Wed.Dec 11, 2019

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A Product Owner’s Guide to Improving Customer Experience

Emerge Insights

People today have an unprecedented number of choices when choosing products and services for their personal life and work. Consumer habits, preferences, and expectations are evolving. The organizations embracing a human-centered approach are outperforming the competition. Businesses can no longer rely on the position, price, features, or pure aesthetics of their product or service to […].

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How To Manage Stakeholders When Changing Product Strategy

The Product Coalition

One of the biggest challenges product leaders face is convincing leadership of changes in product strategy. In addition, setting the proper expectations with leadership is a key element for managing your stakeholders. If you’re moving your company from the innovation stage towards the optimization stage (or vice versa), there’s a lot of stakeholder management that needs to be done.

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Impact Mapping: How to focus on outcomes in product management

Miro

Impact Mapping: How to focus on outcomes in product managementAligning work around outcomes instead of just chasing the next feature idea is one of those things that product teams often want to nail, but rarely get right. It’s because most of the frameworks we use prioritize tangible rock-solid features over hard-to-measure effects.Just look at how […].

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How to Manage Scheduling Surprises During Customer Validation

Centercode

Surprises? Never. When it comes to scheduling, we always know exactly when our releases are going into delta. We’re never caught off guard by unexpected critical issues. Our releases roll out continuously, without disruption, just like clockwork. In fact, we write our schedule in ink (or we would if we weren’t, you know, using a computer).

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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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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Opportunity Solution Trees at SuperAwesome

Product Talk

Hi there, Product Talk readers! It’s me, Melissa. I’m Teresa’s blog editor. I mostly work behind the scenes here, polishing and proofreading posts prior to publication. But every once in a while, I’ll contribute a post like this one. Here at Product Talk, we’re excited about showcasing what good product management looks like. That’s why we recently launched the Product in Practice series , where we’re highlighting excellent work that different product teams are doing.

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Why aren’t you making great things? Fear.

The Product Coalition

Tools only take you so far. You’ve got to move through the fear that’s holding you back. These are a few of my favorites. Frameworks only go so far. Using tested tools and frameworks takes the guesswork out of the “how” and provides a recipe to follow. But they aren’t enough. You can have the best hammer and nails but if you are too afraid to swing the hammer and make the birdhouse because it might be ugly, you’ll just have a pile of tools and no place for birds to live.

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IMD Business School: A Short Video Series on the Business Model Canvas

Strategyzer

We've recently teamed up with IMD Business School, ranked as the #1 business school in the world by the Financial Times for the last 7 years, to create and launch something truly unique together in 2020.

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Why is a Vision Crucial to Your Product?

The Product Coalition

Photo: Pixabay/Vision We dream of various things. Many of us dream of traveling the world or going skydiving. Product Leaders dream of creating and launching a lovely and winning product. The lovely product should generate a value for which customers are willing to pay. The winning one should make the highest profit with the lowest possible cost. The task of a Product Leader is to bring and maximize the value of the product in a way to fulfill and solve the most important needs and problems of a

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Product Love Podcast: Daniel Mintz, Chief Data Evangelist at Looker

ProductCraft

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Daniel Mintz, the chief data evangelist at Looker, a data exploration and discovery business intelligence platform. Daniel studied music and politics as an undergrad and later pursued his Master’s in multimedia engineering. He’s worked as the head of data and analytics at Upworthy and as a. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Daniel Mintz, Chief Data Evangelist at Looker appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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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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Join the Product Coalition European Tour

The Product Coalition

(and give me a hand if you’d like to help) I’m VERY excited to be able to share that in 2020 I’ll be taking the Product Coalition on tour, across Europe. Since 2014 this community has grown from a publication, to a Slack community of 6,000+ , to a podcast series now with over 1000 listeners. I’ve read, edited and published over 3,000 of your articles, moderated 10,000+ Slack comments (without having to ban anyone!

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Visual designer vs. web designer vs. UX designer: what’s the difference?

nulab

The role of ‘designer’ has evolved drastically over the past 10-20 years, and what was once a straightforward job description (‘make things look nice’) — has since branched off into several distinct specialisms, each with their own unique skill sets. You’d be forgiven for feeling confused: all theses roles sound slightly similar, and there is overlap between each one.

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How to Save WeWork

The Product Coalition

As recently as three months ago, WeWork was a high-flying startup headed for an IPO with a $47 billion market cap. Since then, they have… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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16 Product Management Tools You Don’t Want to Miss in 2020

Userpilot

2020 is set to be a big year for SaaS. The industry continues to grow at an alarming rate. The good news: You can tap into that growth with your product. Hopefully, the product management tools we’re going to cover will help you out! These are must-have for any PM. We’ve split the tools into different categories, so feel free to jump ahead to whichever kind of product you need.

