Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. As your business scales, you’ll need to carefully align your product strategy with your broader company strategy to ensure cohesive and sustainable growth.
Amplitude
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Generating data is easy. Ensuring it is reliable and widely accessible is hard. Data is often not accessible unless you can write code. People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. They lose their bearings and end up relying on other methods to make decisions.
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ProductPlan
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Your customers don’t want to buy your product. I mean, sure, they’re willing to hand over the cash (or credit card or bitcoin) to purchase it. And yes, after they pay up, they want the actual product to be in their possession. But that’s not why people buy. Their motivation to buy isn’t about ownership; it’s about what the product means to them.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Bad time-management in product teams (or any team for that matter) is a source of pain for many but, by taking some simple actions you can ensure they’re a thing of the past. Here’s how you can support your team’s time-management as a product leader. Time management is a challenge that appears again and again during my coaching sessions with product managers.
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.
Userzoom
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
If you’re in the process of democratizing UX beyond the boundaries of your own UX team, and equipping other people in the organization with the skills to run their own research, s tandardization can increase efficiency and helps set expectations of what’s involved in a user research project. However, when departments are uncoordinated, or outside resources get involved, it’s tricky getting everyone to stay within a set of boundaries or to follow a strict UX plan.
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The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Stories and Six Reasons Why The Cost to Build Products Competes with The Cost to End Slavery For those who don’t know, my family’s home country, Nevis was one of the wealthiest islands in the British West Indies during the transatlantic slave trade. Nevisian plantations during the 18th and 19th century made many of the people of the United Kingdom wealthy, and they were willing to pay a premium for what was called an addictive delicacy?
ProductCraft
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
When Jim, a mid-career product manager, joined his company last year, he had big goals. He saw himself acting as the voice of the market, interviewing users, and collaborating with the data science team to identify trends. He wanted to create a plan and a roadmap to move his product from No. 3 to No. Read more » The post Tactical vs. Strategic: Where Product Managers Really Spent Their Time in 2019 appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
280 Group
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
As I watched the Tesla Cybertruck demo literally shatter right before our eyes the other night, I confess I had some sympathy for Elon Musk. I’ve been there—I suspect many other Product Managers have been there too. You’ve planned this for months. You’ve stretched your development team to get it done, you’ve practiced your script, you’ve run through the demo a dozen times—it’s all working!
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
In this #mtpcon London keynote, Kate O’Neill, founder of KO Insights , considers the question: How can humanity prepare for an increasingly machine, tech and data-driven future? Key Points. W e need to prepare society for an increasingly tech and data-driven future. We must build products that create meaningful human experiences now and in the future.
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Alchemer Mobile
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Getting your app up and running is only half the battle. What comes next is equally as important. How do you determine what is and isn’t working? How do you know what your customers need and want? In this webinar, Robi Ganguly, CEO and Co-Founder, Apptentive and Ben Johnson, VP Mobile Strategy, Rightpoint will cover the essentials to have in place both pre- and post-launch in order to provide the best customer experience possible.
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
Don’t even try to establish your OKR’s without a clear mission statement. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.
280 Group
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
This month, we presented a webinar from our Product Management Leadership series – Building Great Products With Superior Product Management Skills. You can view the accompanying blog post here. We received so many great questions on the topic and have included answers to the top questions down below. Thank you all for engaging in our webinar! These questions were answered by Roger Snyder and Rina Vernovskaya.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
If you’ve got a background in waterfall processes, it can seem as if agile techniques are just about making it up as you go along. (MTP’s own James Mayes once commented that waterfall, on the other hand, “is making it up before you even begin” ) What happens if we embrace this, and bring improv techniques into the product development process?
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Product Innovation Educators
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Learn from the food industry to spice up your product management. I have often discovered new insights about developing and managing products when talking with someone in a different industry than I normally work in. So, when I had the opportunity to talk with the creator of Dave’s Gourmet, a specialty foods company, I jumped at it. They make a wide range of products including Gourmet Pasta Sauce, Hot Sauce, Condiments and Spices.
