Mon.Sep 05, 2022

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399: Are product managers using Scrum as best as they can? – with Fred Fowler

Product Innovation Educators

Insights for product managers from a Scrum Master. Scrum is a frequently used approach for software projects and many other types of projects that would benefit from agility, including physical products. While Scrum is common, there are still many issues organizations encounter using Scrum. To understand how to overcome them, you would want to hear from a real master, and that is Fred Fowler, one of only 50 individuals in the United States who holds the prestigious Professional Scrum Master Leve

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Good habits for continuous discovery

Mind the Product

TL;DR A lot of teams still take a project approach to product development and don’t understand the benefits of continuous discovery They don’t practise continuous discovery because they focus on getting their initial discovery right and not on getting started and continually improving This means teams don’t build healthy habits and don’t practise talking to [.

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When You Want to Learn How to Be Better, That Means You Are Growing

The Product Coalition

“Learn to fail, and you will never fail to learn.” Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How To Ask for Customer Reviews? [Different Ways, Best Practices & Tools Included]

Userpilot

Wondering how to ask for customer reviews effectively and get them to respond immediately? Customer reviews play an integral role in any SaaS company’s marketing and customer service efforts. These reviews can directly influence consumer sentiments , attract new customers, and help your product grow. Learning how to contact users properly and request reviews can therefore increase your product’s average rating and boost your online reputation.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Sorry Teresa, I’m Turning Your Product Tree Upside Down

The Product Coalition

This reinterpretation of the Opportunity Solution Tree helped me bring the product mentality to conversations successfully. Not all companies do Product management (Product) the same way. Ideally, a few do it well, while the majority do it poorly. Some do it worse than others, to be fair, but in theoretical terms most are wrong. The main culprit seems to be companies practicing the feature factory mentality.

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Building the Digital Customer Journey

Gainsight

Customer success (CS) didn’t start out digital but, rather, as a collection of practices to maintain customer relationships after a sale. Organizations felt their way toward a better understanding of their value, learning how to improve implementations and developing new solutions to serve customers as their businesses advanced. The process required a lot of hands-on attention, with new departments and customer success agents being added to meet evolving needs.

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Product Drive 2022 – Navigating SaaS Growth in the Times of Recession

Userpilot

As I’m writing this post, 76,942 employees in tech startups have been laid off due to the recession in 2022 alone (according to Layoffs.fyi Tracker). After some epic tech startup fails in the recent months , the VCs clearly stopped believing in the ‘unicorn dreams’. The market crash didn’t help. As the inflated valuations bubble is bursting, how can SaaS companies navigate growth despite the budget cuts?

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Bandwidth Uses airfocus To Improve Collaboration and Increase Product Roadmap Transparency

airfocus

Global cloud platform Bandwidth is using airfocus to create and share product roadmaps, providing greater transparency around priorities and improving collaboration among its 50+ product teams.

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Bill Spruill | BoS USA In-Person 2022

Business of Software Conference

Bill discusses his experience building and selling the company successfully so that he could pursue a new goal, to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Raleigh. Book Tickets. Find out more about USA In-Person Conf. Bill will share three leadership lessons in his 10+ year journey co-founding, building and selling Global Data Consortium to the London Stock Exchange Group in 2022.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Enterprise Product Management: 5 Struggles Of Big Product Teams and Their Solutions

airfocus

Unless you’ve worked as an enterprise product manager or been part of an enterprise product team, you might not understand the day-to-day challenges that developing an enterprise product can present. In this post, we're going to explore these challenges — and share our best practices to help you overcome them.