Best Product Management Videos of 2023

This week, we're sharing some fantastic videos from INDUSTRY: The Product Conference and our live online interview sessions. You've got April Dunford who delivered an insightful talk on marketing tech products, Bob Moesta who spoke about understanding customer needs and struggles for product development, and more! All videos below are filled with practical advice and deep insights, making them essential for anyone in software product management. Enjoy!

Best practices in enterprise product management. Product management has experienced tremendous growth over the last several years, but much of the product advice available is from companies building products for consumers (Business-to-Consumer or B2C). There are important differences between creating B2C products and creating Enterprise products, also known as Business-to-Business or B2B. Product management trainer, author, and speaker Dan Olsen shares relevant advice to deal with the challenges that B2B product managers face . (via Dan Olsen )?

The coming 'autonomous teams' backlash and what we can do about it. For every team that goes from building what executives want to building what customers want, there are five more that go from building what executives want to guessing what executives want. In this talk, product leader Matt LeMay addresses the common pitfalls that confront organizations seeking to build empowered and autonomous product teams , why those pitfalls often send executives careening back into command-and-control management, and what we can do about it. (via Matt LeMay )

Building platforms. We had a great small-group session with April Underwood, Managing Director and Co-founder, Adverb Ventures. This session was specifically about what it takes to build product platforms , which is what April's done throughout her career — especially at places like Twitter and Slack. (via April Underwood )?

Essential skills of an innovator. How do you see innovation and harness it effectively to make it work? How do people learn, and how can they work more effectively? Every innovator comes across daily problems that they don’t know how to answer or where to even start thinking about the answer. We dig into all of this and more with Bob Moesta, President and CEO of the ReWired Group and one of the early pioneers of the Jobs to be Done framework. (via Bob Moesta )?

Demystifying product mindset, sense, and thinking. Product mindset. Product sense. Product thinking. The product advice landscape is awash in vague terms that often hurt more than they help. Aspiring product managers know they need "it", but no one can really describe "it". Much advice is heavily rooted in Silicon Valley worldviews and belief systems, making it hard for many people to relate, learn, and apply what they read. John Cutler, Senior Director Product Enablement at Toast, hypothesizes that mindset, sense, and thinking are placeholders for specific skills that can you can learn . He digs into those skills and suggests a learning path for you and your organization. (via John Cutler )?

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Product Management News: Week of December 11, 2023

Epic Games wins its lawsuit against Google's Play Store. A federal jury found that Google's Play Store violates antitrust laws , deciding a lawsuit filed by Epic Games. For years, Google and Apple have argued that their app stores' rules and restrictions exist to benefit consumers. While resisting the urge to call this an “epic victory”, it is worth watching to see if this decision survives appeal and changes how you can distribute and collect money for your app.

What the world needs now is another AI model. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini : its largest and most capable AI model. Gemini is multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video. Google DeepMind claims the model can efficiently run on everything from data centers to mobile devices and is offering three different sizes: Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano. Keep an eye out to see if those variations resonate with customers. I guess they had to pick something since grande, venti, and trenta were taken.

How hard can it be? It’s just ten simple text prompts. Web hosting servicing company Vercel introduced v0, a product that uses AI models to generate code based on simple text prompts . After you submit your prompt, v0 gives you three choices of AI-generated user interfaces. You can choose one and copy and paste its code, or refine it further. It may give your team a head start at creating a new UI for your product. After all, why stop at generative AI when you can have generative UI?

Who says importing a csv has to be difficult? Every software product needs data to provide value. The most common way to import customer data is with CSV files. While CSV files can be an easy way for customers to retrieve existing data, importing them into a new platform is not so trivial. TableFlow is an open source CSV importer that helps you avoid building this functionality yourself so you can focus on the truly value added parts of your product.This week, we're sharing some fantastic videos from INDUSTRY: The Product Conference and our live online interview sessions. You've got April Dunford who delivered an insightful talk on marketing tech products, Bob Moesta who spoke about understanding customer needs and struggles for product development, and more! All videos below are filled with practical advice and deep insights, making them essential for anyone in software product management. Enjoy!

Best practices in enterprise product management. Product management has experienced tremendous growth over the last several years, but much of the product advice available is from companies building products for consumers (Business-to-Consumer or B2C). There are important differences between creating B2C products and creating Enterprise products, also known as Business-to-Business or B2B. Product management trainer, author, and speaker Dan Olsen shares relevant advice to deal with the challenges that B2B product managers face . (via Dan Olsen )?

The coming 'autonomous teams' backlash and what we can do about it. For every team that goes from building what executives want to building what customers want, there are five more that go from building what executives want to guessing what executives want. In this talk, product leader Matt LeMay addresses the common pitfalls that confront organizations seeking to build empowered and autonomous product teams , why those pitfalls often send executives careening back into command-and-control management, and what we can do about it. (via Matt LeMay )

Building platforms. We had a great small-group session with April Underwood, Managing Director and Co-founder, Adverb Ventures. This session was specifically about what it takes to build product platforms , which is what April's done throughout her career — especially at places like Twitter and Slack. (via April Underwood )?

Essential skills of an innovator. How do you see innovation and harness it effectively to make it work? How do people learn, and how can they work more effectively? Every innovator comes across daily problems that they don’t know how to answer or where to even start thinking about the answer. We dig into all of this and more with Bob Moesta, President and CEO of the ReWired Group and one of the early pioneers of the Jobs to be Done framework. (via Bob Moesta )?

Demystifying product mindset, sense, and thinking. Product mindset. Product sense. Product thinking. The product advice landscape is awash in vague terms that often hurt more than they help. Aspiring product managers know they need "it", but no one can really describe "it". Much advice is heavily rooted in Silicon Valley worldviews and belief systems, making it hard for many people to relate, learn, and apply what they read. John Cutler, Senior Director Product Enablement at Toast, hypothesizes that mindset, sense, and thinking are placeholders for specific skills that can you can learn . He digs into those skills and suggests a learning path for you and your organization. (via John Cutler )?

Do you like what you see?

If you like what you're reading, go to ProductCollective.com and subscribe. That way, you can get this newsletter in your inbox every Friday before everyone else.

Product Management News: Week of December 11, 2023

Epic Games wins its lawsuit against Google's Play Store. A federal jury found that Google's Play Store violates antitrust laws , deciding a lawsuit filed by Epic Games. For years, Google and Apple have argued that their app stores' rules and restrictions exist to benefit consumers. While resisting the urge to call this an “epic victory”, it is worth watching to see if this decision survives appeal and changes how you can distribute and collect money for your app.

What the world needs now is another AI model. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini : its largest and most capable AI model. Gemini is multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video. Google DeepMind claims the model can efficiently run on everything from data centers to mobile devices and is offering three different sizes: Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano. Keep an eye out to see if those variations resonate with customers. I guess they had to pick something since grande, venti, and trenta were taken.

How hard can it be? It’s just ten simple text prompts. Web hosting servicing company Vercel introduced v0, a product that uses AI models to generate code based on simple text prompts . After you submit your prompt, v0 gives you three choices of AI-generated user interfaces. You can choose one and copy and paste its code, or refine it further. It may give your team a head start at creating a new UI for your product. After all, why stop at generative AI when you can have generative UI?

Who says importing a csv has to be difficult? Every software product needs data to provide value. The most common way to import customer data is with CSV files. While CSV files can be an easy way for customers to retrieve existing data, importing them into a new platform is not so trivial. TableFlow is an open source CSV importer that helps you avoid building this functionality yourself so you can focus on the truly value added parts of your product.