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3 Things Product Managers Owe to Internal Constituents

ProductPlan

If you’re a product manager, then you probably have a lot on your plate. Meeting deadlines. Making customers happy. Keeping your team on track…all while trying to stay one step ahead of the competition can be draining. With everything competing for your time and attention, it’s easy to forget those inside of your organization who also depend on you, such as your delivery teams and internal stakeholders.

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How To Create A UX Research Plan

UserInterviews

Creating a UX research plan can help you streamline the process and communicate the value of your study to stakeholders.

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How to take a new offering to market

Lead on Purpose

We live in a great time where, in most of the world, you can invent a new product or service and—with the appropriate up-front work—earn money from the value it creates for customers. This is remarkable!

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An 8-Step Framework for Product Growth by Sylvia Ng

Mind the Product

As a product professional, your company is looking to you to meaningfully change the bottom line. But are you getting the results you want? Or are you putting in countless hours only to feel like you’re not making enough progress? If you want to seriously develop a product growth competency, how do you ensure success instead of just haphazardly launching new products and features?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Trying on the CEO’s Shoes for a Day

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. > Whose shoes would you like to walk in for a day? Why? An executive at Amazon. I have read a few books about some of their best practices and would love to witness in person. I also align well with their values and would like to see first hand how leaders live them day to day.

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Building beautiful brand experiences at Neoscape

Miro

Reading time — 7 minBuildingbeautifulbrand experiences at NeoscapeHow Neoscape is using Miro to make collaboration with clients seamlessOne place to keep your ideas:“We were seeing a need for space for projects without taking up space. Miro certainly allows us to collaborate and gather ideas in one easy-to-use platform. We do much of our art reference […].

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Seven Reasons Why Your Customers Won’t Renew

Gainsight

The natural tendency of customers and vendors is to drift apart, not closer together. Let’s say it another way: The natural tendency of all your customers is to churn. But is that true? Let’s play it out. You make the sale, close the deal. Then you do nothing. What happens? I think we can all agree that on a long enough timeline, everybody quits, cancels, or lapses.

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How to build a high performing team culture in a remote environment

Miro

How to build a high performing team culture in a remote environmentBuilding a strong and differentiated team culture is pretty challenging. Add “remote” to the mix, and it becomes very clear, very fast that you’ll have your work cut out for you.It is possible however to build a strong remote team culture –we’ve seen some […]. The post How to build a high performing team culture in a remote environment appeared first on MiroBlog | A blog by Miro.

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The 21 best agile product management resources

ProductBoard

In 2001, a group of software developers set off a revolution in the world of tech when they outlined a new way of managing product development—agile. At the time, older models of product management such as waterfall were becoming obsolete. In the unpredictable world of tech, faster and more adaptable teams win. Even startups regularly beat out large established companies to build industry-leading.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Building beautiful brand experiences at Neoscape

Miro

Reading time — 7 minBuildingbeautifulbrand experiences at NeoscapeHow Neoscape is using Miro to make collaboration with clients seamlessOne place to keep your ideas:“We were seeing a need for space for projects without taking up space. Miro certainly allows us to collaborate and gather ideas in one easy-to-use platform. We do much of our art reference […].

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No, just no.

The Product Coalition

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for more updates :) No, just no. was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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How to build a high performing team culture in a remote environment

Miro

How to build a high performing team culture in a remote environmentBuilding a strong and differentiated team culture is pretty challenging. Add “remote” to the mix, and it becomes very clear, very fast that you’ll have your work cut out for you.It is possible however to build a strong remote team culture –we’ve seen some […]. The post How to build a high performing team culture in a remote environment appeared first on MiroBlog | A blog by Miro.

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What’s the Definition of Success for a Success Metric?

The Product Coalition

Photo by Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash “PM”ing your KPIs In Beyond Vanity Metrics , I issued a call to action to pick a KPI that is unmeasurable. Something that relates directly to your company’s vision. Why would you want to do that? I know why I want you to do it. I want you to do it because I think we (the collective high-tech community) should be putting out “better” products.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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UX and user-centric design at SXSW 2019

TryMyUI

UX and user-centric design was on display in a big way at SXSW this year, demonstrating an exciting vision for the future in many spheres of life and industry. The post UX and user-centric design at SXSW 2019 appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Product Roadmap Templates Collection To Help Kickstart Your Own

NextBigWhat

A Product Roadmap is an extremely crucial part of Product Management. However, many Product Managers find it difficult to get started in setting up a meaningful template with properly architected… The post Product Roadmap Templates Collection To Help Kickstart Your Own appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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Customer Happiness or Customer Success?

