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Product leadership in a chaotic world: Balancing short-term and long-term goals

Mind the Product

Product leader Dave Martin delves into the uncertainty of startups, and discusses why focusing on short term plans is a dangerous drug. Read more » The post Product leadership in a chaotic world: Balancing short-term and long-term goals appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Managers: Look Out for Your Well-Being Too

The Product Coalition

It’s easy to focus on the team and the product, but what about you. Unsplash: Kalen Emsley Happy World Product day! An awesome day to celebrate all the awesome product people out there, taking one for the team; daily, weekly, monthly, even hourly and of course, by the minute. For the last World Product Day, I took part in a panel discussing Marc Abraham’s Managing Product = Managing Tension — an awesome session, and an awesome book.

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Writing Secret 10: A Small Rant About Research on Social Networks

Johanna Rothman

It must be the season for “research” on social networks. Just this past week, I received several requests to share my stories with researchers—as if my experience was research. Some of these researchers are graduate students. Others are consultants. All of them share these goals: They want to write a substantial document, incorporating their research.

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Data Products: Tell Me How And What

The Product Coalition

In the first part of this series I covered the why behind data products. This article covers how we make them and what they are. In the previous article I gave examples of some of the data products you interact with everyday. To recap super quickly on those, here they are: When Netflix gives you a recommendation of which shows to watch next ? Spotify’s daily mix recommending what you might enjoy listening to next ?

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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12 Types of Minimum Viable Product With Their Pros and Cons

Userpilot

With so many types of minimum viable products out there, it can be challenging to know which one to choose for your specific product idea. In this article, we’re going to explain what minimum viable products are, break down the different options you can choose from, and help product managers make up their minds. TL;DR A minimum viable product (often referred to as an MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable.

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Twitter and Its Successor States

Crafty CTO

I love the tone of this article, a true pleasure to read—highly recommended. A couple of great lines: I mean it’s really funny how a bunch of very rich dudes are breaking stuff online and making worse versions of existing products in response to said breakage. Obviously it is quite amusing to be shown how stupid rich people are, and I very much enjoy it.

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Building an Outcome-Focused Mindset in Your Product Team

Dragonboat

This blog post was created in partnership with the Product Ops HQ community, the fastest-growing community where product operations professionals gather to connect, share knowledge, and learn. Product Operations is gaining importance in businesses, and its benefits are being discovered. In this interview series, we dive into best practices from Product Operations Leaders and Responsive […] The post Building an Outcome-Focused Mindset in Your Product Team appeared first on Dragonboat.

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Gruber Translates Linda Yaccarino's Company-wide Memo on the X Rebrand

Crafty CTO

A few prime translations: It’s OK to day-drink. I am. I used to run all advertising for NBCUniversal. Now I’m running an $8/month multi-level marketing scheme where the only users who’ve signed up are men who own a collection of MAGA hats. As if this rebranding disaster isn’t enough, our infrastructure is crumbling. Facebook took Threads from 0 to 100 million users in under a week, without a hitch, at the same time we imposed comical rate limits on usage.

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The Product Backlog: A Rock Concert of User Stories

CardBoard

In the realm of product development, the backlog is often perceived as a monotonous list of tasks. It’s seen as a necessary evil, a relentless setlist filled with features, bugs, and technical debt. But what if we’ve been viewing it through the wrong lens? What if the backlog could be a tool for understanding, a roadmap that guides us through the customer journey?

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Why imaginative copywriters are essential

Business of Software Conference

No matter what is going on in the world, one thing remains constant: the power of storytelling. It’s no secret that captivating narratives can leave a lasting impression on your audience and ignite the flames of change. In the realm of marketing and communications, the role of a skilled copywriter is paramount. But what sets apart a good copywriter from a great one?

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Data Products: Tell Me Why

The Product Coalition

A data product’s main ingredient is in the name, it is data. In this article, I’m going to give my take on data products and why they’re so important in creating value for companies. This is part of a series, where I’ll follow up more specifically on what they are and how we make them. As a product manager, it’s only right that I start with telling you why d ata products, because we ask that a lot, and this couldn’t be truer: Having a young child, the reference to ‘4 year olds’ couldn’t be truer