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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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Saying No…But

The Product Coalition

Roadmap discipline and detour management. Or Monday, as product calls it. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Piracy Impact Podcast: Revulytics’ Jason Swan

Revulytics

Michael turns the microphone on Jason for a very special episode of the Piracy Impact Podcast! Hear Jason’s software license compliance origin story and how he made the transition from sales to compliance before joining Revulytics. Jason also shares his thoughts on the different approaches to dealing with infringers from an inside sales approach, to audits, to legal.

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Product Management 2019: Year In Review

ProductPlan

What a year. There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating. Our ProductPlan community of writers and speakers (and you) have lead the charge behind these trends. With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape.

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Unlocked — The full Product Management Podcast Melbourne Series

The Product Coalition

Checkout the world of Product Management through the lives of 7 very different product people, all based in Melbourne, Australia. This exclusive product podcast series will show you just what product management, ethics, services, and design mean to the passionate product people of Melbourne. Every episode is laid back, enjoyable, and caffeine fuelled thanks to our location sponsor Proud Mary Coffee Roasters ( AU | USA ) Melbourne Series #1?

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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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Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner?

Johanna Rothman

I spoke with a project manager recently. She told me her story. I used to facilitate project teams as a project manager. Why a project manager? Because the project had a beginning and an end. We had (and still have) too many products to keep the same teams on them for a long time. For programs, the team stayed together and moved to a different feature set/internal product until the program finished.

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Dear CEOs: It’s Truth Time

The Product Coalition

Your Product Managers Have Something to Say. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Geographically Distributed Agile Teams Webinar Dec 17, 2019

Johanna Rothman

I'm stoked to do a webinar with Tom Henrickson, 8 Principles for Successful Distributed Agile Teams. My slides are all ready. And, I bet Tom will ask me a question that sets me off on a rant. If you want to listen to me rant in real time, please join us. We'll be live on December 17, 2019, at 2pm Eastern. Register here: 8 Principles for Successful Distributed Agile Teams.

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Can I Get A Copy of the Roadmap?

The Product Coalition

First question on day one. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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How to Manage Scheduling Surprises During Customer Validation

Centercode

Surprises? Never. When it comes to scheduling, we always know exactly when our releases are going into delta. We’re never caught off guard by unexpected critical issues. Our releases roll out continuously, without disruption, just like clockwork.

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Why You Need A Pre-Sales Checklist

TSIA

Every company in the technology industry has a transformation in front of them. At TSIA, we’re seeing incredible patterns emerge in how companies are tackling this transformation, but especially when it comes to sales. Everyone within a tech organization is directly impacted by what a sales transformation is going to look like and what the end-state will be.

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5 Mobile Technology Trends To Watch In 2020

Arkenea

The world has already gone mobile with smartphones becoming ubiquitous and easily accessible to everyone. Whether you are an experienced mobile app developer, a first-time app entrepreneur or simply an app enthusiast interested to see in which direction mobile technology is headed, having a finger on the pulse of mobile technology trends helps you be […].

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How to Find Product/Market Fit: A Practical Guide

The Product Coalition

One thing above all makes a successful startup: people who purchase and love the product. If you have that, it means you’ve managed to offer the market exactly what it needs or, in other words, achieved a product/market fit (PMF). But how come it’s so challenging to reach success as a startup? What are the steps you need to take to identify your product/market fit?

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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The Many Flavors Of Agile: What’s The Right One For Your Team? | Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple. Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. Bethany has been a firm believer in agile for many years and has been bringing the joy of lean, kanban, and scrum to the workplaces of many through thoughtful and direct communication and consultation.

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5 Lessons from SpaceX for Product Managers in 2020

The Product Coalition

What would it take to put humanity on Mars? Apparently it’s going to take six thousand passionate employees, and one real-life Iron Man CEO. Welcome to SpaceX. Humanity has looked to the stars for centuries, but we’ve been exploring it for ourselves for less than a hundred. Tech and engineering move fast and, thanks to SpaceX life on Mars seems less like a pipe dream for future generations to worry about and more like an engineering problem to be solved now.

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Six predictions for the UX and CX industries in 2020

Userzoom

As we wrap up another thrilling and fast-paced year in the life of the experience industry, it’s time to take a quick breath, take stock of how far we’ve come and think about what’s in store for 2020. Therefore, I have asked six of UserZoom’s brightest minds (who also happened to be willing to stake their hard-earned reputations on these predictions) about how they think the CX and UX landscapes will shape up in 2020.