TLDR Product Management 2024-08-09
Enemy remedies 🙅💊, succeeding in B2B 💼, remote product management 🌎
Friendly Google and enemy remedies (13 minute read)
This piece explores the history of railroad competition, Standard Oil's dominance in the 19th century, and the impact of antitrust laws like the Sherman Act. It then parallels these with the recent antitrust ruling against Google for maintaining its search engine monopoly through exclusionary contracts, arguing that preventing such monopolistic practices encourages competition and innovation.
Janna Bastow: the challenges and opportunities AI brings to PM (35 minute podcast)
The value of a roadmap is in the process, not just the document. While AI aids decision-making, human judgment is essential. Product managers must align their work with revenue and company strategy, fostering a culture of innovation through open idea challenges.
The product model in government (15 minute read)
This article discusses how the product model, typically used in private sector companies, can be effectively applied to government technology efforts by focusing on creating value and achieving outcomes, despite challenges such as procurement processes, fraud risks, and complex stakeholder environments. Techniques for success include centering on users, securing leadership sponsorship, utilizing prototypes, forming small skilled teams, and continuously evangelizing insights and outcomes.
Deep-dive: remote product management (10 minute read)
Remote product management is a fundamental change in product development and team leadership. Success relies on clear communication, trust-based leadership, and innovative collaboration. To excel, evaluate current practices, experiment with new tools, and foster continuous learning.
Cheat sheet: enterprise AI terminology (6 minute read)
Here's a cheat sheet of key enterprise AI terms covering role-based access control, turnkey solutions, retrieval-augmented generation, and more.
Elena's 2024 B2B product-led sales guide (16 minute read)
This guide explains how to effectively transition from product-led growth to product-led sales by leveraging self-serve usage to identify sales opportunities, scale hand-raisers, and differentiate offerings to target ideal customer profiles and product-qualified accounts.
Managing your manager (9 minute read)
If your relationship with your manager is strained, define your ideal relationship, discuss it, and outline your needs. Provide regular feedback and seek feedback in return. If issues persist and are ignored, escalate to higher management or consider new opportunities if trust is lost.
Should you add payments to your platform? (4 minute read)
Adding payments can significantly increase revenue and platform stickiness for vertical SaaS and SMBs, but success depends on factors such as control points, profitability, customer retention, and industry-specific economics.
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