Tue.Apr 02, 2019

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10 Scaling Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

1 Involve the Right People. A small group of qualified individuals who have the right skills and motivation can be more productive than many individuals who lack the necessary expertise and act out of obligation. This is true for product people and development team members alike in my experience. Therefore, make an effort to involve the right individuals.

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Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World

Centercode

Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How does your strategy conform to different development methodologies? What should you tackle in-house, and what should you outsource? How you involve real users in beta testing? In our interview with Adam Satterfield , director of Testing and Quality at Anthem, we dive deeper into these questions and the importance of test strategy on the whole.

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An Engineer’s Journey To Become A Data Scientist

Piyanka Jain

Unsplash Neha has an engineering and MBA background. She was looking to rejoin the workforce after several years on a personal sabbatical. Her last role had involved business process analysis, planning, and market research. It wasn’t something she wanted to go back to. When she started exploring options for a more satisfying career, analytics emerged as a strong contender.

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Why you Should Start With Customer Insight

Mind the Product

Creating a successful product requires a clear vision. Equally important, it requires confidence that the vision is aligned with the needs of the customers the company exists to serve. Without this, product leaders tend to either hedge their bets with small, safe, incremental adjustments or make no progress at all because they lack confidence in the right solution.

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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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Identifying a Great Product Manager

The Product Guy

Good or great? Or something else? What skills should you develop to differentiate yourself and accelerate your path to greater success? Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.

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Coming Together at #mtpcon Singapore to Hone our Craft

Mind the Product

On March 25-26, 2019 we gathered over 400 passionate product people from 26 countries around the world in Singapore for two days of connecting, sharing, and moving our craft forward together. It started with a day of deep-dive workshops followed by an opening party right on Marina Bay, and culminated in the main conference in the iconic Victoria Theatre featuring fascinating keynotes and an insightful panel.

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Founder Exposed: Opening Up About Startup Failures and Vulnerability

First Round Review

Jeff Wald knows firsthand that behind every startup success story is a stack of seldom discussed defeats. The investor and three-time founder opens up about why leaders should embrace vulnerability, and offers tools for extracting lessons from failure and getting back in the game.

Startups 111
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Close the Feedback Loop: Why Negative Customer Feedback is Most Important.

Usersnap

Customer Feedback Loop is the process of enhancement for your products and services based on the feedback customers give you. It allows you to implement change according to what your customers have to say. This is one of the best ways to improve your company in an efficient and meaningful way. . And a Closed Feedback Loop is when you follow up with the customers and show them how their opinions impact your business decisions.

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Founder Exposed: Opening Up About Startup Failures and Vulnerability

First Round Review

Jeff Wald knows firsthand that behind every startup success story is a stack of seldom discussed defeats. The investor and three-time founder opens up about why leaders should embrace vulnerability, and offers tools for extracting lessons from failure and getting back in the game.

Startups 111
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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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How to Troubleshoot Java Application Slowness Using Java Transaction Tracing

eG Innovations

Why is the Java Application Slow? The performance of any application is measured by its availability and responsiveness. When an application is slow, IT operations staff must troubleshoot the cause of slowness, identify it and resolve it. While application performance problems may be caused by issues in the supporting infrastructure, often the issues are related to the application components themselves.

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PM Interview Videos: iPhone Favorite Product

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In this live mock product management interview, Stephen asks Muhammad why his favorite product is the iPhone, and what he would do to improve it. Here's just some of the aspects that Muhammad does well in his interview: Muhammad positions the future of the iPhone hinging on Siri's capabilities as a voice assistant. He knows how to leverage PMLesson's lesson on brainstorming product ideas by leveraging common tech trends.

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Product Roles, Part 1: Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts

Johanna Rothman

We have many words for people who shepherd the business value of a product. The many words aren't a problem, as long as we can all agree on what these various people are and they take responsibility for. When we don't agree, we run the risk of not managing our strategy, not thinking in terms of problems, and not managing our tactics. Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts.

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Product Management in Your Organization & How to Find the Perfect Fit

The Product Coalition

With Product Management being in high-demand, many businesses are asking what the optimal Product Department structure is for their company. However, coming up with an answer to what will work best for your company is not so simple. The first thing to take note of is that Product Management is not a passing fad. Having a PM department is crucial to the composition of your company, and will be necessary now and in the future for producing delight and solutions for your customers.

