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Mindfulness Tips for Product Managers and Product Owners

Roman Pichler

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment, to what is actually happening. It helps us become more aware of what we think and feel, and how we are—content, tense, relaxed, stressed, happy, angry, indifferent, restless, worried, or calm. But what’s the big deal? Surely all of us know how we are. But do we really? I find I can be so busy and caught up in activities, thoughts, and emotions that I am not (fully) aware of how I am and what’s going on in my mind and

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Interview: Advice for the Innovator’s Dilemma with Paul Young

bpma ProductHub

Interviewed by Lance Morganelli. For more than a decade people, departments and entire companies (including his own) have asked Paul Young, currently Vice President of Products at Pragmatic Marketing , to deliver successful and continuously improving products. In response, he has given them processes to follow and skilled people to carry them out, which leads to market-responsive products and services.

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Why Women Make The Best Product Managers

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Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. Most people noticed that all six of my examples were female. I didn’t call that out explicitly during my talk because my view is their performance speaks for itself.

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

In the opening keynote at this year’s London #mtpcon, Silicon Valley Product Group’s Marty Cagan shared his latest thoughts on what makes a great product manager by looking at the people behind some great products. Through his time at eBay, Netscape, HP and elsewhere, Cagan has worked with lots of great product teams, and has been influential in his writing and coaching about the role of product over the years, but he acknowledges that there is still a lot of confusion about the role of a produc

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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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Onboarding: Don’t Let Your Customer Relationships Stumble Out of the Gate!

UserVoice

A product is more than just the bits and bytes that comprise the software. It’s more than the user experience that someone has when they’re inside your software and actively using it to solve their problems. It’s more than the bug fixes and patches that go out to resolve customer support issues. Your product is the entire experience, from beginning to end, that your customers experience with.

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How to Reduce Cost and Boost Quality with an IoT Platform

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

News flash: If you’re building your own IoT infrastructure, you’re wasting time and money, and jeopardizing the quality of your product. In this post, I discuss how you can reduce cost and boost quality with an IoT platform, how to choose the right platform, and debunk myths about the benefits of building your infrastructure in-house. You simply don’t […].

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Mind the Product Conferences 2017

Mind the Product

We’re thrilled to announce our 2017 dates for #mtpcon – and in plenty of time for you to add them to your plans (and budgets!) for next year: San Francisco, June 13. Mind the Product San Francisco will return to the stunning Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in the heart of the Civic Center on Tuesday, June 13 with the optional extra workshops on Monday, June 12.

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How Can Product Managers Help Sbarro Come Back From The Brink?

The Accidental Product Manager

Where would we eat in airports if Sbarro ever went away? Image Credit: Robert S. I’m pretty sure that at one time or another, we’ve all eaten at a Sbarro pizza store. In my case, I’ve run into them in airports as I’ve been looking for a quick lunch or dinner on the way to catching my next flight. They are also in just about every mall out there.

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How to Build Technology that Feels Like a Friend

Nir Eyal

It’s impossible to ignore all the buzz about AI bots. Last month, Facebook’s David Marcus announced that over 30,000 bots have been built since the opening of its Messenger app to bot developers in April. Other companies like Google, Amazon, and Slack are welcoming bot-building developers to their platforms with open arms. The post How to Build Technology that Feels Like a Friend appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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TEI 094: Creating product roadmaps for product managers – with Jim Semick - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan , which creates roadmap software for product teams. Jim has helped launch new products generating hundreds of millions in revenue, including being part of the founding team at AppFolio for property management, responsible for the requirements and launch of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting (acquired by Citrix), as well as spending time at Microsoft.

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Metaphor and Stories in Product Management by Elizabeth Churchill

Mind the Product

Product managers are the vision setters and story tellers of a business, according to Elizabeth Churchill , a Director of User Experience at Google – it’s their job to tell compelling stories and engage users. At this year’s London #mtpcon, Churchill, who is a psychologist by training, gave a presentation full of insight and practical takeaways, outlining how people respond to stories and why storytelling skills are essential to a product manager’s role.

