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Overcoming ‘Innovator’s Block’: Designing Products with Metaphors

ProductCraft

Skip to content. ProductCraft by Pendo. Subscribe. Best Practices. Perspectives. Profiles. Debates. Podcast. #ProductStack. Perspectives. Overcoming ‘Innovator’s Block’: Designing Products with Metaphors. By Mike Storrs – Aug. 7, 2018. Share Post: One of the toughest issues facing product managers and designers is the ability to consistently create unique solutions to existing problems.

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Take Advantage of Project Advances

Johanna Rothman

Project advances might be rare. However, you can take advantage of seeing the conditions to create your advance. I’m at the Agile 2018 conference this week. Yesterday, I was scheduled to deliver my Agile and Lean Roadmapping talk at 10:45 am. However, the room was full 15 minutes in advance. I checked with the volunteers—yes, they had closed the room.

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The One Question You Need to Answer as a New Product Leader

UserVoice

Outline The One Question What Could Inhibit My Ability to Succeed? Is it people, process, policies, vision, etc? What do I have control over and what do I not? Do I have the influence i need to change things for the better? Prioritizing Potential Problem Areas Eisenhower Model – Urgency vs. Importance Avoid the time vampires and zombie efforts It’s not you, it’s me… Make a Plan to Tackle.

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Persuasion Tips: Have A Goal

The Secret PM Handbook

Understand and articulate what you’re trying to achieve. (This article is a follow-on to my overview article on persuasion tips for product managers.). Every presentation or opportunity for persuasion has a goal, or possibly a few goals. Are you trying to get some executives to make a decision in your favor? Are you aiming to protect yourself from potential blowback from something that went wrong?

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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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UXspresso with Deckchair: You are not your user

TryMyUI

TryMyUI helped UX consultancy Deckchair boost their client's revenue by 147% after usability testing showed that users weren't using their site in the way they expected. The post UXspresso with Deckchair: You are not your user appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Product Management is on the up-and-up – why now?

BrainMates

Product Management has been around for as long as there have been companies selling products, but Product Management is on the rise. Product Managers are in short supply – named as one of just five key roles in the Startup Talent Gap report released in July 2018 by start-up peak body StartupAUS in collaboration with Microsoft, the University of Technology Sydney and Google – alongside coders, startup-focused sales roles, user experience designers, and data scientists.

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The 7 Best Talks from the Experts at ProductCon NYC 2018

The Product Coalition

Practical advice for building world-changing products If I learned anything from ProductCon SF earlier this year, it’s that we all have a bias towards framing, so if I tell you that this summary of last week’s ProductCon NYC, put on by Product School , was amazing, you’re more likely to believe it. So… Here’s a WORLD CLASS summary of the talks that were given by the experts at this year’s ProductCon NYC, along with timestamps and links to videos.

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Giving up the ghost: How Hinge disrupted online dating with data and helped users find love

Mixpanel

In August of 2015, Vanity Fair ran an article castigating hookup culture. The author prophesized a “dating apocalypse” and decried the multifarious dating apps of the day. The article pointed a finger at, among others, Hinge for “ swiping romance from the screen. ”. Back then, Hinge’s app–just like Tinder and Bumble–allowed profile swiping, a feature inspired by slot machine gaming psychology and widely blamed for trivializing modern romance.

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How Tech Can Help Parental Leave be the New Normal

Amplitude

There’s been a resurgence of discussion about paid parental leave thanks to a recent op-ed written by Reddit co-founder, and new dad, Alexis Ohanian. He speaks to the disparity in paid parental leave programs between people in high paying jobs versus low paying ones. Ohanian rightly calls for paid parental and family leave policy at the National level.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Gartner Includes Software Usage Analytics in 2018 Hype Cycles

Revulytics

Gartner recently released the Hype Cycle for Software as a Service, 2018 , Hype Cycle for Customer Experience Analytics, 2018 , and Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2018. Software Usage Analytics is included in all three Hype Cycles. Presented as an emerging technology that is ‘On the Rise’, Gartner defines software usage analytics as “ the detailed tracking and analysis of users ’ interactions within a software application.

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5 Soft Skills That All Successful Product Managers Have Mastered

Sequent Learning

The Art As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. A big part of the “art” are soft skills… those personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people. I have been in product management for […]. The post 5 Soft Skills That All Successful Product Managers Have Mastered appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.

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Experiment 05 — Night Mode

Roy Madden

Some of you really love to read Feedly at night, or you prefer to read in night mode all day. In Mobile+AI Lab Experiment 05, we have a new night mode theme that turns Feedly into a friendly low-light experience. To turn on night mode, open the left navigation bar, scroll to the bottom, and tap on “night mode.” Two questions for the community: Question 1.

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Dear Strategy: 055 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Goals

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “In a finance and numbers driven organization, how do you build a case on projects that have more qualitative benefits than specific quantitative benefits?”. Before I get to my answer, and only because I always seem to get these two seemingly similar terms confused, let’s first clarify the difference between “qualitative” and “quantitative” benefits: Qualitative refers to measuring the quality of something.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The One Question You Need to Answer as a New Product Leader

UserVoice

Outline. The One Question. What Could Inhibit My Ability to Succeed? Is it people, process, policies, vision, etc? What do I have control over and what do I not? Do I have the influence i need to change things for the better? Prioritizing Potential Problem Areas. Eisenhower Model – Urgency vs. Importance. Avoid the time vampires and zombie efforts.

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Dear Strategy: 055 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Goals

Dear Strategy

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “In a finance and numbers driven organization, how do you build a case on projects that have more qualitative benefits than specific quantitative benefits?”. Read The Full Blog Post.

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23 Aug Webinar: 10 to 10 Million, Navigating Growth

Mironov Consulting

ProductPlan is hosting a live webinar… When: Thursday, 23 August, 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern . Topic: 10 to 10 Million: Navigating Growth as a Product Manager. Panel: Daniel Elizalde, Rich Mironov, Jim Semick. Registration. The job of a product manager can be challenging at even the most mature companies. But how do you successfully manage products at a company experiencing rapid growth?

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Dear Strategy: 055 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Goals

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “In a finance and numbers driven organization, how do you build a case on projects that have more qualitative benefits than specific quantitative benefits?”. Before I get to my answer, and only because I always seem to get these two seemingly similar terms confused, let’s first clarify the difference between “qualitative” and “quantitative” benefits: Qualitative refers to measuring the quality of something.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Product Love Podcast: Steve Johnson, author of Under10 Playbook

ProductCraft

Skip to content. ProductCraft by Pendo. Subscribe. Best Practices. Perspectives. Profiles. Debates. Podcast. #ProductStack. Podcast. Product Love Podcast: Steve Johnson, author of Under10 Playbook. By Eric Boduch – Aug. 7, 2018. Share Post: This week on the Product Love podcast, I spoke with Steve Johnson, PM guru and CEO of the Under10 Playbook , a guide to simplifying product planning.

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Automating Managed Services Sales

TSIA

Have you read TSIA’s “The State of Managed Services 2018”? If not, you should. It perfectly summarizes the sheer force of change of managed services. To quote the report, “Technology-as-a-service is the single most disruptive force since the inception of information technology,” which is so true. Managed services is transforming how technology is deployed, operated, and optimized.