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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I Mid-summer test.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. What is Systems Thinking? Interrelationship: all parts affect each other within a system.

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Revolutionizing Design with AI-Powered Design Systems

UX Planet

Exploring How AI Will Revolutionize Design System Creation, Maintenance, and Usage Design systems are an important part of every product app or website. They speed up the design process and help designers and developers deliver solutions faster. Soon, the design team will likely need to train an artificial intelligence system.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.

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Design System Resources for Designers in 2024

UX Planet

Discover a curated list of resources and guides to empower designers in building, maintaining, and creating design systems. Definition “A design system is a set of standards to manage and scale design. Interaction Design Foundation” Design System Repositories: Explore renowned open-source systems from leading global companies.

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Comparing a Systems Product Manager to a Feature Product Manager

Mind the Product

Vignesh Balagopalakrishnan, Group Product Manager at Yelp, looks at the key differences and similarities between a Systems Product Manager and Feature Product Manager. Read more » The post Comparing a Systems Product Manager to a Feature Product Manager appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems.

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services, and Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek

Join Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC DHHS, and Chief Technology Officer, SolonTek, to learn how you can capitalize on your ideas by blending internal with external while leveraging them into a cohesive strategy for both the short term and the long term. What value do you see in your data?

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

There are top-rate certification providers and non-academic programs available to pursue an education in product management, but while these existing pathways have created a great pool of professionals, the current education system is far from optimal.

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Detect and Respond to Threats Across Your Applications, Networks, and Infrastructure

As dynamic, cloud-native environments face increasingly sophisticated security threats, the boundaries between security, development, and operations teams are beginning to fade.

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How to Apply Best Practices from Site Reliability Engineering in Your Organization

Speaker: Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io

As senior software leaders, we’re responsible for both developing complex distributed systems and for the results once they go into production. Ways to achieve understanding of complex systems through the implementation and use of Observability. How to start and build up a culture of Production Excellence in your organization.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

A System of Metrics. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association. A Cascade of Requirements. A Cadence of Ceremonies.

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Schema Evolution Patterns

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code. Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles. Handling hard schema changes safely.

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How to Work with Your Customer Success Team to Create a Great Product Feedback Experience

Speaker: Rebecca Notté, Product Operations Manager and Hannah Chaplin, Director of Product Marketing at Pendo

Throughout this series, we have been discussing ways to innovate your feedback loops, and strategies for incorporating your customers into the heart of your product development systems. It is very common for your product operation team to feel overwhelmed with the amount of customer data that is available to them.