BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This is a guest post from Ab hinaw Kumar. Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. I would also propose that companies should never differentiate between Product Managers and Product Marketers while hiring and they should encourage transition into one role fro

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Photo by Hugo GF on Unsplash Traditionally, we accessed applications via desktop. We downloaded and installed products, using that native digital doorway saved to our computer for repeat entry. Web-based solutions have since wreaked disruption upon this tradition. We increasingly access our applications via browsers, consuming the technology through a web log-in.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company hires a fancy management consulting firm to help them “optimize” operations, one of the first things they’ll do is document how things are currently being done. They will interview stakeholders and individual contributors, review documentation, and hold whiteboard-heavy meetings to unpack the current methods being utilized in the company.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Guest post by Jesse Nieminen We’re living in an age where many industries are facing big changes. To thrive, or even survive, most companies need to find ways to innovate. Yet, most companies fail to do that.

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2019

by Ellen Gottesdiener Frustrated with the outcomes of your products? Are you, as a product manager, struggling with your development team? In my work as a product coach, achieving less than stellar product outcomes is all too common. Surprisingly, the solution to better outcomes may be right under your nose. The answer is in retrospectives.

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Piyanka Jain

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently I have been mentoring fresh graduates of the Masters in Business Analytics program from a historic Virginia school. Ironically… Continue reading on Towards Data Science ».

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The word ‘habit’ generates different thoughts depending on your situation. For some it’s that thing they are addicted to. For others it brings to mind the things they’re not doing and invokes anxiety.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 1, 2019

As product engineers, we like to build things, we like to solve problems, and we also want to have impact, right? But in order to have maximum impact, you need to build things that solve the right problems. How do we do that? By cultivating a deep sense of empathy for our customers. At our event Building Intercom in Dublin, I discussed how this empathetic approach can play out even on a small scale, using the example of a seemingly simple feature I was working on.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Mis-steps and mistakes can be great opportunities for learning. From past regrets reflected spring great product people. Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you’re active on Product Twitter, then you already know John Cutler. It’s not just that he’s extremely prolific – it’s the quality and depth of his tweets (and his longer essays ) that reach deep into the heart of what we’re struggling with on a daily basis – especially his post 12 Signs You’re working in a Feature Factory.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What suggestions do you have for overcoming bad product PR? I have a product that has a poor reputation based on legacy quality issues that have since been resolved. Rebuilding product credibility continues to be difficult internally and externally. Overcoming bad product PR comes down to generating enough positive product PR, both internally and externally, to drown out the bad.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When it comes to scaling a business in 2019, one thing matters most: customer experience. For today’s prospects, that means providing a real-time, personalized buying journey. Last week we sat down with growth expert Sujan Patel to talk about how sales teams can create these experiences at scale – with chatbots. Chatbots enable sales people, us included ??

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Effective product managers and leaders know that it’s worth investing in their personal brands. I’ll provide lessons from working with more than 200 product managers on refining their articles, interviews, and insights to reach key audiences. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation on this topic.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 1, 2019

In this ProductTank Singapore talk, Ridzwan Aminuddin compares “speaking API” to “speaking engineering”. He delivers a bit-by-bit explanation of API fundamentals to bridge the gap between product managers and developers. In non-technical terms, an API is “a stable contract for communications between computer services” – essentially, a mechanism that allows computer services to speak with each other.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Listen: SoundCloud | PMLesson. Transcript: PMLesson. Original Essay: 5 Paths To Your First Product Manager Role. I was recently invited on the PMLesson podcast to share the 5 most common paths to landing your first product management role. We discussed each of the following ways to break in as well as best practices for each path to increase your chances of successfully making the leap.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Raise your hand if you started this year with a productivity resolution. How are you tracking against it now? If you’re like most people, that resolution may be slipping further out of sight. The majority of New Year’s resolutions fail by February, so the odds are stacked against you. If your goal is to be more productive, the best place to start is by having the right tools.

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Ask Benny

MARCH 1, 2019

Take control of your career by interviewing your employer. Many have written about what qualities they are looking for in a product manager and how they recruit them. I promise to write my own take on this at some point. This time I want to take another angle. When I mentor product managers or talk with my colleagues, many times their greatest challenge is that the culture of their company ties their hands.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Mike Hyde leads data science and data engineering for Workplace, Facebook’s new enterprise product for company connectivity. He is passionate about using data and insights to create innovative company cultures, so he spoke at ProductTank London about data for growth. How do we attach data science and analytics to product development and management? There is no “right” answer, but Mike uses three ingredients to optimise his data in Workplace: Data tooling.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Image Source If you’re even slightly inclined towards Product Management, there’s very little probability that you may not have heard of “ Product Hunt ”. It is the place to learn about cool tech products that people are creating and testing. If you haven’t had a chance to go and check it out, you really should. But I am not here to talk about Product Hunt today (it deserves an entire blog post!

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Today, the long-awaited second Product Analytics Playbook: Mastering Engagement is here! Over 27,000 words on how to best engage with your customers—current, new, and future. No matter where they are in the engagement loop, you have a unique opportunity to continuously provide them value and remind them how your product can help make their lives easier.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by ProductX. We discussed roadmaps and the challenges surrounding them. Even though all of these product managers have years of experience it seemed like the challenge is still fresh as in their first days.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

I believe that predictive analytics is poised to enable businesses in ways we didn’t think were possible several years ago. It’s starting to play critical roles in solving inventory problems, loan prediction, user personalization, customer segmentation, propensity to churn, product pricing, and many other areas, with the goal of enhancing customer experience and the bottom line.

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Modus Create

MARCH 1, 2019

It’s our 8th birthday today! It’s hard to believe, March 1, 2011 doesn’t feel that long ago. As we look back at this incredible journey, the past year was one of huge milestones and growth for Modus. We continued expanding our worldwide footprint by opening an office in San Jose, Costa Rica, moving to a new space in Cluj, Romania, and designing a new HQ in Reston, VA.

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ProductBoard

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Leaving the flatlands Being a Dutch person with a deep passion for the mountains sucks. The Netherlands is one of the flattest countries in the world, and a big part of The Netherlands is literally below sea level. So after having lived there all my life, I was craving moving somewhere closer to mountains, lakes, and forests. After considering Canada, Ireland, and Scotland, my wife and I decided.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The importance of soft skills. The Technical Product Manager Junior product managers usually focus their learning on the technical aspects of the profession:· Are my requirements the best?· How should I conduct competitive analysis?· How should I price my product?· Is my writing good enough?· … Product management courses usually focus on the same things.

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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 1, 2019

One objective of #MTPEngage MCR was to provide insights into what we can learn from Manchester’s heritage – from how we ship product through to how we iterate as needs dictate. We can start with something completely different from what we end up shipping through being agile and responsive to change. Lou Cordwell’s talk at the conference reinforced the importance of these elements and looked to Manchester’s industrial past for inspiration.

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Product Club

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Applying the 3 Horizons Framework to Product Management | Michael Rutledge from Michael Rutledge. First presented at Product Tank, a division of Mind the Product, February 2019. Product leadership often requires developing the most compelling vision for a given area, balancing execution needs with demands from senior leaders to constantly innovate. To embody this duality, leaders must not stick in the operational weeds with incremental optimizations.

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ProductBoard

MARCH 1, 2019

At one of my first product management jobs, I helped coordinate our weekly roadmap check-in with execs from other teams. To be honest, from the phrase “weekly roadmap check-in” I’d say that ‘weekly’ was the only accurate part of the description. They were insane and went a little something like this: Step 1: About 15 minutes before the meeting, I’d run around to every team lead to see which items.

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