Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

I teach two courses at Northwestern University. I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people working at companies who are starting to adopt continuous discovery practices (in other words, many of you). The first course focuses on teaching practitioners how to use design methods to solve business challenges related to learning and organizational change.

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ProductCraft

MARCH 25, 2019

While on a preschool tour for my toddler, I came across this poster describing “Product vs. Process.” It turns out “Product vs. Process” is a known early childhood educational framework. I’m a first-time parent, so I’m still learning. But seeing this got me thinking it could be a useful framework to apply to product management. The post Product Over Process appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 12, 2019

If you (or your boss) ever wondered about the right way to do design for the greatest profitability, we’ve go t your b ack with some cold hard facts. These facts about the business value of design should convince even the most financially oriented. . Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash. In this article we cover: The business value of design. Four groups of design actions to take.

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280 Group

MARCH 13, 2019

Misalignment between satisfying end users and wowing decision makers may hurt your bottom line. Every product team tries to prioritize features that most significantly drive sales and retention. Few however realize that reporting dashboards present exactly that opportunity and emphasize it accordingly. That’s because product teams are typically focused on end users while sales teams interface with actual buyers and decision makers.

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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.

Product Management

Roman Pichler

MARCH 4, 2019

Maps are the Foundations on which Adventures are Built. When I was a little boy, I truly loved all things pirate. Even as an adult, I very much enjoyed reading pirate books with my children. One of them even came with a separate treasure map that could be unfolded to discover a hidden treasure. Coming up with a set of tools to capture important strategic decisions reminded me of treasure maps: It should guide you to product success, bearing in mind that not all treasure is silver and gold, as Ca

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Piyanka Jain

MARCH 6, 2019

Whether you are a seasoned data scientist or a business executive with a significant investment in analytics, chances are you’ve seen the… Continue reading on DataSeries ».

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 28, 2019

Think about a product you use regularly. Why do you use it? Why do you love it? What keeps you coming back?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2019

How can you make sure, on a Monday, you’re doing the right things all week long – not just as an individual, but as a manager, across your team and organization? How do you help your team focus and make meaningful progress, so that at the end of the week, you go home knowing you spent energy on the most important work? Finding the answers to these questions and putting them into practice is critical to scaling your impact as a manager and individual.

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280 Group

MARCH 24, 2019

Late last year, 280 Group conducted its most ambitious and comprehensive survey to date, to learn more about the skill levels of product managers across the globe. We invited over 30,000 product managers to participate, and received nearly 4,000 responses. After normalizing the data, the database contained nearly 1,700 high quality responses. Participants in the survey came from across the globe, with 49% working in the US, 21% in Europe, and 16% in Asia, with strong representation from Oceania

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim Herbig has made many mistakes (who hasn’t?). Fortunately for us, Tim not only owns up to his mistakes, he’s written a book to help the rest of us avoid making the same ones. We’ve all had issues with how to work best – not only within our individual teams, but with the rest of the organisation as well. In our conversation, he shares some simple and practical methods to diagnose when you have a problem and how to solve it.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 26, 2019

A constant in business today is the speed and scope of change. Businesses encounter disruption more frequently than ever. In some cases, disruption can be attributed to innovation. But disruption also arises from specific external forces: market-defining technology changes, regulatory changes, new competitors with different business models and more.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 31, 2019

How do you know you (or someone you are managing) are a great product manager? How do you continuously push the quality of product work higher in your organization? How do you identify what is ‘great’ product work anyways? This talk will give methods to help product managers grow and be great. It will be helpful for people that are product manager managers today, those who want to be managers, and any product manager that wants to take their skills up a level.

