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Alchemer CTO, Brandi Vandegriff, Receives CIO of the Year Award from Colorado Technology Association

Alchemer Mobile

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award. This award recognizes senior technology leaders who are driving innovation both within their organizations and across the broader technology community.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feat

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How Customer Success Can Grow User Adoption on New Releases

Product Management University

If you’re looking to grow user adoption on your products, a few more tools in your arsenal beyond traditional release announcements and in-product reminders will help your cause. Put yourself in the shoes of your users. They’re short-handed, carrying heavier workloads, and they’re overwhelmed with the amount of information coming at them from every direction, both internally and externally.

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Common misconceptions about product management

Mind the Product

What do product managers do really well, and what do other people think they do? We asked around and here's what you told us. Read more » The post Common misconceptions about product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Freemium to Premium: How Companies Nudge You To Upgrade

The Product Coalition

Duolingo , the gamified language learning app, has revolutionized accessibility in education. Boasting over 500 million users , it offers a freemium model: free basic language courses with an option to upgrade to Duolingo Plus for an ad-free experience, offline lessons, and streak repair. But there is a secret weapon in Duolingo’s arsenal — gentle nudges that persistently push users toward the premium experience.

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480: Putting Design Thinking into practical action – with Tom Granzow

Product Innovation Educators

The Discover, Analyze, Create, Develop Design Thinking Framework for product managers You’ve heard about Design Thinking or even tried it. It is a simple-to-understand tool for solving problems, developing strategy, and most commonly for us product professionals, for developing a new product or service. And while it is simple to understand, that doesn’t mean it is easy to apply.

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Conquering Product-Led Transformation: Strategies for Scaling in Large Enterprises

Dragonboat

A rapid scaling journey for a product organization is no small feat. The larger the company, the more significant the challenges become: team cohesion, strategic direction, and maintaining alignment throughout the organization. Recently, the CPO Series had the pleasure of hosting Rob Seidman, Chief Product Officer for the POS and lending division at U.S.

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Organisations starve on a diet of low-hanging fruit

Mind the Product

This article challenges the dominance of marginal gains in product strategies, promoting a shift towards addressing product debt. Read more » The post Organisations starve on a diet of low-hanging fruit appeared first on Mind the Product.

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A Product Leader’s Top 3 Learnings from ProductWorld 2024

ProductPlan

As the Head of Product at ProductPlan, I spend a lot of time talking to product teams and learning about their experiences throughout the product development process. I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. Sometimes, it’s helpful to get out of the day-to-day and see things from a different lens.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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9 Customer Analytics Use Cases For SaaS

Userpilot

Looking for customer analytics use cases that can significantly improve your SaaS? You’re at the right place. This article lists key use cases for SaaS and explains how to implement them to unlock customer satisfaction and product growth. We also cover: Customer analytics categories. The three types of customer analytics and their significance. Key metrics you should be measuring.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

You’re an unemployed agilist. And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job.

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481: Lessons learned developing medical products – with Ron Richard

Product Innovation Educators

Product management insights from medical innovations Today we are talking about product management and innovation of medical products. Throughout my career, I’ve often found the best insights for improving my product work by learning from other industries, so even if you are not involved in medical products, you’ll be able to apply the practices you are about to hear.

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Mastering continuous discovery with B2B products with Katie Marcus (Product Lead, Progression, Depop)

Mind the Product

In our latest episode on The Product Experience, we delve into a great discussion with Katie Marcus, Product Lead at Progression. Katie gives us a deep insight into the trials and tribulations of fostering continuous discovery within a B2B environment and the start-up space. We cover: 0:00 Continuous discovery in product management 4:43 Implementing continuous Read more » The post Mastering continuous discovery with B2B products with Katie Marcus (Product Lead, Progression, Depop) appeared

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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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Limiting Beliefs: Ditch the 4 Dream Killers Holding You Back

Nir Eyal

You’re probably not going to fulfill all your goals this year. And if you don’t, it likely won’t be because you’re incapable; it will be because you got in your own way. A slew of self-limiting beliefs will distract you from your goals and New Year’s resolutions. Below are four ways you’re likely to shoot yourself in the foot with self-limiting beliefs, plus ways you can learn to get out of your own way.

