Tue.Aug 14, 2018

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Is it Time for a Licence to Practise Product Management?

Mind the Product

I recently came across a piece by Mike Monteiro , co-founder and design director of Mule Design, titled Design’s Lost Generation , in which he makes the case that designers should require a licence to do their job. Mike got me thinking; should product managers also require a licence do their job? After all, we’re a sizeable professional community and having a product management certification or licence in place would ensure that all product managers comply with the same standards.

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Strategic Options for Mature Products

Roman Pichler

What Maturity Means. A product is mature if it has stopped growing: The benefits it creates no longer rise. Instead, they have started to stagnate. In terms of the product life cycle model, the product has left the growth stage and entered maturity, as the following picture shows. To find out if your product is mature, you should track its performance.

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Building a long tail of evergreen content

Intercom, Inc.

The first law of content marketing is that publishing is an expensive business. No matter how hard you try to circumvent it, the first law will always come back and bite you. One common approach is to outsource content production, which can be cheaper in pure monetary terms. But unless someone, preferably an editor or with some editorial skills, is closely managing that process you’ll end up paying more for it in the long run.

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How This Head of Engineering Boosted Transparency at Instagram

First Round Review

While leading engineering at Instagram, James Everingham spotted a problem: the inevitable dip in transparent decision-making and communication as teams scale. Drawing on three decades of experience, he shares how to operationalize transparency during hypergrowth.

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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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The most critical relationship for product managers to build

The Product Coalition

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Invest in your relationship with your team’s tech lead and it will pay dividends In my time so far at Doximity , I’ve been fortunate to work with two incredible tech leads. These more senior engineers often find themselves in a challenging role, splitting their time between individual contributor responsibilities as well as management duties.

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My Top 5 Reads for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

In a product manager meeting at our organization recently, we were all handed the book Insipired: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love. Our leadership team had just started reading it and wanted all of the product managers to read it too. They asked if anyone had read it already, and I was the only one. Which surprised me a bit. ? So with that, I wanted to put together my 5 “must read” books for product managers.

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Why You Should Attend our Product Conference, Amplify

Amplitude

If you are product nerds like us and hold learning sacred above all else, we are putting together an event just for you: Amplify 2018 —the product conference hosted by Amplitude. This is not your typical conference. We aim to be the most prestigious and influential gathering of product managers in the world. Save the date: Oct 9th at SVN West, the historic Fillmore West rock and roll concert hall in San Francisco.

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Full Transcript: Nir Eyal on the Product Love Podcast

ProductCraft

Skip to content. ProductCraft by Pendo. Subscribe. Best Practices. Perspectives. Profiles. Debates. Podcast. #ProductStack. Podcast. Full Transcript: Nir Eyal on the Product Love Podcast. By Eric Boduch – Aug. 14, 2018. Share Post: For years now, Nir Eyal has wondered: why do some products fail? Conversely, why do some products succeed and even change their users’ behaviors and habits?

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3 Practices for Building Strong Presentations

The Product Coalition

A Product Demo Field Guide There’s a few components to a product demo. The content of the presentation itself. The nuts-and-bolts logistics of how you’ll physically present your content. And then there’s another aspect you have to plan for?—?the technical difficulties. The mishaps. The curve-balls. The unexpected. Though after having delivered a hundred some-odd product demos, these “unexpected issues” have taken a much more predictable air about them for me.

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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 Modern Product Team Part II: On Being Data-Driven

ProductCraft

Skip to content. ProductCraft by Pendo. Subscribe. Best Practices. Perspectives. Profiles. Debates. Podcast. #ProductStack. Perspectives. The Modern Product Team Part II: On Being Data-Driven. By Adrienne Gajownik – Aug. 14, 2018. Share Post: Not so long ago, finding “designer” and “data” in the same sentence seemed unthinkable. In fact, if you run an unscientific survey of your colleagues right now, chances are the associations for “designer” would be creative, artistic, intuitive, and “d