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The value of hard work and perseverance

Lead on Purpose

Recently I was reminded of a story about a young man who lived during the 1849 Gold Rush. An older, wiser man observed him passing by obvious ‘flecks’ of gold in the stream, and asked him why.

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Lean experiments: Tristan Kromer on better product process

Mind the Product

I spoke to Lean Startup coach Tristan Kromer at Lean Startup Week earlier this month, where he presented a workshop about a “lean experiments toolbox”. Lean Startup Week is a conference for teams and leaders interested in applying a Lean Startup methodology to their product and Tristan helped to organise the Lean Unconference that kicked off the week’s activities.

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Understanding User Psychology: Meet Your Happy Chemicals

Sachin Rekhi

As product designers, we aspire to build product experiences that are not only useful (solve a real pain point for our users) and usable (effortlessly allow our users to accomplish their goal), but ultimately delightful (elicit a positive emotion from users). I find product teams are usually pretty good at building useful experiences, identifying pain points through market research, industry expertise, and their own experiences.

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When I built products the stupid way

Street Smart Product Manager

In 2007, ProductRepair (name changed), a market leader in its industry, was facing some serious threats: A rapidly maturing business. New “digitally native” entrants with greatly enhanced data collection abilities. A 100% call center based customer service model, with an escalating cost per interaction. Service partners with increasingly divergent strategies.

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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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The value of hard work and perseverance

Lead on Purpose

Recently I was reminded of a story about a young man who lived during the 1849 Gold Rush. An older, wiser man observed him passing by obvious ‘flecks’ of gold in the stream, and asked him why.

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Gift Yourself a New Career 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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As Athletes Go All-Natural, What Are The Gatorade Product Managers To Do?

The Accidental Product Manager

Gatorade has been a staple of sporting events forever Image Credit: airsofttherapy. Quick question: what happens to a U.S. football coach if his team wins the big game? If you said ″he gets a big container of Gatorade poured over his head″ then you were correct. The reason that this has become such a staple of the sport is because just about every major sporting event has a lot of Gatorade lying around.

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Unique, not perfect–and other innovation insights for product managers Nov 18, 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. Product management teams need to create something unique, not perfect. This article shares three tasks product management teams need to do. #3 is most important. (1) Know what your target market wants. (2) Make sure your decisions fall within your core business strategy. (3) Develop your product into something unique but imperfect.

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Designing Invisible Products

Mind the Product

As we created our AI assistants – Amy & Andrew – to help people book meetings painlessly, we encountered quite a few product design challenges which were, quite frankly, completely novel. When designing an artificially intelligent agent that humans would enjoy interactive with via conversation, the factors you need to consider and the hoops you have to jump through can be quite unexpected.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Gift Yourself a New Career 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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How To Setup A Growth Team For Maximum Impact

Brian Balfour

Part of every team’s identity is how they measure success, and each team measures their success in different ways. Product teams might be measured by NPS, feature output, or possibly by metrics. An engineering team’s success may be measured by uptime and reliability among other things, and a design team’s success could be measured on usability. But measuring the success of the growth team is a tougher question.

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TEI 098: When product managers’ good ideas are not enough-with Samuel Bacharach, PhD - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

I have a great guest for us to learn from – the author of a new book, The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough. Doesn’t that sum up the challenge of being a product manager – when your good idea is not enough. My guest, Professor Samuel B. Bacharach, argues that in order to implement any innovation — no matter how great your idea — that you must be an “agenda mover.” He’s analyzed how leaders such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates,

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Behind the Research: Customer Success

TSIA

At TSIA, we provide technology and services businesses with the insights they need to grow, advance, and achieve their desired outcomes in our rapidly evolving industry. At the heart of this in-depth research are TSIA's research executives , who keep their fingers on the pulse of what's new and what's next in technology and services in order to deliver compelling content, best practices, and tools to our members.

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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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Dec 15: Market-Facing Skills for Product Managers/Owners

Mironov Consulting

What: Product Management Fast Track Meetup. Topic: Market-Facing Skills for Product Managers and Product Owners. When: Dec 15th (Thurs), 6pm – 830pm. Where: San Francisco (venue TBD). Details/Registration ($20). New product managers and product owners often focus on technical and transactional details, such as writing and accepting stories, grooming backlogs, drafting bills of materials (i.e., the essential parts of a software product, including the non software items) and collaborating w

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Qual or Quant? Research isn't either-or anymore

dscout People Nerds

Mobile research technology takes down the qual-quant dichotomy.

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Rebooting Product Usability Testing for Much Better Insights

bpma ProductHub

Contributed by Mitch Solomon. Usability Testing – Something Has Always Seemed Off… Something has never seemed quite right to us about how product usability testing is done. No matter what is being tested, from software to cereal to screwdrivers, there is always a herd of elephants – in the room. With their rows of booths and test kitchens and cameras and glass, usability labs and focus group facilities are nothing like the places people actually use products.

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TSIA Service Trends Webinar Roundup: Fall Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping technology services organizations of all sizes stay on top of the latest best practices for growing and advancing their business. Our 30-minute TSIA Pulse webinars are a great way to hear directly from our research team about how emerging industry trends are affecting their respective service discipline, and what you can do to stay current.

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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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Scaling Lean Principles by Jeff Gothelf

Mind the Product

Coach, lean advocate and author Jeff Gothelf talked about scaling Lean principles at this year’s London #mtpcon. Lean methodologies work well for a single team observes Gothelf: “A lean startup reduces risk by regular and continuous experimentation. When you take the concept of lean and combine it with agile you start to build a practice of continuous learning, and at the core of continuous learning is experimentation and humility.

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3 Platform Updates for Easier, Faster Analysis

dscout People Nerds

Try and see our new menus, filters and search features.

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Design at the convergence of digital and material realities

Product Bookshelf

Design languages are evolving to help us mediate our relationship to the powerful digital technology that pervades our lives. Each design language expresses cognitive metaphors that provide ease with or understanding of technology. Design Languages by Stefano Caggiano. In Design Languages , Stefano Caggiano explores the evolution of industrial design themes over the past 50+ years.

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TSIA Service Trends Webinar Roundup: Fall Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping technology services organizations of all sizes stay on top of the latest best practices for growing and advancing their business. Our 30-minute TSIA Pulse webinars are a great way to hear directly from our research team about how emerging industry trends are affecting their respective service discipline, and what you can do to stay current.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Amsterdam product managers: who we are and how we work

Mind the Product

Since 2012, our friends at Mind The Product have done multiple surveys on the facts and figures of the product community. We at ProductTank Amsterdam have always looked with a lot of interest at these and have wondered for a while how those numbers would compare to a local investigation here in Amsterdam. So here there is the first local survey of our Amsterdam community.

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The Single Best Book I’ve Read In The Last 2 Years [seriously]

Bryce York

My friend Nikki asked me to recommend an internet marketing book yesterday – she’s getting on a plane to Canada today so wanted something interesting to keep her busy. Only one book came to mind and it’s without a doubt the best book I’ve read in the last 2 years (of about 30). In my opinion, it’s more practical than most of the $2000+ courses I’ve done over the years.

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[SlideShare] 3 Support Services Benchmark Trends

TSIA

Through TSIA's comprehensive benchmarking program, you can measure your company's performance against your industry peers, identify your strengths, and see where you can improve to ensure future success. For a sample of the type of insight you will receive by taking advantage of this valuable resource that comes with TSIA membership, take a look at this SlideShare featuring 3 key research trends from TSIA's Support Services Benchmark Study.

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