Product Management University

MAY 24, 2021

Your product management maturity model isn’t so much about what your team can do. It’s what your team can do for the customer. From either perspective, it’s the skill level and proficiency of your team as it matures. But if customer value is always the end game, make quantifiable customer outcomes the driving force in your product management maturity model and the path becomes shorter, faster and easier to measure.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

Do you or your managers want people to be happy at work? That's a laudable goal. And, in my experience, unrealistic. That's because happiness is an outcome of a person's current life context. Instead of happiness, let's consider satisfaction. When we consider satisfaction, we might discover ways to create a great work environment. That satisfaction might offer more opportunities for happiness.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Thinking Like a Leader?—?Part 1 of Becoming a Product Leader This is Part 1 of the “ Becoming a Product Leader ” series. In this series, I’m tackling different outcomes and traits that individual contributor Product Managers can practice and cultivate to become a Product Leader. This article focuses on shifting one’s perspective from a team level Product Manager to an organization wide Product Leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an irreversible impact on how the world does business. Over the last year, companies have had to pivot to digital-first ways of working overnight; supply chains and distribution facilities worldwide have been majorly disrupted; and, in the midst of all this uncertainty, consumers have (understandably) been more anxious and frustrated than ever.

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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.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2021

When we ask questions about our data, we rarely walk in a straight line to the answer. Instead, data analysis often follows a more circuitous, creative process: we ask a question, discover our first effort to answer it is incomplete, reshape our data, bring in new data, consult a domain expert to rework our hypothesis, [.] Read more » The post How product leaders can make better decisions with iterative analytics appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

Artificial intelligence is the most suitable choice to succeed in all challenges in learning different things. AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. It supports teachers or coaches to implement better, acquainted, and customized help to students. AI-powered learning techniques help teachers to examine the grasping power of learners.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. “I’d worked for a startup in Hyderabad, India where everyone had to wear different hats,“ recalls Debashish. “I realized that I wanted to expand my focus into product management.”.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2021

Little in a company is more important than the successful transition to a leadership role — make good decisions as a senior leader and you’ll positively impact the business. Make bad decisions and your influence on the organisation will surely hit a bum note. But transition to product leadership isn’t always easy. McKinsey posits that 50% of [.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

Every company, organization, or team has a set of values – they may or may not be codified and written down, but they exist in the way the people behave and treat one another. The most successful companies take the time to be purposeful about their values. They discuss and debate them, write them down, agree on them, and most importantly live by them.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. It’s getting inside your interviewer’s mind, and understanding why they’re asking you these questions, and what they want to know. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Mixpanel

MAY 27, 2021

Imagine you run a lemonade stand. You meticulously track how many people purchase from your stand each week, because that’s how you make money. For the first two months, the number increased without fail. Then, as if you took a false step on your hike to profit, it started tumbling down the hill. What happened? And how did you not see it coming? After sitting down with some trusted friends and family members, they broke the news that your lemonade simply wasn’t any good.

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Mind the Product

MAY 24, 2021

In this ProductTank Berlin talk, Benjamin Keyser, VP Product at Contentful, explains the importance of decision-making in taking a company from the startup stage to the scale-up stage. The key points of his talk include: Consequences of poor decisions Decisions during the startup period Decision styles More effect and less affect Watch the video to [.

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NextBigWhat

MAY 26, 2021

During my time as Partner at @ycombinator, my ambition to build something big only grew. I took the plunge and decided to follow the ‘age-old’ wisdom of fixing my own problem and building a startup around the solution. (cont.). I hated doing legal work for my startups and never really understood what I was paying for. The entire experience was too complicated and opaque.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

Domain Knowledge is a key factor in every IT field, be it Business Analytics, FinTech, Mobile App industry, Information Protection, Data Privacy, Database Testing, Security, Software Testing, and Quality Assurance. But the last two in the list remain crucial in every IT domain because with testing and QA rest of the technical aspects are met successfully.

