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Want to Build Great Digital Products? Be a Design Thinker. Design Thinking (STEP BY STEP)

iTexico Design

Want to Build Great Digital Products? Be a Design Thinker. Design Thinking (STEP BY STEP). The development process for most of human history has been, shall we say, symptom-driven. When there was a market open, manufacturers and entrepreneurs would move in and capitalize on it the best way they saw fit. When people need clothes, someone would be there to clothe them.

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Setting Up an Internal Product Function by Prag Patel

Mind the Product

Where does product management fit in an organization today? In this ProductTank London talk, Prag Patel , Head of Product at And Digital speaks about his experience helping clients to adopt a product management strategy and the lessons learned along the way. Watch the video to see Prag’s talk. Or read on to get an overview of his key points: Expectations of a product manager.

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11 Revealing Product Manager Interview Questions

ProductPlan

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. There’s no perfect template for an ideal PM candidate; it’s about finding the best fit among a sea of unicorns. The diversity of backgrounds in product manager applicants increases the level of difficulty in making a good hire. Moreover, product manager roles and job descriptions also vary wildly from one organization to the next.

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The Killer Product Overview: How to Nail It, Verbal or Written!

Product Management University

Here’s the secret to a killer product overview. It’s more about what someone can do with the product than it is about what the product actually does. About 10 or 12 years ago, I was the victim of a killer product overview! I wasn’t even planning to buy anything, yet I spent way more money than I ever imagined and I couldn’t be happier. Here’s the story.

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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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Good Managers Manage Their Free Time

The Product Coalition

Your day is full of meetings. You have only a couple of short breaks between them. Managing this “free” time is the key to success of… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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How to create an interactive wireframe in Cacoo

nulab

When you are developing a website or mobile application, a wireframe or mockup is a useful tool for communicating ideas visually in an efficient manner. It encourages collaboration by providing designers and developers a basic form of the product to work with and improve on. The more thoroughly you vet your product during these early wireframing stages, the less likely you are to waste time later on when even small changes can require time and effort from multiple teams.

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Pyramid of product manager needs PoPMan): impact, outcome and output

The Product Coalition

In my last article, I described the pyramid of product manager need. In this follow up blog post, we will have a look at the pyramid from… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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UXDX recap: Product design experts from Uber, Mastercard, and more share their insights

ProductBoard

Last week, my fellow designer Zdenek and I hopped on a plane to Dublin to attend the 4th annual UXDX conference. During our time in Dublin, we spent 2 days at the Royal Dublin Society listening to design thought leaders share their perspectives on product development and how they bridge the gap between product, design and engineering. We identified two big themes from the talks: The need to think.

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Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: 20 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns In my experience, the Daily Scrum is the Scrum event with the highest anti-pattern density among all events. Learn more about the Daily Scrum anti-patterns that threaten to derail your agile transition. The Purpose of the Daily Scrum The purpose of the Daily Scrum is clearly described in the Scrum Guide?—?no guessing is necessary: The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team.

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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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The State Of Innovation | A Conversation with Rita McGrath & Alex Osterwalder | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Rita McGrath (Author, Seeing Around Corners) & Alex Osterwalder (Founder, Strategyzer). At Business of Software USA 2019 we were joined by two titans of innovation thinking. Rita McGrath & Alex Osterwalder both gave fantastic talks at the conference and shared enthusiastically in the 3 days of learning. It’s probably fair to say that Alex made more notes than anybody!

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Build Your Company Strategy Around Conversion and Innovation

The Product Coalition

In my previous post , I discussed how you can apply the balance of innovation and optimization to your product teams and product organization. In this update, I also apply that model to your larger company strategy. Company stage can be a major determinant for how much innovation or optimization you should be doing at any given time. In the above graphic, if you start in the far right at the product market fit stage, this is a time of intense innovation.

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Eight Tips for Effective Win-Loss Analysis

ProductCraft

To build a more sellable product, you need to know why prospective customers do or don’t purchase your product. What was their final decision? Why? Did they perceive any product gaps? What other factors influenced their decision? Which alternative solutions did they consider? If lost, how can you win their business in the future? This. Read more » The post Eight Tips for Effective Win-Loss Analysis appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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It’s okay to doubt yourself as a Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Photo by Paolo Nicolello on Unsplash It started on a weekend. I suddenly started worrying about a new feature we were beginning to work on Monday. All sorts of questions started to emerge. Did enough customers need this feature to justify building it? Had we understood the requirements enough? Did we have the right support from other teams? What if we were going to do a lot of work that would be worth nothing?

