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Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework

First Round Review

Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a lightweight "jobs-to-be-done" framework for early-stage product teams, along with templates and go-to-market tactics.

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How Internal Software Empowers Employees and Amplifies Talent Recruitment

Innovatemap

We know the many benefits of utilizing software that makes life easier. (Hello, video conferencing in 2020!) And yet, executive buy-in for implementing internal software solutions is often at the bottom of the budget and resource list. Company leaders will quickly invest in solutions that make their product or service better for customers. But they are more hesitant to invest in technology to be utilized internally.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Do these stories reflect your experience? Yes, the stories reflect my experience. Let me offer a little history. My History, Not Anyone Else's History. I started to work as a programmer in the mid-1970s.

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Q&A with Digital Transformation Experts: Liz Jensen from Visa

Alchemer Mobile

As a business concept, we’ve talked about digital transformation for the better part of a decade. But in 2020, digital transformation as we know it barreled ahead at a dizzying pace—causing product and marketing teams to make fast, learn-as-you-go decisions impacting billions of dollars. Due to stay-at-home orders enacted across the globe in response to COVID-19, the mobile channel has seen particularly extreme changes in how companies leverage it to support their broader business goals.

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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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S.H.O.P.: Making the move Online

Intercom, Inc.

Welcome to S.H.O.P. , our series examining the changes in retail and commerce. Over the course of four weeks, we’re exploring some of the key topics around the past, present, and future of retail, looking at the technologies and behaviors that have enabled – and transformed – shopping as we know it. This week, we’re looking at the tools and infrastructure needed to facilitate the move Online.

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How to get into product management with ‘the wrong’ background.

The Product Coalition

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. People who have that quality exist everywhere. Getting a computer science degree or starting in an associate product management role right out of college is not a prerequisite for good judgement.

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Q&A with Digital Transformation Experts: Josh Fischer from Spotify

Alchemer Mobile

Welcome to the third installation of our digital transformation interview series, where successful product and marketing leaders share what’s top-of-mind, how to overcome obstacles, where the marketplace is going, and tips for success. If you missed our last interview with Liz Jensen from Visa , we recommend giving it a read, too! __. As a business concept, we’ve talked about digital transformation for the better part of a decade.

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Transforming customer support with automation: Key trends and challenges for support leaders

Intercom, Inc.

Companies that automate support are 4x more likely to see CSAT improvements, according to a survey we conducted with support leaders. That’s an incredible statistic – but how can these benefits be realized? Today, support teams are navigating an increasingly demanding support landscape. With customer expectations and conversation volumes on the rise, businesses need a way to effectively deliver on-demand, personal support while maintaining customer satisfaction.

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#mtpcon Digital (Autumn): Day 1 Highlights

Mind the Product

Following awesome keynotes by Benedict Evans, Spectra (Adaora) Asala, and Mary Poppendieck, plus six interactive breakout sessions covering topics such as inclusive design, building teams, and tricks to winning the leadership game, day one of #mtpcon Digital (the Autumn edition!) got our final 2020 conference off to a flying start! As always we began the [.].

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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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B2B Product Manager Magazine November 2020

Product Management University

B2B Product Manager November 2020 Issue. We hope your 2020 is winding down on a positive note, all things considered. This month we take a closer look at sales effectiveness, customer retention and bundling vs. solutions. As the pandemic economy has forced all of us to completely rethink everything, we also give you a list of things to consider for product management, product marketing and sales in 2021.

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Stakeholder Involvement in The Scrum Events

The Product Coalition

Exploring the myth around stakeholder involvement as not required other than the Sprint Review in Scrum Photo by Gabriel Benois on Unsplash ‘Stakeholders are not allowed to attend any Scrum event other than the ‘Sprint Review’ that occurs before the end of the Sprint’ How many are familiar with such similar misunderstandings around Stakeholder involvement in Scrum events?

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Building for the long-term: How we future-proofed our database architecture

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we are highly focused on delivering products that actually solve problems for customers. That intense focus means we are careful not to spend precious time and resources over-engineering our solutions. That’s why we aim to build “boring” software and why we’re committed to running less software , choosing to build on standard technologies and outsource the undifferentiated heavy lifting.

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Product Research Rules – C. Todd Lombardo & Aras Bilgen on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

It’s been drilled into our heads time and time again – as product people, we know that we are not the customer. What follows is that we need to get to know our customers, to figure out what their problems are, how they perceive & prioritise them, and how they react to the solutions we [.]. Read More. The post Product Research Rules – C.

