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Season 03 - Newsletter 03 --> 12 Resources to Hack your Product MBA

Product Hustle Stack Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 07 Aug 23
💼 Business Product Management
  1. The recommended resources for a 12-month Product MBA course are diverse and cover foundational product management along with design, growth, and organizational navigation
  2. Key books in the list include 'Competing Against Luck' by Clay Christensen, 'Inspired' by Marty Cagan, and 'Good Strategy Bad Strategy' by Richard P. Rumelt
  3. The final month focuses on a comprehensive guide to key product management skills needed for success

Le mythe de l’innovation de rupture — Lettre aux Product Managers en recherche d’emploi

Mind Fooled • 0 implied HN points • 05 Nov 23
💼 Business Product Management
  1. The concept of 'innovation de rupture' focuses on revolutionary innovations, but incremental innovation is equally important and often more impactful in the long run.
  2. Product managers should shift their mindset from solely seeking disruptive innovation to embracing and championing incremental innovation for tangible results.
  3. In the job search context, emphasizing pragmatic incremental innovation over a relentless pursuit of groundbreaking ideas can lead to more opportunities and real impact.

Season 03 - Newsletter 06 --> Look back at 2023 and forward to 2024

Product Hustle Stack Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 29 Dec 23
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Consumer behavior shifted in 2023 due to inflation and a balance between in-store and e-commerce shopping preferences.
  2. 2023 pivotal moments: FTX Crypto Exchange failure, tech industry layoffs, ChatGPT impact, Venture Capital Winter.
  3. Product management trends for 2024: focus on customer-centricity, data-driven decisions, collaboration tools evolution, and AI integration.

What Does Your Brand Stand For?

Build To Scale • 0 implied HN points • 28 Aug 23
💼 Business Product Management
  1. A brand is the promise a company makes combined with the customer experience. It's crucial to focus on delivering quality products and services that align with this promise.
  2. The success of a brand is not just about logos or taglines but about creating products customers can't live without. Constant innovation and differentiation are key.
  3. Maintaining a strong brand requires consistently delivering on the promise and continuously improving products to meet customer needs.

Product Management 3: A Prioritisation Framework

Turnaround • 0 implied HN points • 06 Jan 20
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Having a good prioritisation framework is crucial for Product Managers to remove ambiguity in decision-making and set correct expectations, especially when dealing with backlogs.
  2. Using a scoring formula can help Product Managers prioritize ideas, features, and tasks to create a ranked order that the team can understand and follow during product roadmap planning.
  3. Product Managers can benefit from a prioritization framework like a modified RICE model, which involves assigning scores based on various factors like customer value, engineering effort, and product line priority to create a rational backlog grooming session.

Product Management Skills - Articulating assumptions and acting with intention

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 22 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Product Managers need to be intentional with their decisions to drive beneficial outcomes for the company. Lack of intentionality can lead to arbitrary decisions that may not have the desired effect.
  2. Being intentional involves articulating the thought process behind proposals, validating assumptions, and being open to feedback. This increases the chances of success in product management.
  3. To effectively manage a product, one should thoroughly discover and define the problem space, propose viable approaches, form concise hypotheses, articulate key assumptions, validate those assumptions, make informed decisions, and monitor outcomes for continuous improvement.

Product Management Skills - Articulating impact risk

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 18 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. As a product manager, it's crucial to articulate and understand the impact risks associated with your work. This helps in prioritizing and addressing potential negative effects.
  2. Understanding how your company makes money is vital as a product manager. Connecting your work to the company's bottom line increases your impact and value.
  3. Knowing what is important to your company and where your team's efforts fit in is essential. Aligning your work with company priorities and goals helps mitigate impact risks and drive meaningful outcomes.

Product Management Skills - Analytics and Instrumentation

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 17 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Product analytics and instrumentation are crucial for Product Managers to make effective decisions and understand user behavior.
  2. Product Managers should have a strong grasp of product analytics, identifying what to instrument, and performing basic analysis themselves.
  3. Knowing who is using the product, what actions they are taking, and the context of their actions is essential for effective product analysis.

Product Management Skills - Articulating value risk

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Value risk in product management is the risk that your solution may not be valuable to end users or customers, leading to wasted time and resources.
  2. Mitigating value risks requires deeply understanding your product and users, identifying problem areas, and quantifying the value to users and customers.
  3. To mitigate value risks, product managers should focus on understanding product features, observing user behavior, and identifying and addressing pain points in user experience.

