Main takeaways:
- The real reason why you should have a “deep” backlog!
- Have enough stories refined and ready, but not too much
- Developers have varying preferences for consuming information
What Not to Do as a Product Manager by Charter Communications PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- A lively talk of actionable ways to build better products, faster
- Hear operational and cultural things a PM does that slows improvements, and why
- Learn ideas for better ways to do things from someone obsessed with progress
Asking the Right Question In Your Next PM Interview by Avast PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- What to ask in interviews when you're new to the Product Manager role
- What to ask in interviews when you're an experienced Product Manager
- How to come up with new questions
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
Understanding Iterative Prioritization by Pivotal Labs Senior PMProduct School
- Overview of a repeatable approach to iterative prioritization, regardless of the size/type/lifecycle of your product
- Understanding of how to apply the approach autonomously AND using stakeholder feedback
- Workshop style practice applying the approach
Taking Your Product From 0 to 100 by Facebook Product ManagerProduct School
Key takeaways:
- Taking your product from 0 to 100 (and everything in between). Depending on the product/ initiative stage in the lifecycle: Alpha (0 to 1), Beta (1 to 10) or Growth (10 to 100)
- What are the success criteria and KPIs to focus on
- Which common pitfalls should be avoided
You Are 'Your' Backlog by fmr Microsoft Prod Mgmt ConsultantProduct School
The document is a presentation from www.productschool.com about product management. It discusses product management certificates and corporate training courses available, as well as topics like scrum activities, the job of a product owner, backlog refinement, tools/tips for refinement, collaboration, and source material. The speaker is Dov Pinker and some of the main points discussed are maximizing value as a product owner by ensuring the team works on the right stuff, prioritizing the backlog, examining stories frequently, and that refinement is also a form of planning.
How to Impress as a Junior Product Manager by Ritual.co PMProduct School
The document summarizes tips for junior product managers to impress stakeholders from a presentation by Ritual.co product manager Zach Lebovics. It provides advice on how to impress management by developing and owning the product roadmap, communicating early and often, and actively listening. For designers, the tips are to rally around solving user problems, bring metrics into conversations, and develop a constructive feedback system. And for engineers, the suggestions are to identify, remove, and prevent blockers, deflect praise and absorb blame, and lead by example. The presentation concludes with bonus advice on how to impress yourself through confidence and enthusiasm.
Taking Your Product From 0 to 100 by Facebook Product ManagerProduct School
Key takeaways:
- Taking your product from 0 to 100 (and everything in between). Depending on the product/ initiative stage in the lifecycle: Alpha (0 to 1), Beta (1 to 10) or Growth (10 to 100)
- What are the success criteria and KPIs to focus on
- Which common pitfalls should be avoided
What Not to Do as a Product Manager by Charter Communications PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- A lively talk of actionable ways to build better products, faster
- Hear operational and cultural things a PM does that slows improvements, and why
- Learn ideas for better ways to do things from someone obsessed with progress
Asking the Right Question In Your Next PM Interview by Avast PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- What to ask in interviews when you're new to the Product Manager role
- What to ask in interviews when you're an experienced Product Manager
- How to come up with new questions
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
Understanding Iterative Prioritization by Pivotal Labs Senior PMProduct School
- Overview of a repeatable approach to iterative prioritization, regardless of the size/type/lifecycle of your product
- Understanding of how to apply the approach autonomously AND using stakeholder feedback
- Workshop style practice applying the approach
Taking Your Product From 0 to 100 by Facebook Product ManagerProduct School
Key takeaways:
- Taking your product from 0 to 100 (and everything in between). Depending on the product/ initiative stage in the lifecycle: Alpha (0 to 1), Beta (1 to 10) or Growth (10 to 100)
- What are the success criteria and KPIs to focus on
- Which common pitfalls should be avoided
You Are 'Your' Backlog by fmr Microsoft Prod Mgmt ConsultantProduct School
The document is a presentation from www.productschool.com about product management. It discusses product management certificates and corporate training courses available, as well as topics like scrum activities, the job of a product owner, backlog refinement, tools/tips for refinement, collaboration, and source material. The speaker is Dov Pinker and some of the main points discussed are maximizing value as a product owner by ensuring the team works on the right stuff, prioritizing the backlog, examining stories frequently, and that refinement is also a form of planning.
