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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. Core competencies: How central is the software to your business, and what would you be giving up to dedicate a team to its development and maintenance?

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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . Commonly, the ‘build vs. buy’ dilemma comes to an abrupt end when companies are reluctant to integrate, or even forbid integrating with, third-party software development kits (SDKs) of any sort.

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Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects

Mironov Consulting

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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The Code and Fix Model

The Product Coalition

However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Code and Fix (often known as Cowboy coding ) is considered the simplest product development process and is the default method for prototyping software-oriented technology solutions.

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Why Machine Learning Products Should be Managed Differently

Mind the Product

Machine learning (ML) based products have particular characteristics and challenges, from data quality to counterfactual problems and explainability. What then are the implications of ML products for team structure, focus, and hiring? Whether the data is good or bad, once interventions are made a counterfactual problem arises.

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Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Concepts and Considerations

The Product Coalition

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. The control group is used as the standard or benchmark to which comparisons are made. The reason is simple.

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How to be a Great Product Leader

Sachin Rekhi

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. a product leader. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team.