Tue.May 28, 2019

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Mastering communication: a product manager’s superpower

Miro

Mastering communication: a product manager’s superpowerThere are a lot of hard skills required on your path to becoming a great product manager such as coding, data analytics, user experience design and digital marketing. But developing your soft skills is just as important, especially as you grow into senior product management roles.Carlos González de VillaumbrosiaFounder and […].

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Actionable strategies for better user onboarding

Intercom, Inc.

There are two funnels for SaaS companies. The first is all about acquiring new users. The second is all about keeping them. You can growth hack the first one, but to build a great business, you need to invest in the second one. The key to solving the second funnel is onboarding. Great onboarding transforms new customers from fleeting visitors to lifelong power users.

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Product Planning, Information Persistence, & Product Lifetime

Johanna Rothman

I've been thinking a lot about planning recently. Many of my clients want to create long-term plans, based on data with short validity, even for products in a high state of change. I suspect the first question is how much change do you need in your product, not how good your information is, or how much planning you need. The data you need and the planning you can use will change with respect to where the product is in its lifecycle.

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3 Customer Engagement Tips for Lifestyle Apps

Alchemer Mobile

Customer centricity and engagement are the hot topics of this year’s business conversations, especially for apps in the Lifestyle category. With generally active customer bases comes a constant flow of communication, and Lifestyle apps are required to play by a different set of best practices than other apps across the app stores. Our 2019 Mobile Benchmarks by App Category report looks at trends and differences across popular app categories, with a focus on Lifestyle apps.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Product Management Mentorship, an Essential Career Tool

bpma ProductHub

by Lynne Levy – One of the most critical moments in my career as a product manager was when I was a junior product manager. I had emerged from a meeting with engineering where they tore my requirements apart, and became angry and emotional in the process.

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That Product Meeting is JUST A MEETING

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Introducing MINDSET: Helpful Answers to Your Product Questions

Mind the Product

You’ve got questions, we’ve got training! We’ve recently released some testimonial videos that take a peek into our training. They let you hear from the product managers who teach our curriculum, and give you a good look at what a Mind the Product Training session is like. But most importantly, we’re now launching MINDSET, a monthly video series where we collect the questions that our training participants and the greater community have about their work and product practice.

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Top 10 Japanese YouTubers 2019

freshtrax

Incorporating video content into your marketing mix is becoming more crucial and the Japanese market is no exception. Cisco estimates that video traffic will consume 82% of global internet traffic by 2022. Whether you want to create original videos or collaborate with video influencers to communicate with your audience, YouTube is a key video distribution platform where 1.9 billion users are logged in globally.

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How to Size and Assess Teams From an Eng Lead at Stripe, Uber and Digg

First Round Review

Will Larson has developed a framework for the optimal size and state of engineering teams—not only so managers can lead them in a highly efficient and effective way, but with a deeply empathetic and ethical approach.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Establishing a market-led culture with a Product Management framework

BrainMates

SnapComms is a medium-sized New Zealand software company who wanted to evolve its sales-led culture into a market-led culture. After hearing Rich Mironov talk about the slippery slope of sales-led companies , they decided to learn about Product Management. Understanding that product management is not a one person job, SnapComms CEO Chris Leonard and 11 employees, who hailed from customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, attended the Brainmates’ Essentials of Product Management course t

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How to Size and Assess Teams From an Eng Lead at Stripe, Uber and Digg

First Round Review

Will Larson has developed a framework for the optimal size and state of engineering teams—not only so managers can lead them in a highly efficient and effective way, but with a deeply empathetic and ethical approach.

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Making the Move from Project Management to Product Management (Yes, it Can Be Done)

ProductPlan

So, you’re a project manager interested in transitioning to a product management career. You’re not alone. We speak with a lot of project managers looking to make this leap, often for similar reasons. Many tell us they’d like to move into a more strategic role, or to have a greater impact in their company. And most say bringing products to market looks exciting.

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“Why Transformations Get Stuck” Presented at Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019

Agile Velocity

Why Transformations Get Stuck – Global Scrum Gathering 2019 from Agile Velocity. In this world of exponentially increasing market disruption, it is more imperative than ever for organizations to not only achieve operational agility (efficiency, speed, etc.), but also organizational agility (speed to respond to market change). In this session at Global Scrum Gathering 2019, David Hawks showed attendees how leaders can guide their organization’s past top Agile transformation impediment

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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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Nulab Drinking Code – Kubernetes Ingress & Cloud Security

Nulab

Become a Nulab user and enjoy free access to NuSpace – our community space in Singapore. Our Nulab Drinking Code Singapore meetup had a ‘Cloud’ theme in May, and we invited two experienced DevOps/DevSecOps veterans to be our speakers. They are: Vincent De Smet, DevOps Engineer ( SWAT ). Steve Teo, Director of Cloud Security Engineering ( Horangi Cyber Security ).

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“Be The Change: Transform Your Organization Through Servant Leadership” Presented at Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019

Agile Velocity

Be The Change: Transform Your Organization Through Servant Leadership – Global Scrum Gathering 2019 from Agile Velocity. “Revolutionary Ideas do not change institutions. People change them.” – Robert K. Greenleaf. People over Process is the very first value in the Agile Manifesto. So why do we often begin our transformations focused on processes?

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What’s up with the new website? Taking the first step toward a new brand

Intercom, Inc.

Seen the new look on the Intercom website today? We made an in-depth video to share our redesign process (scroll down), but for those who don’t have 18 minutes to spare, read on. Memorable brands create enduring connections with the people who interact with them. They do this by clearly articulating what they stand for. These days customers want to know not just what products and services a business can provide, but the mission that drives the company at its core, the promise it’s ma

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The Need For Speed: Fast Product Delivery & Business Agility

Agile Velocity

When we talk to leaders about what they want from Agile, most of the time, the top answer is Speed. Businesses need fast product delivery in order to satisfy customers and grow revenue. Often the delivery team is seen as the bottleneck, and if the organization could just remove what’s blocking them, they would definitely get more value out the door… right?

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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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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Podcasting has been a slow burn, and has turned into a movement. 90 million Americans now listen to podcasts, and if your behavior is anything like mine, it’s turned into a multi-hour per week habit. I reach for my podcasts whenever I’m commuting, whenever I’m doing a long walk between offices, or if I’m doing random stuff around the house.

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“Make Shift Happen: Leading Change” Presented at Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019

Agile Velocity

Make Shift Happen: Leading Change – Global Scrum Gathering 2019 from Agile Velocity. Change is hard. Despite our best efforts, approximately 70% of change initiatives fail. For the 30% that did not fail, there was most likely tension along the way. The truth is, change is inevitable and organizations do not change… people do. In this session at Global Scrum Gathering 2019, Steve Martin discussed how organizational change is a mindset shift that begins with leadership.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Podcasting has been a slow burn, and has turned into a movement. 90 million Americans now listen to podcasts, and if your behavior is anything like mine, it’s turned into a multi-hour per week habit. I reach for my podcasts whenever I’m commuting, whenever I’m doing a long walk between offices, or if I’m doing random stuff around the house.