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Good way to prompt candidates to assess their own strengths and weaknesses in a constructive approach. "My favorite PM interview question…for managers" by Chris Jones uxdesign.cc/my-favorite-pm-i…
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“Before writing anything, consider if there’s a way to redesign the experience so there’s no error at all. Is there a way to just make it work? (Really, the best error message is no error message.)” — Marina Posniak thestyleofelements.org/the-a…
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Michael Pavey retweeted
I won’t profess to be an analytics expert, but I feel like more SaaS companies should do cohort analysis of feature usage.
Does using that hot new feature...
1. Make trial users more likely to become paying customers?
2. Make existing customers more likely to stay/upgrade?
Kai Stinchcombe, "the opposite of a futurist", makes a compelling case for why the blockchain vision is "a crypto-medieval hellhole": medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/d…
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France seizes France.com from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
Great analysis, with important consequences for interpreting initial user feedback. “AirPods and the Three Stages of Apple Criticism” by @ReThinkReviews medium.com/rethink-reviews/a…
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Should PMs become less attached to the product and more attached to process? “Your product […] is not the product. It’s the process that builds the product. Designers output interfaces, […] PMs output process.” — @danhilltech hackernoon.com/observations-…
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Food for thought: “Stop using .IO Domain Names for Production Traffic” by @nickparsons hackernoon.com/stop-using-io…
“Use a .dev domain? Not anymore.” Delightful explanation with some fun internet history. medium.engineering/use-a-dev…
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Riddle: why were so many users born on Jan 1? A law to avoid red herrings in analytics amplitude.com/blog/2017/05/1… via @amplitudemobile
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Nice critique of the perils of splitting validation and implementation. “Product Manager vs Prod Owner” — @lissijean medium.com/@melissaperri/pro…
ALT “Product Owner is a role you play on a Scrum team. Product Manager is the job.” from “Product Manager vs Product Owner” by Melissa Perri.
B2B prod mgmt: like B2C, but factor in market reqts not just user needs, make a longer-term plan, says Ogi Kavazovic firstround.com/review/dear-p…
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Great PMs don’t spend their time on solutions blog.intercom.com/great-prod…
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“A pivot not grounded in learning is a disguised ‘see what sticks’ strategy.” — @ashmaurya blog.leanstack.com/love-the-…
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"I never wanted to be famous", says (credibly) the man responsible for the proliferation of the word "disruption" 😀 qz.com/801706/innovation-gur…
"Perfection is attained not when there is [nothing left] to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." tomtunguz.com/perfection-not…
"centralized firms more quickly rid themselves of unsuccessful products—almost 2x as fast as decentralized firms" hbr.org/2016/10/centralized-…
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking": prioritize engaged debate over beleaguered compromise blog.intercom.com/golden-mea…