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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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Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework

First Round Review

Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a lightweight "jobs-to-be-done" framework for early-stage product teams, along with templates and go-to-market tactics.

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WSJF?—?Weighted Shortest Job First Prioritization Framework

The Product Coalition

The little-known framework that you need in your Product Management Toolbox. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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TEI 309: Product management strategy – with Allan Anderson, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

The importance of an organizational game plan for product managers. I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager. It gave me a framework for integrating what a product manager does, and I have since taught it to many other product managers. .

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#mtpcon Digital (Autumn): Day 2 Highlights

Mind the Product

Day two of #mtpcon Digital welcomed more incredible product speakers to our virtual stage. Our keynote speakers, Cennydd Bowles, Asha Haji, and Marty Cagan covered tech and the new normal, pivoting, and the greatest challenges of product management, while our session speakers delivered a range of thought-provoking discussions on OKRs, leadership, strategy and more.

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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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The First-Time Founder’s Guide to Learning Everything the Hard Way

First Round Review

Steve El-Hage picks his head up and shares his biggest lessons as a first-time founder from the 8-year, heads-down journey of building Drop.

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Business Innovation & Seasonal Allergies. A Next Big Thing?

The Product Coalition

Business Innovation & Seasonal Allergies. The Next Big Thing? Recurring seasonal allergy symptoms are already a serious life-disruption for many. Now we also have COVID 19 and worsening allergy seasons to contend with. Here’s why business innovation could become a key resource in the struggle against pollen allergy in the near future. A Growing Market Allergic rhinitis already affects between 10%-30% of the entire world population.

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How to Use Customer Value Chains in Your Product Development Strategy

Amplitude

You might claim to have a customer-first approach to your product development strategy—but is that actually the case? While many organizations say they uphold a customer-first philosophy, sales goals often prevail. Your customer-first approach should be focused on building solutions around your users’ needs, not around what your competitors are doing or what’s likely to be the most profitable.

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Stress-free Feature Releases – A Simple Guide to Progressive Rollouts

Mind the Product

I’m currently on the brink of launching a major product update – one that will affect many of our high value clients. And yes, it’s stressful. The questions swirling around in my head include: Does the functionality work in production? How do the users respond? How does this impact operational cost? In other words, do [.]. Read More. The post Stress-free Feature Releases – A Simple Guide to Progressive Rollouts appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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3 Types of Innovation Framework: Unlock Better Innovation Outcomes

Strategyzer

In our previous post we explained that, to bring clarity to any conversation on innovation, you need to distinguish between three different types of innovation , heavily borrowed from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen: efficiency, sustaining, and transformative innovation.

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The Costs of Product Experimentation

The Product Coalition

How to Stop Wasting your Money on Worthless AB-Tests Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Measurement vs. Metrics in Product Analytics Instrumentation

Amplitude

Introducing the Series: Principles for Product Instrumentation Success. I meet lots of teams that are apprehensive about deciding what to measure. They are worried they will be unable to answer important questions. Worried they will track the wrong metrics, and pick the wrong KPIs. Worried that they’ll end up with unusable and untrustworthy data. And worried they’ll waste their developer teammate’s time.

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Tech and the New Normal by Benedict Evans

Mind the Product

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Benedict Evans, Analyst and former Partner at Andreessen Horowitz analyses the huge impact the Covid-19 crisis has had on the technology sector, demonstrating how acceleration and experimentation are destructively ushering in a new normal. Watch the video to see his talk in full. Or read on for an [.]. Read More.

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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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31 Best Customer Journey Map Templates and Examples

UserInterviews

Get inspired and make your work easier with these flexible and (mostly) free customer journey map templates and examples.

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Top Skills that Get you Monetized as Mobile App Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Every job requires a different set of efforts, skills, qualifications, that will make you eligible for that particular job. If you want to be successful in any field, then the most important thing you should consider is to find out the details and skills that will be required to perform your job. Either you are entering a business line or in a job line, you must have all the required information relating to that area.

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A Breakfast Bet That Went Bad For Product Managers

The Accidental Product Manager

Product Managers bet big on breakfast and Covid-19 has changed everything Image Credit: sstrieu. I don’t know about you, but I sure do like betting on a sure thing. You know what I mean, it’s when you place a bet that you know is going to end up being a winner. The product managers at fast food restaurants thought that they had a sure thing to bet on: breakfast.