How to Impress as a Junior Product Manager by Ritual.co PMProduct School
The document summarizes tips for junior product managers to impress stakeholders from a presentation by Ritual.co product manager Zach Lebovics. It provides advice on how to impress management by developing and owning the product roadmap, communicating early and often, and actively listening. For designers, the tips are to rally around solving user problems, bring metrics into conversations, and develop a constructive feedback system. And for engineers, the suggestions are to identify, remove, and prevent blockers, deflect praise and absorb blame, and lead by example. The presentation concludes with bonus advice on how to impress yourself through confidence and enthusiasm.
Taking Your Product From 0 to 100 by Facebook Product ManagerProduct School
Key takeaways:
- Taking your product from 0 to 100 (and everything in between). Depending on the product/ initiative stage in the lifecycle: Alpha (0 to 1), Beta (1 to 10) or Growth (10 to 100)
- What are the success criteria and KPIs to focus on
- Which common pitfalls should be avoided
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
How to Build Accessible Products by Slack Accessibility PMProduct School
The document discusses how product managers can help build accessible products. It recommends that product managers: 1) Define the product type, core function, and 1-2 accessibility experiences to focus on; 2) Leverage strengths like their team, organization's processes, user research with people with disabilities, and high impact accessibility areas; and 3) Craft the accessibility experience by specifying it and testing against that specification rather than just fixing accessibility bugs. The presentation encourages product managers to view accessibility as an experience to design and specifies an example of how to craft the keyboard navigation experience for an accessible messaging product.
Main takeaways:
- Having a computer science degree isn't required but a thirst for technical knowledge absolutely is
- It's all about connection vs conviction - knowing when to put on which hat will go a long way in building trust with your engineering colleagues
- Proactively ask for help - you'll be surprised how much wisdom your colleagues are willing to share
Driving Value Creation with A/B Testing & OKRProduct School
The document is about a speaker presenting on using A/B testing and OKRs at Booking.com. The speaker, Dianthe van Velzen, works as a Product Manager at Booking.com and will discuss how the company uses data from A/B testing to build better products. Booking.com runs thousands of A/B tests each year to test small changes and make data-driven decisions. The speaker will also cover how OKRs are used to focus teams and set clear objectives and metrics.
Storytelling: Building Trust as a Product Ldr by Klaviyo Sr PMProduct School
- Storytelling should be proactive: By crafting a strong story that you share early and reinforce often, you can eliminate the need for more heavy handed stakeholder management tactics.
- Storytelling should be planned: To own the end-to-end narrative about your product and how you work, you need to plan ahead and develop consistent themes that help you tell this story.
- Storytelling should be personal: Spend time learning who key stakeholders at your organization are, what each stakeholder group wants to hear, and how they want to hear it.
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
This document discusses the evolving role of product managers. Traditionally, product managers acted as gatekeepers who protected engineering teams from business needs and owned product decisions. However, the role is evolving where product managers now act as conduits who connect teams to customers and business needs, facilitate collaboration, and drive outcomes rather than outputs. The document provides examples of how traditional and evolving product managers differ in their approaches to specification, design, delivery, and working with engineering teams. It also introduces a product framework and task brief template for defining and solving product problems.
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
Customer Interviews Lessons After 300 Interviews by Zillow Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
1. Before the interview, set clear goals and align with your team:
-What do we want to learn at a high level?
-What questions do we want to ask?
-What types of interviews do we want to conduct?
2. During the interview, focus on the customer ("the customer is king/queen"):
-Use the 80/20 rule and listen 80% of the time and talk 20%
-Make the customer feel at ease by treating the meeting as a conversation, not an interview
-Ask open-ended questions and... listen
3. After the interview, debrief with your team:
-What went well and what can be improved?
