Mind the Product
MAY 25, 2020
What are the qualities that make up a great product? It pays to analyse them and consider how they all work together to make a product successful. I remember once being asked in an interview: “Could you name a product you think is great?” I put on my “thinking deep thoughts” face and stare at [.]. Read More. The post What Qualities Make a Product Great?
Roman Pichler
MAY 5, 2020
Overview. The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. These are: The original Scrum product owner who owns a product in its entirety and is responsible for maximising the value it creates. A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website.
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Mixpanel
MAY 27, 2020
This post is written by Semetis , a data-driven marketing agency located in Brussels, Belgium. Semetis works with different types of businesses, from start- and scale-ups to blue-chip clients, to help them grow and accelerate the digital side of their business. Here’s what you’ll learn: To be successful, organizations need more data. More importantly, they need the right kind of solutions to interpret that data, and drive actionable innovation across their organization.
Product Talk
MAY 13, 2020
I’m excited to add Hope Gurion as an official author on Product Talk. She has guest posted here before and has worked with me for years. She coaches teams using my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum and is helping me bring the Continuous Discovery Habits workshop to more companies. Help me in welcoming Hope as an official author. You’ll see she’s starting with a great contribution below and I’m excited to read more from her in the coming months.
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 19, 2020
I believe that product managers should take the time to discuss new product hypotheses and planned features with the engineers they work with. It helps them to be able to plan a project roadmap as precisely as possible. I’ve also found that there are a number of hard skills which product managers can learn which [.]. Read More. The post Skills to Make Working With Engineers Easier appeared first on Mind the Product.
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ProductCraft
MAY 21, 2020
In 2017, I came across GlassDoor’s top 50 jobs. Like we all do, I first looked for my own role. I scrolled to “product manager” and was happy to see the job on the list next to a nice six-figure average salary. But then I saw the job satisfaction: 3.4. As I scrolled through the. Read more » The post How to Reduce Stress as a Product Manager appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
Mironov Consulting
MAY 16, 2020
A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results. Said another way, if you’re running a team of 4 or 11 or 23 product managers, you have a lot to do that’s different from their direct work so you’ll need to delegate decision-making as well as execution.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 11, 2020
During the last few weeks and months so much has changed for all of us. With the recent pandemic we’ve seen many things change that we heretofore took for granted, things we’d become so accustomed to were transformed within days.
The Product Coalition
MAY 21, 2020
Research suggests that generalists are more creative, better problem solvers and lateral thinkers — aka ideal Product Managers Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
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Split
MAY 11, 2020
As companies start implementing more innovative practices, they are realizing the faults of using an imperfect environment like staging. Staging environments are expensive, they do not match the behavior of production, leading to faulty test results, and they don’t provide any confidence that your features are working before launch. The only way to know that your features are working in production is to test them in production.
Mind the Product
MAY 22, 2020
I’m sure you’ve heard about strategic or value-based pricing, where price is determined according to the value it creates for the customer. It sounds great, we all want to avoid overpricing or underpricing our product and any subsequent revenue loss, but how do we do it? I’m a product coach at Founders Factory. We’ve found [.]. Read More. The post How to Price Your Product in a Startup appeared first on Mind the Product.
Mind the Product
MAY 27, 2020
This year doesn’t just mark the start of a new decade, but also the 10th anniversary of the first ever #ProductTank (and my 20th as a Product Manager). What started as a simple meetup in London has evolved into the world’s largest product community, with chapters in over 200 cities around the world and 200,000 [.]. Read More. The post A Decade in Product – a Retrospective appeared first on Mind the Product.
ProductCraft
MAY 12, 2020
Congratulations on entering the next phase of your product management journey. Whether this is your first PM job or you’ve been in the field for a decade, it’s important to get off to a strong start in your new role. Over my own seven-plus years in the product management industry, I’ve started my fair share. Read more » The post Six Must-Dos for Your First Month in a New Product Role appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
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Product Management Unpacked
MAY 26, 2020
A look into healthcare product management in the time of Coronavirus. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a product manager for a leading healthcare provider and insurer in the middle of a world health pandemic? Meet Claire Marcus, senior product manager at UPMC Health Plan. Claire is helping to manage a product that’s playing a critical role in Western Pennsylvania’s healthcare system.