Product Management Skills - Articulating adoption risks

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Articulating adoption risks is crucial in product management to understand and address potential negative effects of a new solution.
  2. For a product manager, balancing the levers of creating value while ensuring adoption by users is key to successful product development.
  3. Adoption risks can be mitigated by strategies like improving awareness, simplifying usage, setting up effective defaults, and considering whether adoption is even desired for certain features.

Product Management Skills - Articulating development cost risks

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. As a product manager, it's crucial to articulate, define, and compare risks to make informed decisions.
  2. Development cost risk is a key consideration for product managers, impacting the cost-effectiveness of solutions.
  3. Saying 'no' to a project due to development cost concerns may actually hinder value delivery, as development costs are ongoing even when no work is done.

Product Management Skills - Know how to synthesize

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Product managers must know how to synthesize information for effective communication and alignment.
  2. Adding structure to your narrative, such as Problem-Solution-Value or Situation-Action-Result, can enhance the clarity of your communication.
  3. Synthesizing various sources of information is important for product managers to construct a cohesive storyline and convey a clear message.

WTF does a Product Manager really do?

Shubhi’s Substack • 0 implied HN points • 19 Jul 20
💼 Business Product Management
  1. A Product Manager's role is to define and drive the success of a product by impacting critical business metrics.
  2. Product Managers need a mix of hard skills like analytical abilities and soft skills like influential communication to excel.
  3. Product Management is not about coding, requires continuous motivation, and involves owning criticism without always receiving direct credit.

First PM at promising startup: Accelerator towards fame, wealth, and glory or not worth it?

The Uncommon Executive • 0 implied HN points • 31 Mar 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. The role of the first Product Manager at a startup may involve various tasks like writing SQL, taking support calls, and ordering lunches, and may not seem glamorous until the company achieves significant success.
  2. The first PM role is often more suitable for early career candidates rather than more experienced professionals, as it typically involves smaller scoped products and lower initial compensation.
  3. Success as a first PM at a startup is closely tied to the growth and success of the company, with opportunities for career advancement depending on your ability to drive impact and growth within the organization.

Coming soon...

The Uncommon Executive • 0 implied HN points • 02 Nov 23
💼 Business Product Management
  1. The newsletter is focused on career acceleration for aspiring executives covering topics like career coaching, product management, venture investing, and personal insights.
  2. The first post will be released on Thursday, February 22, 2024, with subsequent posts every Thursday. Subscribers can expect updates on career coaching, venture capital, solo entrepreneurship, and product work.
  3. Readers can subscribe for free to receive new posts and support the writer's work on 'The Uncommon Executive' newsletter.

How to get more user interviews and use them well

Recontact • 0 implied HN points • 11 Mar 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Have a sincere mindset when connecting with people for user interviews; understand their time is valuable.
  2. Personalize your outreach messages for better responses; even a simple name customization can make a difference.
  3. Building a personal connection with interviewees can lead to more valuable insights and willingness to help in the future.

Innovating Means Harnessing Predictability ⌚

PeopleStorming • 0 implied HN points • 15 Sep 21
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Product-oriented work requires creating space and time for innovation by understanding and modeling work mix within a team.
  2. Investing time in the innovation quadrant is crucial as it focuses on creating new value for customers, ensuring relevance and competitiveness.
  3. To prioritize product-oriented work, teams can progress by retro-ing emergencies, automating ops tasks, and streamlining housekeeping activities.

The Tool Is Not The Thing 🔨

PeopleStorming • 0 implied HN points • 20 Apr 21
💼 Business Product Management
  1. It's important to focus on the outcome rather than getting lost in finding the perfect tool.
  2. The abundance of tools in today's world can lead to endless searching and distraction from actual goals.
  3. Transform 'which tool' questions into 'what outcome' questions to ensure tools are serving your needs.

This is how tech is using behavioral science today

The Kahneman Bot • 0 implied HN points • 13 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Product Management
  1. Product squads in tech actively use psychology and behavior science tactics like personalization and defaults to drive metrics.
  2. Top nudges used today include personalization, timely prompts, defaults, and social norms, while scarcity and commitment devices are less common.
  3. Personalization and defaults are perceived as the most effective techniques for driving metrics in tech products, with defaults being notably effective in behavioral science.