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The Power of Controlled Rollouts: Software Development Lessons from the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall

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Samsung recently pulled the plug on its Galaxy Note 7 phones after failing to fix the random combustion problem plaguing them. On a recent flight I was on, an annoucement asked us to power down these devices for the safety of the flight. This week it’s even more official: it’s now a crime to bring one on an airplane , even turned off and in checked luggage.

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TSW Day 2 Recap: Top Attended Sessions

TSIA

Today is the final day of Technology Services World Las Vegas , and I'm back to take a look at the top attended sessions from yesterday. Our 1,600+ attendees had more than 75 breakout sessions to choose from yesterday, crossing all of our service disciplines , with a good mix of tactical and strategic topics. I always like to point out the top attended sessions, because people vote with their feet for the hottest trends and topics.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Product Management Basics for Project Managers (PMI webinar)

Mironov Consulting

Host: Project Management Institute (PMI). Topic: ProDUCT Management Basics for ProJECT Managers. When: 18 October 2016. Product management is often a murky role: poorly understood and inconsistently practiced across tech companies – and often confused with program and project management. Yet done well, product management is a driver of market success and effective development.

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What makes effective decision making so challenging for product managers?

Mind the Product

How can a product manager make effective decisions about the direction of their product? How do they adequately weigh up all the variables to select the best solution from the available options? And how do they make sure that any investment will adequately consider future movements of both the market and the competition? The pressure is on to get it right.

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How to communicate roadmap changes no one wants to hear

UserTesting

One of a product manager’s more difficult tasks is delivering the message when something in the product’s development doesn’t go according plan or to stakeholder expectations. When things go wrong, we all know what can happen to the messenger. But … The post How to communicate roadmap changes no one wants to hear appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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TSW Day 1 Recap: Knowledge Management Front and Center

TSIA

Yesterday was the opening day of Technology Services World in Las Vegas, and it was an action packed day. I started with a partner advisory board meeting at 7AM, then a kickoff meeting for partners, and my opening keynote, " Overcoming Barriers to Knowledge Sharing " at 11:45. We definitely had more people attend my keynote than anticipated, and I'm sorry to everyone who didn't make it into the room.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Mobile Research + Retail Trendspotting

dscout People Nerds

How retailers use dscout’s mobile qualitative research methods.

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How to improve your customer service

Lead on Purpose

Customer service continues to capture the attention and focus of companies, but many organizations still struggle to raise it to the level for which they are striving. What factors play in to good customer service? What do customers really expect?

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How to communicate roadmap changes no one wants to hear

UserTesting

One of a product manager’s more difficult tasks is delivering the message when something in the product’s development doesn’t go according plan or to stakeholder expectations. When things go wrong, we all know what can happen to the messenger. But … The post How to communicate roadmap changes no one wants to hear appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Transitioning from Market Stall to App Store

Mind the Product

In this talk I gave at ProductTank London, I reflected on how mobile has become a massive traffic channel for M&S in just a couple years and the attitudinal transformation that I helped lead there. Specifically, looking back on my journey of inheriting legacy app builds and a rapidly evolving customer, whilst working within an organisation with a deeply entrenched culture of mobile last.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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75% of Millennials still actively pursue what's cool and new IRL

dscout People Nerds

Not all—or even most—product hunting happens online.

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How to improve your customer service

Lead on Purpose

Customer service continues to capture the attention and focus of companies, but many organizations still struggle to raise it to the level for which they are striving. What factors play in to good customer service? What do customers really expect?

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Conducting problem interviews–and other innovation insights for product managers Oct 21, 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. How to do problem interviews – example from Playing Lean. A good interview script has five steps: (1) Tell me a story about…. (2) What was the hardest? (3) Why was that hard? (4) How do you solve it now? (5) Why is that not awesome?