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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TEI 254: The right way to use web-ethnography to learn about customers – with Bill McDowell

Product Innovation Educators

With not much more than a web meeting, product managers can put web-ethnography into action. You have a lot of tools to help you learn about yours customers, such as customer visits, interviews, and surveys. One of my favorites is ethnography. I find some of the best insights, insights that competitors may have missed, come from observing customers.

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5 Freemium Customer Conversation Platforms

The Product Coalition

Dashly Crisp Gist Drift Zendesk There are thousands of platforms that you can choose from to communicate with and engage your customers. But how do you know which one is the best for your company? We’ve compiled a list of our favorite customer communication platforms that are either fully or partially free. But first, we’ll start the discussion by understanding what “customer conversation marketing” is, what products can be named as such, and why you would want to implement these products for yo

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Wendy’s Product Managers Take On Breakfast

The Accidental Product Manager

Wendy’s wants to bring in more customers in the morning Image Credit: Mike Mozart. So here’s a quick question for you: what’s the most important meal of the day? If you said breakfast, then the product managers at Wendy’s would agree with you. Wendy’s has decided to once again make an attempt to expand their product development definition and start to offer breakfast items in an effort to attract more customers to their stores in the morning.

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On a Mission to Kill Release Nights

Split

It’s known that modern companies, especially the ones that have adopted agile principles, have achieved a faster degree of delivery cadence, deploy many times per day, diminished the risk of each release, and lowered the time to fix defects in production environments. Feature flags are one of the few key technologies that enables this transformation because it allows you to decouple pushes from releases, but do they really deliver the benefit of “killing the release” night?

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Should you Make the Main CTA on Mobile ‘Stick-to-Scroll’?

AB Tasty

We dive into whether mobile experiences should keep or ditch the 'stick-to-scroll' call to action in our latest Myth Busters article. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Should you Make the Main CTA on Mobile ‘Stick-to-Scroll’?

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High-performing companies learn fast. Does yours?

Product Warrior

Many large enterprises are envious of the speed of innovation within start-ups. But they needn’t be. They are simply failing to recognise the key is learning from the customer. There is always a raft of excuses as to why a large company can’t move quickly, especially as they typically describe themselves as having the agility of an oil tanker. In most cases, this is total b t.

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Black Box IoT?

CONTACT Software

Who wants to buy a pig in a poke? Especially when you are entering completely new territory with it… The first stroller, for example: you are already aware that you need it, but the decision between a small pack format or the bicycle trailer combination is more difficult. The last time I bought a baby … Continue reading "Black Box IoT?".

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Profile: Eric Iwashita, Product Manager at Pendo

ProductCraft

Name: Eric Iwashita Role: Product manager Company: Pendo Background: Eric is a Triangle transplant passionate about human-centered problem solving, ethical design, and wicked problems. After studying product design at Stanford, he’s applying these product philosophies and strategies to Pendo Adopt, working with developers and designers to explore a new persona and new market.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Where to begin when hiring for remote work

The Product Coalition

An interview with Joe Cheung, Operating Partner, Talent at Craft Ventures Ahead of Range’s upcoming Meetup on remote hiring , I sat down for a quick chat with one of our panelists, Joe Cheung. Is the future of work remote? According to Joe, it’s already here. In this interview, we dig into when remote hiring makes sense for a company, how to actually source remote candidates, how to hire the right team members, and much more.

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The Accidental Product Manager: From Cars To Games To Google

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

We talk to Sai Boddupalli , an Exponent alumnus, on his journey being a product manager across various, distinct industries spanning automotive, e-commerce, gaming, and payments. Sai is going to be a PM at Google starting December, working on the Payments Platform. Q: How would you answer the “Tell me about yourself” question? One of the things I was taught very early on in business school was how to approach this question, and it transformed the way I thought about it.

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Why use .Net MVC Framework for dealing with End-to-End Solutions for App Development

The Product Coalition

Why use .Net MVC Framework for dealing with End-to-End Solutions for App Development image source: pragimtech Today, developments are occurring nonstop every day. It is critical to gain admittance to the most recent innovations to have a specialty in the consistently developing challenge. This is conceivable by making a charming and easy to understand the versatile Application.

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The Passion Economy (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

Hi readers, Consumer startups have gone through many phases: Web 2.0, Facebook apps, Mobile (remember SoLoMo?), and in recent years, some of the best opportunities have been happening in the real world. In recent years, the Gig Economy has taken over. Startups like Uber, Airbnb, Instacart, and others have been able to find product/market fit and scale their businesses.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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The Passion Economy (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

Hi readers, Consumer startups have gone through many phases: Web 2.0, Facebook apps, Mobile (remember SoLoMo?), and in recent years, some of the best opportunities have been happening in the real world. In recent years, the Gig Economy has taken over. Startups like Uber, Airbnb, Instacart, and others have been able to find product/market fit and scale their businesses.