Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
I see so much talk and confusion over what’s Lean and what’s Agile. The two terms can get used interchangeably, so much so that in some places they’re blended into one term, simply Lean-Agile (thanks again, SAFe ??). However in order to do our jobs effectively we need to be able to separate these two. [.]. Read More. The post You Can’t be Lean Unless You’re Agile appeared first on Mind the Product.
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
The post Hypocrites: How to Survive in a World that’s Full of Them appeared first on Nir and Far.
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Sequent Learning
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Episode 67. Product Management for Non-Software Products. With host JJ Rorie. JJ Rorie is a thought-leader and practitioner who has spent her career helping companies optimize their product management and marketing functions. Prior to joining Sequent Learning Networks as Vice President, JJ spent 18 years in various leadership roles in the financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare industries for companies such as First Data, T-Mobile and American Hospital Association.
Roman Pichler
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented.
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
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
In this talk to ProductTank Cardiff product management coach and one-time Google product manager Itamar Gilad looks at how to deal with uncertainty through lean product management. Itamar starts with a story from his former company Google and how it has dealt with social networking over the years. Google had a social networking service called [.]. Read More.
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Andrew Chen
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Above: One of the final book cover designs I’m considering! Dear readers, So, you may have noticed that I’ve been away from writing for a bit. Actually for almost a full year. But I have an excuse! After nearly three years and many late nights and long weekends, I have an announcement. My first book is dropping in late 2021, called THE COLD START PROBLEM, published by Harper Business.
Roman Pichler
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Listen to this article: [link]. Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Startups, scale-ups, and unicorns get all the press – but there are an awful lot more product people working at large organisations. Katie Saindon, Senior Manager of Product Management at GE Healthcare, is one of them. Working on their digital products and platforms, she’s learned a lot about how to survive and thrive in a [.]. Read More.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. After his master’s degree, Michael discovered that he no longer wanted to be an engineer. He spent a few years working in business analysis and account management while searching for a job in which he could use his unique combination of engineering, design, and analytical skills.
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UserVoice
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Is the software you’re building delivering the most value to your customers? When we asked ourselves at UserVoice this very question at the beginning of 2020 we weren’t proud of our answer. Realizing (and admitting) we’d failed to maintain focus on one of the most important goals of any software organization was the harsh wake-up call our organization needed.
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
What does the future hold for Domino’s? Image Credit: Mr. Blue MauMau. Anyone who went to university knows all about Domino’s. After a late night of studying, they were the ones that we’d all call to have a hot and tasty pizza delivered to us. What a lot of us may not know is that it was Domino’s that first made pizza popular in the U.S. back in the 1960’s.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Cheryl Platz, a multimodal design expert and author of Design Beyond Devices, shares a framework for capturing customer context and deepening your understanding of customers inspired by her time in improvisational theatre. Cheryl gets us thinking about the answers to questions such as: Is your customer experience straining at the [.].
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
There’s going to be a lot of designers, marketers, and product managers reading this and thinking to themselves, ‘what the hell is he talking about?’, and given the widespread use of personas in business today, such a reaction isn’t surprising. However, just because something is done by a lot of businesses and the people within them, that doesn’t make it an effective practice, or the right thing to do.
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freshtrax
JANUARY 31, 2021
Towards the end of January 2021, about a week after the new president of United Status completes his inauguration, there began a huge boom in the Japanese internet sphere. To be more precise, starting January 25th PST or January 24th local time, an influx of people in Japan flooded into an app called Clubhouse. Within a week’s time period, Clubhouse became one of the hottest apps in Japan.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
This week on Inside Intercom, we’re focusing on customer satisfaction: how it’s evolving, why that matters, and what you need to do about it. If you’re in the business of supporting customers, one measurement probably looms large over everything else: the customer satisfaction, or CSAT, score. . CSAT has been the primary metric for gauging customer happiness for some time now, and is often used as the one all-encompassing number that translates whether your support team is performing or not into
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Who people are, their age, gender and habits tell us nothing about their needs. In this post, I’ll explore the idea that it’s when we examine the job they want our product to do that we really learn about these different things. In a competitive environment, the reasons why people choose our product over others [.]. Read More. The post “Who” Your User Is Doesn’t Matter: Ask “Why” To Build Better Products appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels *Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ ?—?check it out! As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes, I have found that there are several under-appreciated ways things change when you move into a product
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Amplitude
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
A lot of teams obsess about getting everything perfect for product launch day. There are bugs to iron out and blog posts to write. There are marketing emails to assemble. It all amounts to a lot of mental Olympics at the end of a long development cycle. All of that anxiety, and in the grand scheme of things, launch day isn’t a be-all and end-all event.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Product management roles have experienced steady growth in recent years. The role of a Product Growth Manager (also Growth Product Manager) is an extension of the role to keep up with the evolving industry trends. The interest in the role has been growing rapidly over the last 5 years, which reflects the general trend of Product-Led Growth. Source: productled.org.
ProductPlan
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
The move towards product-led growth is on the rise, in part because potential customers increasingly prefer to experience a product or service first-hand before committing rather than read about (or be told by sales or marketing) the perceived value. Of course, customers heading straight for the product has a pretty significant impact on sales organizations.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
And it has nothing to do with product management Well, not no-one. There are a few people in the product world who talk about the importance of coaching for product leaders. One of whom is Marty Cagan. I was super-excited to see that he spends several chapters on coaching in his latest book, Empowered. (For those who don’t know Marty, he’s the Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group , a prolific author, and often referred to as the “most influential person in the product space.
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Andrew Chen
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Above: One of the final book cover designs I’m considering! Dear readers, So, you may have noticed that I’ve been away from writing for a bit. Actually for almost a full year. But I have an excuse! After nearly three years and many late nights and long weekends, I have an announcement. My first book is dropping in late 2021, called THE COLD START PROBLEM, published by Harper Business.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
We often hear that agile is a mindset. That we need to change our thinking to use agility. Is that correct? That you need to change how you think first, before anything else? I can think I change my mindset all day long. However, I don't change until I change my actions, my behaviors. That's because a mindset is your intention, not what you do. Behaviors are what we do.
dscout People Nerds
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
30+ years of making experiences more intuitive, natural, and delightful—Ed Halpern of AbbVie on carrying a human-centered ethos across contexts and questions.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Successful Product Managers come from a huge variety of backgrounds, and bring all kinds of skills to the table.
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.
The Product Guy
JANUARY 31, 2021
Many people in senior management do not understand the role of product management. There are some great strategies you can use to overcome this particular challenge. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.
Centercode
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
With consumers adopting more and more smart tech, the everyday spaces of your customers has become an interoperability minefield. The key to navigating that minefield without a performance blowup? Tapping into an aspect of growing importance within the realm of beta testing: technographics. Today we’re talking technographics — what they are, why they matter, who they benefit, and how using them improves your testing efficiency and product performance.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Email automation can be a powerful tool for your SaaS to boost new user activation and drive growth at every stage of the user journey, if used correctly. And that’s a big IF. Simply flooding the inbox of someone that just signed up to try your product and sending them one email each day of the trial won’t help you increase your activation and conversion rates.
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