Mon.Dec 31, 2018

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TEI 209: Predictive analytics for product managers – with Brian Brinkmann

Product Innovation Educators

Use data to predict customer behavior and design better products. Do you know which customers are most likely to stop using your product in the next month? Or, what actions your best customers take with your product when they start using it? With the right data, product managers not only know the answers to such questions, but they also know what actions to take to keep customers and a whole lot more.

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Everything You Need to Know About Year-End Budgeting

The Product Coalition

Simply put, the corporate budgeting process exists to provide your company a plan for its spending for the year to come. Yet, for a seemingly-vital part of keeping business healthy, many companies fall into a routine of creating a yearly budget, only to forgot or abandon it weeks or months after they’ve created it. Such a commonly-shared experience is rooted in a misconception that budgets are a one-time roadmap your company should follow as closely as possible throughout the year.

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Writing Advice for Conference Proposals

Johanna Rothman

I'm a shepherd for the XP2019 and Agile2019 conferences. I read the proposals, offer feedback, and then shepherd the papers through to completion once we accept the proposals. I love reading experiences. I'm a total sucker for them. Why? Because they're short stories that reflect the Satir Change Model, the image here. If you're trying to write a proposal for a conference or have an agile story you want to tell, consider framing the story this way: Start with the problems.

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Problems with Product Discovery

The Product Coalition

Working with Product Manager customers on product discovery , I’ve observed some interesting patterns. Teams move from problems to solutions too quickly, use MVPs for solution feedback, are biased on singular requests, and loose context across the process. If the following observations seem like common sense and aren’t problems with your team, good for you!

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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We Need to Rethink the Product Backlog

The Product Coalition

Ah, the product backlog. Two simple words that send shivers down every PM’s spine. For those not yet privy to the horrors of the product backlog, it’s essentially a long to-do list of product requirements?—?a mixture of customer requests, team demands, and strategic ideas. The reason it’s so maligned by Product teams is that every time you complete something on the list, it seems like three new things crop up.