Wed.May 12, 2021

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In Honor of Product Management Day, Here’s a History Lesson—and an Offer You Can’t Refuse

280 Group

Take Advantage of our 15% Off Sale and Shop Our Courses. SHOP COURSES. Going Back in Time. Have you ever wondered how far back the role of Product Management goes? Where did it all begin? It started on May 13, 1931, when former president of Procter & Gamble N.H. McElroy wrote a groundbreaking memo , which articulately described the role and responsibilities of “Brand Men.

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How Mobile Product Managers Can Increase Productivity

Alchemer Mobile

Mobile product managers handle an extremely long list of competing tasks—sometimes resulting in progress paralysis. When you’re able to get clear about how to tackle your long list of to-dos, the result is more efficiency, more effectiveness, and ultimately, a more productive product planning process. If you feel like you have too much to do and need a new method for quick, effective prioritization, our new guide The Mobile Product Manager’s Productivity Quadrant is here to help.

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Building high-performing teams through continuous improvement

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we’ve always focused on building excellent products which our customers value and love. Continuing to meet this goal as we scale means constantly re-evaluating how our teams work to keep performing at our very best. There is no “one size fits all” approach to building high-performing teams. Once you find a winning formula, it doesn’t stay relevant for long.

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The Principles of Experiment Flow

Strategyzer

This is a guest post from David J Bland, co-author of our best selling book Testing Business Ideas. Testing Business Ideas explains how to increase the success of any venture by providing a practical guide to rapid experimentation.

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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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Contribute Meaningfully: The Power of a Research Strategy

dscout People Nerds

Chris Geison walks us through the distinctions between “strategic research” and “research strategy” to unpack how the latter is the key to improving team bandwidth and securing a seat at the table.

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Food Tech App Development: Ideas and Tips

The Product Coalition

Disclaimer: you may feel hungry after reading the article! 15,000 years ago, people had to risk their lives to get food. The only chance to feed a big ancient family was hunting for mammoths and other dangerous animals. Fortunately, the Palaeolithic age ended a long time ago. We don’t need to look for meat or gather fruits and vegetables. It’s the foodtech era now.

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Tools for agile product teams by Gavan Moule

Mind the Product

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, sponsored by Lucid, the company’s customer success manager Gavan Moule takes us through ways we can facilitate Agile workshops and team working using Lucidspark virtual whiteboards. With so many of us working remotely, tools such as these are really coming into their own. Watch the talk in full or [.] Read more » The post Tools for agile product teams by Gavan Moule appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to acquire Gen Z users

NextBigWhat

Consumer founders! Too many startups rely on paid ads. @tiktok_us’s growing popularity + current undersaturation of ads = room to shine organically. 6 examples on how to acquire gen-Z users for free, examples from social, creator, commerce, learning, food startups and more. 7/ Who else am I missing? What are other creative TikTok growth ideas?

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The Size Of The Scrum Team

The Product Coalition

When Is Small Too Small? Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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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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How affinity mapping can help you organize ideas

nulab

Ideas are hard work. Coming up with them, proposing them, working out what to do with them once they’re out in the wild — it’s tough. It’s even harder when you’re put on the spot and it impacts not just you, but the entire business. Affinity mapping is a really simple method for helping teams generate, sort, and action ideas. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at what it is, how it can help turn your team into a creative powerhouse — and how to get started yourself.

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Have You Ever Had A Green Customer Churn? – Webinar Recap

Gainsight

Gainsight’s Chief Customer Officer, Kellie Capote, recently had a chance to join Amanda Schmidt, VP of Customer Success at PandaDoc, Customer Success Evangelist, Dan Steinman, and Bryan Plaster, Founder and CEO of CompleteCSM, for a candid conversation on how to handle the complex scenario of having a “green” customer churn. And best practices to help avoid it in the future.

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How to Use Product Analytics Tools to Reduce User Friction

Userpilot

While UX professionals say that user experience is vital to business success, most of them aren’t making the most of UX analysis. Companies simply aren’t getting to the heart of their products’ UX, leaving user journeys littered with friction. What does this lead to? High churn rates and dissatisfied customers. Product analytics tools can provide key growth insights that help you solve user problems and provide killer user experiences at the same time.

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ONE THING on Customer Interviews for Stakeholders

Product Culture

When sitting down with stakeholders to discuss your roadmap, treat the meetings like customer interviews. They should be informal, one-on-one. Ask them about themselves. What are their goals? What is keeping them up at night? (And how are the kids?) Building that rapport will translate into a collaboration. The roadmap becomes not simply an approval process, but a problem-solving exercise that you are working on together.

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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 Get More Value Out of Your User Research Recordings

UserInterviews

Work smarter, not harder. These 5 tips will help you make the most of your UX research session recordings and analysis.

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Avoid These 6 Common User Research Mistakes

Modus Create

8 in 10 customers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience – Capgemini. Demand for UX research has increased by 30% in the last 12 months. – Intechnic. 51% of enterprises saw an increase of 25% in their UX research budget – Intechnic. These statistics are music to the ears of UX researchers worldwide. For too long, they have been preaching the gospel of user research.

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Built for you: Custom Reports, Conversation Topics, Macros, and more to personalize customer communication

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to supporting and engaging customers, striking the balance between personalization and efficiency is critical if you want to operate at scale. But in order to find that highly sought-after sweet spot, you need to deeply understand your customers’ experiences with your product – and their expectations. Without this knowledge, it’s inevitable that your customer communication will remain impersonal and inefficient, neither of which will empower your team to meet ever-rising customer e