management series, I interviewed Jen Cano, VP and Principal Product Manager at Elsevier. 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? I started in Marketing and PR at the beginning of my career.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In this ProductTank London talk, John Pagonis – then UX Lead at ‘The Mortgage Works’/Founder of Zanshin labs, shares his experience of creating an evidence-based backlog. Watch the video to see the talk in full, or read on for an overview of his key points: Product Waste – Do you really have time and money to waste [.]. Read More. The post Evidence-Based Product Backlogs, by John Pagonis appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In mid-May 2020, we were just closing our seed round after an 8-week-long fundraising process. Two weeks later, we started to have concerns over our product and vision. After a full month of interviews and explorations, we understood we needed to hard pivot. This article is about how we came to understand the shortcomings of our vision, and why we eventually decided to pivot.
ProductCraft
OCTOBER 13, 2020
In just five days, a design sprint can give you a sneak peek into the future of your product. But what if you are being blinkered by a lack of perspectives? Then that future cannot be bright. Design sprints, like other workshops, get better the more perspectives you can gather. And that’s why diversity is. Read more » The post How to Make Your Design Sprint More Inclusive appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
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Product Innovation Educators
OCTOBER 12, 2020
How product managers can discover customer needs and build the right product. I’m often asked by product managers on their journey to product master what books they should read. I have a new one to recommend. It covers a broad perspective helpful to less experienced product managers all the way to those who are leading other product managers. It covers: .
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Talking to users is easy. Talking to them in a way that gets you useful information is hard. Using that information in a way that helps align stakeholders and teams on the path to building great products? That’s the hardest of all. Lucky for us, our guest on the podcast this week is Robert Chokr, [.]. Read More. The post User Research Interviews – Robert Chokr on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Product Management | Websites Best practices checklist from a Fortune 10 product manager Remember this version of yahoo? Remember how funny the early web was? Sites were packed with never-ending links, popping icons, and offers that looked more like spam. But bless them UX designers, we have come a long way. Sites and apps feel like a seamless extension to our mental and physical abilities.
Amplitude
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Amplify 2020 gathered product leaders from the likes of IBM and Peloton to discuss the shift to a digital everything world, and the takeaway was clear: Your product is your business. The future of that business is determined by the product decisions you make today. In a digital everything world, customers expect innovative, personalized, and even prescriptive product experiences.
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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.
Jay McBain
OCTOBER 14, 2020
A couple of years ago, I made the prediction that we were entering the third stage of sales and marketing — the decade of the channel ecosystem. With over 75% of world trade flowing indirectly, I started to sense an influx of investment in and attention on indirect sales by firms in all industries. Looking […].
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Following on from Predictive Tech and Data Ethics: Part 1 – the Pros and Cons our intention with this post is to help individual practitioners and business leaders better understand our rationale behind why data ethics matters and how it can be done better. This isn’t about feel-good principles-based statements, it’s about effectively operationalising data [.].
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Product and development teams often try to deal with the uncertainty they face with more research, more analysis, more process, more people and more frameworks. Organisations, especially the larger ones, intensify this rather than help navigate the uncertainty. Will customers want the feature? How many customers will like this new product? Is this a pain point?
First Round Review
OCTOBER 15, 2020
We summarized the most tactical, honest pieces of advice from a group of design experts on what it really takes to be a startup's first design hire — from choosing the right startup to join to excelling in the role and growing your team.
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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.
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 12, 2020
So far, we've discussed the lever of canceling a project at any time with the serial lifecycles in Part 1. That's assuming you replan and/or cancel. We added another lever of looking for more feedback with iterating over the requirements in the iterative lifecycles in Part 2. Teams have another lever. They can release increments of value. That's what the incremental lifecycles offer.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 13, 2020
In his new book, The Product-Led Organization: Drive Growth by Putting Product at the Center of Your Customer Experience, Todd Olson takes product managers beyond product-led growth tactics to help them transform their organizations, driving increased collaboration and agility, faster innovation, and higher revenues. Here, he provides an exclusive excerpt and gives you the chance [.].
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Your meeting participants are not speaking up. When you ask a question to a virtual group as a way to engage them, but you’re not getting… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Business of Software Conference
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Bob Moesta // The Rewired Group. Should you rethink your sales process from the buyer’s perspective?*. For most of us, sales means reciting features, benefits, pressuring customers into purchasing. Selling feels icky. It’s not our fault – that’s how most selling is done. There’s a better way. Bob Moesta has taken Jobs-to-be-Done theory and flipped it to apply it to sales.
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!
dscout People Nerds
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Designers need to be mindful that they’re designing with their users and not just for them. Dr. Christina Harrington believes community-based participatory design can get us there. .
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 15, 2020
As a long time Product Manager, it was with a certain trepidation that I accepted a promotion to become Head of Data at tutti.ch. tutti.ch is a free-to-sell-on classifieds platform based in Zürich, Switzerland. The role came with the hopes and expectations to unlock value from the data we collect from the millions of customers [.]. Read More. The post Is your Product Underperforming?
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 12, 2020
According to Vera Behr, Product Manager at Ellevest Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Centercode
OCTOBER 14, 2020
In May 2020, Twitter defied the uncertainty of the then-nascent COVID-19 pandemic with a decisive announcement: they were making work-from-home permanent. It was a plan two years in the making, but one that foreshadowed a global trend. Now, work from home (WFH) is the norm for many companies — and it is permanently shaping the way people communicate, work, and adopt technology.
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
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 14, 2020
We are delighted to announce that our inaugural Product Excellence Summit will take place on October 21st, between 08:00 and 12:30 PT – and we’d love to see you there! The virtual gathering for product leaders and product managers The Product Excellence Summit brings together product professionals who share a common goal: To make truly excellent products that customers love.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 15, 2020
In our latest membership AMA, Colin Pal, former CPO at Caterspot, shed light on the product scene in APAC and how product teams in the region have adapted during COVID. He discusses remote working, job hunting, internationalisation and localisation, exciting product innovations, and more. You can watch the entire session again, or read on for [.]. Read More.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Emphasizing the importance of Sprint Goal for the Scrum Team [link] The Daily Scrum is an event internal to the Development Team. The Scrum Master ensures the Daily Scrum is held but not mandated to participate. Why the Development Team need their Daily Scrum? “The Development Team uses the Daily Scrum to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and to inspect how progress is trending toward completing the work in the Sprint Backlog.” ?
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