Mind the Product

JANUARY 26, 2021

Is it time to invest in redesigning my digital product? It is a question that many product leaders need to answer. This is an article to help you make the decisions by giving you contextual information and concrete examples. Some design activities can be applied as iterative improvements, like changing certain user flows to increase [.]. Read More. The post Is it Time to Invest in Redesigning my Digital Product?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 26, 2021

We all like to think we use our value-based integrity to decide and act. And I bet you've seen people who don't appear to use that kind of integrity. If you talk to them, they say they intend to do the right thing. However, they don't always act according to their intentions. Here's an example I see all too often. A senior manager, SM, receives an estimate the SM doesn't like.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

The best Product Managers act as a force multiplier for their team. They leverage the intellectual capital of the people around them to build products that create value for customers and the business. However, often Product Managers, even the ones with the best intentions, operate in a way that disengages their team from the problem and the users leading to subpar products getting shipped.

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280 Group

JANUARY 24, 2021

In this 3-part series, we will look at how to apply elements of systems thinking to the problems of resilience, sustainability, and leadership in Product Management. When the pandemic hit, many business owners were faced with huge challenges they had no way of predicting. Owners asked themselves, “how do I conduct my business now?” The towering statistics were not in their favor.

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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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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

That is the question. In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. Now, the general consensus seems to be that the MRD is dead as the Dodo, replaced by a product backlog, groomed by a product owner, and lean startup techniques that encourage build/test/evaluate/pivot cycles until you achieve the magical “produc

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2021

With 70+ methods listed, this is the most complete list of prioritization frameworks on the internet with tons of linked resources. This… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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280 Group

JANUARY 27, 2021

Sink or Swim. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a devastating storm for many, as the American economy suffered some big blows (especially for small businesses). Those in the restaurant biz, retail, fitness, and etc. were forced to make major pivots to survive. But some have weathered the storm better than others and sailed out of 2020 with big business and big profits.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the modern era, it seems that product management and organizations have eschewed the venerable MRD or marketing requirements document. However, it still has a place in the toolkit, and it should be leveraged more often.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2021

Kicking off 2021, this month’s membership content has focused on goal setting, product careers, and more. Read on for a recap and, if you’re not yet a member but would love to get in on the action, you can check out our membership plans today. Climbing the Career Ladder In our new, three-part series we aim [.]. Read More. The post January Roundup: Product Careers, Setting Product Goals, Product Leadership and More appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

OKRs are an amazing tool to drive business success. Starting with OKRs is easy. Doing it right is not necessarily so, and especially with product OKRs that are a unique beast. Here are a few common mistakes to avoid. Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in prod

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2021

Built to help brands connect with their customers in more meaningful ways, Typeform is an interactive survey platform with a vision to create a world of more personal business relationships. Focused on realizing that vision by empowering and supporting their customers is Christine Werner, Typeform’s Senior Director of Customer Success. This is the fifth in a recurring series of articles looking at how modern support leaders are navigating the support landscape as it continues to evolve.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

How do you drive innovation? Welcome to this episode of the Enterprise Product Leadership podcast. My guest today is Geoffrey Moore, a speaker, advisor, and best-selling author of some of the most influential business books of the past decade — including the world-famous book Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers. […].

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2021

In my new book Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers, I’ve aimed to deliver everything a product leader needs to help team members live up to their full potential and to feel empowered. Here, I’m giving MTP Leaders exclusive access to chapter 11: How to Find the Time? a chapter [.]. Read More. The post A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

These are my top five product books that you should read no matter which point of your career you are at. Sometimes it is hard to get your… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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First Round Review

JANUARY 26, 2021

Jean-Denis Grèze has led engineering teams at Plaid and Dropbox: Here’s what he’s learned about crafting a bottoms-up culture, hiring and motivating large teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 25, 2021

How product managers can innovate throughout the entire product lifecycle. As we move into 2021, the name of this podcast is changing to better reflect our objective here—product managers becoming product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. . You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming in a few weeks, and it will show in your podcast player not as The Everyday Innovator but as Product Masters Now. .