-What were the big takeaways?
-Share big takeaways with the whole team and start prioritizing!
How To Adopt Continuous Discovery Practices by Kajabi VP ProductProduct School
This document summarizes Jeremy Saenz's talk on adopting continuous discovery practices through five habits: 1) Framing problems by understanding customer needs and business objectives. 2) Ideating solutions by collecting feedback from customers and stakeholders. 3) Validating ideas by determining if they are valuable, usable, feasible, and viable. 4) Executing through weekly shipping and learning. 5) Iterating by regularly checking on shipped features and pursuing captured value. The talk encourages product managers to have conversations with customers, set up feedback systems, run usability tests, and communicate regularly to incorporate these habits.
3 Tips to Apply Product Discovery Today by Pearson Education PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Understand the benefits of practicing continuous product discovery
- Three 'try now' tips to incorporate product discovery today
- Move beyond theory and into reality with an example of launching product discovery teams at Pearson
Webinar: From Engineer to Product Manager by fmr Uber PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Insight and Experiences
- On deciding and navigating the transition
- Differences in mindset, skillset, and the nature of work
- How (and when) engineering thinking can be beneficial to Product Managers
Pricing & Packaging Product Strategy by HubSpot Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Background: Pricing & Packaging in today’s product landscape
- Connecting Pricing & Packaging w/ your product strategy
- How does it influence what you’re building & why?
- Re-thinking your Pricing & Packaging for future product strategy
- Framework: How should I think about how it fits into what I’m doing (roadmap)?
Building a Product From Scratch by WeWork Product ManagerProduct School
The document summarizes a presentation by Amal Muzaffar on building products from scratch. The presentation outlines 4 lessons: 1) Start with understanding the problem, 2) Deeply know your users, 3) Set a clear product goal, and 4) Test ideas frequently with users. Muzaffar is a product manager at WeWork who has built products for millions of users. The presentation encourages product managers to focus on the problem being solved, learn from users, set motivating goals, and invest in frequent testing with users to develop successful products.
A 6 Step Guide for Creating Balanced Product Teams by Pivotal Dir of Product Product School
This 6-step guide helps product teams become more balanced by sharing responsibilities across functions.
Step 1 creates psychological safety to encourage risk-taking. Step 2 establishes shared goals around balanced teams. Step 3 provides team history and benefits. Step 4 improves skills through workshops. Step 5 plans experiments in balanced practices. Step 6 checks experiment progress biweekly. Following these steps over months transitions a team from silos to shared outcomes through cross-functional collaboration.
Impactful Product Management by MessageBird and eBay, Marktplaats PMsProduct School
This document summarizes Product School's product management training offerings, including certificates, courses, and corporate training. It provides an overview of their part-time online product management courses and certificates in Product Leadership, Full Stack Product Management, and Product Management. It also mentions their corporate training to help teams improve their product skills.
How to Effectively Collaborate as a PM by Twitch Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
1. Tips on how to collaborate effectively with your peers
2. How to build strong relationships
3. How to build the right product for your customers
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
How to Build Accessible Products by Slack Accessibility PMProduct School
The document discusses how product managers can help build accessible products. It recommends that product managers: 1) Define the product type, core function, and 1-2 accessibility experiences to focus on; 2) Leverage strengths like their team, organization's processes, user research with people with disabilities, and high impact accessibility areas; and 3) Craft the accessibility experience by specifying it and testing against that specification rather than just fixing accessibility bugs. The presentation encourages product managers to view accessibility as an experience to design and specifies an example of how to craft the keyboard navigation experience for an accessible messaging product.
Main takeaways:
- Having a computer science degree isn't required but a thirst for technical knowledge absolutely is
- It's all about connection vs conviction - knowing when to put on which hat will go a long way in building trust with your engineering colleagues
- Proactively ask for help - you'll be surprised how much wisdom your colleagues are willing to share
Driving Value Creation with A/B Testing & OKRProduct School
The document is about a speaker presenting on using A/B testing and OKRs at Booking.com. The speaker, Dianthe van Velzen, works as a Product Manager at Booking.com and will discuss how the company uses data from A/B testing to build better products. Booking.com runs thousands of A/B tests each year to test small changes and make data-driven decisions. The speaker will also cover how OKRs are used to focus teams and set clear objectives and metrics.
