The Secret PM Handbook
MAY 5, 2017
One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. I talk about this model with lots of people, but I’ve never explicitly written it down in a post. I’ve found the model to be very powerful in my career, and I hope it’s helpful to you.
280 Group
MAY 2, 2017
To find out how to be a better Product Manager we interviewed Pamela Schure, co-author of Product Management for Dummies. Pam has been a Product Manager and has been teaching Product Management for over two decades, and she provided us with some insights about three things she has seen effective Product Managers do that others don’t. First, become a master of using data.
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Lead on Purpose
MAY 1, 2017
Guest post by Harrish Sairaman The Law of Attraction, like many other laws is a law of the universe. The Law of Attraction (LOA) states that a person attracts situations that are aligned to his/her vibrations.
bpma ProductHub
APRIL 30, 2017
Contributed by Saikrishna Chavali and Jeff Segarra – Noted professor of business at Harvard Business School, Rosabeth Moss Kanter states that, “Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome?
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.
The Secret PM Handbook
MAY 5, 2017
One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. I talk about this model with lots of people, but I’ve never explicitly written it down in a post. I’ve found the model to be very powerful in my career, and I hope it’s helpful to you.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Product Management University
MAY 3, 2017
Any number of factors can contribute to underperforming products, but the root causes are usually tied to a combination of the following three issues: . 1. Vague Definition of Target Customers. When products try to be all things to all people, the result is usually mediocre value for most. The Solution: Prioritize your product investments on the market segments that are most conducive to revenue/market share growth and deliver solutions for a specific need (e.g., reduces administrative tasks
The Product Guy
MAY 2, 2017
Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).
Amplitude
MAY 1, 2017
Mental models are frameworks we use to make decisions, explain things, or think about the world. We use them subconsciously and many have become reflexive to our everyday lives. If you’ve ever made a pros/cons list, considered the opportunity cost of a situation or taken an action based on FOMO, you’ve applied a mental model. We’ve written about confirmation bias , an important one for product managers to keep watch for, yet there are hundreds of less commonly applied mental mo
Mind the Product
MAY 5, 2017
Building products is amazing. You take an idea – sometimes big, sometimes small – and with your team you make it real. Or at least you make a version of it come to life and then send it out into the world. Every day I find this creatively inspiring. To craft a product from scratch brings a range of feelings; from joy and pleasure to frustration and despair.
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Product Management University
MAY 2, 2017
How reliable is our “voice of the customer” when the only source is sales feedback? Sales feedback is important but it’s one data point only. Voice of the customer is more encompassing and consists of research that comes from a broader spectrum of customers, prospects analysts and industry thought leaders that go far beyond the sales pipeline.
Nir Eyal
MAY 3, 2017
To understand technology addiction (or any addiction for that matter) you need to understand the Q-tip. Perhaps you’ve never noticed there’s a scary warning on every box of cotton swabs that reads, “CAUTION: Do not enter ear canal…Entering the ear canal could cause injury.” How is it that the one thing most people do with Q-tips is […]. The post Tech Companies are Addicting People!
The Product Guy
APRIL 29, 2017
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….
Mind the Product
MAY 5, 2017
Last week the first ever MTP Engage took place in Hamburg and gathered over 300 product people – the largest gathering of product people in Germany ever! – for a day of keynotes, sessions and a number of side events to facilitate exchange among those who attended. We wanted to live up to the event’s name and help people engage – and it worked out: Several attendees compared the event to a “class reunion” and spent the day’s long breaks chatting with old and new contacts.
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Business of Software Conference
MAY 5, 2017
Scott Galloway on the importance of image for tech CEOS. “You should worry about a company if its CEO is in a fashion magazine.” “It shows the CEOs priorities are all f*cked up.” His views on leadership of the four horsemen (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple), are also brilliant. The BLN is now Business of Software. Business of Software runs conferences for people that build great software businesses and products.
The Accidental Product Manager
MAY 1, 2017
What would you do if your biggest customer decided to go it alone? Image Credit: Wil C. Fry. I seem to recall that there is a type of fish that attaches itself to sharks, I think that it’s called a remora. This fish then gets access to all of the leftovers when the shark feeds. Not a bad relationship, eh? In the U.S. gas station business, there is a company called Murphy USA that has been in a partnership with Walmart for a long time.
