Mind the Product
JANUARY 25, 2022
To help you understand whether you need to dedicate a qualified product manager to your project, here are 7 signs to look out for. [.] Read more » The post 7 signs that you need a product manager appeared first on Mind the Product.
Usersnap
JANUARY 26, 2022
Building, designing, and improving a SaaS product is a beautiful, never-ending journey. Don’t you agree? What we’ve witnessed among our customer base is this: companies that continue to optimize their SaaS product tend to grow faster, and sustain their customer base long-term. Sounds sweet, right? Well, collecting in-app feedback, whether mobile or web, is key to knowing what to build, design and improve upon.
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Roman Pichler
JANUARY 11, 2022
Listen to this article: [link]. Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. These help you direct your learning efforts, track progress, and measure how much you have learnt.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 31, 2022
Feasibility, Desirability and Viability Henrik Skogström / January 17, 2022 Image by author As machine learning creeps into the mainstream of digital products, understanding the basics of machine learning is becoming more relevant to many product managers. Product people today are a rather heterogeneous bunch. For some, the focus is heavily on user experience (for example, if the main value proposition revolves around a killer UI), while others already manage products that require deep understan
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.
280 Group
JANUARY 25, 2022
For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Su Mi Beack, Head of Product Management, LAB, LANXESS. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. How did you get into product management? I grew up in Korea, and when I was young, I wanted to be a journalist. I majored in journalism, but soon realized that I liked more tangible, measurable and achievable aspirations.
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Mind the Product
JANUARY 6, 2022
In this post, you will learn how you can build an effective operating team of up to 30 people without the need for a full-time Product Manager. You will learn about a model of Shared Product Responsibilities (SPR) and get some examples of concrete building blocks that you can put in place with your team. [.] Read more » The post A case study: Building a product without any full-time product managers appeared first on Mind the Product.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 25, 2022
Successful sales and marketing teams understand the most important element of the buyer’s journey – the person behind it. Learn how to better understand, nurture, and convert leads with the Intercom integration with HubSpot. A great customer relationship management (CRM) platform is at the core of every marketing and sales team’s tech stack. Integrations like the Intercom integration with HubSpot empower these teams to use data from live chat and messaging, smart workflows, and business intellig
Product Talk
JANUARY 19, 2022
Happy New Year! I’m excited for 2022. Every December, I take several weeks to reflect on the ending year and to look forward to the year ahead. For the past few years, I’ve shared my reflection and plans in the first post of the year. This year is no different. 2020 and 2021 brought many changes to my business. Some were driven by the tumultuous change that we are all experiencing as COVID-19 rages across the world.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
JANUARY 31, 2022
Get information on - Why Do Organizations Need DevOps? Picking the Right Tool , follow Kovair Blog for letest information and updates on software development and information technology.
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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.
280 Group
JANUARY 18, 2022
Let’s learn from experts about how PMs can accelerate their careers with the right personal development plan. As salaries continue to rise and career paths continue to widen, it isn’t surprising that Product Management currently ranks third on Glassdoor’s list of the best jobs in America (climbing up from fifth in 2019), with over 14,000 job openings.
Alchemer Mobile
JANUARY 27, 2022
Don’t get us wrong—mobile app ratings and reviews matter. We’re not here to tell you otherwise. Consumers are more skeptical of digital marketing tactics than ever before, and peer recommendations in the form of mobile app ratings and reviews stand as one of the greatest drivers of discovery and conversion. But they’re only one piece of the puzzle.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 20, 2022
This post shares some fresh research on how PMs are feeling when writing PRDs followed by a practical tool to hopefully solve this problem. This should help you to auto-generate PRDs with less time, less effort and – most importantly – less anxiety! [.] Read more » The post Don’t let your first PRD be your last appeared first on Mind the Product.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 5, 2022
There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. Cyber attacks have gone up 125% from the previous year, and with companies shifting to partial or fully remote settings, it shows no sign of slowing down. In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-par
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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.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 20, 2022
Last month I posted that Product Managers don’t need domian knowledge to be effective — and it struck a cord! Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Product Management University
JANUARY 18, 2022
The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. The real question is, how do you get there? Product management leadership comes in two flavors. As an individual contributor, i.e., product manager. As a product management team steering a portfolio.