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Nir Eyal

MAY 23, 2021

The post Can We Regulate Social Networks To Curb Addiction—Without Making Them Suck? appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2021

While discussing this week’s Sunday Rewind, Mind the Product’s Managing Director Emily Tate was quick to suggest one of her all-time favourite posts — Escape from the feature roadmap to outcome-driven development. For Emily, this post written in 2018 by Alice Newton Rex, Director of Product at WhatsApp, formerly CPO at WorldRemit, provided a real [.

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Roy Madden

MAY 27, 2021

Case Study. This analyst team designed AI-powered security Feeds in Feedly that proactively alert them about specific topics, threats, and threat actors. The energy provider ‘s results with Feedly Discovered a supply chain data breach a week before the public announcement Able to monitor hundreds of suppliers for breaches Detected a critical vulnerability within 2 hours of its release and patched it immediately.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. Even the smallest and tightest group of beta users still takes coordination effort and time that is crucial when you have an early product.

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Modus Create

MAY 26, 2021

As part of a recent customer engagement, we were tasked with defining a naming convention for GitHub repositories. Up to this point, each project team had used whatever convention (or none) they liked to define the repository name, leading to a situation where there was a lack of consistency across the GitHub organization. I had my own ideas around what conventions made sense, although these are influenced by the type of work I do.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2021

The job of a Product person is hard to define. We’re a little of everything, depending on the day and what’s needed. The one thing we can all agree on is that it’s never really done. Christian Idiod—partner at Silicon Valley Product Group—joins us on the podcast to break down what’s expected of us, what [.] Read more » The post Product Management: What is the job, really?

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First Round Review

MAY 26, 2021

From the importance of founder naivety, to seeking out the doubters, to rigorously assessing founder/market fit, Irving Fain shares his lessons from building a company in a space he wasn't an expert in, as well as other takeaways from the earliest days at his startup, Bowery Farming.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 22, 2021

Everyone wants innovation, especially if we can plan and schedule into each sprint. But innovation is uncertain. Can we shift the discussion to planning and scheduling and funding of discovery that can (often) lead to innovation?

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2021

Transitioning from a sales/marketing lead company to a product lead company will be great for recruitment. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2021

“It was really close, but we’ve decided not to extend an offer at this time.” I thanked the Lyft recruiter for her time and asked a few follow up questions on areas where I might be able to improve. After we hung up, I stepped outside and paced along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville [.] Read more » The post The power of interviewing above your weight class appeared first on Mind the Product.

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TryMyUI

MAY 27, 2021

Wireframing is a technique that involves visualizing the product. These are user experience or UI designs that summarize the design process. These can be hand-drawn or made using complex designing software. If you are working for a client, they will likely ask for a visual representation of the process. Providing wireframes is the best option in this case.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Sr. Staff Product Manager of Data & AI at BILL (Previously PM Lead at Twitter/X)

Embark on a transformation journey into the heart of the data ecosystem! This webinar is your gateway to a deeper comprehension of the foundations that drive the data industry and will equip you with the knowledge needed to navigate the evolving landscape. Delve into the diverse use cases where data analytics plays a pivotal role. We’ll explore how these applications are transforming with the introduction of Gen AI, and discuss the anticipated use cases for 2024 and beyond.

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Dragonboat

MAY 25, 2021

You’ve defined OKRs. Great, now what? How do you build a plan to achieve your objectives? Can you work cross-functionally to identify the optimal allocation of resources to deliver? What’s the best way to track progress in real-time to ensure you’re on track? All these questions (and more) are often being answered by Product Operations. […].

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Strategyzer

MAY 27, 2021

Having the right tools often makes the difference between success and missed opportunity. An equally important factor that gets much less shine however is the use of the right tool at the right time. Even within an arsenal of ‘good’ or even ‘great’ tools, one must understand the tools well enough to pick and choose which is most relevant when.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

Product Strategy is Important. One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. When a group of people adopts a strategy, it transforms the product strategy from just a piece of paper to something that drives team success. Informed teams, including product and everyone that affects product development—from engineers to executives, can deliver consistent results, essential to

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