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#1 — From Ideation to Landing Page
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From Ideation to Landing Page, how we came up with AchievedHello everyone, 👋,We started our journey 4 weeks ago, and thought it was time to share what has happened to us, and what we have learned, with you all.Before jumping in, you may want to read again our manifesto.TL;DRAchieved helps everyone in the organisation. From colleagues engagement to strategic decision making. We help everyone to focus on what matter most, align on their activities, get challenged and supported with the ideal level of social engagement.As tech enthusiasts, we’re aiming at designing a simple solution to handle individual #productivity and team alignment. We wanted this tool to be simple, delightful and interactive; but we also wanted it to be asynchronous so that people could be caught up in on their own  (...)

#product-management #startup-lessons #startup #growth-mindset

Slides Are a Poor Form of #communication, Here’s Why
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Source: DilbertI was a management consultant early in my career so I feel qualified to make this somewhat controversial statement:Slides are a poor form of communication compared to written narratives for discussion and decision making.Based on my experience, slides are inferior to narratives in meetings where you need to make a decision with a small group of people. They’re also an inadequate tool for people who missed the meeting and need to get caught up.Slides are a great tool for telling a story or presenting a vision to a large group of people (it’s hard to make 50 people read a narrative on the spot).Before you throw a PowerPoint deck at me, please hear me out on why I think narratives are superior:1. Narratives encourage clarity of thinking instead of busyworkWriting full sentences (...)

#product-management #product #presentations #writing

6 #prioritization Techniques to Make You Stop Working on the Wrong Stuff
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6 Powerful Prioritization Techniques For Product ManagersKnowing how to prioritize ideas and features efficiently is one of the biggest challenges in modern product management.Even the most experienced product managers when planning their roadmaps may be worried about how to decide what to work on first. As an essential part of product strategy, prioritization is worth to be permanently studied and improved. In my recent post, I just shared some insights on how to manage product strategy, so now it’s time to elaborate on prioritization that helps to solve a lot of issues.Why is prioritization a challenge for product managers? Here’re some reasons:We often focus on smart features, instead of the features, which directly impact our goals.We often desperately dive into new features, instead of (...)

#project-management #priorities #product-management #startup

#technical Skills for Product Managers Decoded-An event by Advancing Women in Product (AWIP)
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Credits: Sift Science Team, Advancing Women in Product Team-Linh Tran, Nancy Wang, Aakrit PrasadWhether you are an engineer or a product manager (PM), you are part of a product team. As engineers are technical, PMs need to have certain “technical skills” to work effectively in building a great product. But what are these technical skills? On July 31st, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) hosted a panel discussion on technical skills for PMs, sponsored by Sift Science. The panel featured Megan Mann (Product Manager at Sift Science), Akshay Kannan (Product Manager at Google), and Pranava Adduri (Founding Engineer at Rubrik) and the discussion was moderated by Neetika Bansal (Engineering Manager, Stripe). Here are some key insights from a few questions asked.Is technical experience necessary (...)

#leadership #technology #product-management #awip-partnership

Product 102 for Engineers: Decision Making and #strategy
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How to build the product you want to and not go out of businessProgramming notes: this post is n in a series of indeterminate length on Product topics mainly for #startup people, mainly leadership, mainly coming from non-GTM backgrounds. There’s a list at the end.Vision and DistractionSpirits professionals will tell you that takes significant up front capital and reserves in the bank to wait out the many years it takes [barrel aging!] before you have a good product.Note: A terrible product is easy to come by in a few months. That might work for some market for some of the time, but eventually those brands are low-margin loss-leaders in bigger portfolios or they have severely limited growth or they go under.So what do we do in the meantime? We make gin.On the way to making whiskey, some of (...)

#product-management #product-strategy #business

4 Tips for Augmenting Your Generic Product and Building Better Customer Experience
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Physique, Personality, Culture, Self-AwarenessI’m sure your product has all the parts and functionalities that your customers need. But what you want to sell is more than the generic product, you want to sell the “whole product”. The whole product is a generic product augmented by secondary, auxiliary services such as a nice package, polite salesperson, pleasant in-store experience, ease of use, fun on-boarding process and everything else that is required for the user to feel good about putting their money into your pocket. Offering the whole product provides the complete brand experience, tied to the emotions of the prospective buyer. Since buying is an emotional decision, you should invest some time in creating the whole product. These are the layers of a whole product which I like to (...)

