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Your Passion is Your Greatest Asset, Learn How to Harness It

Lead on Purpose

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Transforming to a Product Culture by Lea Hickman

Mind the Product

Through her experience with a wide range of different organisations across the world, Silicon Valley Product Group partner Lea Hickman has a unique perspective on how people do product. In this awesome talk from Mind the Product London 2017 she shares some of what she’s learned about creating a product culture and how everyone has space to improve.

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The Three Secrets to Executive Recruiting I Learned at Apple, Yahoo and More

First Round Review

Jennifer Rettig brings her recruiting expertise from Target, Apple, Yahoo, and — most recently — Looker, to share the tactics that will find your company the best executives.

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Marty meets Martin: connecting the two triads of Product Management

The Product Coalition

Photo by Raul Petri on Unsplash When defining the job of a product manager, at least one of two definitions always pops up. The first one (chronologically speaking) is from Marty Cagan’s indispensable book Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love ; Marty describes it as “to discover a product that is valuable , usable and feasible ”. The other one is Martin Eriksson’s Venn diagram, supporting his definition of “product management as the intersection between business , technology and

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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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Thoughts on the Product Management Festival 2017 #pmf17

Tim Herbig

I had the incredible opportunity to speak at this year’s Product Management Festival 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland last week. While I will share the summary and slides of my talk over the next coming weeks, I briefly wanted to touch on some of the aspects of the event I was able to experience (unfortunately, I had to … Continue reading "Thoughts on the Product Management Festival 2017 #pmf17".

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How To Give Powerful Design Critique

UX Studio

The designer has presented their masterpiece; they anticipate feedback; you were awaiting it; the deadline nears. You look at it with high hopes, and… see something very unexpected. Unfortunately, you don’t like it and can not accept it that way. It doesn’t align to the product vision, nor to the business goals. You just can’t use this design for your product. .

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The Thankful PM – Five Things a PM Should Be Thankful For (2017)

Clever PM

For the past three years, I’ve posted a list of five things that every PM should be thankful for (you can see the other installments here: 2014, 2015, 2016). It started as a bit of a lark, something to fit in with the holiday, but each year’s list has been more popular than the last, […].

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Google’s 70/20/10 Rule for Driving Product Innovation

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Product Innovation @ Google”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Dec

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Understanding Distance for a Geographically Distributed Team

Johanna Rothman

As Mark Kilby and I work through the images and text for the geographically distributed teams book, I wanted to clarify what collocated and distributed mean. Collocated teams sit near each other in space. However, not everyone agrees on what is “near.” Allen Curve. In Developing Products in Half the Time , Smith and Reinertsen use the Allen Curve to discuss the distance at which you can consider a team to be distributed as opposed to collocated.

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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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Seven Things To Know Before Hiring A UX Team

UX Studio

A product owner or manager considering cooperation with a UX team needs to know some things about us UX folks. By now you probably know a bit about the field, but we’d like to show you how we work from our perspective, too. You can read a lot anywhere about methods and UX design tools … But many things come to light only when we start working together on a day-to-day basis, the tiny details which only experiencing everyday interactions can bring, the “UXperience”, so to say.

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Innovation and product management metrics–and other innovation insights for product managers Nov 24, 2017

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. The difference between innovation and execution metrics for product managers. Applying traditional organization performance metrics to innovation projects is the preverbal square peg in the round hole problem. Metrics are to encourage more of what we want, and that means innovation metrics must be specific to innovation objectives.

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Executive Leadership in Product Management #jobs

The Product Guy

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….

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CMS Wire: How to Move to a Subscription-Based Pricing Model

Revulytics

“The Subscription Economy,” is a term coined by Tien Tzou, the founder of subscription management software vendor Zuora, as a way to describe an emerging economic model in which people lease, rent or otherwise consume products as a service, rather than buying things in a one-off manner and using them until they break, go out of style or become irrelevant.

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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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Prags Have a 40% Off Thanksgiving Sale

Johanna Rothman

The Pragmatic Bookshelf is having its annual Black Friday sale, starting Nov 22, and running through Dec 1. All ebooks are 40% off. Yes, all of mine and everyone else’s. Including Create Your Successful Agile Project ! Use the code turkeysale2017 to get the discount. Give thanks for books Happy reading! The post Prags Have a 40% Off Thanksgiving Sale appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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TEI 151: What product managers should know about agile strategy – with Dan Montgomery

Product Innovation Educators

Product managers operate in an environment of uncertainty and change, requiring the use of Strategic Agility. How organizations can improve their product performance and overall performance is as important to product managers as it is to senior leaders. Making improvements has become more challenging as the business environment for most organizations is changing more quickly and contains greater uncertainty than in the past.

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Product to Product: Square’s Aman Manik on product management culture

Roadmunk

Welcome to the latest episode of Product to Product —a product management podcast for / by product people. Listen below: This episode features Aman Manik , a product manager at Square. He’s been a part of Square’s product team since 2015 when Fastbite, the company he co-founded, was acquired. As Aman was getting ramped up at Square, he noticed that the PMs he was working with all came from different backgrounds and had varying perspectives on what the role of a PM should be within an organizatio

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TSW Las Vegas 2017 Keynote Videos Are Now Online!

TSIA

Relive the inspiration of TSW Las Vegas 2017 or see what you missed by watching the mainstage keynote videos online. Did you have a favorite takeaway you wanted to share with your team about how to improve your customer journey? Check out this handy playlist we've put together for you featuring the keynotes from all three days of TSW.

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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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Sunrise – Sunset: The Art of Product Discontinuation

Sequent Learning

The post Sunrise – Sunset: The Art of Product Discontinuation appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.

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A Guide to Collaborating With and Motivating Your Engineering Team

Mind the Product

Product management is a cool job, arguably one of the most sought-after roles in business today. But, if you’ve been at it long enough, you inevitably end up hearing some version of this phrase at one time or another: God only knows when my product is going to be shipped! Frustrated Business Person (or PM). Or some version of the converse… Product managers… they’re always giving us more sh** to do.

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SaaS Offer Design 101: Learning From Canva

I Wonder The Value

You might often see a lot of SaaS have similar offer ladder such as free account, professional and enterprise. It looks simple. But can you answer "when" and "how" the professional account should be offered? Do you know how to put a line between the free account and the professional account? If you understand the root concept which answers those questions, you will easily be able to create good combination of offers on your product/service.

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5 Things You Need to Know About TSIA Outcome Chains

TSIA

If you were at our Technology Services World conference in Las Vegas last month, you likely heard a ton of buzz around TSIA Outcome Chains, our SaaS solution that ties TSIA research, best practices, and frameworks to specific business objectives. That’s because here at TSIA, we’re excited about what Outcome Chains provides our members: a proven path to achieving their desired outcomes.

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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!