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Tips for Presenting Your Product Roadmap to Investors and the Board

ProductPlan

As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not regularly attend management meetings, they will frequently have opportunities to demonstrate features, share customer learnings, and present roadmaps to the higher ups in the company. But product leaders are sometimes asked to present to a more exclusive audience that isn’t immersed in the daily operations of the company… and with much higher stakes.

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How we set up our Team for Continuous Product Discovery

Mind the Product

The Dilemma With Product Discovery. Usually, we use a discovery period intending to understand the users’ problem, define a solution, and then decide what to build in the so-called “delivery” Many companies have their specific budgets for these week or month-long periods and a super-important meeting at the end of the discovery to present the findings to the leadership team so that they can decide on the next steps.

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How to write surveys for user research that aren’t terrible

Userzoom

When you use survey questions in your user research , you want them to be designed well. It’s really easy to make bad surveys, and plenty of companies do. Surveys are admittedly overused and often ineffective on their own — the self-reported data that you pull from survey questions is biased and has questionable accuracy. It’s typically much more valuable to gather insights from data on actual behavior and user interviews.

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6 Ways Your Business can Benefit from Negative Reviews

Alchemer Mobile

So, you’ve somehow received a couple of bad online reviews. Is your business doomed? Certainly not! Even big brands have had their fair share of angry outpour from disgruntled customers and survived. While larger companies’ reputations can sustain a few blows without actually collapsing, small businesses can’t rely on the benefit of the doubt to amortize customers’ wrath as effectively.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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The evolution of how we celebrate Pride at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

It is 50 years this month since the Stonewall riots in New York City, which were a response to discriminatory police raids against the LGBTI+ community. The Christopher Street Liberation Day March which marked the anniversary of the riots is considered to be the first ever Pride. This major anniversary has been inspiration for us at Intercom to pause and re-evaluate our approach to Pride.

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Essential Graphic Design Skills You Need to Get Hired

UX Studio

“You work as a designer? Oh, that takes a very creative person!” I keep hearing this when I talk about my profession. But what constitutes real graphic design skills? Not just creativity. You have to know your own personal graphic design skills. The ability to develop more consciously requires knowledge of your own strengths and weaknesses. And last but least, you also need to mention some graphic design skills in job interviews to the hiring managers.

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8 empowering articles on fostering diversity in product management

ProductBoard

Pride month is upon us. The streets of San Francisco (and many other cities) will soon be full of colorful floats, rainbow flags, flamboyant costumes, and an exorbitant amount of glitter. But Pride is more than just a celebration — it is a passionate outcry for equal rights and a more inclusive world. In a show of solidarity, many San Francisco-based tech companies have updated their company logos.

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July 23, webinar: My Stories Aren’t Long Enough…

Mironov Consulting

What: My Stories Aren’t Long Enough… (1 hour webinar). When: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 , 10 am PT / 1:00 pm ET. Sponsor: Synerzip. Register here (free). Product managers/owners often hear from their development team that all user stories are too short, insufficient, skimpy. Except when they hear that their user stories are long-winded, over specifying HOW instead of WHAT.

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9 Advantages of Gainsight PX Over Amplitude

Gainsight

Product analytics is a necessary part of modern product management. But what’s the point of collecting data if you have no way to act on it and improve your KPIs? As agile working environments grow increasingly popular, product managers find themselves facing new challenges such as: Staying competitive in a constantly-shifting landscape. Personalizing product experience to fit a wide variety of use cases.

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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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JavaScript-free Web Development with WebAssembly, Bolero, and F#

Atomic Spin PM

A while back, I remember hearing about WebAssembly and how it would finally release the web from the grip of JavaScript. (Languages that transpile to JavaScript don’t cut it). Although WebAssembly doesn’t make the news much these days, it turns out there is quite a bit of work being done in this area. Since I do a fair amount of back-end work in F#, I was looking for a way to use F# client-side, and that’s when I discovered Bolero.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder/CEO, Balsamiq. In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. In his talks Peldi updates the BoS Community on the story of Balsamiq, and the ups and downs that come with running a growing, bootstrapped SaaS company.

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How to Troubleshoot Java CPU Usage Issues

eG Innovations

If you have deployed a Java application in production, you’ve probably encountered a situation where the application suddenly starts to take up a large amount of CPU. When this happens, application response becomes sluggish and users begin to complain about slow response. Often the solution to this problem is to restart the application and, lo and behold, the problem goes away – only to reappear a few days later.

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Clever Ideas Are Not Enough For Innovation | Tendayi Viki, Author | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Tendayi Viki, Author. Innovation is hard. It takes more than a clever idea to make a business. Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. Here he presents 8 business model questions to consider when attempting to innovate, followed by a Q&A with some great questions about innovating in a large corporate.

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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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The 3 Sets of Technical Product Manager Interview Questions

The Product Coalition

What is Technical Product Management about? What is a Technical Product Management interview like? These are two key, interrelated questions. While explaining what is involved with a Technical PM position is beyond the remit of this article , it is important to understand those distinctions that justify a certain interviewing style. So, whether you are an active TPM or an aspiring one, here is a refresher.

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Which Jira Product is Best for You: Software, Portfolio, or Align?

Modus Create

As an Atlassian Gold Solution Partner, Modus supports clients in all stages of the Atlassian lifecycle, from licensing, to enabling, to scaling, to training. Learn more about we can do with Atlassian and talk to an expert on our partner page. Jira is already widely known as the market-leading collaboration software. When Atlassian acquired AgileCraft , it added another powerful tool for enterprise management.

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Learning-as-a-Service (LaaS): Considerations for Establishing Subscription-Based Pricing for Customer Education

TSIA

A common question that TSIA receives is, “What should I charge for my learning subscription/learning-as-a-service offer?” This question is akin to asking an architect, “How much will it cost me to build a house?” Before an architect can answer, some basic follow-up questions must be asked: “What’s the square footage?