#marketing #product-management #branding #business #brand-strategy

What is Patent Thinking?
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Patent Thinking is a new design methodology which combines Patent Design and Design Thinking. Using this new ideation methodology teams, startups, academia and enterprises can develop new ideas, products and processes by prototyping a lean patent application. The applied method could take the form of an individual work or a group activity.Patent thinking includes principles from technology, product management, product design, business and intellectual property.Patents are considered to be one of the most classic and well known forms of clearly depicting and protecting an innovative product/service or invention by a sole inventor or a group of inventors. #patents have clear rules and structure. They have high value due to the large effort, thought and resources inventors put in to get (...)

#design-thinking #patent-thinking #product-management #product-design

Event Recap: Deriving Product Insights from Data Analytics
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Credits: Advancing Women in Product Team, Aneesha Prakash, Product Manager at Replicon, Jo Dong, BD Manager at Stardust, and Kanika Kapoor, Product Manager at PayPalAs the critical link between business and engineering, product managers need to develop and implement suitable product analytics strategies that can be understood by professionals from a variety of different backgrounds. This task is not as straightforward as we think: are we optimizing for a strategy that is universal, or something that is more data-driven? And above all, how should the product analytics strategy align with company’s business model? Those are just some of the important questions to start with. During the February 26th discussion during #awip’s Deriving Product Insights from Data Analytics event last Tuesday (...)

#women-in-tech #data-analytics #product-management #women-in-product

Making Our Tiny Feature Free Led to 20,000 Users and 2,500 Leads Within 2 Months
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Part 1: The BuildThis project started out as a tiny feature intended for our DataOps BI Platform, Holistics.io. Our interns helped develop dbdiagram.io, to help our customers visualize their own database relationships as diagrams. This is meant as a quick and simple tool designed for data analysts and developers, to help them design database diagrams by just using their keyboard.Inspired from Product-led #growth approach and Free Tool — SKU Generator of Lucas, my friend from TradeGecko, we found an opportunity to contribute to the data community by releasing it as a free tool as well as a sustainable source of traffic for our company.Within the first 2 months, dbdiagram.io got 20,000+ users (it has reached 80K now) and generated 2,500+ leads to Holistics. Managing to launch a product alone (...)

#saas #freemium #product-management #startup

#vr Project Development — How Project Managers Should Prepare
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VR Project Development — How Project Managers Should PrepareBy 2019, most people have probably seen or tried virtual reality experiences, otherwise known as VR. You may have tried a very basic version of VR with Google Cardboard where you could look around and see a 360-degree picture around you. Or you might have even tried a full-fledged VR with the HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift where you were not only able to look around but also to move and explore the new and unfamiliar space.Some people think that VR is just a passing fad, while others praise it to be the next big thing in computing. Despite all that, VR is a new type of medium for interaction with computers, and it’s been steadily breaking into the consumer and enterprise markets for the last 8 years. For example, Ford has used VR to (...)

#product-management #virtual-reality #project-management #pm

3 Practical Ways to Become a Better #product Manager in 2019
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Every Product Manager inevitably comes to a point in their career where they wonder, “how do I take the next step? How to add more value to my organization and grow my career?”Maybe you’ve been a PM for a year or two, maybe you’ve been at it five or six years. Regardless, when you get to this point you’ll realize there is a chasm of missing information. There are 5,000 articles, courses, and blogs dedicated to becoming a Product Manager, but few deal with how to become a great Product Manager.Here are three practical ways you can become better at your job, starting tomorrow.Bring As Much Context As PossibleIt’s often too easy to get caught up in the “software is hard” mentality and suddenly find yourself months behind on an ill-scoped, ill-discovered, and ill-defined feature. In 2019 do less of (...)

#product-development #deep-work #boston #product-management

A stepwise approach to help you define a real MVP — Minimum Viable Product
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An 8-Step Approach to Help You Define a Real MVPFrom a problem to a well-defined MVP in 8 steps: understand the problem, your users, the market and your competitors; define your ‘complete product’ as a backlog of product features; assess your features, rank them and select the smaller set that can bring enough value to your early customers; so they are happy enough to stay engaged and promote your product.1. Frame the problemOne of the most important steps in the product development process — is the understanding and proper articulation of the problem. It is a good idea to use a model, a structure to help you formulate the problem with clarity.Start by describing the ideal situation versus the current one, and how certain users are impacted by this gapSupport your problem statement with (...)

