Thu.Sep 26, 2019

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When is Your Product Ready to Remove the “Beta” Tag?

ProductPlan

Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product managers leverage beta testing. It’s such an incredibly important and useful tool in the product development process. Internal tests can’t replicate what happens in the real world. A well-run beta program will net a slew of bug reports, suggestions, and additional requests from beta testers.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

? ?. It’s hard to find a hotter trend in Silicon Valley than the idea of turning your product into a platform. And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created.

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Scaling Matters by Beata Kovacs

Mind the Product

How do we take a product or team to the next stage? In her ProductTank London talk, Beata Kovacs, Product Director at GSK , takes us through her framework for scaling a startup and the strategic areas that need to be addressed, including: Goals and priorities. Skills and people. Culture and process. Watch the video to see Beata’s talk in full. Or read on for an overview of her key points.

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The Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite

First Round Review

Poor planning can spell disaster for companies and sow distrust among teams. Drawing from their careers at Eventbrite and Airbnb, Lenny Rachitsky and Nels Gilbreth break down their "W Framework" to help startup leaders develop plans, earn alignment and execute effective planning cycles every time.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Finding Your UX Niche: How to Define Your Research Role and Philosophy

dscout People Nerds

The UX field is changing, and we’re changing with it. Take a second to check in on your career direction—and to find a research specialty that inspires you and inspires growth. .

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Nutritionally Balanced Food: Japanese Food Startup, BASE FOOD, Expands to the U.S. with Innovative Product Reinventing Staple Foods

freshtrax

In Japan, the food tech and nutritionally balanced food product industries didn’t exist and consumers weren’t familiar with the concept of the industry. That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. BASE FOOD officially launched in April of 2016 in Japan and became Amazon Japan’s top seller of the year in the food category for 2017.

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Speaking From Experience – The CEO’s Guide To UX

UXCam Bluespace

When it comes to getting to grips with the user experience, embrace the power of your three most important weapons - technology, your employees and your customers!

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Webinar recap: 4 solutions to improve collaboration for enterprise teams

Miro

Webinar recap: 4 solutions to improve collaboration for enterprise teamsToday’s enterprise teams are working across locations, with multiple stakeholders, on enormous, multi-stage projects. In this complex environment, a variety of collaboration challenges arise. As Iris Latour, Customer Success Manager at Miro, explains, “The process of collaboration is inherently messy, and sometimes we have to embrace […].

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Trends in Technology and Services Companies

TSIA

Each quarter, TSIA consolidates the results from 50 of the largest publicly traded technology and services companies; we refer to these companies as the Technology & Services 50. The purpose of this exercise is to establish performance data and understand the major trends impacting the technology industry. We also conduct a similar exercise focused on 40 of the largest public SaaS companies, those that were “born in the cloud”; we call these companies the Cloud 40.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and User Story Mapping

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SAFe includes practices and principals for large scale software development efforts. The intent is to scale what works for smaller teams for the larger enterprise by using agile and lean practices. The goal is to use processes like lean and Agile to decrease cycle times and coordinate work at scale. We occasionally get questions on where the User Story Mapping fits into SAFe.

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Building a Branded Research Practice with Vicki Tollemache of Grubhub

UserInterviews

To get everyone on board with research, Vicki decided to turn Grubhub's research practice into an engaging brand.

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Modus Create Welcomes Larry Roe As SVP, Business Development

Modus Create

Reston, Virginia (September 24, 2019): Digital product development consultancy Modus Create, Inc. is pleased to announce and welcome Larry Roe as SVP, Business Development. Mr. Roe will be responsible for leading Modus’ growth engine, identifying new engagements to better serve our customers within our digital transformation portfolio of work, and developing new and existing partnerships. “Larry’s vast experience in consulting and software delivery made him a prime choice to lead the growi

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Announcing NextBigWhat Meetup: Mistakes Product Managers Make!

NextBigWhat

What are the mistakes that Product Managers usually make? At the upcoming NextBigWhat Meetup, we’ll be diving deep into this subject. Not just the basic errors that beginners make, but also blind spots and cognitive traps that trip up seasoned Product Managers. As usual, Ashish Sinha, founder at NextBigWhat will be joined by a special guest speaker who will be sharing insights for practitioners and aspiring PMs alike.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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We Redesigned Our Blog!

UserInterviews

We considered speed, navigation, UX, accessibility, discoverability, engagement, and more in our relaunch of the User Interviews blog. Check it out.

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Writing Engaging Customer Surveys That Get Responses

Amplitude

Customer surveys are one of the best ways to get qualitative information Surveys allow people to share constructive and positive insights in a place where they can feel comfortable speaking candidly. about how your customers are feeling about your product, services, and other offerings. Surveys allow people to share constructive and positive insights in a place where they can feel comfortable speaking candidly, rather than directly to the face of a question-asker.

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Drive Adoption with these Major and Minor Release Notes Examples

Userpilot

If there’s one thing SaaS companies need to be good at, it’s launching new features or products. As you’re about to see from these major and minor release notes examples, some of them are brilliant at it. But a lot of SaaS companies get the building and shipping part right, then struggle when it comes to actually driving adoption. Release notes can be a bit of a pain to get right.