Mon.Sep 14, 2020

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What Is Your Product?

The Product Coalition

What Is Your Product? “So, what is your product?” That was the key question I posed in my Agile Cincinnati keynote recently. In my product coaching work, I have come to realize that many organizations don’t have a clear and consistent answer to this fundamental question. This has serious consequences. A poorly defined product impacts your ability to respond to changing customer and market needs.

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How to Avoid Product Discovery Pitfalls, by Navin Nair

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk Navin Nair, – Product Consultant and Chief Product Officer of JustPark, shares some of the common mistakes and pitfalls he finds Product Managers make during the product discovery process. Watch the video to see his talk in full, or read on for an overview of the common mistakes he highlights, including: [.]. Read More.

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What to Expect From An Agile Coach, And How To Spot An Impostor.

The Product Coalition

Powerful questions are at the heart of traditional business coaching. But being an Agile Coach requires you to have a multitude of other… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Bringing Service Thinking to SaaS Product Management

ProductCraft

As consumers of technology products (or really any product), we feel entitled to the best customer service available. As the old cliché goes, “the customer is always right.” With escalation paths just a click away, it’s easier than ever to report a poor customer experience and express displeasure via reviews and ratings. And dissatisfied customers.

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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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How to Make Your Ecommerce Store More Competitive

The Product Coalition

Having an ecommerce store is a great way to make your products accessible to a broad market, whether locally or globally. In fact, retail… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Why Product Managers Vary So Much

The Product Coalition

Developing better understanding of PM discipline through a product lifecycle Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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TEI 300: Off the cuff on product management – with Steve Johnson

Product Innovation Educators

A conversation of insights for product managers. This is our 300th episode. The podcast started in January 2015, and we have not missed a week. Thank you so much for listening and for sharing it with others! The purpose of the podcast has not changed—to better equip product managers and leaders for more success. Some Everyday Innovators have shared how listening has helped them—doubling their salary, finding a new job after not interviewing for many years, moving to a different industry, gaining

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How Many Customers Will This Feature Impact?

The Product Coalition

We’ve all had arguments about whether customers are going to want this feature or that. Maybe it’s about how the feature might work or… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Managers: See Your Cycle Time to Reduce Your Team’s Lead Time

Johanna Rothman

Do you have any idea how long it takes you to make decisions? Or, to clear impediments? Or to report to your team or your boss about your action items? Each of those items is a deliverable. That means we might be able to measure the cycle time for each of these deliverables. Normally, we measure cycle time for teams. (See Measure Cycle Time, Not Velocity for more details.).

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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 6 Best Video Chat Solution for Virtual Classrooms

The Product Coalition

The current pandemic situation has created a great demand for online learning. Several institutes are opting for virtual classrooms and interactive modes of collaborations. However, the type of learning is not familiar to all categories of institutes yet. Many teachers are still trying to find secure virtual classrooms and are searching for the best interactive video platform in virtual learning.

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A Product Manager’s Journey

The Product Guy

Where does a Director of Product Management start? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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Template for Onboarding a New Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Photo by Gia Oris on Unsplash Background: At a growing company, I found myself onboarding several new product managers consecutively. After the first onboarding, I decided to make a checklist to solve the personal jobs to be done (JTBD) of how might I accomplish the following goals: - How might I clearly outline all the stakeholders and decision-makers for the new product manager to meet with?

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Fast Food Product Managers Make It Through A Pandemic

The Accidental Product Manager

The pandemic was a bad thing, but fast food restaurants are coming back Image Credit: jpellgen (@1179_jp). I think that we can all agree that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a very, very bad thing. Just about every business was shut for a period of time and every product manager had their carefully created product development definition disrupted by the events that were caused by the pandemic.

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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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Template for Building a Winning Delivery Process Between Commercial and Product/Engineering…

The Product Coalition

Template for Building a Winning Delivery Process Between Commercial and Product/Engineering Leadership In a fast-moving B2B organization closing big deals, a legacy organization improving agile or, a fast-moving startup with critical features on the horizon the issue of aligning engineering investment, roadmap delivery dates, and missed expectations can quickly spin out of control.

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Impact Pricing – IoT Business Models and Pricing Strategies

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Many companies make the mistake of launching IoT solutions without a business model plan or a pricing strategy. In this interview at the Impact Pricing podcast, I discuss best practices to avoid this pitfall. Companies often fall into the trap of believing that what has worked for other companies will work for them. These companies […]. The post Impact Pricing – IoT Business Models and Pricing Strategies appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.