Storytelling: Building Trust as a Product Ldr by Klaviyo Sr PMProduct School
- Storytelling should be proactive: By crafting a strong story that you share early and reinforce often, you can eliminate the need for more heavy handed stakeholder management tactics.
- Storytelling should be planned: To own the end-to-end narrative about your product and how you work, you need to plan ahead and develop consistent themes that help you tell this story.
- Storytelling should be personal: Spend time learning who key stakeholders at your organization are, what each stakeholder group wants to hear, and how they want to hear it.
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
This document discusses the evolving role of product managers. Traditionally, product managers acted as gatekeepers who protected engineering teams from business needs and owned product decisions. However, the role is evolving where product managers now act as conduits who connect teams to customers and business needs, facilitate collaboration, and drive outcomes rather than outputs. The document provides examples of how traditional and evolving product managers differ in their approaches to specification, design, delivery, and working with engineering teams. It also introduces a product framework and task brief template for defining and solving product problems.
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
Customer Interviews Lessons After 300 Interviews by Zillow Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
1. Before the interview, set clear goals and align with your team:
-What do we want to learn at a high level?
-What questions do we want to ask?
-What types of interviews do we want to conduct?
2. During the interview, focus on the customer ("the customer is king/queen"):
-Use the 80/20 rule and listen 80% of the time and talk 20%
-Make the customer feel at ease by treating the meeting as a conversation, not an interview
-Ask open-ended questions and... listen
3. After the interview, debrief with your team:
-What went well and what can be improved?
-What were the big takeaways?
-Share big takeaways with the whole team and start prioritizing!
How To Adopt Continuous Discovery Practices by Kajabi VP ProductProduct School
This document summarizes Jeremy Saenz's talk on adopting continuous discovery practices through five habits: 1) Framing problems by understanding customer needs and business objectives. 2) Ideating solutions by collecting feedback from customers and stakeholders. 3) Validating ideas by determining if they are valuable, usable, feasible, and viable. 4) Executing through weekly shipping and learning. 5) Iterating by regularly checking on shipped features and pursuing captured value. The talk encourages product managers to have conversations with customers, set up feedback systems, run usability tests, and communicate regularly to incorporate these habits.
3 Tips to Apply Product Discovery Today by Pearson Education PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Understand the benefits of practicing continuous product discovery
- Three 'try now' tips to incorporate product discovery today
- Move beyond theory and into reality with an example of launching product discovery teams at Pearson
Webinar: From Engineer to Product Manager by fmr Uber PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Insight and Experiences
- On deciding and navigating the transition
- Differences in mindset, skillset, and the nature of work
- How (and when) engineering thinking can be beneficial to Product Managers
Pricing & Packaging Product Strategy by HubSpot Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Background: Pricing & Packaging in today’s product landscape
- Connecting Pricing & Packaging w/ your product strategy
- How does it influence what you’re building & why?
- Re-thinking your Pricing & Packaging for future product strategy
- Framework: How should I think about how it fits into what I’m doing (roadmap)?
Building a Product From Scratch by WeWork Product ManagerProduct School
The document summarizes a presentation by Amal Muzaffar on building products from scratch. The presentation outlines 4 lessons: 1) Start with understanding the problem, 2) Deeply know your users, 3) Set a clear product goal, and 4) Test ideas frequently with users. Muzaffar is a product manager at WeWork who has built products for millions of users. The presentation encourages product managers to focus on the problem being solved, learn from users, set motivating goals, and invest in frequent testing with users to develop successful products.
A 6 Step Guide for Creating Balanced Product Teams by Pivotal Dir of Product Product School
This 6-step guide helps product teams become more balanced by sharing responsibilities across functions.
