Top Product Management Blog Posts: Week of June 30

Top Product Management Blog PostsLooking for some great reads on product management? Here is our latest roundup of top PM blog posts from the past week. We hope you find them helpful!

  1.  A Single Set of Priorities – How do you keep your team focused? Steve Johnson explains why you need a single set of priorities.
  2. Mapping the Duties of the Product Manager and Product Owner – John Peltier breaks down the duties of product managers and product owners in this helpful blog post.

Editor’s Note:
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Top Product Management Blog Posts: Week of June 23, 2014

Weekly PM Blog PostsLooking for some great reads on product management? Here is our latest roundup, of top PM blog posts from the past week. We hope you find them helpful!

  1. Stop (In)Validating: Start Refining Like a Gold Rush Prospector: Sebastien Secard explains the most common pitfall of lean startup practitioners and his experience with it.
  2. How do Customer Development and Product Management Fit Together?: Cindy Alvarez explains why customer development is not the secret to creating a great product, but rather a risk mitigation tool.
  3. The Product Thesis: Jason Evanish walks you through the product thesis: an easy way to communicate customer needs to design and engineering teams in order to build the right product.

Editor’s Note:
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Top Product Management Blog Posts: Week of June 16, 2014

Looking for some great reads on product management? Here is a roundup of our top blog posts from the past week. We hope you find them helpful!

  1. We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here – Rich Mironov talks about the importance of the Product Owner role.
  2. How to Cultivate Curiosity and Build Better Products – A great blog post by Teresa Torres on why curiosity is necessary in order to build better products.
  3. A Weak Value Proposition is a Symptom, Not a Disease – Nils Davis talks about the value proposition: how to write one, why it’s important and the benefit the value proposition has for you.

Editor’s Note:
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Infographic: Product Management & Agile Development

infog-thumbA Practical Guide: Product Management & Agile Development is one of the most popular eBooks we’ve created at Accompa. It addresses practical challenges PM teams face when working with Development teams that follow Agile processes such as Scrum.

It is so popular, we decided to create a shorter and more visual version of it in the form of an infographic. It is designed for those of you who are more visually oriented, or prefer a shorter version.

Without further ado, here it is! 🙂

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What Product Managers Can Learn: Zendesk vs. Help Scout

SlingshotAt Accompa, we strive to provide the best customer service we possibly can. It is one of our key differentiators.

A big part of being able to provide consistently excellent customer service is having the right tools & processes. To this end, our Support team had been using Zendesk for several years.

But they switched recently to Help Scout. When I talked with them about it, I realized this switch had a very interesting lesson for product managers. In this post, I’d like to highlight this lesson. [Read more…]