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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

Ben shared that the landscape of OKR implementation changed after 2018, when John Doerr’s book Measure What Matters sparked widespread interest in the framework. Common OKR Implementation Failures and How to Avoid Them Some people have tried using OKRs and don’t like them. I asked Ben what reasons he has seen for this.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization. In 2018, contract workers outnumbered fulltime employees, highlighting Googles reliance on external expertise. Prototyping and design: Wireframes, mockups, user experience flows.

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Inside the AI Revolution in Digital Banking UX: Case Studies, Data, and Strategic Takeaways

UX Planet

A deep dive into how artificial intelligence is shaping the next generation of financial user experiences — through metrics, strategy, and real success stories Until recently, most banks and financial organizations treated artificial intelligence (AI) as tomorrow’s experiment. For example, Europe’s stricter regulatory environment (e.g.,

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I Spent $60,000 on a UX Design Bachelor’s Degree — Was it Worth it?

UX Planet

When I started my degree in 2018, UX was a fairly new term and job position (at least to the general workforce). In fact, when I applied to the program back in 2018 it wasn’t even called a ‘ UX Design program,’ it was instead ‘Interactive & Social Media.’ Yet what I didn’t know going into the program was the UX class size.

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Maybe We Should Be Problem Managers Instead

Speaker: Steve Johnson, Founder and CEO, Under10 Playbook

Rather than departmental issues, these are product strategy issues. June 5, 2018 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT Three things keep company leaders awake at night: 1) Can we sell more of what we built? 2) Can we build what we’ve planned? And 3) Are we planning the right things? Qualitative vs Quantitative: which to choose?

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Multi Factor Authentication for Synthetic Monitoring for AVD

eG Innovations

Finally, I will also cover some tips and MFA best practices including how to ensure synthetic monitoring and simulated testing does not become an Achilles’ heel and weak point in your AVD monitoring strategy. What is MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)?

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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Product Analytics, Prioritization, and Decision-Making - What We Can Learn from Einstein and Drucker

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

How do you trade off multiple excellent options to choose the one option that’s best aligned with your strategy and which will deliver the most value to the market with the resources you have? May 10, 2018 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT In this confusing world, how do you decide which features to build, and why? And much more!

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Understanding Users at Scale with Product Analytics

Speaker: Sandhya Hegde, Director of Product, Amplitude

Whether you are building new features, trying to improve customer experience or battling poor retention - user behavior forms the foundation of your product strategy. Present and drive product strategy based on evidence. March 20 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT Create frameworks to analyze user behavior.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

King uses almost a competitive launch strategy for new games, as each game has a series of KPIs that it needs to meet. The key is the strategy and tools for accessing product data at the level that you'd like. take on how he guides King’s Product Managers through: How to think through product data strategy.

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Selling Data and Decisions to your Team

Speaker: Cait Porte, SVP Product and Customer Experience, Zmags

Strategies for getting to commitment, not consensus. January 31, 2018 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT. During this discussion, we'll talk through: Leveraging data to make feature decisions. Gathering feedback to uncover road blocks and objections. How to involve and align key stakeholders in prioritization discussions.

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Embedded Analytics, Everywhere

Speaker: Dean Yao, Director of Marketing at Jinfonet

Dean Yao will talk you through powerful strategies and best practices in embedded reporting, dashboards and analytics that will add value to your products and applications while giving you an analytics partner you can rely on. September 20, 2018 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT.

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The Top 5 Most Common Rapid Prototyping Mistakes

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk

In this webinar, we'll discuss: Strategies for drastically cutting down prototyping time. June 19, 2018 1:30 PM PDT, 4:30 PM EST, 8:30 PM GMT We need to know what to prototype and when, who to test our prototypes with, and how to conduct those tests in a way to get reliable feedback.