Step 1 creates psychological safety to encourage risk-taking. Step 2 establishes shared goals around balanced teams. Step 3 provides team history and benefits. Step 4 improves skills through workshops. Step 5 plans experiments in balanced practices. Step 6 checks experiment progress biweekly. Following these steps over months transitions a team from silos to shared outcomes through cross-functional collaboration.
Impactful Product Management by MessageBird and eBay, Marktplaats PMsProduct School
This document summarizes Product School's product management training offerings, including certificates, courses, and corporate training. It provides an overview of their part-time online product management courses and certificates in Product Leadership, Full Stack Product Management, and Product Management. It also mentions their corporate training to help teams improve their product skills.
How to Effectively Collaborate as a PM by Twitch Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
1. Tips on how to collaborate effectively with your peers
2. How to build strong relationships
3. How to build the right product for your customers
Building a Roadmap for Multiple Products by Yelp PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Identifying the opportunities that would benefit multiple products
- Discussion if we should build for multiple products and potential risks
- How to build a hypothesis and get stakeholder alignment
Webinar: Key Learnings From 20 Years in Product by fmr Adobe Principal PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- How to continue to grow in your product management journey?
- How to think about customer experience when building products?
- How to work across teams and drive impactful results for your business?
How to Become Better at Prioritization by fmr Dropbox PMProduct School
At the heart of a Product Manager's responsibility is prioritization
- The simple ROI chart to prioritize among various opportunities rarely works in real-life scenarios
- This talk will share some lessons in prioritization from real product cases and examples
Webinar how to be a top 1% pm by fmr adobe pmProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Doing things differently: examples of 1% PMs
- Skills you need to be exceptional, and how to get them
- Succeeding at every stage of your PM career
3 Tips to Execute Like a Rockstar PM by eBay Group PMProduct School
The document provides 3 tips for product managers to execute like rockstar PMs:
1. Write everything down in a shareable document, including background, hypothesis, data, team details, timelines, experiments, success criteria, and notes. This helps alignment across teams.
2. Setup regular agile ceremonies like discovery meetings and ship meetings to bring the whole team along the journey.
3. Make sure engineers understand the impact of their work by sharing why they are working on specific stories and sharing learnings and metrics regularly.
Embrace a Non-Traditional Product Career by Amazon ProductProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-How to properly set up your career
-Give yourself benchmarks as you're going on your career journey
-Common opportunities and pitfalls that you can expect, and how to mitigate and take advantage of them
Embrace a Non-Traditional Product Career by Amazon ProductProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-How to properly set up your career
-Give yourself benchmarks as you're going on your career journey
-Common opportunities and pitfalls that you can expect, and how to mitigate and take advantage of them
Webinar: Achieving Focus with OKRs by CNN Sr Product ManagerProduct School
The webinar discusses achieving focus through OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). OKRs are qualitative and aspirational goals used to measure objectives. Objectives are measured by key results. OKRs help create sustainable change by focusing efforts. Health metrics are also discussed. The webinar encourages participants to be curious, nimble, and humble servant leaders who learn from their mistakes.
The document is about a presentation from Sam Affolter on corporate innovation. It discusses how software is disrupting businesses and the barriers companies face in scaling and staying customer-centric. It outlines different types of innovation from incremental to disruptive/transformational. The presentation suggests structures like open source, design thinking and lean startup methods to drive innovation. It also advertises Product School which offers part-time product management training courses and corporate training.
Top 5 Learnings as a Google Product ManagerProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Not-so-obvious insights about the Product Manager role in general
-Approaches to deal with some organizational and prioritization challenges
-Ideas to plan your PM career and much more!
Product & Development Collab Tactics by Workday Dir of PMProduct School
The document discusses developing effective relationships between product managers and developers. It outlines that building trust and mutual respect is key. The product manager must treat developers as early stakeholders, choose battles wisely, and think beyond just the product owner role. A successful product manager has qualities of an engineer, designer, and diplomat to effectively coordinate projects. The website advertises part-time product management training courses and corporate training.
