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Why Managers Believe Multitasking Works: Long Decision Wait Times

Johanna Rothman

When I teach any sort of product/project/portfolio management, I ask, “Who believes multitasking works?” Always, at least several managers raise their hands. They believe multitasking works because they multitask all the time. Why? Because the managers have short work-time and long decision-wait time. If you are a manager, your time for any given decision looks like this: The work-time is short.

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Running Too Lean Can be More Harmful than Helpful

Clever PM

Most companies out there put a huge push on efficiency and running “lean” — doing the most possible with the least amount of overhead. And in most cases, that’s a very noble goal — after all, overhead in the form of people and positions is generally the highest cost that companies face. Reducing the number […].

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Activation, retention and more: growth lessons from the industry’s best

Intercom, Inc.

Your business is currently doing one of two things: it’s growing, or it’s dying. This week we released The Growth Handbook , a collection of tested frameworks and invaluable lessons to help steer your company’s trajectory up and to the right. In many ways, the genesis of this new book was our podcast series and the enlightening, in-depth conversations we hosted with industry leaders who’ve grown startups to many billions in revenue.

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Continuous learning = Experiment, Measure, Decide

Product Warrior

The fine practice of product management is a tough gig. The role requires strong leadership and collaboration and ability to change direction regularly to find valid market fit. Despite many linear product processes, the fact is product management is not a linear process. Product management is a twisted, turning, sometimes reversing process to discover the product market fit and deliver true value to the customer and business.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

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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What Your Next Product Isn't

The Product Coalition

What Your Next Product Isn’t Product management is as much about what you don’t build as it is about what you do build. There are hundreds of good ideas, great ones even. They come from you, from your stakeholders, from your clients. Some of these ideas will be contradictory. Some will have dependencies. Some will seem so obvious they don’t even need to be debated.

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Gods, Superheroes, and Product Managers by Randy Silver

Mind the Product

John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China” is a 1980s masterpiece, and easily one of the silliest action movies you’ll ever see. It’s remarkable for a very simple reason: Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) may be the film’s lead character – he’s front and centre on the poster — but he’s not actually the hero of the story. He’s actually the goofy sidekick.

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Continue, Stop, Start: a new take on retrospectives

Intercom, Inc.

When faced with a problem or new process at work, most people usually don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they look for patterns and frameworks that are widespread and valuable. A common challenge for many teams is how to run retrospectives. There are plenty of solutions, and one of them is Start, Stop, Continue – a framework to structure a retrospective for a team, career or project.

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How to Break Into Product Management

The Product Guy

Learn how to leverage domain expertise and product management knowledge to break into a Product Manager role. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Paul Hurwitz, lead a conversation around “Breaking into Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Stress-Out Your Buyers (a little) For More Effective Product Positioning

Product Management University

Effective product positioning comes in many forms. But there’s only one outcome you’re looking for: An emotional reaction. Do it consistently and your pipeline will be chock full of qualified leads. Reminding your buyers of their biggest stressors before serving up the solutions is one way to evoke the emotional reaction that ultimately engages your salespeople with decision-makers.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Don’t Manage your Stakeholders from your Ego

Ask Benny

Consider your stakeholders as valuable resources rather than obstacles you need to overcome. Let's Start with a Story A colleague product manager told me a story. She was launching a big change to a product that she was working on for several months, and when she talked with the product marketing manager he had a lot of concerns and demanded that she delayed the launch.

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How to collect customer feedback the right way

Intercom, Inc.

There are many reasons an organization seeks out customer feedback. A support team will want to know if they were helpful, while a product team might need help prioritizing what to build next. Whether you’re measuring success, monitoring customer trends or gathering input for a product decision, customer feedback is an essential part of staying competitive and growing your business.

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Kennan Murphy-Sierra (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. You will encounter numerous escalation, blocker, and air cover situations throughout the course of working on projects in product management, especially when a manager is ac

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Four Honest Lessons from Intercom?s Biggest Product Launch Ever by Mark Ryan

Mind the Product

On the first World Product Day, late last month, Mark Ryan, a senior product manager from messaging software supplier Intercom in London, gave a deeply personal talk at the probably highest-ever ProductTank venue – the 23rd floor at eSailors in Hamburg. He shared some great lessons on how Intercom has built a new version of its messenger in only four months and involving 150 people in eight product teams.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Starbucks Price Increases: Are They Leading or Signaling?

Pragmatic Marketing

Starbucks is raising prices. In my last blog post, I discussed the pros and cons of that decision. In this post, let’s look at some more advanced issues. When competitors announce a price increase, they typically do one of two things: They lead or they signal. Firms lead when they are price makers. They are essentially saying, “I don’t really care what my competitors do.

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Smells like team spirit – what sports and engineering teams have in common

Intercom, Inc.