Coming soon

The Kahneman Bot • 0 implied HN points • 05 Dec 21
🕹 Technology Product Management
  1. The newsletter explores the connection between behavioral science and technology, focusing on how technology uses psychology and behavioral biases.
  2. The author has a diverse background, including training in economics, consulting, working at the UK's Nudge Unit, and being a Product Manager at a tech scale-up.
  3. The newsletter includes insights from a meeting in 2007 between psychologists, notably Daniel Kahneman, and tech leaders, showcasing how tech has integrated behavioral science concepts since the Web 2.0 era.

The Rise of the Data Product Manager

The Orchestra Data Leadership Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 17 Nov 23
🕹 Technology Product Management
  1. The role of Data Product Manager is gaining importance in the data industry, with a focus on delivering value and advocating for data to drive business outcomes.
  2. Tools like Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake, and platforms like Orchestra are simplifying data team setups and enabling Product Managers with less technical skills to handle data initiatives effectively.
  3. Federated teams, marketplace functionalities by Databricks and Snowflake, and the evolving concept of data quality and productization are shaping the field of data management towards a more product-led approach.

Iteration vs Planning

Tribal Knowledge • 0 implied HN points • 22 Jan 23
🕹 Technology Product Management
  1. Agile methodology focuses on iteration and adapting to changes, while Waterfall emphasizes on planning everything upfront. Both have their tradeoffs and can work well for different reasons.
  2. The iterative approach involves delivering incrementally, receiving constant feedback, and adjusting along the way. It allows for flexibility but can lead to bugs and customer frustration initially.
  3. The planning approach involves detailed upfront planning, building according to the plan, and announcing the product only after completion. It provides a structured process but may lead to delayed reactions to customer feedback and potential rework.

Why even B2B products need more emoji (even if you target boomers)

CommandBlogue • 0 implied HN points • 28 May 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Using emoji reactions in communication apps can help make conversations shorter and clearer. They let people respond without needing to write a long message.
  2. Emoji reactions create a sense of closure in conversations. When you react, it shows you acknowledge the message without expecting more replies.
  3. Almost every app now has emoji reactions because they improve communication. They help maintain good working relationships without overwhelming users.

How Miro collects more relevant emails from signup

CommandBlogue • 0 implied HN points • 20 Mar 24
💼 Business Product Management
  1. Miro improves email sign-up by changing how they ask for work emails. They highlight a benefit, saying it helps separate work and life, which makes users more willing to share their emails.
  2. Instead of just asking for an email, it’s better to explain why it's good for the user. This motivation helps users feel more positive about the action you want them to take.
  3. Always make sure the benefit you mention is real. If users find out it's not true, they won't trust you again.

Public roadmap 🗺️

André Casal's Substack • 0 implied HN points • 30 Aug 24
🕹 Technology Product Management
  1. Gathering customer feedback is important. It's a way to show that you care about their experience and want to help them with any issues.
  2. Adding a feature voting system can help prioritize what customers want. This engagement makes the roadmap more interactive and customer-focused.
  3. Building a community for discussion on product features can enhance user involvement. It allows users to share their thoughts and connect with others interested in the same product.

[in case you missed it] Data Science Weekly - Issue 339

Data Science Weekly Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 24 May 20
🕹 Technology Product Management
  1. AI Product Managers need both traditional PM skills and a strong understanding of machine learning development. This blend of skills helps them manage AI projects effectively.
  2. Machine learning systems can face risks, including misalignment with problems and unexpected behaviors after deployment. It's important to evaluate these risks to avoid project failures.
  3. Text data augmentation is not as common as image data augmentation, but it can be useful in natural language processing. Exploring new techniques for text augmentation can enhance performance.

Fail Safe, Fail Smart… Succeed! (Part 3 of 3)

It Depends / Nimble Autonomy • 0 implied HN points • 30 Jul 24
🕹 Technology Product Management
  1. It's important to expect failure in technology work. Today, we design systems with the understanding that things can go wrong at any moment.
  2. Building small, separate services helps manage problems better. If one part fails, it doesn't ruin the whole system, making the user experience smoother.
  3. Learning from failures is key to improvement. When mistakes happen, analyzing them without blame leads to better results in the future.