Wed.Nov 06, 2019

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Why Product Managers should care about Development Culture

Ask Benny

Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting strategy and execution. When it gets to development culture many product managers feel it is not their problem because it is the domain of the VP R&D. While this is true, I do not think that as product managers we can ignore the development culture.

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User segmentation: Why it’s crucial for product managers

ProductBoard

In a typical marketplace, not every user has the same needs. But you can usually identify several subgroups of users who have very similar needs to one another. We call these user segments. To understand why this matters, consider what it takes to launch and maintain a successful product. From its earliest stages, your product must meet the needs of some group of users or it will die.

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Why Product Managers should care about Development Culture

Ask Benny

Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting strategy and execution. When it gets to development culture many product managers feel it is not their problem because it is the domain of the VP R&D. While this is true, I do not think that as product managers we can ignore the development culture.

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Product Love Podcast: Marty Duffy, VP of Product at G2

ProductCraft

? This week on Product Love, I talked to Marty Duffy, VP of product at G2. G2 is is the world’s largest tech marketplace where businesses go to discover, review, and manage the technology they need to reach their potential. Marty says that he’s a generalist by nature. His strongest suit has always been leadership. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Marty Duffy, VP of Product at G2 appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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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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Fixing your blind spot: biases in decision making

The Product Coalition

Every person forms a set of mental shortcuts or heuristics, which work brilliantly day in day out, but become harmful when left unchecked. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Managing the A/B Test Lifecycle

The Product Coalition

A view on everything we do while A/B testing, Except running the A/B test. Over the past year, my team has simplified and optimized our A/B testing process. As a product manager, I either led or enabled some of that change. This has resulted in better A/B tests definitions and communication, a reduction in the overhead of running A/B tests, and also much happier stakeholders and teams.

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Focus on your best customers

Basel Fakhoury

All things being equal, focusing on already expanding cohorts can have a larger effect than focusing on contracting cohorts. Negative churn is equivalent to expansion. So increasing expansion 1% is the equivalent of decreasing churn 1% in any month. However, if a cohort is expanding, that 1% increase ends up having a much larger impact over time than decreasing churn 1% in a contracting cohort.

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Who The Product Owner Is Not?

The Product Coalition

Scrum, Agile, Scrum Master, Product Owner…those are buzzwords of modern product management. Let’s talk about why the PO role is so… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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The Power of Working Cross-Departmentally as a User Researcher

dscout People Nerds

Want to widen your UXR impact? Make friends with folks in new departments. (And we don’t just mean product and design).

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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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A bonanza of new Product Coalition podcast episodes arriving

The Product Coalition

I’ve just got back from Sydney, Australia, where I spent 2 days of my annual leave recording new podcasts, totalling 9 new episodes that I’m excited to share later next month. But first, here are two more of the seven 2019 Melbourne Series episodes: Melbourne Series #4: Consequentialism and Zen in Product with Rushika Kumar Melbourne Series #3: Design in Product with Rob Seddon Melbourne Series #2: Four Fast topics with Brad Dunn Melbourne Series #1: Product Mindset and Capability Uplift with Ke

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What is the role of an AI Product Manager?

NextBigWhat

How should one go about doing product management for AI – based products? As AI continues to grow in acceptance and use, more companies will require fine tuning of product strategy and the importance of AI product managers will become more apparent. In this video, Peter Skomoroch, former Head of Data Products @ Workday and Linkedin, talks about both the subjects and how to navigate these challenges.

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Product Manager Behaviours That Get in the Way of Great Products

The Product Coalition

Being a product manager is tough. The quest to find product-market fit and create products that are valuable, usable and feasible is not an easy one. All product managers have their own individual style and approach when it comes to navigating the unruly, unpredictable world of product and that variety is something that should be celebrated?—?variety is good.

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Nulab Drinking Code: Machine Learning and Humans

Nulab

Sign up to become a NuSpace member and join our events in Singapore. Night of the living dead-ta. Get it? In October, Nulab Drinking Code meetup in Singapore featured the theme of machine learning (ML), and since it was Halloween, we decided to spook things up at NuSpace with a meetup of mad data scientists. Our two speakers were: Ong Ming Lun, a graduate research student at National University of Singapore.

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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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Treat your CV like a product to increase your job search conversion rate

The Product Coalition

Originally posted at the mobile spoon. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Decode Product Ownership and make sense of it with this video

NextBigWhat

In this video by Henrik Kniberg, an agile coach at Crisp, he explains what Product Ownership truly means in an engaging animated video. Going over the aspects of vision, communication within the team, risks involved (business, social, tech, cost & schedule), working with devs, stakeholders and ensuring delivery of a well rounded product within the agile paradigm.

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How to Create Your Product Roadmap in 2020 (5 Templates Included)

The Product Coalition

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Tools are like the anchors that serve to rein in inspiration, focus and achieve your goals. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application.

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Prioritize Product Backlogs with these 3 easy steps

NextBigWhat

In this video, Brian Lawley, author of Product Management for Dummies, provides a simple framework with which you can prioritize features clogging up your product backlog with 3 easy steps. It consists of a four quadrant matrix that stacks up the features according to effort in relation to value allowing you easily make sense of what needs to be built first.

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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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Tool tips: How our design team switched to Figma

Intercom, Inc.

It’s increasingly clear that the tools we use shape the work we do in all sorts of ways , so picking the right tool for your task is absolutely critical. And even more so when you’re trying to pick a tool to be used by a diverse team spread around the world. Our product design team consists of 19 designers who work across our offices in Dublin, London, and San Francisco.

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Product Ownership in a nutshell (that actually makes sense)

NextBigWhat

In this video by Henrik Kniberg, an agile coach at Crisp, he explains what Product Ownership truly means in an engaging animated video. Going over the aspects of vision, communication within the team, risks involved (business, social, tech, cost & schedule), working with devs, stakeholders and ensuring delivery of a well rounded product within the agile paradigm.

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“Is your startup idea taken?” — and why we love X for Y startups

Andrew Chen

Above: Michelle Rial ( follow her at @TheRialMichelle ), then working at Buzzfeed, posted this hilarious infographic with all the “X for Y” ideas. Here’s the original article. I had a quick laugh, of course. But then seeing this infographic made me think through some deeper things: What are “X for Y” companies and why do they sound compelling?

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Alfonso de la Nuez on ‘Why and How to Democratize UX Research’

Userzoom

Alfonso de la Nuez, UserZoom’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, discusses how we now live in a world of digital experiences and in order for modern companies to survive, they need to democratize UX insights throughout the entire organisation. . In the following video and transcript of his talk at BetterUX London 2019 , Alfonso takes a deep-dive into one of the key recent UX trends – the democratization of UX , highlighting how it’s necessary to empower teams throughout the organization t

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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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“Is your startup idea taken?” — and why we love X for Y startups

Andrew Chen

Above: Michelle Rial ( follow her at @TheRialMichelle ), then working at Buzzfeed, posted this hilarious infographic with all the “X for Y” ideas. Here’s the original article. I had a quick laugh, of course. But then seeing this infographic made me think through some deeper things: What are “X for Y” companies and why do they sound compelling?