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Product Management Fears and how to Face Them

Mind the Product

In general we product people are a courageous bunch, but beyond our confident exteriors can reside a few honest (and I would argue, healthy) fears with which we wrestle, whether we admit to it or not! I have a secret, not one I talk about often, if at all. Yet it preoccupies me as I commute to work, eat my lunch, or sit in the office… what if I am the only person who struggles with product management?

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Step 0: Don’t Freak Out – How To Get Started In Market Discovery

The Secret PM Handbook

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Mobile Customer Response Rates Grew by 20% Last Year: New Data from our 2018 Benchmark Report

Alchemer Mobile

Customer centricity and customer experience management are the hot topics of this year’s business conversations. These themes are only going to become more prominent not just in mobile, but across all channels. As such, it’s not enough for companies to send communication into a vacuum. They need to be able to understand the analytics behind customer interaction and response rates so they can make data-driven decisions.

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Value-Based Product Roadmaps: They Should Mirror a Customer Org Chart (Video)

Product Management University

Value based product roadmaps should be structured like a customer org chart so that the business value of your product investment priorities is clear to executives, senior managers and users. View the short video to learn the most important questions your roadmaps have to answer, both internally and externally, and what people really want to know when they ask, “What’s on your roadmap?

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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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Conversion Optimization Glossary

AB Tasty

Whether you’re new to Conversion Optimization or trying to brush up on your skills, there’s a lot of CRO terms that you may not be familiar with and need to master for the success of your website. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Conversion Optimization Glossary.

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How to build trust with your colleagues by focusing on the customer experience

ProductBoard

Sometimes it’s hard to define the role that Product Managers serve in a company. And there are also times when Product Managers are met with hesitation from some of their own colleagues or as Lucas Cerdan wrote in our free eBook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice from the Field: “What I found when I started at Algolia was resistance to product management.

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Veevi Rosenstein on managing a remote research team at Zendesk

Miro

Come see Veevi in San Francisco at the UX meetup on Feb 27!We’re excited to be hosting a live event for the Bay Area UX design and research community on February 27. “Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and Zendesk” will take place at the Upwork HQ in San Francisco […]. The post Veevi Rosenstein on managing a remote research team at Zendesk appeared first on RealtimeBlog | A blog by RealtimeBoard.

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Destination CRM: 3 Ways to Become a Data-Driven Customer Success Manager

Revulytics

“You turn schools, companies and government agencies into [hiring company’s] product lovers.” It’s the first line of a job advertisement for a customer success manager at one of the world’s global software giants. The company asks the potential hire to “drive post-deployment customer success by promoting best practices, accelerating feature adoption, cultivating relationships, and helping customers share and discover new ways to create magic moments using our technology.”.

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Should You Build for Power Users or Casual Users?

ProductCraft Debates

As product managers, many of us probably consider ourselves decidedly in the world of “power users.” You probably know all the keyboard shortcuts for your favorite software. Your phone is always low battery from incessant use. You are the master of “how to” searches. But when you’re building for someone else, assuming your customers are.

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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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Creating the Ultimate Data Orchestrator

StubHub

By Corey Reed, Head of Data Science & Satya Gandham, Machine Learning Engineering Manager When you serve millions of customers every year?—?averaging more than 1.3 tickets sold per second?—?the opportunity to leverage all the data we have is ripe. That extensive opportunity is further enhanced by our ongoing migration to the cloud which has created several new and exciting avenues to explore.

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Crowdsourcing: The Next Generation of Field Service Management

TSIA

Crowdsourcing. On-demand services. The Uber model. The emerging trend of outsourcing services ordinarily performed by internal staff and resources to a large pool or network of labor providers is on the top of everyone’s mind, but what does it mean for field service management? In this post, I’m going to explore what this new generation of outsourcing looks like, how it applies to field services, and what it means for you.

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Good vs Bad OKRs

The Product Coalition

A beginner’s guide last night, I attended a product anonymous meetup. It was the first time I’ve been to something like this in a very long time. My typical feeling towards meetups has been that my time was always better spent either working on our product at OHNO , or spending time with my family. But it was great, and I’m glad I went along. The talks centred around the topic “F*#k Roadmaps”, a topic I’ve written about ad nauseam on Medium before.

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G2.com’s Ryan Bonnici on selling to educated customers

Intercom, Inc.

That’s why more and more businesses are turning to sites like G2.com , the place to see what others are saying about their experiences with the myriad SaaS options for business. And G2.com’s CMO Ryan Bonnici believes software purchasing will continue to evolve into a more authentic selling and buying experience. Ryan joined G2.com as its head marketing guy in late 2017, having known that he wanted to be a CMO since the age of 10.

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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.