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Practical Design Thinking Part 3: A better way to run remote workshops?

Mind the Product

Remote workshops, they’re a thing right?! Remote workshops aren’t a new thing and, with the soar in popularity of tools like Mural (our personal favourite) or Miro (another great alternative), alongside the disparate nature of product teams in 2020, more and more remote workshops, (including full-blown Design Sprints) are being run every day. At Pack, before the pandemic [.].

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Product Manager Salary [2021 Data]

280 Group

This article details general Product Manager salary data based on salary information reported by Salary.com and Hired.com in January 2021. Status of the Job 2021: Product Manager. Interest in product management roles has soared in the past five years. A Google Trends analysis shows that interest in the search term “product manager jobs” has increased by 104% since January 2016 and interest in “product manager salary” by 55%.

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What is “conversational”?

Intercom, Inc.

Our mission at Intercom is to “make internet business personal” – to enable online businesses to foster the same sort of relationships with their customers as “brick-and-mortar” businesses. . The focus on relationships is very intentional – frequent positive interactions encourage loyalty, and loyalty is the bedrock of every sustainable business. .

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The Power of Mentoring – DeVaris Brown on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Some of the most successful people we know credit their mentors for making the difference in their careers. We’ve recently heard great talks from the likes of Barry O’Reilly, Marty Cagan, and Gibson Biddle where they talk about having a ‘personal Board of Directors’ But how do you go about getting a mentor and getting [.]. Read More.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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A Look at the Year Ahead: The Product Talk Roadmap (With a Book Update)

Product Talk

Happy New Year! I am excited to kick off 2021. For the past couple of years, I’ve used my January blog post to give an update on my plans for the year ahead and this year will be no different. You can find previous years’ posts here: 2019 and 2020. I know many of you are anxiously awaiting an update on my upcoming book. You’ll get that. But before we get to solutions, I want to share more of our discovery context for Product Talk, the business.

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Clear Explore Guidance: Align your Innovation Ecosystem Stakeholders

Strategyzer

In a recent post we explained how to align innovation projects with corporate strategy using the Strategic Guidance framework. Today we zoom in on Explore Guidance, a key element from your overall Strategic Guidance to align your innovation ecosystem stakeholders.

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The Four Components of Product Success

The Product Coalition

Strategic product thinking is hard. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it is nearly impossible to rise above specific features and metrics. Here is a framework that will help you do just that. When I first started teaching product management (at IDC’s Adelson School of Entrepreneurship ), I needed a way to break down strategic product thinking into distinct components that would help people understand and focus on one aspect each time.

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50 product management conferences to check out in 2021

ProductBoard

Despite a year of cancellations and disruptions, the product community is stronger than ever. To kick off the new year, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of the product management conferences and events you can look forward to in 2021, organized by month. Due to the uncertainty that remains around the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the events are now fully virtual.

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Educating the Market Starts With a Need

The Product Coalition

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. There has to be an unmet need that you can answer. And yes, even Facebook had one. I remember exactly the day I joined Facebook. It was Friday, November 16th, 2007. That morning I attended my informal high-school reunion. We met at a local park. It was a sunny morning, and people brought their spouses and kids.

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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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The Untapped Power of the Welcome Screen for your SaaS – Templates + Examples

Userpilot

Welcome screens in SaaS apps are an underutilized piece of real estate that can be so much more than just a welcome message. A well-designed welcome screen can have a significant impact on your new user activation, satisfaction level, and ultimately – churn and retention. They can help you convert more users from viral user referrals. If you think I’m overselling it – keep reading.

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How Might We Statements: A Powerful Way to Turn Insights into Opportunities

dscout People Nerds

How Might We statements translate your insights into actionable design solutions. Here’s how to use them. .

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ONE THING on Managing Dependencies

Product Culture

I’m often asked how best to manage dependencies between teams. My answer is… don’t! The best way to reduce the drag introduced by dependencies among teams is to eliminate the dependencies. This requires making the teams able to operate independently, to be autonomous. In practice, this means a few things must be true. Autonomous teams must have: A clear mission or vision All the skills and authority necessary to pursue that vision Few enough members (3-7) that communication is informal and frequ

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How Agile + Product Management helps build the RIGHT things the RIGHT Way

Mironov Consulting

Most agile conversations are about morale, velocity (aka throughput), quality, predictability, and team dynamics. But we rarely address actual customer/user vale or business outcomes -- instead hiding behind story points or vanity internal value metrics. This discussion will be about how strong product management bridges the outward customer/market view and inward development view.

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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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Connection and Compatibility: How OkCupid Uses Analytics to Help People Find Love

Amplitude

Today, about one-third of Americans have used a dating app or site, and 12% have either been in a committed relationship or gotten married to someone they met through online dating, according to a recent Pew Research report. Meeting the right person may seem like magic, but if you’re using a dating app or website, meeting the right person is a calculated process.

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Product Love Podcast: Brett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures

ProductCraft

? Product Love · Brett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures: product, growth, acquisition This week on Product Love, I sat down with Brett Queener, a partner at Bonfire Ventures. He’s also an active advisor and investor in several seed-stage business software companies. Brett and I talked about his time at Salesforce, and how he began. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Brett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Why we’re sunsetting messaging and mobile A/B testing and focusing on product analytics

Mixpanel

Published January 13, 2021. A year from now, on Jan 1, 2022, we’ll remove the Messages & Experiments feature from Mixpanel. This post outlines: Why we made the decision and how you’ll be able to learn more about your users as a result. New messaging integrations , including a list of preferred partners offering discounts for getting started.

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What to Consider When Selecting a CDP Platform

Indicative

Today’s data landscape is an emerging one. Month over month, quarter over quarter, organizations are learning to more effectively harness and democratize customer data in furtherance of their business goals. The Customer Data Platform market is no exception. According to the CDP Institute, the industry is rapidly approaching $1 billion. That growth represents thousands of companies making investments in customer data and all the opportunities it can open, all the decisions it can drive, and more

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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.

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What to Consider When Selecting a CDP Platform

Indicative

Today’s data landscape is an emerging one. Month over month, quarter over quarter, organizations are learning to more effectively harness and democratize customer data in furtherance of their business goals. The Customer Data Platform market is no exception. According to the CDP Institute, the industry is rapidly approaching $1 billion. That growth represents thousands of companies making investments in customer data and all the opportunities it can open, all the decisions it can drive, and more