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Product Managers: Let’s Keep our Role in Perspective

Folding Burritos

Here’s a pun on Martin Eriksson ‘s now classic diagram. As Product Managers we must always remember that our role is to look outwards at least as much as we look inwards. Although the product delivery process is noisier and demands a lot of attention, let’s keep in mind that our job is to create value for our customers and consequently, for the business.

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Power of simplicity : Whatsapp is not IM, it’s a CRM

SidsAvenue

Whatsapp as CRM My wife runs a small garment business from home. Every week a new parcel lands in my home. The supplier is 800 km away from my place and he doesn't have a website to look at.So out of curiosity, I asked how does she select the designs and order them. Her answer laid the foundation of this post. Shrugging her shoulders, she answered me in one word "Whatsapp".

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Smart Products Need Smart Services: How IoT Affects Industrial Equipment

TSIA

On October 2013, CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, kicked off GE’s Minds+Machines conference with this statement: "You went to bed last night as an industrial company. You will wake up in the morning as a software and analytics company." So what would make the CEO of an industrial equipment giant say this? In addition to their wide range of product offerings, GE is quickly becoming a software and analytics company that is stretching the definition of what a product is and how t

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What are the best product management guides?

DISQO

The field of product management is constantly evolving, making it ever more difficult to stay ahead of the curve. There’s more than a few ‘Definitive Product Management Guides’ and the like, so I figured it might be good to curate the curators and compile a master list of lists. General resources. I Love Product Management. by Paul Cothenet. A collection of the best blog posts about different aspects of product management, ranging from beginner to advanced.

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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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One Rubric Changed Box's Engineering Performance — Here's How

First Round Review

Box's SVP Engineering Sam Schillace on the rubric that has helped the company build and maintain a culture of high performance.

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Game Over! 5 Gamification Pitfalls to Avoid

TSIA

We’re big fans of gamification, that is to say, the use of game design techniques in non-game situations. Gamification gives team members timely feedback, reinforces good behaviors, and can kindle healthy competition. But, as with any reward and recognition program, gamification done wrong can cause big problems. Based on industry experience, especially with knowledge workers in technology services, here are the top five gamification gaffes to avoid.

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What are the best product management guides?

DISQO

The field of product management is constantly evolving, making it ever more difficult to stay ahead of the curve. There’s more than a few ‘Definitive Product Management Guides’ and the like, so I figured it might be good to curate the curators and compile a master list of lists. General resources. I Love Product Management. by Paul Cothenet. A collection of the best blog posts about different aspects of product management, ranging from beginner to advanced.

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Making Design Bets to Knock the Blurs into Shape

First Round Review

Dom Goodrum, Design Director at Percolate, talks about making long-term bets to build a strong design team and strategy.

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UX for Kids’ Products: Designing for the Youngest of Users

UserTesting

Everyone has had that moment. Over at the table next to you is a toddler deftly tapping and swiping a tablet, and you think, “What was I doing at that age?”. The “digital natives” of the next generation became consumers … The post UX for Kids’ Products: Designing for the Youngest of Users appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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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You Won’t Believe What These Five Lenses Can Show You About Your Product

Tyner Blain

Fundamentally, product management requires you to assess, synthesize, and prioritize the needs which drive the creation of your product in the context of three main objectives: desirability, viability, and feasibility. While laudable, these objectives are too abstract to be actionable. That’s where the five lenses come in (I could not resist the Buzzfeed-styled title).

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What are the best product management guides?

DISQO

The field of product management is constantly evolving, making it ever more difficult to stay ahead of the curve. There’s more than a few ‘Definitive Product Management Guides’ and the like, so I figured it might be good to curate the curators and compile a master list of lists. General resources. I Love Product Management. by Paul Cothenet. A collection of the best blog posts about different aspects of product management, ranging from beginner to advanced.