280 Group
JANUARY 3, 2022
Product leaders understand that training and development are an effective means for empowering employees. However, it is also paramount that product leaders mind the gap – the skills gap. The one that often prevents teams and individuals from accomplishing goals. Deciding which skills are most important to the team and the business, and how to develop them can be a challenge.
Alchemer Mobile
JANUARY 4, 2022
From celebrating our ten-year anniversary to being recognized as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Seattle Business Magazine to the publication of our sixth annual Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmark Report and much more detailed below, 2021 was a tremendously successful and exciting year for Apptentive. Here are some of the top highlights from this past year: We analyzed hundreds of millions of pieces of mobile customer feedback data across iOS and Android apps in our 2021 Mobile En
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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.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 25, 2022
This week, product coach and consultant Anthony Marter joins us on the podcast to chat about the tricky balance between strategy, business case, and discovery. [.] Read more » The post Discovery in an agile world – Anthony Marter on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 11, 2022
Today, we’re excited to announce Intercom’s first virtual launch event, New at Intercom , to be held on March 23rd. . We’re witnessing a ??dramatic one-way acceleration in the transition to a primarily online business environment, and that shift is transforming how businesses engage with prospects and customers. Making the most of this opportunity requires the tools of tomorrow.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 23, 2022
Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem. Manual testing of your mobile products is important and useful. However, it does not scale well, with the myriad of devices, OSs, screens and other combinations that exist on the market that your users will utilise. Automated testing really assists with the efficiency here; being able to execute the same tests repeatedly, quickly and timely on a multitude of devices.
Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
JANUARY 21, 2022
As technology advances, there is constant pressure to release more functionality faster. Through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), cloud software providers can leverage each other’s functionality in real-time. (If you are new to APIs, here’s a good introduction.) For context on the widespread use of APIs today, consider the following… Netflix can stream to over 200 different device types thanks to its API. […].
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
Nir Eyal
JANUARY 10, 2022
When you’re struggling to achieve your personal or professional goals, do you ever wish you could speak with a famous mentor? If only you could connect with a super successful business leader like Jeff Bezos or Meg Whitman, then you’d have the answers you’re looking for. Surely they’d point you in the right direction, right? The post You Don’t Need a Mentor.
The Product Guy
JANUARY 2, 2022
It doesn’t matter which company you work in, you can never do 100% of the product management stuff. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 11, 2022
How can you achieve a relay design sprint in an all-remote setting? I have tried it a few times already and would like to share my learnings with you to avoid my mistakes in this post. [.] Read more » The post A case study: Creating a relay design sprint in a remote setting appeared first on Mind the Product.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 12, 2022
Or rather, it should be. That stereotypical image of a room teeming with monitors and elaborate dashboards where all the decisions are made isn’t real, and it’s high time we move away from it. According to Benn Stancil , co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer behind Mode , a platform designed to help data analysts and data scientists analyze, visualize, and share data, a lot of their actual day-to-day work involves sitting with product managers and business leaders, tinkering with various things
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The Product Coalition
JANUARY 24, 2022
Few years back, I had an interview opportunity with Mckinsey for the role of a Product Management consultant. I was given an estimation based case for a hypothetical situation to pitch investors for funding. My approach was purely number-based, but I overlooked the potential of tactical and strategic skills. Today, I will summarize a few aspects of this case in a structured way, more than just being data-driven.
First Round Review
JANUARY 11, 2022
Anita Hossain Choudhry (The Grand, First Round) and Mindy Zhang (Dropbox, Oscar Health) draw on their experiences as executive coaches to unpack why managers fall into the “fixing” trap and make the case for adding coaching as a skill. They share four practical tools, sample scenarios and thoughtful questions to help managers put these concepts into practice.
Atlassian
JANUARY 28, 2022
Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Failing to delegate can increase your risk of burnout. It also shortchanges your team by denying them opportunities for professional growth. Managers often don’t delegate because of limiting mindsets, such as “No one can live up to my standards,” or “It’s easier to do this myself.” Use the 6-step process at the bottom of this post to overcome barriers to delegation.
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