Strategyzer
MAY 29, 2020
One of the key attributes of an invincible company is the ability to manage the Explore and Exploit portfolio with an equal amount of strategic focus and energy. But Explore and Exploit are very different. The same practices you use to exploit existing businesses cannot be used to explore new ideas. You can read more about the differences between Explore and Exploit here.
Piyanka Jain
MAY 26, 2020
Pretty much all AI/ML customer and transactional models have been on pause for the last few months. As we speak, history is being written… Continue reading on Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine ».
280 Group
MAY 25, 2020
If you can’t clearly identify what will ultimately make your product sell BEFORE you build it, you won’t build what will sell. Before the Product MVP (Minimally Viable Product) is specified, Product Managers need to establish another kind of “MVP”. Here the acronym stands for: M essaging, V alue proposition, and P ositioning. Think of it as the “Marketing MVP”.
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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.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 19, 2020
As a product-led company, we have put great thought, time, and energy into how we organize our product teams. . After all, excellent design and engineering can only come from product teams that are empowered to solve hard problems and build great software. In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. “We have written a lot about the alchemy of great product teams, the ingredients that make them
Alchemer Mobile
MAY 14, 2020
Mobile apps in the Media category have experienced an uptick in traffic these past few weeks and months as people scramble to get their hands on the latest news regarding coronavirus. So, what can these brands do to capture, analyze, and act on these changing customer behaviors? One of the most critical pieces to this puzzle is first understanding how your app compares to others in this industry and then tracking the changes you’re seeing against these benchmarks.
Mind the Product
MAY 20, 2020
In previous roles, Julia Whitney led teams at WGBH and the BBC, so she’s familiar with rooms full of people in meetings where decisions not only don’t get made, they’re sometimes actively avoided. Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Read More.
Product Management University
MAY 1, 2020
This is going to sound elementary, but hang with me for a minute. The key to becoming a great business problem solver is the ability to distinguish customer problems from customer outcomes or goals. Here’s what I mean. Customers say things like, “ One of our biggest problems is that we don’t get enough repeat business from existing customers.” It’s easy to take statements like that at face value (the problem) and quickly turn our attention to the product solution.
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
Piyanka Jain
MAY 13, 2020
Marketers often equate growth hacking with driving user acquisition. Continue reading on The Startup ».
280 Group
MAY 15, 2020
A Common Product Challenge. The class had not yet started, but I was already getting questions about specific challenges the Product Managers at this company were facing. A question from one Product Manager still stands out in my mind. “I just launched a new mobile application and I haven’t gotten the adoption I expected. Should I start iterating on my product?”.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 7, 2020
“Home where the heart is,” as the saying goes. And for now, it’s where you’ll find the office and school and the shops and concerts, too. H.O.M.E. is a special four-part series on Inside Intercom that explores how people across many industries and countries are managing to persevere with the help of technology. When it’s all said and done, we’ll have covered the following themes: H ealth and wellness – how are people staying healthy in mind and body?
Product Management Unpacked
MAY 13, 2020
Today is no ordinary Wednesday. It’s May 13th. It was on this day in 1931 that the field of product management was born – its birth marked by an internal memorandum written by Neil H. McElroy, manager of Proctor and Gamble’s Promotion department. In his memo, Mr. McElroy proposed how P&G brands could be managed more effectively by creating a new management role for people who would be accountable for particular products, rather than business functions.
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Mind the Product
MAY 26, 2020
The story of the first ProductTank – held in the back room of a London pub, arranged by Martin Eriksson, attended by a handful of people – has been told many times. And so, to celebrate the 10th anniversary, we wanted to hear from someone else who was there, in the room, when it all [.]. Read More. The post World Product Day Special – 10 Years of ProductTank, Arne Kittler & Selena Hadzibabic on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
MAY 22, 2020
The misconception is PM’s come up with product ideas. We don’t. We manage other people’s ideas. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
The Product Guy
MAY 21, 2020
Guest Post by: Nikola Mojic (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Yogesh Sharma ]. This is a story about why taking a pint of beer has no alternative. This is also a story of how to find a like-minded person to take that pint with. On top of those things, this is a story that shows you how that pint helped me, and how it most definitely can help you, on your path of learning and growing as a Product Manager.
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