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Deadlines are evil. Deadlines are our friends

Folding Burritos

Deadline. Even if you didn’t know what it meant, the word surely sounds ominous. And then, when you look up the origin of the term , it gets even nastier. The word comes from US Civil War prison camps, where guards would shoot any prisoner that crossed a line about 19 feet from the wall. That is the kind of inspiration for one of the most common concepts that we have to deal with on our products and projects.

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The Alternative to Roadmaps

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I have always loved the General George Patton quote: “Don’t tell people what to do; tell them what you need accomplished, and you’ll be amazed at the results.” Unfortunately, typical roadmaps do just what the General warned against – they tell the team what to do. Usually that’s in the form of a prioritized list of features or projects that someone believes will actually solve some problem (even if that problem is often not explicitly stated or understood).

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[Video] The Three Levels of Customer Adoption

TSIA

After you’ve landed a customer, you want them to find enough value in your solution to expand their spending and renew their business, but how do you get them to that point? In this video clip from his keynote presentation at TSW 2015 Best Practices, “The Who, What, Why, and How of Driving Adoption and Outcomes,” TSIA’s executive director, Thomas Lah, explains how successful adoption of technology is your key to unlocking the door to expansion and renewal.

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Is Your UX Team Missing This Important Expert?

UserTesting

I recently discovered that my car helpfully sounds its alarm to let me—and everyone else within a six block radius—know when its battery is about to die. It was around 7:00 AM on a Saturday morning, and I was desperate … The post Is Your UX Team Missing This Important Expert? appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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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Why Competing on Price Always Win

The Product Coalition

Conventional wisdom says “competing on price is a race to the bottom”. As a result some businesses are not open to exposing the prices of their products and services and some would even create complex sale and pricing structures that would hog decision-making. A case in point to share?—?I am one of those city dwellers who would leverage on the lame excuse of “the inexorable hustle and bustle of life that prevents me from keeping a healthy lifestyle” to procrastinate my decision on an exercise re