Folding Burritos
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
In my previous post , I described a way to think about our internal product communications, and how that can help us optimize our time and make us more effective as Product Managers. The main goal was to show that by thinking about what , when and to whom we need to communicate , we can find different ways to get the message across without spending so much time on it.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
When you think about the leaders you respect and admire, you see qualities that make them great. This can be inspiring or disheartening, depending on your current state of mind.
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Product Talk
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Meet Sally and Pam. Sally is a product manager, Pam a user experience designer, and they are working on a new mobile app. They’ve conducted customer interviews , defined their MVP , and are now working through the initial designs. Even though their MVP will only include a fraction of their near-term vision, Pam wants two weeks to work through the design of the near-term vision, as she’s worried if they build piece by piece, they’ll end up with a Frankenstein user experience.
280 Group
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Mobile product managers have a long list of metrics to pull from when determining the success of their products. Although it’s great to have options, the sheer volume of metrics to choose from can make selecting the right metrics for your product challenging. To understand which metrics most mobile product managers care about, Apptentive recently ran a survey with over 200 product managers and asked respondents to tell us which metrics matter most in their reporting process.
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 13, 2018
There are two truths about sales and product. One, salespeople hate when deals stall because their product is missing a vital feature. Two, product people hate building features no one uses. A strong sales and product feedback loop avoids both scenarios. As your sales team scales and plays a larger role in representing the voice of your customers, an open line of communication aligns your product strategy with your addressable market.
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First Round Review
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
To build the strongest teams from the get-go, PatientPing Co-founder and CEO Jay Desai has written the definitive user guide — on himself. Read on to see how his tactical framework creates the bedrock for productive employee/manager relationships.
280 Group
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Mobile product managers have a long list of metrics to pull from when determining the success of their products. Although it’s great to have options, the sheer volume of metrics to choose from can make selecting the right metrics for your product challenging. To understand which metrics most mobile product managers care about, Apptentive recently ran a survey with over 200 product managers and asked respondents to tell us which metrics matter most in their reporting process.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
There’s one thing all wilderness survivors have in common: they didn’t get eaten by a bear. The only way to make sure your customers see your message is to understand their behaviors and mindset. There’s a strong parallel between surviving in the wild and starting a business. You’ll either find customers and get them to pay you, or your business will fail and your idea will die.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Data is the world’s most valuable resource, according to The Economist, and the companies that primarily deal in data – Google, Amazon, Facebook and the like – are among the most valuable in the world. Data and data products have been part of my professional career for a long time – from advising telco providers on how to use data to create new business some 10 years ago to my present-day role as chief data economist at digital transformation specialist Inovex, helping clients
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UX Studio
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Here’s the thing: the fact that you do UX research is only the first step in creating a bulletproof UX design method. What needs to come after that, however, is creating a commonly accepted research system, where information is stored in a consistent and searchable way. In this post, I share with you the story of creating our own research system. .
Andrew Chen
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Hi readers, Big update: I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner! Starting in April, I’m returning to my roots to invest in and help grow the next generation of startups. I’ll be focused on consumer startups, bottoms up SaaS, marketplaces, and more – utilizing my expertise in growth to launch and scale new companies. Incredibly excited.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
The offer email I received from Intercom ended with the line “Join us to do the best job of your career” My first thought was that it’s quite a bold statement, which creates a lot of expectations. I was curious to see how the company ensures that every new engineer has the opportunity to do the best job of their career, and how that would translate to my personal growth and everyday life in Intercom.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Google Analytics as Your Default Platform? Sure, if it’s 2010… A product manager’s role as an analyst is sometimes forgotten or not recognized. As a product manager, the impact of your business decisions will be measured by your product’s front-end data. It is your obligation to be able to implement an analytic platform, analyze the data and present your findings.
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The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 10, 2018
If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
As Founder and CEO of Betterment, Jon Stein realized startups can't just establish one way to measure employee performance — they have to continually iterate as they grow. Here's how to do it well.
ProductBoard
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Every day I talk to product makers. Some have many years of experience, others are just starting. Some lead large teams, others are a team of one. Some have “product” in their title, others work in design, marketing, engineering. By now, I’ve talked to thousands of them and I’ve noticed that the most successful product makers share characteristics that put them on a different path, a path to.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Tom-Tom Erik Isaksen is the head of product, Norway, at Telia , a telecom service provider. He leads a department called Division X at Telia which creates next-generation concepts that are validated and adopted into the business lines. Speaking at Product Tank Oslo , he starts off saying: “Division X is building a whole new product in the engineering division.
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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Product managers, consider this a warning… It started slowly. There was no warning, no call to arms, no time to prepare. This was not your typical invasion. It was, in fact, a systematic attempt to burrow under the surface and quietly take hold, like the tendrils of a plant as it climbs up a tree, like the spider which weaves a web knowing the flies will come.
Clever PM
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Let’s face it, technical debt is something that every Product Manager has to deal with on a constant basis — whether it’s making snap decisions that unblock your team so that they can keep working, short-cutting an ideal architectural solution because you have time-to-market pressures, or deciding to put off working on bugs found after […].
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
To build the strongest teams from the get-go, PatientPing Co-founder and CEO Jay Desai has written the definitive user guide — on himself. Read on to see how his tactical framework creates the bedrock for productive employee/manager relationships.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
#MusicMonday at ProductTank Oslo saw co-founder Inge André Sandvik take center stage to talk about one of his entrepreneurial adventures. Inge has had a long and varied professional background (including Telenor and Opera Software) before spearheading Soundrop as a CEO and co-founder. Inge relates how the idea behind Soundrop came to be, the early building blocks of success, and the challenges that came along.
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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Post-it notes?—?prioritization hell? We’re kicking our first 2018 research project with a very hot topic for SaaS product folks?—?prioritization. Join in right here: SaaS Prioritization Survey 2018 We’d love to hear how top SaaS companies decide what gets onto their product roadmap; how do they balance bug fixes, product improvements and feature requests?
Revulytics
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
I know what you’re thinking: “PEDs?? Are you trying to get us banned from international competition??” Quite the opposite. First, let’s start with our definition of PED: Performance Enhancing Data. Now let’s add some context: effective software license compliance programs need reliable data – accurate, validated identification of infringing organizations – and Revulytics can help.
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
How to get millennials to buy groceries Image Credit: Britt-knee. If you were the product manager for a grocery store, you wouldn’t think that you’d have to worry about getting young people to come into your store and buy things, would you? I mean, we all need the food products that grocery stores sell. Traditionally people have always shopped for food the same way: they made up a list, they came to the store, and they bought everything that was on their list.
Dear Strategy
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “How do you get buy-in from everyone in the strategic vision for your product?”. Read the full blog post. Original Music by Bob Caporale. The post Dear Strategy: 037 Getting Buy-In For Your Strategy appeared first on Dear Strategy Podcast.
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
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
If you’re an original leader, someone with a vision who can move from idea to action, then you, like me, must fight the urge to put all the “how-to” magic of what you make in the middle of the product experience. Customers will never see a lot of work that goes into making a product or service. Small decisions that may have been debated by a team, the fruit of which you see people enjoy, is enjoyed without the knowledge of your effort.
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Product managers can separate needs from solutions by asking the right questions in the right way. One of the skills you need as a product master is customer and market research. We explored this earlier with Gerry Katz in episode 071. It was an episode several listeners really appreciated and I have invited Gerry back to share more of his expert experience with market research.
dscout People Nerds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Maci Peterson, founder of On Second Thought, on why the ability to correct ourselves is key to communication.
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