Radical Product
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Organizational Cactus (And What You Can Do About It) In any company, you hear employees complain about the grunt work that makes their work feel less meaningful. Ever feel annoyed at having to submit a receipt for a $7 expense? Or perhaps you were venting to a colleague about having to create reports for management on a metric that you believe is irrelevant?
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
As I’ve moved through various product roles over the last 10 years, I’ve come to realize that there are two types of product people – builders and optimizers. I fall very naturally and easily into one of these types and have found that it can be helpful to think about my own skills and career progression through the lens of theses two types for the following reasons: Confidence – identifying your inborn talents and strengths helps to build confidence.
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ProductBoard
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
What is the difference between the product owner and the product manager? Does the product manager rank higher in the organization than the product owner? Do we need both? With so much debate over the roles of the product owner and the product manager, it’s finally time to unpack these questions in detail. Defining a product owner vs. a product manager can be challenging as many factors influence.
280 Group
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
In honor of International Women’s Day, 280 Group is hosting a panel discussion on how trailblazing women paved their way into Product Management. Hear from PM veterans, like Denise Hemke, their success stories, lessons from past failures, candid feedback on how to tackle gender parity in PM, and actionable insights to move forward with. Read our interview with Hemke below for a bit of background, then sign up to see her in person at the event!
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.
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
An inevitable fact of life is that no matter what team you work on, you’re guaranteed to run into problems you get stuck on. Whether you’re a customer support representative or a product engineer, you will encounter issues and problems that you just don’t have the answer to. In these situations, you essentially have two options: You can try to persevere with the problem until you find a solution.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Matt LeMay tells the story of a meeting he had with author and publisher Mike Shatzkin a long time ago: “I was just out of college, and I was trying to describe what I do. He had a moment of recognition, slammed his hand down on the table, and said, ‘synthesis and articulation, that’s what you do’. I’ll never forget it.”. Synthesis and articulation encapsulate what Matt is about.
Alchemer Mobile
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The role of the product manager is changing faster than ever. What was once a fairly siloed role has transformed into a high-impact leadership position within the most innovative companies. Despite the constant evolution of the role, there are some things that never change. Here are some of our favorite product and product management quotes from the top product leaders over the years.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Today we’re delighted to launch our brand new API version 2.0 , which makes it easier for our customers to pull, analyze, and update Intercom contact and conversation data. This will more easily allow our customers to transform their data into valuable performance reports and business insights. It consists of an overhauled Conversations API, as well as brand new Contacts and Data Attributes APIs.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Join us in celebrating and congratulating our recent mentee graduates!Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions.
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Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
As an agile product owner, you’re constantly trying to distinguish your products from the competition. Your secret weapon is your ability to prioritize your product backlog by business value, continuously. You’re well aware of this, but we would argue you could prioritize better. As a product owner, what are the first questions you ask yourself when you begin to prioritize your backlog by business value?
Product Management University
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
If you use market segments and personas interchangeably, your market aim could be a little off! Use them in conjunction with one another though, and you have higher value targets for product management, product marketing, sales and customer success teams. The Playbook: Think of market segments as the WHO and personas as the WHAT & WHY. Market segments typically consist of the following three components.
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Getting product managers inside the mind of a professional inventor. Do you have a good idea for a product? As an Everyday Innovator, I’d say the chances are pretty good. Do you try to develop it yourself? What about joining forces with the company you work for? Or, a third, and very profitable option, is to license it. To explore licensing from the perspective of an Everyday Innovator with a good idea or from that of a company being pitched, this is the discussion for you.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Love-Hate and everything surrounding the identification of a problem. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.
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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.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
If you’ve ever had to fill a role in your team, then you already know how broken most hiring processes are. It’s even harder if you’re competing for top talent but are only able to pay at NGO/charity scales. That’s the situation that Simprints found itself in when they decided to treat their hiring process as a product and start iterating.
