Ask Benny
MAY 30, 2018
Heavily rely on your team to make daily decisions in order to help you focus on the long-term strategy. The Illusion of Importance As product managers, especially those that had been engineers before, you can sometime feel insecure in your position and contribution. This feeling may be enhanced due to many people not actually understanding the role of product management.
Clever PM
MAY 31, 2018
We’ve all been there — that sudden call from one of your Sales team with a customer “on the hook” but they only need this one more thing to close the deal. Or maybe it’s an escalated issue from your biggest customer that lands in your mailbox with gigantic ALL CAPS AND EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!! Or worse […].
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Mind the Product
JUNE 1, 2018
If you’re a product manager, UX researcher, or startup founder, you know how valuable customer feedback can be. You’ve probably heard the current buzzword “continuous delivery” and recognise that learning about your users’ problems and experiences on an ongoing basis makes for better, more creative, and effective product decisions. You no doubt have also discovered how time-consuming getting this feedback can be.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 28, 2018
As the rise of bots and automation continues apace, a lot of people are wondering how the sales process and lead qualification will be affected by this fast-evolving technology. Some are even asking if salespeople are at risk of being eclipsed by chatbots altogether. But a fairly simple example of how the Intercom bot, Operator , helped our sales conversations illuminates what we think that future might look like in practice.
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.
Mind the Product
MAY 29, 2018
At one company I used to work for, I had three standups every morning. It should have been five because at one point I worked with four squads (making five with the design team) but I simply never joined them all. This is how my usual mornings went. I’d get to the office at around 8:30am – a bit early so I had some time to sort out my desk and check email.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Product Guy
JUNE 1, 2018
Product process has evolved tremendously over the past decade. Check out where product management expert, Alisa Warshawski, sees process evolving in the future. There are many paths to becoming a product manager. Which path is right for you and what steps you should take are discussed by product expert, Alisa Warshawski.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 1, 2018
The EU was kind enough to provide a stress test for our email delivery pipeline during the GDPR surge on a scale that I doubt our engineering team as a whole would have agreed to, and we passed. You’ve all heard about GDPR, as it ironically swamped your inboxes in the process of protecting you from unwanted emails. For our engineering teams at Intercom, there was a much more short term impact last week, which we think is interesting enough to share more widely.
Mind the Product
MAY 30, 2018
Conflict can be a productive way to collaborate as a team, ensuring a variety of perspectives are brought into a solution. It can also push teams apart, when it is focused on personal attacks rather than ideological disagreements. Improve your team’s conflict capability and you’ll see better decisions, more intense commitment to them, people holding each other to account and better results.
Userzoom
MAY 31, 2018
While form design isn’t a new concept – there are many articles out there that talk about this specific practice – webforms are often a fact of life for many websites that are transactional in nature. These types of workflows require individuals to sign up for an online product, request information or make purchases. If users feel that the workflow is too difficult, the company could see a reduction in user satisfaction, fewer people adopting their products and lower conversion
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The Product Guy
MAY 29, 2018
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 1, 2018
The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. When we started Intercom the latter was my job. About 50 percent of my time was spent communicating with potential users, whether that was asking them to try Intercom over email, meeting them at conferences, responding to them in blog comments or talking to them on Hacker News.
Mind the Product
MAY 31, 2018
On 23 May 2010, Martin Eriksson organised the first ProductTank meetup in the back room of a bar in London’s West End. Twenty-five interested people attended this first meetup…. Fast forward to last Wednesday, 23 May 2018, when we celebrated the first ever World Product Day. World Product Day brought together: A global community of over 150,000 passionate product people.
Pragmatic Marketing
MAY 31, 2018
June’s Box of the Month is positioning. Throughout the month we’ll highlight articles, webinars, podcasts and blog posts that help you better describe your product by its ability to solve market problems. Then you can create internal positioning documents for developing external messages that focus on each key buyer or persona. We’ll discuss the differences between branding and positioning , ways to strengthen positioning using product message maps , and why positioning should
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The Product Coalition
MAY 28, 2018
A great product can quickly become mediocre when it starts to chase short term wins. Society has a tendency to focus short term thinking and instant gratification. It’s easy to get caught chasing instant gratification because it feels good now, but the trade-off for instant gratification is often short sighted decisions, and delayed pain. Look at Netflix, we can binge watch an entire television series in a day.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 30, 2018
We all like to think we’re the drivers of our own life. We intuitively feel that we are choosing the route, direction and speed of our journey, and even the type of car we’re traveling in. We have an inbuilt tendency to believe we are deciding our destination, that we are actively mapping out our career direction and our life story. The truth is, however, that most of us are mere passengers in our own life journey.
