Wed.May 22, 2019

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5 Principles of Human-First Products

Gainsight

As a COO, I’m always trying to figure out get a ton of things done in a short amount of time. I’m constantly thinking about how to do more with less. The danger for someone like me is that when you give them technology, the standard for what counts as “efficient” dramatically increases. Here’s what my typical work week looks like. Technology helps me pack my calendar to the brim: any empty 30-minute time slot is immediately visible and available for me to book.

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I’m a Data Scientist and Here’s Why Quantitative Data Isn’t Enough

UserInterviews

To really understand your users and business, bring your user research and analytics together.

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Leadership styles for directing small teams

Lead on Purpose

Leadership differs depending on the size of the group you’re leading. For most product managers, the people they lead work on different teams and the individuals they need to influence don’t report to them.

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Common Pitfalls for First Time Product Manager

bpma ProductHub

by Ashima Dua – When you’re first starting out in Product Management, it can be easy to fall into common misconceptions and pitfalls. Navigating through uncharted territory can make anyone unsure of what to do or who to reach out to, so some growing pains are bound to happen.

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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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How to Innovate – Ryan Jacoby on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Ryan Jacoby is an expert on innovation, but not, perhaps, on optimising book titles for SEO – his book, Making Progress , is a guide on how to ensure that your team is open to and successful at innovation. Ryan has been working in the field since his undergraduate days, when he became the first person to complete Stanford’s Design School program.

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Biweekly Product Update

Indicative

We’ve launched some features that we think you’ll love! Take a look at our first round of May product updates: Google Cloud and WeVideo Case Study. More Trends in Segmentation. Increased Geolocation Capabilities. …and product enhancements! At Indicative we value our customers’ feedback. We’d love if you shared yours here through our two-question survey.

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5 Ways Your Company May Be Misusing OKRs

The Product Coalition

Since their invention at Intel in the late 1970s, Objectives and Key Results have amassed a huge following. It certainly helps that Google, Amazon, Dropbox and other tech super-companies attribute so much of their success to them. John Doerr’s book Measure What Matters is further fueling this fire. Many companies are either implementing or have already implemented OKRs.

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How Technology is Changing Our Expectations of the Employee Experience

Innovatemap

We know that technology has changed the customer experience, but how have these changing customer experiences impacted our expectations for employee experience?

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How to create an Empathy Map??—?Design Thinking Part 1

The Product Coalition

How to create an Empathy Map??—?Design Thinking Part 1 Empathy?—?it is an all too common word among product management. The importance of this word cannot be overstated. Why Empathize? Because as product managers, the problems we are trying to solve are rarely our own. Often we are building products to make the lives easy for users whose life, pains and experiences are completely different from ours.

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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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11 Experts Weigh In: What Does the Future of User Research Look like?

dscout People Nerds

Top researchers from Google, Lyft, Uber, and LinkedIn give us their take on where the UR is moving and the challenges we’re set to face as the field grows.

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The PM/Designer Relationship

The Product Coalition

How to make it great Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Experimentation principles

DISQO

As the pace of industrial change accelerates, forward-thinking organizations are developing capabilities to respond in real-time. They empower employees throughout the organization to test, learn, and iterate rapidly. Decentralized workflows, backed by clear and proven principles, enable organizations to take smart action far quicker than command-and-control bureaucracies.

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Mule or Mustang?

The Product Coalition

A parable on product manager EQ Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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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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Experimentation principles

DISQO

As the pace of industrial change accelerates, forward-thinking organizations are developing capabilities to respond in real-time. They empower employees throughout the organization to test, learn, and iterate rapidly. Decentralized workflows, backed by clear and proven principles, enable organizations to take smart action far quicker than command-and-control bureaucracies.

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I’m a Data Scientist and Here’s Why Quantitative Data Isn’t Enough

UserInterviews

To really understand your users and business, bring your user research and analytics together.

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Experimentation principles

DISQO

As the pace of industrial change accelerates, forward-thinking organizations are developing capabilities to respond in real-time. They empower employees throughout the organization to test, learn, and iterate rapidly. Decentralized workflows, backed by clear and proven principles, enable organizations to take smart action far quicker than command-and-control bureaucracies.

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I’m a Data Scientist and Here’s Why Quantitative Data Isn’t Enough

UserInterviews

To really understand your users and business, bring your user research and analytics together.

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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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Wootric’s Deepa Subramanian on measuring the voice of the customer

Intercom, Inc.

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. Then you had to try to reach them via email and convince them to fill it out. But there’s a better way now. Deepa Subramanian (a graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Salesforce) set out to improve businesses’ understanding of the customer voice by co-founding Wootric , a platform that offers a range of feedback collection and a

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The Product Development Lifecycle: Roles & Responsibilities

The Product Coalition

In an organization with engineers, engineering managers, technical project managers, product managers, UI/UX designers, what is the responsibility and working relationship between the different roles? How does a team find new opportunities and deliver business value? What does working together look like? Let’s walk through the product-development lifecycle of a team both from a high-level strategy perspective as well as the per-project day-to-day development standpoint.

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Demystifying service design: what it is and why you should care

Imaginary Cloud - Design

Every now and then, people ask me what I do. Every designer can certainly relate, as we all struggle with that tricky question. In my case, once the answer comes up as service design , I usually get two kinds of reactions: 1. “ aha, interesting ” – which means that they have no clue what I’m talking about and are just trying to play along; 2. “ Hmm, I see… ” – they actually know what I’m talking about but look sceptical at my answer.

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Decentralized Apps (DApps): Will They Transform The Mobile App Development Industry?

The Product Coalition

Distributed ledger technology, also commonly referred to as blockchain-based technology, took the world by a storm in 2017. In fact, at one point Bitcoin, which is the first actual representation of blockchain technology, had briefly become the second most searched word on Google for 2017. At first, Satoshi Nakamoto’s creation was originally designed to disrupt financial systems by delivering an immutable, peer-to-peer electronic cash system as described in Bitcoin’s white paper.

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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.