The Product Bistro
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
Transparency – (noun), an image, text, or positive transparent photograph printed on transparent plastic or glass, able to be viewed using a projector. If you are as old as I am, you remember printing your powerpoint slides to transparency film to be used on an overhead projector during presentations. It was a dark time. However, […].
ProductCraft
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Spark Capital partner Megan Quinn shared a telling insight with me back in February, that one of her “joys in life” is having a product-oriented CEO. “They are the product and the product is them,” she explained. CEOs with a product background have vision and they love being in the thick of the execution. In. The post What VCs Look For in a Product-Driven Company appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
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bpma ProductHub
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Seth Godin on Making Software Seth Godin spoke at Business of Software Conference USA last year to share some of the many lessons that he has learned in his 33 years in the software industry. You can watch the talk or read a transcript here.
280 Group
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
In B2B, Sales is your #1 customer. No, no, no… Sales is not our customer! They constantly insist that all the deals we lose are due to features, price, or because our literature sucks. It’s like they’ve never heard the phrase: ‘The selling starts when the customer says NO.’. Do you see how this thinking takes you exactly nowhere? Bottom Line – It’s like a marriage.
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.
The Product Bistro
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
During a calorie laden splurge for lunch, I stopped in at the local Five Guys franchise. While waiting for my grilled gut-bomb (which was delicious) I watched the Coke Freestyle machine. It was an illuminating experience. The machines weren’t new to me, having seen a couple in the past, I figured out what I wanted, […].
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
bpma ProductHub
SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
By Bruce McCarthy – I was completely wrong about the Business of Software conference.
Product Talk
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Back in March, I shared a case study about one of the product teams I worked with at Snagajob (now Snag). I’m excited to share another one with you today. This case study is about a team at CarMax that I just finished working with. You’ll see that they already had good discovery skills before I worked with them, and that allowed us to really dive deep into what it means to be a continuous discovery team.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
In many ways, how we do business today is a model of efficiency and convenience – people come to our websites and we sell to them. That interaction is increasingly being conducted over live chat , and at Intercom, we strive to make those interactions as personal as possible. As this mode of business has evolved, however, there are two unavoidable facts that we sometimes prefer to ignore.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Building accessible products is the right thing to do. In concept, this is not a difficult idea to agree with. As technology becomes more ingrained into everyday life, the ability to use digital products is a necessity; therefore, from an ethical perspective, ensuring that a diverse set of customers can use your product is a moral imperative. There is also a real financial risk to not making your product accessible.
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The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Politics will always be a part of the product manager job. You will need to manage your “reputation” in the organization. You will need to be a peace keeper. You will need to say “maybe later” without making people mad. You will be challenged by other people and you will need to hold your ground while not making people mad. The PM role is one of the hardest roles to do at an “A” level because: It’s a broad role.
Clever PM
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
One of the best things about my blog and other activities is to meet new and interesting people in the Product Management community. Today I’m happy to present the latest in my 10 Questions series, featuring none other than Stephen Cognetta. His latest project is an ambitious online Product Management interview course that was launched […].
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
For a long time, many companies had only one way to capture visitors to their website: contact forms. Lengthy lead forms became the lifeblood of modern customer acquisition. But more and more businesses are starting to ask, why do we make people fill out forms just to talk to us? Why aren’t we trying to connect and speak with them when we have their attention?
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
In 2010 Google announced it would prioritize mobile ahead of desktop when developing new products. As we all know, there’s been a massive shift toward mobile-first product design since then. Conventional wisdom now tells us that it’s almost always best to start with mobile, because the success of your business ultimately depends on its ability to attract and retain users with an app.
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First Round Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
It’s time to raise the bar for diversity & inclusion — and Aubrey Blanche has the playbook that can help startups couple caring deeply with acting quickly. Here, she shares eight strategies that have made a difference at Atlassian.
nulab
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
When looking back at the Venn diagrams you created in grade school, you probably have fond memories of charting which types of candy bars you and your friends liked or comparing your favorite movie characters. While you may have thought your Venn diagramming days were long behind you, these tools are actually useful throughout adulthood. In fact, mathematicians and related professionals use them to represent complex relationships and solve mathematical problems all the time.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
As engineers, one of the fundamental things we have to learn is the extent to which we can break things – how do we get the right balance between shipping safely and shipping fast? Before I joined Intercom, I thought of shipping as somebody’s else concern – I built things, but other people shipped them. It was a slow process, requiring a full team merging branches and deploying to production.
UX Studio
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
The design sprint methodology can provide the ultimate, bullet-proof solution to your product or business problem in 5 days. Sounds compelling, doesn’t it? But does the method fit your product team right now? Does it suffice to follow the “cookbook” and see what happens? What is the design sprint process anyway? At UX studio , we facilitate many workshops to enhance ideas.
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First Round Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
It’s time to raise the bar for diversity & inclusion — and Aubrey Blanche has the playbook that can help startups couple caring deeply with acting quickly. Here, she shares eight strategies that have made a difference at Atlassian.
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
How much would you be willing to pay for a burger? Image Credit: Jonathan Harford. Think about it for just a moment: just exactly what goes into making a good hamburger? We’re basically talking about three sets of ingredients: a burger (of course), a bun, and a collection of toppings. Just exactly how much should any of that cost? One upon a time you could go out to a restaurant and get a burger fairly cheaply.
Pragmatic Marketing
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
I was challenged to demonstrate the causal relationship between generating awareness and revenue. Intuitively, I believe the relationship to be related, but I didn’t have sufficient data to prove it. I searched for a report or other research that could help satisfy my intellectual curiosity. I found anecdotal evidence, but none that passed any scientific rigor.
The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed All Hands Support and debated Featured Product, Managed by Q … And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…
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First Round Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Nonobvious markets can lead to hypergrowth, but they’re hard to spot in the moment. Leaning on his experience as a seasoned investor and operator, Elad Gil shares four principles to help uncover the three types of opportunities that others are overlooking.
ProductCraft Debates
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
When you’re a PM, picking favorites is probably not a best practice. Working across departments and building consensus is a delicate business, and you don’t want to alienate any stakeholder by making them feel that their input, needs, or work are lesser than another’s. But still, we couldn’t help ourselves. So we asked in our.
Pragmatic Marketing
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
From a reader: “Mark, I love your daily LinkedIn posts. Thanks for sharing. I find pricing to be a fascinating topic. Question: In your opinion, who should and who usually drives pricing within (tech) growth companies? Most companies I’ve spoken to, it’s all over the place. I feel like it should be a product management function (with inputs from all the relevant stakeholders).
The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
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TryMyUI
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
While Dr. Seuss may have primarily intended to provide life lessons through his picture books, his rhyme-infused wisdom perfectly applies to UX. The post 11 UX lessons from Dr. Seuss appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.
ProductBoard
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Yesterday we were named one of 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2018 Cloud100, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The 20 Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who have raised less than $25 million to date and are poised to.
Pragmatic Marketing
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
From a reader: “Mark, I love your daily LinkedIn posts. Thanks for sharing. I find pricing to be a fascinating topic. Question: In your opinion, who should and who usually drives pricing within (tech) growth companies? Most companies I’ve spoken to, it’s all over the place. I feel like it should be a product management function (with inputs from all the relevant stakeholders).
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