Product Bookshelf
APRIL 29, 2017
Linkography: Unfolding the Design Process by Gabriela Goldschmidt. Linkography seeks to unravel and explain the design process by creating standardized maps of the process that designers use to arrive at a solution to a design challenge. After reading Christopher Alexander’s Notes on the Synthesis of Form , Goldschmidt realized that “designing can be clarified–that there is a logic to it, and that it is not pure magic.” Linkography is essentially a notation system to rec
Mind the Product
MAY 3, 2017
Alexa Scordato is the VP of marketing at Stack Overflow. Her company is an online community for programmers, and one of the tops sites in the world. They see over 45 million visitors per month, seven visits per visitor every month, and each visit lasts about six minutes. The main focus of the site is the Q&A, and there have been over 7.6 billion times that a developer found a solution on their site.
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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.
Rahul Abhyankar
APRIL 29, 2017
The BusinessInsider article The evidence is piling up – Silicon Valley is being destroyed seems to have riled up a lot of people. People are at a loss to understand how could the fabled VCs of Silicon Valley invest $120 million in a company that makes a juicer. People are wondering incredulously, there’s an app for that?! … Continue reading What Can We Learn From The $400 Juicer That’s Supposedly Destroying Silicon Valley?
Sequent Learning
MAY 4, 2017
It’s safe to say that people are a firm’s greatest asset – and product managers are phenomenally valuable assets. In fact, Sequent Learning’s insights suggest that product manager talent inside a product management area can have a greater impact on the firm’s financial and market performance than any other job family or function. Unfortunately, not […].
TSIA
MAY 3, 2017
Today is the final day of Technology Services World , and so far this has been a fantastic event. Today we had several more rounds of breakout sessions and panel discussions before the closing lunch keynote. I just received the session counts for yesterday, which had sessions running from 8:30 AM to 5:15 PM, plus cocktails in the TSW | EXPO. I did a quick count and we had 60 separate sessions yesterday—that’s a lot of content!
Mind the Product
MAY 2, 2017
Glitter and sparkles swept America by storm the other weekend! Or at least some coffee shops, as Starbucks released its limited edition Unicorn Frappuccino (UF). People were sipping on blue and pink concoctions all over the place, and everyone had an opinion. Not everyone liked it — the top posts on Instagram with #tastesdisgusting were all UFs. As a product manager, I wanted to know — was the UF a success?
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dscout People Nerds
MAY 2, 2017
Mobile stimulus/response questions in your remote ethnography toolkit.
UserTesting
MAY 1, 2017
In a recent webinar, Casey Winters, the former product lead for the growth team at Pinterest and advisor to multiple growth teams at other companies, talks about how growth teams came to be, how they operate at scale, how the … The post Revolutionizing UX and product development – Q&A with Casey Winters, former growth team product lead at Pinterest appeared first on UserTesting Blog.
TSIA
MAY 2, 2017
The Hilton San Diego Bayfront is an amazing place for a conference. Overlooking the water, you can sit in meetings and breakout sessions and watch sailboats cruise by, or take your lunch out on a patio and enjoy the breeze. Unfortunately, I was a bit too busy yesterday—the first day of Technology Services World —to enjoy the breeze. Here’s a recap of what went down yesterday.
UserVoice
MAY 3, 2017
Today marks my one year anniversary at UserVoice as a Sales Development Representative. This means that for the past year, I have spoken to loads of product managers every single business day. Having conversed with that many PMs…I have learned a thing or two about the product world and how product decisions are made. When I ask product managers about how they decide which new features to build, I typically hear that they rely on customer interviews, or that management makes the decisions f
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
Mironov Consulting
MAY 1, 2017
Over the last year or so, I’ve seen more than a dozen companies with a meta-product management problem that I’m calling the “ No Head of Product Syndrome.” This is where medium-to-large companies have product managers sprinkled around, but without a single point of leadership or concentration. They may report into various engineering VPs, business unit managers, CxOs, innovation units, or market strategy groups… but wherever they report, these scattered product managers lack common models,
UserTesting
MAY 5, 2017
In a recent webinar, Jeff covers the pros and cons of NerdWallet’s embedded research structure, their learnings on working with product designers and PMs, as well as the toolkit of techniques they have developed to maximize speed and insights. We … The post User research and product development – Q&A with NerdWallet’s Head of of User Research, Jeff Gurr appeared first on UserTesting Blog.
TSIA
MAY 1, 2017
Today kicked off my 23 rd TSIA conference, Technology Services World , in beautiful San Diego. I have a busy day planned, starting with my Partner Advisory Board meeting at 7 AM, my keynote at 11:30 AM, and my Power Hour session at 4 PM. Before things get too crazy, I wanted to write up some of themes I’m talking about this week which hopefully will resonate with you.
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