Tue.Mar 31, 2020

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Product Management and Personality Type

Product Management and Strategic Marketing

I recently read a book titled “Do What You Are” (by Tieger and Barron-Tieger) and it made me think: what kind of personality makes a good product manager? Myers-Briggs define people by four dimensions of personality: · How we interact with the world and where we direct our energy (E) Extroversion Introversion (I) · The kind of information we naturally notice (S) Sensing -Intuition (N) · How we make decisions (T) Thinking Feeling (F) · Structured/Making decisions o

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Dear Strategy 108: Dealing With a Crisis Situation

Dear Strategy

On this special episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about why long-term planning becomes more important than ever during times of crisis. When unexpected events happen, many companies may actually be deterred from thinking about the future because everything in the present seems so uncertain. But companies that take the time to think past a crisis may just find themselves with a competitive advantage on the other side of the horizon.

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About Maya's Product Management Journey

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with 2019’s TPMAS winner of The Best Product with Social Impact, Maya Brooks. Watch now and see why they are counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. Thank you to everyone who participated, nominated, interviewed, AND passed on the word! The nomination period for The Product Management Awards 2020 has begun!

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Building Products in AsiaPac – Colin Pal and Adrienne Tan on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

When you want to learn about the state of product management across Asia, there are two people who come to mind: Adrienne Tan (CEO and co-founder of Brianmates in Sydney) and Colin Pal (Chief Product Officer, Caterspot in Kuala Lumpur). With more than 25 years of experience between them, they’ve been there since the beginning, seen the evolution of the scene and have some amazing advice to share.

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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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Don't Just Throw Together a Webinar — The Virtual Events Crash Course You Need

First Round Review

Community experts, go-to-market leaders and founders everywhere are facing a new challenge: quickly spinning up virtual events and online communities that feel unique and valuable. Whether you’re tasked with energizing your existing community, pivoting your company’s event programming, scrambling to spin it all up for the first time — or just trying to hold a really great virtual happy hour — community expert David Spinks offers a wealth of wisdom drawn from over a decade spent deepening the moa

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Churn Is Coming: 12 Learnings From A Survey Of SaaS CxOs

Gainsight

How many years ago was January 1, 2020? I don’t know about you, but I lose track of time these days. Even though winter is officially over, like Ned Stark from Game Of Thrones, it seems like we’re all preparing for darker days ahead. January 1st might have been the start of your fiscal year. You might have been reared up to ramp new sales. You might have been en-route to your Sales Kickoff.

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Remote Work and Product Management

ProductCraft

As the COVID-19 situation evolves across the globe, we are entering unprecedented times. In the past 15 days, much of the tech world has rapidly transitioned to mandatory remote work. We’re fortunate to have this option when others can no longer work at all. It goes without saying that this is a privilege we should. Read more » The post Remote Work and Product Management appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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5 Tips To Do More With Less In Customer Success During Covid-19

Gainsight

If you’ve been following customer success blogs recently, a lot has been said and written about how to communicate better and consistently in times of crisis like the one we’re all going through. In these uncertain times, companies (rightly so!) are keeping close tabs on their expenses and cash. Based on research done by Gainsight as well as a few other companies with CEOs, CROs and CCOs, 65–80% of companies have frozen hiring for the next few months and 30–45% have frozen hiring and backfills

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Join the Fight Against COVID-19 with Distributed Computing

Modus Create

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread globally, affecting individuals and businesses everywhere. People across the world are engaging in social distancing and businesses are hustling to provide their employees with remote work processes to enable work while prioritizing health and safety of the team. In addition to the efforts by companies to improve the employee experience while keeping the team safe, many organizations are directly contributing to the fight against COVID-19, helping global initiat

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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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Podcasts About Remote Teams

Johanna Rothman

Everyone's distributed/remote/dispersed in these days of COVID-19. Mark Kilby and I have had the pleasure of being guest on a couple of podcasts that released this week: We spoke with Shane Hastie at Agile 2019. Here is the podcast: Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby on Their Book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. We recorded Remote Project Management and Distributed Agile Teams with Cesar Abeid a few months ago.

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How Customer Success Can Make a Lasting Impact During the COVID-19 Crisis

TSIA

Hello friends in customer success. First and foremost, I wish everyone good health along with physical and mental wellbeing while dealing with significant change both personally and professionally. COVID-19 has impacted many different facets of societal norms, not to mention the day-to-day business. I want to provide guidance for the short term, but also consider the significant opportunity that customer success must make a lasting impact on your customers and your company.

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Finding the Right Data Science Mentor [Checklist]

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Data Science is a double-edged sword. It’s vaguely defined, so job-seekers have leeway to build their ideal career, but working in ambiguity is draining. Finding a good mentor to help navigate the uncertainty can make all the difference. The right mentor will help you stay on track, make connections, and support you when making tough decisions. But where to find these magical beings?

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Introducing the Modus Create 2020 Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Modus Create

Introducing Larelle Clarke, our first Entrepreneur-in-Residence! Announcing the Modus Create EIR Program. The goal of this program is to provide a deserving startup founder and CEO one year of mentorship and support from the Modus Create team. The program will focus on three core elements: The Founder. Mentorship and formal monthly advisory meetings.

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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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Podcasts About Remote Teams

Johanna Rothman

Everyone's distributed/remote/dispersed in these days of COVID-19. Mark Kilby and I have had the pleasure of being guest on a couple of podcasts that released this week: We spoke with Shane Hastie at Agile 2019. Here is the podcast: Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby on Their Book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. We recorded Remote Project Management and Distributed Agile Teams with Cesar Abeid a few months ago.

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Standing together: How Intercom customers are providing relief during COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

In the midst of the global crisis, we’ve been inspired by how so many companies have stepped in to help. We’re fortunate to work with a broad range of customers, many of whom have put their products and platforms to use to fight against COVID-19. From empowering teachers who need to move their classrooms online to providing free, safe transportation to healthcare workers to helping doctors remotely monitor their patients’ systems, these companies are doing amazing things.

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Healthcare Edition: How to Get Information to Your Users Quickly

Gainsight

In an industry where communication is critical, how do you make sure the right message reaches the right patients, providers, and non-clinical staff? Over the past few weeks, you’ve probably been reminded of every email subscription list you’ve ever signed up for. Your inbox number ticking higher and higher as COVID-19 (a.k.a. coronavirus) became part of our everyday vocabulary and businesses rushed to send communications to address this “new normal.

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Any company + product manager ? a product company.

Bain Public

The day-to-day role of a product manager is constantly changing and becoming more strategic. Many product managers are still trying to escape the trap of getting projects handed to them by the C-Suite and being told to simply ‘build something’ or ‘make it better.’ This isn’t exactly much to go on. Where’s the vision? Where’s the communication? Where’s the direction?

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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.