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The Story of One (Incisive, Female) PM

The Product Coalition

Unconscious bias? You decide. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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SAAS Playbook: Learn from Gaurav of JustCall ($5mn ARR Bootstrapped startup) #GrowthTalkies

NextBigWhat

GrowthTalkies brings you extremely practical insights from the practitioners and this Sat, we have Gaurav Sharma of JustCall/Helpwise sharing his lessons from bootstrapping to $5mn ARR business. Over the last 10 years of building, running, and investing in numerous B2B businesses – I noticed some common patterns & key factors that can influence your startup journey’s outcome.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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3 Vitals for Creating High-Impact Wearables and Health Trackers

Centercode

Wearables have quickly become an easy way to enhance health, personal care, and fitness routines and deliver notifications from paired mobile devices. In 2019, the number of wearable shipments jumped over 80% with a new high of 118.9 million units. By 2024, that number is expected to reach 526.8 million.

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Bain Public to lead an expert workshop in collaboration with Centech-Accélération

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a workshop on September 17th in collaboration with Centech : a world-class business incubator based in Montreal. Centech is dedicated to high-tech (deeptech) companies with high growth potential. It is a non-profit organization fueled by ÉTS open to everyone and offers two support programs for startups: the acceleration program (12 weeks), then the strongest potentials are sele

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Uplevel Renewal and Expansion Strategies with New Revenue Optimization Capabilities

Gainsight

Janet Jackson once asked, “What have you done for me lately?” Well, from Gainsight’s customer-centric perspective—a lot! We all know how essential it has become to protect and expand your customer base during the current economic downtown, as new logo sales become more challenging. In fact, in a recent survey Gainsight conducted, business leaders shared that two of the top areas they’re focused on improving during this time are risk management and retention forecasting.

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Finding Product Market Fit: Thinking Models and Frameworks. Attend the #GrowthTalkies Workshop by Vikrama Dhiman (Head of Products at Gojek)

NextBigWhat

Mental models are frameworks that give people a representation of how the world works. To put it simply, mental models are a set of beliefs and ideas that we consciously or unconsciously form based on our experiences. They’re basically thinking tools—shortcuts for reasoning. In the upcoming episode of #GrowthTalkies, learn how to go about finding product-market fit using different thinking models and frameworks, from the Head of Transport Products at Gojek, Vikrama Dhiman.

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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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30 Mobile App Best Practices: The Ultimate List

UXCam Bluespace

The complete list of best practices for your mobile app.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. That may be the record for anyone other than search professionals. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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The ultimate guide to experimentation for product teams

The Product Coalition

The Ultimate Guide to Experimentation for Product Teams Why run Experiments? What is a Minimum Viable Test? How to define success in experiments? 10 tips to avoid common pitfalls- Part 1 What is experimentation in the product development context? Experimentation is simply applying the scientific principles to establish causation between changes to product and their outcomes.

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Improver Spotlights: Ana Gallo, Design Lead

iTexico Design

Improver Spotlights: Ana Gallo, Design Lead. At Improving Enterprises we are always looking to attract the right talent: experts in their field who are passionate about asking the right questions and solving the right problems, in order to help our clients achieve digital innovation and business transformation. The Improver Spotlights series aims to highlight the talented individuals who work here, and today it’s all about one of our Design Leads, Ana Gallo.

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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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Protect your Business Data with Cybersecurity

The Product Coalition

Cyber-attacks are launched from one computer from another computer where the aim of cyber-attacks is either to disable the target computer to gain access to the target computer’s data and gain admin privileges to manipulate this data. One such attack was carried out on the database of online banking company Capital One. The credit card applications of hundreds of thousands of people were exposed and this included personal information like birth dates and Social Security numbers.

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An OKR Fable

Product Bookshelf

OKRs blend visionary objectives with measurable outcomes. The OKR framework can inspire teams and bring focus to an entire company. . Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results by Christina Wodtke. Radical Focus is about a management method called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR method has its roots in HP’s Management by Objectives (MBO) which seeks to achieve alignment through a cascading set of objectives through the enterprise.

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The Major Pitfalls of Lean Startup

The Product Coalition

Lean is a great methodology, but like any other methodology, it can be abused if not deeply understood. In my work with startups I noticed two common pitfalls?—?opposite sides of lean taken to the extreme without staying true to its core principles. The pitfalls are listed below, as well as how to avoid them. Photo by Daniel Abbatt from Pexels The best startups I work with have truly embraced the lean startup methodology.

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