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Amplitude Pathfinder: How Does It Work? [+ Better Alternative]

Userpilot

If you’re getting started with product analytics and want to better understand your users and how they reach conversion, then Amplitude Pathfinder is one of the most commonly recommended tools. Using a legacy pathfinder like this one can do wonders for your SaaS business: Tracking the steps users take to complete a specific event means you can study whether users take a less-than-optimal route or if they run into any friction.

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The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Whimsical —The iterative product workspace • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. • LinkedIn Ads —Reach professionals and drive results for your business — Noam Lovinsky has had a distinguished career in product, leaving an indelible mark at Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack, and currently as the chief product officer at Grammarly.

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It’s a Different World: Lessons Learned as a Sales Associate at Seven-Eleven

The Product Coalition

When I chose to work at a Seven-Eleven in an american working-class suburban neighbourhood, my intuition told me that it was… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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How to obtain Product- Market fit with AI

Mind the Product

Darian Chavira, senior product manager at Rockwell Automation, outlines the power of data science in achieving product-market fit and how it can transform your product development strategy. Read more » The post How to obtain Product- Market fit with AI appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Advanced Filters Provide Greater Insight into Product Portfolio Roadmap

Gocious Blog

Having one central dashboard that allows you to see the entire product portfolio and their release milestones or major shared component adoptions across your products provides a great ability for stakeholders to understand how products come together and whether they are aligned across various teams.

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How to Use Userpilot Paths to Understand User Behavior? A Guide

Userpilot

Userpilot has been improving its analytics capabilities consistently to enable product teams to make data-driven decisions. Following Retention, Funnels, Trends, and Flow analytics, we’ve just launched Userpilot Paths. In this article, we explain what Paths is, how to create the report, its use cases, and compare it to similar features in other tools.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Why? Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. So, selling “agile” into the organization doesn’t create any traction for change. Agile coaches and Scrum Masters are staff positions, not “line” jobs.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Software Is Not Insightful: Distinctions Between Data And Insight

The Product Coalition

Differences between “what happened” and “why it happened.

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Ethical AI in SaaS: A product manager’s guide to responsible innovation

Mind the Product

Introduction In the fast-paced world of SaaS product management, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of innovation. We chase the next big feature, the groundbreaking solution, all while navigating the ever-shifting landscape of user expectations and market trends. But sometimes, the most significant lessons come not from moments of triumph, but from Read more » The post Ethical AI in SaaS: A product manager’s guide to responsible innovation appeared first on Mind the Pr

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My UX Design Journey (part II): Experience outlived in the dimensions of design thinking.

UX Planet

Hey there! Cover me and together we discover the delicacies, I used design thinking to adjust my design for my UX design projects.

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10 Analytics Dashboard Examples to Gain Data Insights for SaaS [+Best Tools]

Userpilot

Are you tracking SaaS metrics without knowing how to make the analytics process easier? Analytics dashboards are visualization tools that give you an overview of key metrics. This makes it much easier to extract insights from your analysis compared to looking at mere numbers. In this article, we’ll discuss 10 analytics dashboard examples. It will give you a better understanding of the type of metrics to monitor in your dashboard and help you draw product growth insights from them.

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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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Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for March 15, 2024

Johanna Rothman

This week, my 60 seconds of WIP is from the speaking book. Enjoy! Video: When I let social media know, I only included this blog post, not the video. Here’s the video on my YouTube Channel. The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP for March 15, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.

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Discover the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

The Product Coalition

Let’s talk about the spaces, places and sources we explore to find new ideas.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Quick read – How to influence decisions using research

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2021 post that looks at a panel discussion in which Cindy Alvarez, Steve Portigal, and Michelle Lotia share their tips on how to influence decisions using research. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Quick read – How to influence decisions using research appeared first on Mind the Product.