#agile #technology #innovation #product-development #product-management

WiCipedia: Diversity in Product Dev & Israeli Entrepreneurs Protest Sexism
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This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Keeping smart home products safe for all; Merkel finds sexism in Israeli tech community; girls have limited access to mobile phones worldwide; and more.Interested in joining Women in Comms on our mission to champion change, empower women and redress the gender imbalance in the comms industry? Visit WiC online and get in touch to learn more about how you can become a member!Despite all of the challenges that women have endured in the tech sector lately, many still have a glass-half-full perspective on the future of women in the industry, reports a new study from Booking.com. Though there are certainly impediments to women who work in tech advancing their careers, the study — which surveyed women who currently work in tech and women who are interested in (...)

#press-release #women-in-tech #product-management #technology #awip

Technical Skills for Product Managers Decoded — An Event by Advancing Women in Product (AWIP)
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Whether you are an engineer or a product manager (PM), you are part of a product team. As engineers are technical, PMs need to have certain “technical skills” to work effectively in building a great product. But what are these technical skills? On July 31st, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) hosted a panel discussion on technical skills for PMs, sponsored by Sift Science. The panel featured Megan Mann (Product Manager at Sift Science), Akshay Kannan (Product Manager at Google), Pranava Adduri (Founding Engineer at Rubrik), and the discussion was moderated by Neetika Bansal (Engineering Manager, Stripe). Shared below is a summary of insights from some of the questions asked:What technical experience is necessary for Product Managers?This depends on the product you work on. Some products (...)

#product-manager #awip #awip-partnership #technical-skills #product-management

The Phenomenon of Social Like
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Does like button really matter for your product?1 Hacker Way — Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park. Photo: David Paul MorrisA short history of Like buttonThe first version of the Like button also known as Awesome button was developed by #facebook in 2007. Mark Zuckerberg was concerned about the public nature of the feature and chose not to launch it until 2009 [1].Later, In 2010, Like button were added to individuals` comments and other content [2]. Since then, almost all public activity on Facebook have been likable. Also Facebook started to include posts and user links that liked in their timelines, as part of the activity log.This changed liking from a relatively private action (from one user to another, visible only to the friends of the user whose object was liked) to a fundamentally (...)

#product-management #the-like-economy #like-button #social-media

How We Solved #blockchain Application User Experience
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The Benefits of the Blockchain with the Usability of Web 2.0The promise of blockchain enabled applications is rooted in empowering users and creating positive sum games where everyone can win, without needing rent seeking intermediaries. Until now, the nature of decentralization has made blockchain applications hard to use for the average internet user.At Deconet, we’ve implemented a solution for users to control their private key without requiring these users to understand any new systems, conventions, or standards. Deconet is a marketplace where companies can get work done by elite freelancers and curated teams that leverages blockchain and programmable money,Underneath the hood, the Deconet marketplace is powered by Smart Escrow, a peer to peer, smart contract system running on (...)

#blockchain-application #user-experience #product-management #blockchain-ux

Startups and the Importance of #agile Product Development
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Product development is of critical importance for #technology startups: given the limited budget typically available to early-stage startups, making the right product development decisions can make the difference between success and failureIn a report* by CBInsights, failure reasons such as ‘Non-friendly product’ and ‘Product without a business model’ feature at the top of the list. According to the same source, 42% of the startups analyzed, stated that there was ‘no market need’ for their product, while 17% delivered ‘a non-user-friendly product’.Other reports, articles and blogs from #startup founders, seem to agree that most of the major failure factors are strongly connected to product management.Product-related startup risksProduct-related risks could refer to both the definition and the (...)

#software-development #product-management

How Mika Reyes got her job at LinkedIn as a Product Manager? Part 1
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Are you interested in being a PM?! Learn Mika’s story with Flora.▻https://medium.com/media/36fe911f98e684892498bb97fc804bd9/hrefMika won the competition among many senior PMs and got her jobs at LinkedIn as a Product Manager when she only had one year of experience. She shared with me how she did it.How she talk about herself.How and where she practice her interviewsCreative ways to get a hold of hiring managersHow to tell your story in a compelling way and in a consistent manner.How Mika Reyes got her job at LinkedIn as a Product Manager? Part 1 was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this (...)

#careers #tech-jobs-san-francisco #job-interview #product-management #job-hunting

Amplify Conference 2018
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It’s 10:15pm. The Amplify conference starts the next morning, and I just found out that I would be attending. I could not wait.Amplitude talking about their #growth engine productI received a pass to Amplify because of the generosity of the Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) community — AWIP is a organization whose goal is to empower the next generation of women product leaders.So there I was on the morning of October 9th, nibbling on my mini breakfast croissant, bumping against the shoulders of product leaders, anticipating the start of a jam-packed, learning-rich, & Ritual Roasters coffee-filled day.If I think about the learnings I drew out of the conference, I’d say they weren’t necessarily profound nuggets of wisdom — they’re more like gentle reminders. Things I already know but tend to (...)

