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How Humanising Your Product can Make all the Difference

Mind the Product

For a bootstrapped product start-up, investing in visual design and illustration to humanise your product can seem like a low priority. You’ve bugs to fix, marketing to fund, and a user feedback log as long as your arm. Delightful touches, like illustration, are a luxury for those with six-figure investment, surely? A nice to have – the icing on the cake?

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How to Negotiate Your Product Management Salary

ProductPlan

Salary negotiation isn’t easy in any profession, but it can be particularly tricky in product management. Whether it’s because some companies don’t have an established product management culture or because the role can differ significantly from place to place, product management candidates have a tough time knowing what the right pay range should be for the job they’re interested in.

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Biggest Product Regret

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Remote team meeting etiquette: how to stay polite in a distributed team

Miro

Remote team meeting etiquette: how to stay polite in a distributed teamBeatrix Bodó Product Designer at FrontìraNowadays, we don’t have to be in the same space as our team to do our jobs. Instead, we use video conferencing and virtual meeting tools to stay in touch and collaborate across multiple locations.When we meet face-to-face, it’s much […].

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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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What Jon Stewart and The Daily Show can teach you about managing your time

ProductBoard

I met Jon Stewart once. He and the head writer of The Onion were promoting their new book, America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction, at Poets and Prose in Washington, DC. Now, this was before Aasif Mandvi and Hasan Minhaj became correspondents, and I had a plan to pitch him on a totally great idea that they needed an South Asian American correspondent (me).

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How to Identify Problematic Product Managers

The Product Coalition

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. However, information on what makes a disastrous Product Manager is much harder to come by. This is exceptionally strange because a bad PM can theoretically cause more damage than a great PM can produce success.

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Are Product Management Certifications Worth It?

ProductCraft Debates

As the product manager role grows in ubiquity and importance, we’re seeing a lot of educational opportunities for formalized product management education. Whether these are offered by major universities or scrappy startups, certification opportunities abound, and there are seemingly new ones every day. But before you rack up more student debt, we thought we’d ask: The post Are Product Management Certifications Worth It?

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The Art of Questioning for Maximum Innovation and Minimum Defensiveness

The Product Coalition

Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash I quit my job running the Apple Maps PM team last year. I had been thinking about it for a long time but something a mentor said to me was the catalyst. As an MSOD (Masters of Science, Organization Development) student, I consulted at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in May of 2018. It was a surreal experience in many ways.

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Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and Zendesk

Miro

Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and ZendeskOn February 27, we hosted our «Reshaping teamwork» meetup in San Francisco. Together with our guests—Zendesk’s Veevi Rosenstein, Salesforce’s Ben Holland-Arlen, Copper’s Prianka Rayamajhi, and Upwork’s Jessica Drizin—we talked about fostering collaborative UX teams and setting up the right processes to work remotely.

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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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Product Management Courses: Top 7 Platforms

UXCam Bluespace

We did research on the best courses for product managers.

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Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and Zendesk

Miro

Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and ZendeskOn February 27, 2019, we hosted our «Reshaping teamwork» meetup in San Francisco. Together with our guests—Zendesk’s Veevi Rosenstein, Salesforce’s Ben Holland-Arlen, Copper’s Prianka Rayamajhi, and Upwork’s Jessica Drizin—we talked about fostering collaborative UX teams and setting up the right processes to work […].

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How to Bring Dead Users Back to Life

Gainsight

You may think your product is healthy, but there’s a scary secret hiding in your data that you may not be equipped to defeat. Why is it that when discussing the health of a product, it’s more common to ask how many active users you have instead of total users? This doesn’t give you a complete view of product health. Peel back the layers of your data and you’ll discover a sinister surprise.

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Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and Zendesk

Miro

Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and ZendeskOn February 27, we hosted our «Reshaping teamwork» meetup in San Francisco. Together with our guests—Zendesk’s Veevi Rosenstein, Salesforce’s Ben Holland-Arlen, Copper’s Prianka Rayamajhi, and Upwork’s Jessica Drizin—we talked about fostering collaborative UX teams and setting up the right processes to work remotely.

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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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Behind the Research: Subscription Sales

TSIA

At TSIA, we provide technology and services businesses with the insights they need to grow, advance, and achieve their desired outcomes in our rapidly evolving industry. At the heart of this in-depth research are TSIA's research executives, who keep their fingers on the pulse of what's new and what's next in tech in order to deliver compelling content, best practices, and tools to our members.

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Agile In Every Department: Agile Marketing

Agile Velocity

It’s 2019, and Agile has officially transitioned from a software development methodology to a mindset designed for entire organizations. It truly doesn’t matter what business department you highlight—all have similar problems at the root cause level. It’s simple: many teams are burdened with more work than they can realistically get done. Agile can help teams get on track, own their outcomes, and work toward accomplishing clear goals and objectives.

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Introducing Product Insight: Fast feedback that drives confident product decisions

UserTesting

Product managers play a critical role in the success of modern corporations. They balance business priorities, customer needs, and technical issues in the face of incredibly tight deadlines. Making this challenge even tougher, the customer insight tools used by product … The post Introducing Product Insight: Fast feedback that drives confident product decisions appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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The art of being truly customer centric: 6 lessons from Survey Monkey’s CMO

Intercom, Inc.

These days, progressive, modern marketers like you and me are always hearing about customer centric marketing. We know that it’s customers, not brands, who hold the power. And while it may be easy to grasp the concept of customer centric marketing, it is damn hard to live, breathe and consistently measure its impact across your business. Being “customer centric” can too often be little more than an empty rallying cry, an aspirational idea where insights are half baked, unshared and certainly not

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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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30 Free & Paid User Onboarding Tools to Crush Growth and Revenue Goals

Userpilot

You have five minutes only. Five minutes for users to say “oh, I get it” about your software. According to TechCrunch, if your users don’t get your software, 77% of them won’t come back. There are plenty of ways how can you gain your customers’ attention and create the “aha moment” in five minutes. Of course, nothing can be done without a few user onboarding tools to hold yourself back.