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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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Product Management’s Role at Every Phase of the Product Lifecycle

ProductPlan

Every product has a lifecycle which consists of various phases. And the demands placed upon a product manager often vary depending on the lifecycle stage their product is in. Just like you wouldn’t let a baby drive a car or expect a senior citizen to play with dolls, each phase of a product’s lifecycle has very specific needs. Product managers are required to use different mental muscles and skills for ushering their ward along to the next step in its lifecycle.

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3 sins of implementing Scrum

The Product Coalition

As a follow-up on my article 3 sins of implementing Agile , I am bringing this idea to Scrum , the most common manifestation of Agile. These are some of the most impactful issues that I have seen. Sprints and a Kanban board equal Scrum In my experience, a company starts claiming that they do Scrum once they implement Sprints and a Kanban board. The company implements Sprints as two or three-week development periods used as a planning unit.

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Announcing: Our Latest Round Of Funding

UserInterviews

We just finished a $5M seed round led by Accomplice and Las Olas VC. Now, it's time to reflect on where we've come from, map out how we see UX research growing, and set our sights on what's next.

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The Myth of the Product Management P&L

DevelopmentCorporate

There is a long simmering debate in the product management world revolving around product managers and P&L statements. This post will explore several aspects of this debate and concludes with a survey of the degree to which product managers have access to P&L information today. Please share this post so we can gather more responses and provide the community with some fact-based insight into this topic.

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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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What is Edge Computing?

TSIA

In the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), there has been a shift from devices being data consumers to data producers and consumers. What was once a one-way street has now become a cyclical relationship where the loop between devices and people has been closed. This closed loop is generating an enormous amount of data, and in order to make sense of it all, there needs to be a level of processing and computation of data at some point in the loop.

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PM Interview Videos: iPhone Favorite Product

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In this live mock product management interview, Stephen asks Muhammad why his favorite product is the iPhone, and what he would do to improve it. Here's just some of the aspects that Muhammad does well in his interview: Muhammad positions the future of the iPhone hinging on Siri's capabilities as a voice assistant. He knows how to leverage PMLesson's lesson on brainstorming product ideas by leveraging common tech trends.

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Dear Strategy: 081 Understanding Your Target Market (Part 1 of 5)

Dear Strategy

This week, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , takes you through Part 1 of a 5 part series on understanding the target market for your product or business. This series was inspired by a talk that Bob gave at the Podfest Multimedia Expo in March 2019. In this episode, we explore why it is so important to build a product for your audience rather than the other way around.

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We raised $5M ?? ?? ?? to help teams discover and embrace user insights

UserInterviews

Now, it's time to reflect on where we've come from, map out how we see UX research growing, and set our sights on what's next.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Are you cut out for Product Management?

BrainMates

We know Product Management is a tough gig. So many articles have been written about this multifaceted, multidimensional role encouraging us to continue to fight the good Product fight. But what about quitting Product Management? What about if your personality and attitude aren’t suited to the role? Let’s address the elephant in the room and ask ourselves, “Am I cut out for Product Management?

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We raised $5M ?? ?? ?? to help teams discover and embrace user insights

UserInterviews

Now, it's time to reflect on where we've come from, map out how we see UX research growing, and set our sights on what's next.

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Reasons Why Golang is Better Than Other Programming Languages

The Product Coalition

In the world of programming languages, there is no respite for breakthroughs and innovations. The developers are always in search of an easier, more sophisticated and more project-friendly language that meet their needs. GoLang came as such as astounding new programming language with a full pack of solutions. Ever since it arrived, GoLang took the entire programming world by surprise.

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PRIME Your Competencies

Pragmatic Marketing

Distinctive competency is a great tool to help identify what makes your organization unique in your industry. More specific than core competencies—the things your team does well—distinctive competencies are those aspects of your business that differentiates you from your competitors and other suppliers. Consider your attributes in these categories: Purpose, Reputation, Innovation, Methods and Expertise.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I received a lot of questions recently on how to transition into a Product Manager role. As you might have already come across stories of how people got into product roles, let me highlight that there is no single RIGHT path.

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PRIME Your Competencies

Pragmatic Marketing

Distinctive competency is a great tool to help identify what makes your organization unique in your industry. More specific than core competencies—the things your team does well—distinctive competencies are those aspects of your business that differentiates you from your competitors and other supplies. Consider your attributes in these categories: Purpose, Reputation, Innovation, Methods and Expertise.