Building a Minimum Viable Product Team by fmr Salesforce Sr PM.pdfProduct School
This document summarizes Michael Peck's webinar on building a minimum viable product team. It discusses taking a flexible approach to the product manager role, building a resourcing roadmap alongside the product roadmap, and leading conversations around operational excellence. Key recommendations include empowering others, separating roles from organizational charts, highlighting successes, and defining product epics and associated resourcing needs to provide structure and predictability. The goal is to gain credibility, establish practices, improve time to market, and support recruitment by clarifying roles and scenarios. Overall it stresses the importance of smooth operations and defining ways of working to support the team.
Nurturing an Innovative Product Culture by Reonomy Lead PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Recognize the difference between routine and innovative work, and alter your management style accordingly
- Leverage the factors that drive creativity in your product team to create even more innovation
- 'Forgive and remember' - the best way to deal with development setbacks
Continuous Product Discovery in Action by Google Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Product discovery is key if done continuously and iteratively
- Iterations are different from incrementations
- Failures are a big contributor in iterations’ success
Similar to You Are 'Your' Backlog by fmr Microsoft Prod Mgmt Consultant (20)
Webinar: The Art of Prioritizing Your Product Roadmap by AWS Sr PM - TechProduct School
The document discusses prioritizing a product roadmap by selecting parameters, scoring features, and mapping them on a value vs effort framework. It recommends clearly defining roadmap objectives, choosing a customizable framework like value vs effort, selecting parameters like revenue and customer needs for scoring features, and categorizing investments as strategic, easy wins or maintenance based on the scoring to effectively set the product direction.
Harnessing the Power of GenAI for Exceptional Product Outcomes by Booking.com...Product School
This document discusses harnessing the power of generative AI to improve product outcomes. It describes generative AI as a type of machine learning that allows computers to generate new and original ideas, like a creative chef using knowledge gained from recipes. The author discusses opportunities for generative AI across major business areas like demand generation, productivity, and products. Specific opportunities for Booking.com are explored, like better understanding customer intent and personalized recommendations. The author's vision is for systems that understand users in their natural language and help shape trip intent in a dynamic way that best serves customer needs.
Relationship Counselling: From Disjointed Features to Product-First Thinking ...Product School
The document discusses how Adyen improved its products by shifting from disjointed feature development to product-first thinking. Previously, Adyen had too many OKRs, complex metrics, and local success metrics that led to isolated components and fragmented experiences. It moved to fewer prioritized OKRs, global metrics, and end-to-end product management. This unified its offerings, improved the customer experience, and increased full funnel conversion rates by up to 300 basis points through its integrated risk, authentication, and optimization products working holistically.
Launching New Products In Companies Where It Matters Most by Product Director...Product School
This document discusses lessons learned from launching new products at large companies. It outlines three key lessons: 1) Figure out a clear strategic "why" for the new product that aligns with the company's overall strategy. 2) Really listen to stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs. 3) Assemble a cross-functional team that can get support and input from different parts of the organization, but isn't too large that it becomes unwieldy. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding strategic context, stakeholder needs, and effective team composition for successful new product launches at established companies.
Revolutionizing The Banking Industry: The Monzo Way by CPO, MonzoProduct School
Monzo is revolutionizing the banking industry by taking a customer-first approach called "The Monzo Way." This involves starting from first principles, building products through constant dialogue with users, and piloting internally before growth. Monzo gathers extensive customer feedback and has conducted over 500 research interviews and reports. It strives for industry-leading customer service and uses this research to develop innovative new products for investments and home ownership tailored to customer needs. Monzo's community-focused approach has helped it become the UK's highest rated bank for overall service quality for four years running.
Synergy in Leadership and Product Excellence: A Blueprint for Growth by CPO, ...Product School
This document discusses synergy between leadership and product excellence. It provides a blueprint for growth with three pathways: 1) an agile, retrospective culture, 2) rapid learning and experimentation, and 3) transparency and feedback culture. Ultimately, career fulfillment comes from aligning skills and passions, whether as an individual contributor or manager, by embracing what brings joy and taking a holistic approach to growth.