ProductCraft Debates

We all know CS. Customer success is an established role within many organizations and the focal point of many in our customer-centric times. But does success necessarily translate to happiness? Without getting too existential in our discussion, we’ve been wondering if CS is enough. Just like MVP is moving away from viability to delight, we. The post Customer Happiness or Customer Success?

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Boost Your Agile Transformation with the Influential Agile Leader, April 24-25, Toronto

Johanna Rothman

Most of my clients struggle with their agile transformation. The teams love agile approaches because they can work on their release frequency and technical excellence. The senior managers love the agile promise because they can see how agile approaches help the teams release a more constant flow of value. They can see the benefits of attracting new customers and retaining current customers.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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Get the Industry Recognition You Deserve with a TSIA STAR Award

TSIA

Did your company try something new in the past year that led to measurably better results for both your business and your customers? We think you deserve to be publicly recognized as a technology and services industry leader for that outstanding achievement, and the TSIA STAR Awards are the best way to do just that! We’re happy to announce that the nomination period for the 2019 STAR Awards is now open.

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5 Questions with Dave Rogers and Sameer Karim, Product Strategy & Analytics Experts at Slalom

Amplitude

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on technology, strategy and business transformation. Slalom believes that product analytics is a critical centerpiece at every stage of product development. Their product-focused mindset has driven them to wins including building a mobile app that increased Hyatt’s booking revenue by 80% , as well as revamping REI Adventure’s digital experience to improve the earliest stages of the customer journey.

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How To Create A UX Research Plan

UserInterviews

Creating a UX research plan can help you streamline the process and communicate the value of your study to stakeholders.

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Bridging the empathy gap through microinteractions

UserTesting

You’ve probably heard the saying, “Don’t sweat the small stuff,” many times before. While the sentiment behind it is great life advice, it doesn’t necessarily apply when you’re in the business of creating great experiences for your customers. Throughout the … The post Bridging the empathy gap through microinteractions appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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How To Create A UX Research Plan

UserInterviews

Creating a UX research plan can help you streamline the process and communicate the value of your study to stakeholders.

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New Data: Listening to, Acting on, and Prioritizing Customer Feedback

Alchemer Mobile

We recently hosted a webinar sharing exclusive new data from our 2019 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmark Report , which empowers companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback metrics stack up against the market, provides insight into where top brands set the bar, and explores opportunities to improve their mobile customer experience.

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Are You Data-driven, Data-informed or Data-inspired?

Amplitude

Have you noticed recently an increase in the usage of the terms ‘data-driven’, ‘data-informed’, and ‘data-inspired’ around your office? It might seem like your co-workers are just jumping on the buzzword bandwagon and throwing words around. But, you would be remiss to completely ignore them because these three phrases hold powerful meaning and are incredibly useful if you know what they represent and how to apply them correctly.

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How To Cross the Strategy-to-Execution Chasm

The Product Coalition

Most companies fail in execution, not strategy. Defining strategy the right way can close the gap. “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast.” Peter Drucker Though there is wisdom in Peter Drucker’s experience, I’ve been a part of a number of growth-stage companies with healthy cultures of execution that failed to execute on high level strategy. In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to exec

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Anatomy of User Behavior

Mixpanel

Understanding how people use your product begins with tracking their actions. It all starts with a single user taking a simple action: finding a video in a feed and tapping play, running a report in a business tool, navigating to the account view in a banking app to check the balance. These simple actions, or “events,” are the reasons people use a product.

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How Atlassian built a $20 billion dollar company with no sales team

Intercom, Inc.

When you think about how “traditional” enterprise-focused firms – think Microsoft, Oracle and IBM – sell software, it usually follows a well trodden formula: negotiations, long sales cycles and a “checklist” of features demanded by decision makers who seldom use the products they buy. But there is a company that has found a way to scale its software business with an entirely different model: Atlassian.