#amplitude #awip #product-management #women-in-tech

Courier selection engine for E commerce companies
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E commerce companies ship their products to customers via multiple courier partners. Most of them have an automated courier selection process for #shipping. At IB one of the major challenges we faced was the increasing #logistics cost. Hence we developed a system to automatically recommend the courier to be selected for each package that was shipped from our warehouses and by our sellers spread across India. It is essential for every company who rely on multiple courier service to optimise their logistics cost. Through this article I would like to give a brief overview of a simple courier selection system. This system need not be a web app, this could be even run on a excel based system and hence even small companies can take the advantage of this approach.Master DataThis include the (...)

#technology #product-management #ecommerce

How to become a better Product Manager
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Scrum, backlog management, refinement, you probably already know all about these methods, but what makes someone a really good Product Manager?On a side note: the #scrum manual originally uses the term Product Owner, but many companies use the term Product Manager as they fill this position with a broader role that includes stakeholder management.There are many type of Product Managers. In my years as product manager and coach I’ve met many different and wonderful people in this role, with various backgrounds ranging from UX design to HR. As the market matures, scrum and in-house #development have become the standard, and most companies have started to look more critically at the skill set required for Product Management positions. The perfect time to reflect on what makes a good product  (...)

#teamwork #product-management #startup

Simple #prioritization technique for #product Managers
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A Simple Prioritization Technique for Product ManagersOne of the important tasks as a Product Manager is to prioritize. Deciding on what (and when) to do is a critical job for the role of a Product Manager.This post is NOT about the importance of prioritization and why prioritization is a perennial challenge for a product manager.This post deals with a generic framework which a Product Manager can easily apply for prioritization.There are lot of techniques and framework available for prioritization like RICE framework, MoSCoW technique, value vs complexity quadrant, Kano model etc. But there are situations when we don’t have enough data to use a particular framework or the particular framework itself is not applicable exactly. Instead of using the framework, we tend to fit in the (...)

#product-management #product-design #product-development

The “Backendification” of Frontend Development
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Executive Summary (TLDR)Asynchronous #javascript in the form of Single Page Applications (SPA) offer an incredible opportunity for improving the user experience of your web applications. CSS frameworks like Bootstrap enable developers to quickly contribute styling as they’re working on the structure and behaviour of things.Unfortunately, SPA and CSS frameworks tend to result in relatively complex solutions where traditionally separated concerns - HTML-structure, CSS-style, and JS-behaviour - are blended together as a matter of course — Counter to the lessons learned by previous generations.CC BY-SA 401(K) 2012This blending of concerns can prevent entry level developers and valued specialists (Eg. visual design, accessibility, search engine optimization, and internationalization) from making (...)

#backendification #startup #product-management #hackernoon-top-story

How Zero Wins: Product Analysis of the Fasting Tracker
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How Zero Wins: A Product Analysis of the Fasting TrackerZero (iOS)’s simple yet effective user flow.Don’t eat anything for the next 18 hours.If you’re shocked at the absurdity of this suggestion and wouldn’t even wish it as a punishment for your worst enemy, then you probably haven’t heard of intermittent fasting.First, Some ContextIntermittent fasting (I.F. for short), is not a diet, but a pattern of eating where you cycle between periods of fasting (most commonly 16 to 18 hours a day) and non-fasting. The protocol doesn’t dictate which foods to eat, but rather when you should eat them. While it has been around informally forever, I.F. came into the mainstream in 2016, after Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on the role of autophagy (i.e. how (...)

#product-management #design #health #behavioral-science #technology

The Buck Stops Over There
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“You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo TrumanWhen software development projects fail, somebody needs to be held accountable. When corporate HQ is calling to find out what the heck happened, somebody needs to be ready with an explanation. And, yet, what often happens at companies both big and small is a very sophisticated game of buck-passing. In short, there is a total lack of accountability.You know the drill: the backend engineering team blames the frontend engineering team, which blames the sales team, which blames the marketing team, which blames the legal team, which blames the new guy who just started at the company a few days ago (“It’s his fault we’re late with the project!”).Unfortunately, this finger pointing is a very counter-productive (...)

#mobile-app-development #buck-stops-over-there #product-management #software-development #software-engineering