Act Like an Owner, Challenge Like a VC by former CPO, TripadvisorProduct School
The document discusses how product teams can act like owners and investors to maximize returns. It recommends following three principles: 1) The investment principle - treat time as an investment that should generate ROI. 2) The capping principle - limit ambitions based on discovery. 3) The portfolio principle - allocate resources across a portfolio of high-risk/high-reward, medium-risk, and low-risk/low-hanging fruit initiatives based on their potential ROI. Managing product work like a VC portfolio can help product teams act like owners and challenge stakeholders to seek maximum returns.
The Future of Product, by Founder & CEO, Product SchoolProduct School
Product teams will need to contribute directly to revenue growth, not just user value. They will sit at the intersection of technology and business. Artificial intelligence will allow product teams to do more with less people by automating tasks and providing insights. To succeed in this new era, companies must empower their product teams with the right skills and integrate them closely with other functions like marketing, sales, and customer success.
Webinar How PMs Use AI to 10X Their Productivity by Product School EiR.pdfProduct School
Explore AI tools hands-on and smoothly integrate them into your work routine. This practical experience is here to empower you, offering insights into the mindset of successful Product Managers. Learn the skills to become a more effective Product Manager.
Main Takeaways:
Hands-On AI Integration:
Learn practical strategies for integrating AI tools into your workflow effectively.
Mindset Insights for Success:
Gain valuable insights into the mindset of successful Product Managers, unlocking the secrets to their achievements.
Skill Empowerment for Growth:
Acquire essential skills that empower your evolution toward becoming a more effective and impactful Product Manager.
Webinar: Using GenAI for Increasing Productivity in PM by Amazon PM LeaderProduct School
In this webinar, you will learn how AI can take work off your plate, allowing you to focus on deep thinking or critical work. Cut out the drudge work in Product Management and get more out of your day.
Learnings:
Improve workflows that are high frequency - "manual tasks"
Increase the quality of output that has high importance - "brainy tasks"
Put GenAI to work today
Unlocking High-Performance Product Teams by former Meta Global PMMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- High-Performing Team Dynamics: You’ll gain insights into fostering high-performance teamwork.
- Unveiling Team Personas: You’ll learn about different personas in the team and how to foster these differences.
- Decoding the Team Needs x Productivity Equation: You’ll learn about different team needs and how they correlate with engagement and productivity.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
10. Tools/Tips
Regularly scheduled refinement meetings - 10% Rule
Rigorous prioritization
Examine your stories frequently
Estimates are not the most important thing
Talk less, Spike more
Refinement is also planning
Never cancel
Create a theme
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Product School’s Product Management Certificate Path comprises of 3 part-time courses for professionals with strong technical or business background who want to further explore Product Management at software-based companies.
During Product Management Training you will first learn Product Management fundamentals to understand the software product lifecycle and what it takes to successfully transition into a product management role.
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Tonight's talk is “ You are Your Backlog ” with Dov Pinker. Welcome, Dov.
Ask audience who they are -- background, what do they do.
About me:
Started in Sales
Journey to Product Management/Ownership
Bridging gap between business and dev team.
Assumptions:
Software
Scrum
Based on my personal experiences
Add in roles (use sticky notes)
to maximize the value of the product through diligent backlog management, effective and structured interaction with the software development team. In simpler terms, it’s the job of the product owner to make sure the development team is working on the “right” things!
Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised. The Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done. Refinement usually consumes no more than 10% of the capacity of the Development Team. However, Product Backlog items can be updated at any time by the Product Owner or at the Product Owner’s discretion.
Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised. The Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done. Refinement usually consumes no more than 10% of the capacity of the Development Team. However, Product Backlog items can be updated at any time by the Product Owner or at the Product Owner’s discretion.
Feel free to speak with me and I can point you in the right direction (explain where to apply). Or you can visit www.productschool.com
Have a good night!