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
As he makes the transition from operator to investor, Todd Jackson looks back on his career at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox (as well as his own chapter as a startup founder) to offer tactical takeaways and frameworks for company builders and product leaders alike.
ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
It’s harder to acquire new customers than ever. According to Profitwell’s survey, customer acquisition cost (CAC) in the B2B industry has grown by more than 70% over the last five years. Therefore, knowing how to retain your customers and making sure that they’re getting the most value from your product is crucial. In today’s market, Read more » The post The Pillars of Product-Led Customer Success appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
How can product managers get millennials interested in jewelry? Image Credit: Kris Fricke. Being a product manager for a high-end jewelry company would be a pretty good job to have. You really would not have to sell all that much of your product in order to have a good year. However, these product managers have started to run into a problem. It turns out that the next generation of jewelry buyers, the millennials , just don’t seem to be into the pretty, sparkly, things that you wear every once-i
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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.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
The process of building products can be challenging and needs to be iterated on as much as the product itself. In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Rohini Pandhi, Product Manager at Square , shares her thoughts on roadmapping and its role in the product process. Watch the video for her talk in full. Or read on for an overview of her key points: Strategy.
Strategyzer
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
We had the pleasure of having Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of California, join Strategyzer co-founder Alex Osterwalder on our StratChat webinar series to discuss his most recent work - Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond The Hype and Getting Down To Business.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Onboarding is a crucial part of any SaaS product. It educates your users, and helps them start seeing value from your product right away. It becomes even more important, however, if your product is particularly complex. Platformly is a marketing automation platform. Among its many features is the ability to nurture leads, analyze customer journeys, and develop personal relationships.
Pragmatic Marketing
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from co-author David Meerman Scott’s upcoming book, Fanocracy: How to Turn Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans. It released in January 2020. Marketers today recognize how the automation of our world holds tremendous opportunities for their business. However, many of us act as if that’s the only option.
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Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Dave Wascha, then Chief Product Officer at Moonpig, shares with us some insight on solving customer problems by mapping them out and then looking forward and back in time as they relate to one another. His key points include: Understanding customer problems. Looking to the left. How far to the left. Watch the video to see Dave’s talk in full.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
The unavoidable essence of a Product Manager job and how to succeed as a Change Manager through the power of Narratives Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
In 2019, industry-leading Business Intelligence tools (BI tools), Looker and Tableau, were acquired by Google and Salesforce for over $18 billion combined. These massive deals show that BI tools and data warehouses are a powerful combo that companies across the globe are incorporating into their tech stacks. However, powerful isn’t always useful — particularly for product teams.
eG Innovations
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Managing web applications is not a small task and making sure that these web-based business applications are online when that busy workday starts is a challenge for many enterprises. The ability to proactively test the user experience would go a long way for being able to ensure application stability and performance around the clock. Today let’s dive into some of my real-world experiences with web applications, cover some of the monitoring challenges and then take a closer look at a brand-new fe
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
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
We talk to Divya Dhar an Exponent alumni, on her diverse journey from being a doctor to founding non-profits and most recently a stint in product management. Divya is currently PM at Google, working on Google Maps, specifically on its rideshare and delivery verticals. Q: How would you answer the “Tell me about yourself” question? From a very young age, my goal has been to serve and develop people using science.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The best product teams have a stronger analytics set-up than the competition. And if your product team is open to new technology, you can instantly gain an edge on the market. One of those new technologies are mobile heatmaps?—?they are widely adopted on the web, but haven’t been used much on mobile apps yet. What is a Mobile App Heatmap? Here’s a fact: Compared to web, there are not many solutions for mobile app heatmaps on the market.
ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Demand for demonstrable product management expertise continues to grow. Job opportunities for product professionals range from associate product managers all the way up to chief product officers, with a variety of roles in between. In this post, we’ll look at common titles in product organizations, along with their key responsibilities. We’ll also discuss what it.
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