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Weekly briefings

Product Briefing – 23rd February, 2023

Google Meet’s 360 backgrounds, Twilio and Coinbase earnings, new emojis are on the way, a new way to do presentations and AI tools to help you boost your productivity

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Airbnb’s profitability, Disney+’s subscriber losses, a new tool for product discovery, the PSYCH framework explained and how to use comms for product-led growth

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360 body scanning from Spotify’s CEO, Stripe’s challenging times, Pinterest’s predictions, how to drive user adoption, AI wars and the return of Bing

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Making Sense of Usability Test Results

Making Sense of Usability Test Results

Perhaps the biggest challenge product teams face is not necessarily how to conduct the usability tests in the first place but rather how to make sense of the wild variety of results your tests have produced.

DevOps Explained for Product Managers

DevOps Explained for Product Managers

Transition from tragile to agile with strong devops cultures So what exactly is Devops anyway? You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘devops’ used by your engineering team but you may not be sure exactly what it means. Sure, you know that is has...

How to Think Strategically

How to Think Strategically

A classical definition of strategy applied to product thinking The problem with strategy Ask someone what their strategy is and you’ll often get vague responses relating to operational effectiveness, items from their to do list or a proclamation that their company is...

5 Useful Diagrams for Product Managers

5 Useful Diagrams for Product Managers

Practical diagrams for when words alone don't quite cut it Why is diagramming useful? The ability to draw and produce clear diagrams are powerful skills for product managers. Here’s a few reasons why: Articulate your point of view / ideas - with a pen and a whiteboard...

How to Differentiate Your Product

How to Differentiate Your Product

Fighting the forces of product inertia Overcoming the fear of thinking differently Suggesting different ideas or challenging conventional wisdom requires a certain level of tenacity. It also requires you to bulldoze through the fears that often beset the management...

Payment Terminology for Product Teams

Payment Terminology for Product Teams

Payment gateways, tokenisation, PCI compliance and webhooks explained Have you ever had the joy of working on a project which involved implementing a new payment provider? If you have, you’ll know that the process is not much fun if you don’t understand some of the...

The Product Council Guide

The Product Council Guide

How to establish an effective Product Council What’s a Product Council? Popularised by Marty Cagan in his book, Inspired, the Product Council is a forum which includes key business stakeholders. The purpose of the Product Council is to set the strategic direction of...

GitHub Explained for Product Managers

GitHub Explained for Product Managers

Pull requests, merges, branching and all that jazz Look down at your keyboard. You’ll notice that the letters g, i and t are quite close together. You’ll also notice that the letters g,i and t spell the word ‘git’. In the UK, ‘git’ is a derogatory word, often used to...

Why is Slack popular?

Why is Slack popular?

A product management perspective Go to any conference and you’ll notice 1 thing: a small, but substantial number of hyperactive humans aren’t fully present at the conference. They’re physically in the room but they are far, far away. Where are they? They are on Slack....

Product Monetization Strategies

Product Monetization Strategies

Bridging the gap between creative and commercial thinking Does generating revenue matter? A business is a repeatable process that makes money. Everything else is a hobby. —Paul Freet, Commercialisation Expert This is a neat way of summarising the definition of a...

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