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Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?

Street Smart Product Manager

In order to pursue any product idea — a new product, or a new feature for an existing product — you must make sure it’s a problem worth solving. If it doesn’t solve a tangible, real problem that lots of people are facing, and are willing to pay to have solved, it’s not worth spending … Continue reading "Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?".

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Good Products Start With Good Questions

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: My friend Jake Knapp just published a fantastic book titled, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. The book details a process he and his colleagues at Google Ventures use to quickly go from idea, to prototype, to live test. Jake put together an exclusive excerpt from the book for NirAndFar.com […].

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How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solution

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Internal tools are one of the most overlooked parts of any robust IoT solution. Product Managers usually focus on the customer-facing parts of the solution and leave internal tools as an afterthought. However, IoT solutions typically require a significant amount of monitoring, controlling, and behind-the-scenes operation. Related article: Internet of Things: A Primer for Product Managers If you don’t plan ahead and build […] The post How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solu

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Three. Two. One. Go – Bringing the Donuts 03/16/2016

Ken Norton

How do you make sure your new PM is successful? -. After much discussion, your startup – or division at a larger company – has decided it’s time to hire its first product manager. You can finally breathe a sigh of relief. How do you make sure they’re successful? I’ve written about the first days at a new company from the.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.

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Introducing the Technology-as-a-Service Playbook

TSIA

In our previous book, B4B , we talked about the rising popularity of cloud-based business models, and the transition technology companies are making from products to services. Now, it’s time for us to embark on the next part of this journey. As customers choose new ways to consume technology, more solutions providers are adding subscription-based technology-as-a-service (XaaS) offers into their portfolios.

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Give your content distribution wings

Roy Madden

If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If you create a piece of content, but no one reads it, does it exist? Despite investing time, money, and sweat into creating the content, driving readers to your content can be just as difficult. Whether you are a content marketer, a blogger, or a big publisher, this has becoming increasingly difficult in an accelerating world of online content and biased social feeds.

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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.

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What makes a great Product Manager

ProductBoard

As I work on productboard , I get asked this question a lot. Either because you folks are hiring more product managers or because you want to get better at product management yourselfs. The Problem — Solution card I see product management as a union between problems and solutions. Think about it as a card. One side is a Problem, the other is a Solution.

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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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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.