There is something unique about the joy of being on a high-functioning, high-achieving team – and that goes as much for a sporting team as a professional one. We borrow a lot of the words and concepts we use to describe our engineering teams from the world of sports – from huddles and scrums to sprints and even goals, the terminology resonates from the pitch to the office.

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Agile Gone Wrong

The Product Coalition

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. This being said, I’ve noticed a few common mistakes when product teams are adopting agile, most notably: Focusing on velocity, with almost a disregard for quality Only building, and forgetting about the measure and learn principles These are no

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Personalization with Anonymous Data (Not an Oxymoron)

Revulytics

“Dear , in order for us to keep inserting your first name here, new laws require us to get your explicit permission to keep doing so. Our lawyers want you to Click Here to Opt-In.”. It’s likely that you have received numerous emails with a preamble (sort of) like this as companies seek to reconcile their marketing efforts with GDPR. Depending on what you read, GDPR is either a boon for marketers, finally giving them a way to access quality data, or akin to that massive computer being rolled into

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

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.

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Starbucks Price Increases: Are They Leading or Signaling?

Pragmatic Marketing

Starbucks is raising prices. In my last blog post, I discussed the pros and cons of that decision. In this post, let’s look at some more advanced issues. When competitors announce a price increase, they typically do one of two things: They lead or they signal. Firms lead when they are price makers. They are essentially saying, “I don’t really care what my competitors do.

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Continue, Stop, Start: a new take on retrospectives

Intercom, Inc.

When faced with a problem or new process at work, most people usually don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they look for patterns and frameworks that are widespread and valuable. A common challenge for many teams is how to run retrospectives. There are plenty of solutions, and one of them is Start, Stop, Continue – a framework to structure a retrospective for a team, career or project.

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Check out my checkout

dscout People Nerds

Shopify’s Emma Craig uncovers what makes us playful and what makes us stressed when we shop online—and why making room for human moments is key. .

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A Tinder Product Analysis à la Jimmy Jr.

The Product Coalition

How Tinder keeps users using Overview How did Tinder, popular dating app, grow from launching across a few college campuses in 2012, to 12 million daily matches in just 2 years? I believe, intentionally or otherwise, it utilized a rendition of The Hook Model , a user retention recipe proposed by Nir Eyal in his book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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A Comprehensive Checklist to Revamp Your Website & Increase Profitability

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!

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How to Build High-Functioning Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

Managing product teams without clear guidelines or a comprehensive framework is like herding cats. Product teams are made up of people with very different roles. And product managers, developers, designers and marketers all tend to speak their own languages, make up their own acronyms, and have their own opinions and agendas. If you want to build a strong, integrated, high-performing team, you need clear objectives, communications, priorities and an understanding of the roles and responsibilitie

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How to collect customer feedback the right way

Intercom, Inc.

There are many reasons an organization seeks out customer feedback. A support team will want to know if they were helpful, while a product team might need help prioritizing what to build next. Whether you’re measuring success, monitoring customer trends or gathering input for a product decision, customer feedback is an essential part of staying competitive and growing your business.

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Podcast: Notejoy on Launch Pad, Wharton Business Radio

Sachin Rekhi

Listen: SoundCloud. I had a fun opportunity to share the story of Notejoy on SiriusXM radio for the first time today. I joined Karl Ulrich, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, in an interview hosted on Launch Pad , a Wharton Business Radio program that airs every Wednesday evening on SiriusXM 132 highlighting the stories of successful entrepreneurs.

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Why No One’s Listening to Your UX Research Report (And How to Get Them to Listen)

UserInterviews

Using narrative storytelling structure can help your audience engage with your report the same way they’d engage with their favorite movie.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

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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How to Build High Functioning Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

When I think about managing product teams without clear guidelines or a comprehensive framework is like herding cats. Product teams are made up of people with very different roles. And product managers, developers, designers and marketers all tend to speak their own languages, make up their own acronyms, and have their own opinions and agendas. If you want to build a strong, integrated, high performing team, you need clear objectives, communications, priorities and an understanding of the roles

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Smells like team spirit – what sports and engineering teams have in common

Intercom, Inc.

There is something unique about the joy of being on a high-functioning, high-achieving team – and that goes as much for a sporting team as a professional one. We borrow a lot of the words and concepts we use to describe our engineering teams from the world of sports – from huddles and scrums to sprints and even goals, the terminology resonates from the pitch to the office.

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Securing the Internet of Things

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Product Managers play a significant role in securing the Internet of Things. Unfortunately, this part of our job is not getting the right level of attention. Securing the Internet of Things is often considered an after-thought or considered the responsibility of some other team. But we need to change this trend if we expect people […]. The post Securing the Internet of Things appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.