Mind the Product
JUNE 1, 2018
When we compare today’s agile product management in practice with what we have seen some 10 years ago, not much has changed: Agility is still mainly limited to UX labs and A/B testing, and misses the potential value that could be found between the initial idea and a working product. The standard answer within product management is to whine and blame others: the boss doesn’t get it, stakeholders don’t care, the roadmap is too full.
Pragmatic Marketing
MAY 31, 2018
Amazon Prime has been amazing in my life. For a measly $100 per year, I get free shipping on almost everything I order. But the funny thing is I don’t really care about free shipping itself. I love the fact that I can just buy on Amazon and not have to shop around for free shipping. I love the fact that I don’t have to give my credit card to lots of different companies.
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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.
Birst BI
MAY 29, 2018
The business intelligence (BI) assembly line is broken, with adoption or utilization rates of only 30 percent in a typical organization, according to Gartner [1]. These adoption rates include all the users of the BI system – administrators who manage the system, analysts who build reports, and business users who consume reports for better decision making.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 29, 2018
Those unfamiliar with what product engineers do could be forgiven for assuming that it’s all broadly the same job. After all, we all tend to work in code, use black text editors with luminous text, and stare at console windows with endlessly scrolling symbols. But making the transition from consultant engineer to a product engineer was a revelation – I realized that working as an engineer in client services and working as a product engineer are essentially two completely different jobs, br
Mind the Product
MAY 29, 2018
Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. As always the core of the conference is our line-up of amazing speakers, and the insights and stories they bring to the conference is what starts all those conversations.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 1, 2018
Who needs a weekly cash flow model? You own a fast-scaling company, and you’re growing your customer base steadily, but you’re still nervous. You almost didn’t make payroll last week. You had to call your landlord and ask to pay rent a few days late. Your projections say you’re going to make a small profit this year, but your margins are razor-thin, and you don’t know how much cash is flowing in or out any given month, let alone any given week.
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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
MAY 29, 2018
In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we discuss the challenges of IoT adoption in established companies. My guest today is Miguel Morales, VP or IoT at Parker Hannifin. In this episode, we discuss how Parker, a 100-year old company, is leveraging IoT to complement their core business initiatives. We also talk about the organizational […].
Miro
JUNE 1, 2018
How product teams can benefit from connecting physical and digital worlds with RealtimeBoard Here at RealtimeBoard we set out on a mission to help team-driven companies turn the challenges of distributed work into competitive advantages. However, these challenges are not exclusive to teams that think of themselves as distributed. As soon as you leave a […].
Revulytics
MAY 30, 2018
There’s a reason that in the software world, we often say we are “pushing” users to the latest version – as it often requires a bit of encouragement to get users to upgrade. Using ReachOut in-app messaging software, we can easily target certain customer segments and offer timely, relevant offers to upgrade. This positions customers to innovate, while freeing up valuable internal resources devoted to supporting legacy versions.
The Product Coalition
MAY 31, 2018
As someone who has experienced the highs and lows that accompany life as a Product Manager, I am keenly aware of the challenges this important role plays in the technology industry [and so many others]. Where many of the departments in the organization?—?whether large or small?—?may choose to operate in silos, Product Management is the department that brings all of the teams together to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, vision is seen, and needs are met.
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
Product Innovation Educators
JUNE 1, 2018
Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Build products fast or risk being irrelevant. A VP I once worked for told the development team that it may take two years to get our software product to market, but it will be best in class when it does. That company doesn’t exist anymore.
Miro
MAY 31, 2018
How SEEK Asia is buildingservices for a booming job market Here at RealtimeBoard, we are passionate about helping other companies be more productive and streamline their product development. We also try to follow them closely on their way to success and share their insights with our readers. Today, we are excited to publish a story […]. The post How SEEK Asia is building services for a booming job market appeared first on RealtimeBlog | A blog by RealtimeBoard.
Userzoom
MAY 29, 2018
In this latest part our Demystifying Statistics series, we’re looking at confidence intervals: why do we need them, what are they, and why they are useful? Why do we need confidence intervals? When we run usability studies we are typically targeting a particular demographic, whether that is the general population, students in the UK, or women over 30 with at least one child as just a few examples.
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