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5 Things to Remember When Running a Design Sprint

bpma ProductHub

by C Emera Trujillo. Design sprints are all the rage these days and with good reason. As a flexible design framework, the design sprint can yield creative solutions that stakeholders & customers want. Recently, Boston Women in Product organized a design sprint workshop run by the amazing team at Fresh Tilled Soil and hosted by ZipCar. Evan Ryan , chief product officer at Fresh Tilled Soil and seasoned entrepreneur with over a decade of experience bringing products from concept to market,

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The Relationship Between Positivity and Productivity (And How to Make It Work for You)

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Annabelle Smyth Many companies still hold tight to the old way of doing things. They put you in high-pressure situations and hope that you get all your work done out of fear.

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Taking a Product from Conception to Delivery

Mind the Product

In this talk I gave at ProductTank Singapore towards the end of 2016, I parsed the steps required to take a product from conception to delivery, with a strong slant toward the business of products. Throughout my experience as a product leader, I’ve spent much of my time and effort optimizing how to align deliverables with business objectives, and I’ve tried to share that in this talk.

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Product Managers Prepare For The Great Mattress Wars

The Accidental Product Manager

There’s a battle that getting ready to start in the market for mattresses Image Credit: Charles Wagner aka ChumpChange. Just exactly how much time do you spend every day thinking about that mattress that you sleep on. Scientists say that we’ll spend roughly 1/3 of our lives sleeping, so you’d think that the mattress that we sleep on would be a very big deal.

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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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What’s left to test once your product is in the market?

DISQO

Whether your company’s innovations are 72 hours or 72 years old, relentless customer discovery remains a critical priority. Even if the product itself hasn’t changed in decades (think cinder blocks or lumber), lots going on beyond the product itself delivers dramatic P&L impact. What’s to discover once the new product is shipping? As noticed on January 20, almost any big event can impact even the most loyal consumers.

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What’s left to test once your product is in the market?

DISQO

Whether your company’s innovations are 72 hours or 72 years old, relentless customer discovery remains a critical priority. Even if the product itself hasn’t changed in decades (think cinder blocks or lumber), lots going on beyond the product itself delivers dramatic P&L impact. What’s to discover once the new product is shipping? As noticed on January 20, almost any big event can impact even the most loyal consumers.

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New UserTesting feature: Transcripts

UserTesting

Getting insights from your videos just got easier. Companies are realizing the power of continuous user testing to make more informed decisions. And more tests means more insightful feedback to review. As part of UserTesting’s ongoing commitment to making the … The post New UserTesting feature: Transcripts appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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What’s left to test once your product is in the market?

DISQO

Whether your company’s innovations are 72 hours or 72 years old, relentless customer discovery remains a critical priority. Even if the product itself hasn’t changed in decades (think cinder blocks or lumber), lots going on beyond the product itself delivers dramatic P&L impact. What’s to discover once the new product is shipping? As noticed on January 20, almost any big event can impact even the most loyal consumers.

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How Much Does It Cost to Develop an App Like SnapChat?

Alty

Snapchat success is a classic Silicon Valley tale. A guy gets a seemingly silly idea, starts developing it in college and later in his living room. Gets lucky, raises some funds and a few years later refuses to sell his company to Facebook and Google for a huge pile of money. He goes to IPO instead and lives happily ever after I guess. While you won’t be able to walk the exactly same walk….you can build a product as successful as Snapchat.

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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.