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Guest Post by: Siddarth Ramaswamy (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Alberto Simon ]. One of the critical reasons why products fail is not being ready for the market and not identifying the target segment of audience and what they want from the product. This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their
ProductBoard
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
If you want to hire a good product manager — which of course you do — you’ll need to ask them the right product manager interview questions. Whether you’re a hot startup or a well-established tech giant, you’ll likely have several candidates you’re interviewing, each with different backgrounds and experience. Not only that, but the exact type of product manager you want can vary from company to.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Multiple hat wearer. Prod dev nut. This is John Cutler’s online bio. He’s someone you’ll certainly have come across if you’re at all interested in any of the discussion around the thinking and theory behind product management. He writes, he tweets, he regularly speaks at conferences, and with 31,000 Twitter followers (not to mention 26,000 followers to his Medium blog ), he’s a prolific and consistent voice in the study and development of the product management craft.
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The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Have you ever wondered what is project management? Is it really only about keeping everything in the line so we can finish the work in… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
Mixpanel
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Checkouts ring / are you listening? Your favorite chain / has free shipping… It’s no secret that this weekend’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday doubleheader presents a wonderland of opportunity for online retailers. Industry experts predict that online sales alone will surpass $12 billion —a staggering 25 percent year-over-year increase for the same weekend in 2018.
ProductBoard
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements. This reimagining of business in the digital age is digital transformation.” — Salesforce The age of digital transformation has undeniably propelled product management into the limelight.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Unfortunately, a crystal clear career path from product manager to product executive just doesn’t exist. So, if you are working towards becoming a product leader, you’ll quickly realize that your progression roadmap isn’t as well-defined as that of your engineering or sales counterpart. In this ProductTank Toronto talk, Jonathan Nightingale, Co-Founder of Raw Signal Group, gives us three reasons why PMs face what he calls a “ career chasm ”.
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The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. The team is forever busy with engineering and design projects (some visible and some well hidden), while business-critical projects are dragging on at a snail’s pace. When a long-awaited product or feature finally launches, it often comes well short of the needs.
Revulytics
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Product teams work tirelessly to build products that customers will love. But how do they know when it is time to celebrate their success? Or how do they know when they may need to go back to the drawing board and try again? Software usage analytics offers many key metrics and insights for product teams, but one of the most important is the ability to measure the level of user engagement with your application.
Centercode
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
‘Tis the season for gratitude. With Thanksgiving coming, we’re feeling especially grateful to work with you guys — the best customers, collaborators, contributors, and testers in the world! Knowing you’re helping to make lives a little easier and technology a little better is an intrinsic part of what it means to be a Centercoder. Ask anyone on the team, and they will tell you that seeing our customers improve their products is the most satisfying part of their job.
TryMyUI
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Last month, in what has become a TryMyUI Halloween tradition, we revisited our UX House of Horrors, piling on fresh design atrocities to make users shiver in fear. Here are some of the highlights. The post 11 guidelines for nightmarish UX design appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.
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
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
TL; DR: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? I assume all peers agree that even the simplest retrospective?—?if only held regularly?—?is far more useful than having a fancy one once in a while, not to mention having none at all. Moreover, there is always room for improvement.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
A potential client called me. “What's a good tool to see the state of my projects? I need a tool.” I asked, “What problems do you see?” “Everything is late. No one's synchronized. I can't tell where the projects are.” “How many projects do you have in progress?” “At least 100.” (I was pretty sure I now understood the problem.) “How many people do you have working on the projects?
NextBigWhat
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
[link] As a founder / product leader / marketer – the biggest thing you can do to yourself and your business is to understand that you are biased. Biased based on your life history, based on where you are, the context, your version of future etc. This master list of cognitive biases is something you gotta keep visiting very frequently to really gauge where you are and what your biases are.
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