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 26, 2021

Everyone – or so we’re told – has the dream of joining or founding a hot startup and making their fortune, all while really proving their product chops. Though he’s now a Product Manager at Facebook, Karthik Suresh co-founded Altrest and grew Craft.io from an early stage. He joins us on the podcast to share [.]. Read More. The post Managing Your Startup Options – Karthik Suresh on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Photo By Robert Bye on Unsplash We all do it. I’ve looked back at something that took me weeks to build and said to myself, “Wow that could have been far more simple.” I blame it on brain “modes”. When we put our brain into solutioning mode?—?we forget the problem and begin constructing a solution we can take pride in. I suspect it has something to do with creativity.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 29, 2021

I had a lovely conversation with Dan Neumann on the AgileThought Podcast: 116: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. We had a lovely conversation about the Modern Management Made Easy books. The show page has key takeaways and links to many of the resources we mentioned in the podcast. Enjoy! The post Listen to Dan and Me on the AgileThought Podcast 116 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Roy Madden

JANUARY 29, 2021

We are looking for a VP Marketing with a proven track record of driving growth in an early stage B2B SaaS environment. You will be responsible for developing and executing the Feedly marketing strategy. It is a unique opportunity to significantly impact the growth trajectory of an exciting startup that is transforming how 15M+ curious minds research and consume information.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 25, 2021

In this talk at ProductTank Cardiff, Tendayi Viki draws on ideas from his latest book – Pirates in the Navy – to share a rich set of tools for product leaders who are trying to balance the needs of exploration, innovation, and execution. Ultimately, it boils down to developing a pragmatic model for managing risks and investments, and [.].

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2021

Behind the scenes on deploying new product functionality Photo by Micha? Kubalczyk on Unsplash For the last month, I worked on changing a button. It sounds simple, but in the process, I’ve learned just how much you can affect through the smallest of changes. When purchasing a car at Rodo , we changed the button text for certain vehicles from “Place Order” to “Check Availability.

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ProductCraft

JANUARY 26, 2021

On January 15, 2020, the United States confirmed its first case of coronavirus. Over the next six weeks, as the virus spread throughout the country and around the world, daily life changed incrementally at first, then seemingly all at once. By mid-March, lockdowns and quarantine became widespread, grinding business, travel, professional sports, and much more.

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freshtrax

JANUARY 29, 2021

Inspired by Brandon K. Hill and Yasuko Katsumata. It’s no longer a phenomenon. It’s a movement. . “What sparks joy?”. It’s been two years since Marie Kondo debuted on Netflix, and America is still captivated by her charm. Her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up , is more than just about cleaning and organizing your belongings; it’s also about being intentional in how you choose to live and think.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 24, 2021

People in San Francisco have very interesting product management shoes. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Mihaela Draghici.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

A flexible framework for one of today’s most important business documents “A great product manager has the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer, and the speech of a diplomat.”?—?Deep Nishar (Former SVP, Products & UX @ LinkedIn) Like most things in product management, writing a product spec is a variable and context-dependent exercise. Just like the role of a product manager can vary significantly from company to company, so can?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2021

An excellent user engagement strategy can have a ripple effect on what product marketers’ care the most about: Make your users see the value of your product and its features during the free trial. Stop users from only signing up and then never using the product. Converting large numbers of trial users into customers. Increasing feature adoption and creating “power users” or “product advocates.”.

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eG Innovations

JANUARY 29, 2021

What is Kubernetes and What is K8s? Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is a container-orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of applications running inside the containers across clusters of hosts. Google open-sourced the Kubernetes project in 2014. According to a recent CNCF survey , Kubernetes is the most popular container management tool among large enterprises, used by 83% of respondents.

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