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Product Management University

MARCH 25, 2019

The transition into product management from a technical role is one of the most difficult. Why? Of all roles that touch the product, technical roles are the furthest removed from the market and the customers. It can be done successfully however, as many engineers have already proven. If you’re a BA, technical product manager, engineer or developer with product manager aspirations, make the move in two smaller steps instead of one big leap.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2019

We’ve all signed up for a product only to realize a few months later that it didn’t quite fit our needs. Think about that gym membership you bought in January you’re still paying for even though the last time you went to the gym was in early February. We remember how easy it was to sign up for the one week free trial on the gym’s website. But to actually cancel, you have to find a phone number, wait on hold, give your membership number and finally pay an exit fee before you can put an end to you

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280 Group

MARCH 19, 2019

This post describes the third phase in the Optimal Product Process: Develop. Download the entire Optimal Product Process Ebook 3.0: CLICK HERE. Using a great plan (whether an Agile backlog with sprint priorities assigned or a more formal plan) the agreed upon product is then developed. Feature and schedule tradeoffs are made. Technical feasibility may be assessed – if certain critical features are not possible the product may be delayed or cancelled altogether.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 21, 2019

As a product professional, your company is looking to you to meaningfully change the bottom line. But are you getting the results you want? Or are you putting in countless hours only to feel like you’re not making enough progress? If you want to seriously develop a product growth competency, how do you ensure success instead of just haphazardly launching new products and features?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2019

The MoSCoW method. How to prioritize product backlog and get most valued functionality faster You won’t find any rocket science here. Instead, you’ll know a technique that is really helpful for product building. But first things first (we are talking about the priorities, huh?). It’s called MoSCoW and has really nothing to do with the capital of Russia:D In the startup environment, MoSCoW is a way to prioritize stories, features, tasks or requirements.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 28, 2019

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. > What excites you about your current products? We’re building a category-creating platform that helps product teams build better products. I love working with other product teams. I have genuine empathy for my customers. The product and product team are scaling fast.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

This product manager job description is written specifically for B2B. What makes the product manager role unique in B2B? There are two key differences between a traditional text book product manager and a B2B product manager. A traditional product manager focuses primarily on the needs of users and the success of product itself. A B2B Product Manager: Has to consider the dynamics of the customer organization from the top down, their strategic goals and priorities, and the impact those goals and

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 13, 2019

During your first wave of growth, your initial customers are very important. You have to build a product that solves a problem and works well for them. As you reach your next wave of growth, you need to continue to invest in those customers and in that product, and recognize that, in order to keep growing, you need that product to appeal to more people.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2019

Who was it that said “It take a village…”? They may not have been talking about being a product manager, but they might as well have been. Life has become so complex that product managers can no longer make their product a success just by their own efforts. Today it takes the help of one or more partners to get your product to where it needs to be.

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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

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Mind the Product

MARCH 14, 2019

For a bootstrapped product start-up, investing in visual design and illustration to humanise your product can seem like a low priority. You’ve bugs to fix, marketing to fund, and a user feedback log as long as your arm. Delightful touches, like illustration, are a luxury for those with six-figure investment, surely? A nice to have – the icing on the cake?

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First Round Review

MARCH 12, 2019

Angel Steger serves as our guide on a trek to better understand the still developing speciality of growth design. She shares lessons learned from her roles leading the function at Dropbox and Pinterest, and outlines tactics for early-stage startups looking to source, interview and onboard growth designers of their own.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 21, 2019

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. > Whose shoes would you like to walk in for a day? Why? An executive at Amazon. I have read a few books about some of their best practices and would love to witness in person. I also align well with their values and would like to see first hand how leaders live them day to day.

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ProductCraft

MARCH 5, 2019

What can this guy … possibly teach this guy about creative product work? I am a product manager at IBM; in a past life, I led Intelligence and Operations in the US Marine Corps. During my military experience, I learned some helpful lessons that have helped frame my work in product. I’d like to share some. The post What PMs Can Learn From Military Veterans appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. We had split into two distinct but complementary functions. We now had “hunters” who acquire new business and “farmers” who nurture existing business.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 11, 2019

The end can come for a product manager when they least expect it Credit: Bill Selak. So here’s a quick question for you: what is the shortest time that you’ve ever worked at a product manager job? Product managers are generally considered to be valuable members of the product team who work on the product development definition and we can have a direct impact on the bottom line of the product project that we are involved in.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 25, 2019

With each product I’ve built, things have rarely come together exactly as planned. But it’s not the inconveniences, technical challenges, or misguided people that are the problem. It’s that we ever allow them to catch us off guard in the first place. Anyone can operate under ideal conditions. But ideal conditions are the exception, not the rule. Eighty percent of your time building product will take place in a maelstrom of ambiguity and obstacles.

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