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How making decisions leads to freedom

Lead on Purpose

Making decisions is never easy. Deciding on one thing over another ranks high among the most difficult things we have to do. The tendency is to postpone decisions as long as we can and put of the pain.

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Story: Career Advice and Growing in Product Management

bpma ProductHub

The founders of the Boston Women in Product share their story of how they started in product management, some of the challenges they faced and how mentors helped them navigate through these experiences. Cait Porte , Vice President of Product Management, Zmags. As my career in product management accelerated, so did my fear of being able to balance it all.

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Is Scrum Right for Your Product?

Roman Pichler

When is Scrum Most Helpful? A process like Scrum is a great fit for your product when it is brand-new or young, and when you extend its life cycle, as shown in the picture below. This means that not every product will benefit from Scrum: Products that are maturing or declining won’t benefit from Scrum—at least not to the same degree. The picture above shows the traditional, bell-shaped product life cycle curve with three key events: launch—the product first becomes available; achieving product-m

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Product Management And Fear – Three More Powerful Creative Blockbusters

The Secret PM Handbook

Several years ago I had an article about three powerful tips for getting through a creative block. Although focused toward product managers, the tips were general purpose ways to increase your creative output. Morning pages. Crappy first drafts. “Use Your Obvious” You can summarize the three tips pretty easily, despite their variety – “Just Write!

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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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How making decisions leads to freedom

Lead on Purpose

Making decisions is never easy. Deciding on one thing over another ranks high among the most difficult things we have to do. The tendency is to postpone decisions as long as we can and put of the pain.

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Career Advice in Product Management

The Product Guy

More segments from our conversation with Adam Warburton — and shedding some light onto just exactly what makes Adam truly The Best Product Person of 2015. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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The Science of Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

When Nathan Bashaw, CEO of Hardbound, reached out about doing a presentation around my book Hooked, I jumped at the chance to try a fun visual for sharing knowledge about habit-forming products. Let me know what you think of the format below and please share with others. </iframe. The post The Science of Habit-Forming Products appeared first on Nir and Far.

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First Things First: How Does A Product Manager Start?

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers need to know how to get things started Image Credit: Andre Chinn. So you are in the process of starting your brand new product manager job. Congratulations. Now what? What is the first thing that you are going to need to do? As we all know, there are a ton of things that you could do including creating a product development definition, but where to start?

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Product Management in 2017; Upcoming Events for Fall 2016

Good Product Manager

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year.

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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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More of the Latest Career Opportunities in Product Management

The Product Guy

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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TEI 090: Agile product portfolio management- with Brent Barton - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

We have explored the topic of product portfolio management in previous episodes, but not from an Agile perspective. That is the topic for this episode – Agile portfolio management. Each week I talk with a savvy insider to help us understand an aspect of product management and innovation. This time my guest is one of the very first Certified Scrum Trainers, who has been implementing Scrum in organizations for more than a decade and has another decade of experience in software technology.

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New Book: What Product Managers Need To Know About World-Class Product Development

The Accidental Product Manager

What Product Managers Need To Know About World-Class Product Development. As product managers it is our responsibility to create products that our customers will want and that will end up being profitable for our companies. It turns out that this is no easy task. Identifying what a customer really wants and then turning that into a feature that can be delivered to a customer is hard work.

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Product Management in 2017; Upcoming Events for Fall 2016

Good Product Manager

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year.

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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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Creating Exceptional Product Teams

Product Management and Strategic Marketing

One of the challenges of building a great product management team is making sure you have the right combination of skills and experience. How do you make sure your team is the best and has the right set of skills ? Product teams are comprised of many product managers, all of whom have various levels of knowledge and abilities. One of the challenges product leaders face is having people who transferred internally from support or engineering into product management; they posses a good understandin

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Products That Count Podcast

Mironov Consulting

Products That Count has a podcast as well as a monthly meetup. SC Moatti — product leader, author and now venture capitalist — hosts the postcast. She invited me on to talk about technology product management roles, tips on moving up the product career ladder, and the importance of cross-functional communication. We also touched on how incentive structures shape the behavior of non-product groups (such as Sales), and when a startup should hire its first full-time product manager.

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Welcome New TSIA Members! September Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping services organizations both large and small grow and advance in the technology industry. We'd like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional service disciplines TSIA has to offer.

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Troika: Putting the Camera into the Participants' Hands

dscout People Nerds

Susan Kresnicka reflects on the benefits of using dscout vs. traditional ethnography.

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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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UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform

UserTesting

At UserTesting, we believe customer insights should be part of every design and development process. So we’re excited to announce our partnership with InVision—to connect designers and developers with their users early in the development cycle! The traditional methods for … The post UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Colorado ProductCamp–and other innovation insights for product managers Sep 23, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Rocky Mountain ProductCamp returns to Denver – Friday, Nov 4. I love ProductCamp. It is a valuable time to learn from experienced product managers, on topics that the participants themselves choose. I’m glad to see it returning to Denver.

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3 Steps to Leverage Digital Disruption in Your Sales Efforts

TSIA

What do landlines, books, postage stamps, greeting cards, and taxis (and the companies that sell them) have in common? Obsolescence! Meanwhile, startup companies like Uber and Airbnb have reached unicorn status with with zero inventories, and Amazon has changed the face of retail forever.

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UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform

UserTesting

At UserTesting, we believe customer insights should be part of every design and development process. So we’re excited to announce our partnership with InVision—to connect designers and developers with their users early in the development cycle! The traditional methods for … The post UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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.