Tue.Jun 04, 2019

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Should Product Roadmaps Have Dates?

Roman Pichler

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. I find it helpful to use the product roadmap so that it connects the overall product strategy with the product backlog, as shown in the picture below.

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Fast vs. Excellent – The Myth of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product)

Sequent Learning

A while ago, I watched a newscast on the BBC. Two guests were members of a military marching band. A video showed the marching band in full dress, as well as a glimpse of what they did during physical military training. In the interview, they spoke about their military discipline and how the training is reflected both in their excellent work as soldiers, and in how they practice and perfect their music and marching.

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Why sales and marketing are the key to your roadmap success

Intercom, Inc.

Product managers have the onus to be deeply attentive listeners. We’ve got to keep a pulse on a diverse set of inputs, filtering signals amidst the noise, to build strategic direction and seemingly mid-flight, make calculated tradeoffs for the product roadmap. It’s a game of endless Bayesian inference with an overwhelming amount of directions. We are constantly reevaluating if the choices we’ve made for the product are the right ones as new information becomes available.

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The Top Mobile In-app Feedback Tools of 2019

Alchemer Mobile

If you’ve landed on this article, you most likely already understand the immense value of capturing in-app customer feedback. The real challenge comes when you’re deciding how you actually want to execute on this concept and actually begin gathering mobile feedback in your own app. Where do you start? What tools do you use? How do you manage all of that data?

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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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Three Simple Ways to Make Product Prioritisation Easier

Mind the Product

The great thing about technology is that anything is possible. But when anything is possible, how do you decide what to do? And, arguably more importantly, how do you decide what not to do? Every one of my clients struggles with this paradox of choice. Whether a small or large charity, Seed, Series A funded, or mature startup, deciding what to build is hard.

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Killing Zombies – Lisa Long on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Ash Williams ( Evil Dead ); Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock ( Zombieland ); Shaun ( Shaun of the Dead ); Alice ( Resident Evil ); Lisa Long ( ProductTank ). All have killed zombies, and entertained us as they did so… but only Lisa did so on stage at London’s ProductTank, giving us practical advice on how to kill off zombie features and products – and why it’s absolutely necessary to do so.

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Why Qualitative Market Research Belongs in Your Startup Toolkit — and How to Wield it Effectively

First Round Review

Qualitative market research is the catalyst for creativity that not enough startups are taking advantage of. Jesse Caesar demystifies qual, outlines the questions that qual's uniquely positioned to tackle and shares how startups at any stage can add this powerful resource to their toolkits.

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Data Science and Digital Businesses by Ali Gulez

Mind the Product

Machine learning data products can create significant value for businesses and their customers. For example, data products can enable customers to engage with more relevant content, facilitating and supporting repeat custom to the business. In this ProductTank London talk Ali Gulez discusses the critical intersection of data products and digital businesses, sharing his knowledge of machine learning models through his experiences with Trainline.

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Webinar recap: How to improve collaboration for distributed agile teams

Miro

Webinar recap: How to improve collaboration for distributed agile teamsHollis KoolAuthorBeing on a remote team can be disruptive when the tech we rely on isn’t designed to fill the collaboration gap that forms when teams become remote or distributed. Agile teams are facing this challenge as the center-point to rituals — the whiteboard — is […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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4 Ways Retailers Are Using Machine Learning

Pragmatic Marketing

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the world as we know it. From our online search engines to the way we do healthcare, machine learning is behind the scenes reshaping how our world works. Retail is no exception; machine learning has revolutionized retail both behind the scenes and how consumers shop at their favorite stories.

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Using CSV files

CardBoard

How to import/export CSV files in CardBoard. CardBoard supports CSV files. CSV files are intended to be CardBoard back up files that you can easily access as you transfer to new communities or accounts. Importing CSV files into CardBoard are for files that have been exported from CardBoard. It is not for importing free formed CSV files. Exporting CSV.

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4 Ways Retailers Are Using Machine Learning

Pragmatic Marketing

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the world as we know it. From our online search engines to the way we do healthcare, machine learning is behind the scenes reshaping how our world works. Retail is no exception; machine learning has revolutionized retail both behind the scenes and how consumers shop at their favorite stories.

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Let’s Not Argue About Technical Debt

The Product Coalition

After close to 20 years building software products I’ve finally made peace with technical debt. I’ve arrived at a perspective and approach… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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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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Understanding Your Value Proposition to Japanese Customers

freshtrax

On May 29, 2019, btrax and GlobalSaké collaborated to bring the event “ Defining Value Proposition for Asia New Market Entry ” to those interested in international market expansion. By listening to presentations from btrax Director of Innovation Services, Kisa Nakashima and Yewser CEO/GlobalSaké Co-Founder, Talia Baruch , attendees gained a better understanding of what a value proposition is, why it’s important when looking at new markets, and factors to consider when scaling a business to Asia.

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4 Key Elements of Testing VR

Centercode

Experiencing technology firsthand is central to our mission here at Centercode. That’s why when our CEO Luke brought the Oculus Quest all-in-one VR system into the office, we did what any dedicated tech enthusiasts would do: we took turns playing Beat Saber. Was it entirely in the name of research? I’ll let you decide that one. But using the Oculus Quest did get us thinking about what goes into Customer Validation for VR and emerging tech.

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Is In-App Messaging Unethical?

Gainsight

Guess what? You can talk to your users in-product without sacrificing the customer experience. Like a broken record, you’ve probably heard over and over that the business world is changing. Subscriptions have overtaken traditional models. Customers have more options, therefore more power. The way we run business requires new functions and new tools.

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One Year After GDPR: Amplitude and User Privacy

Amplitude

Last week was the first anniversary of the passing of the GDPR regulation. GDPR established a high standard for digital privacy and data security in Europe. This week, Apple announced their sign-in-with-Apple feature that will drive better privacy standards globally. On this occasion, we took a step back and led an internal discussion on Amplitude’s commitment to privacy and security.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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How to Be a Great Mentor to Product Managers

ProductPlan

Being a mentor to product managers is the ultimate form of paying it forward. When you’ve amassed years or decades of experience, made mistakes, and persevered forward toward success, mentoring can smooth the path for others as they traverse the same bumpy terrain you’ve already crossed. But, sharing wisdom may not always come naturally. How do you find the right venue for mentorship without coming off as patronizing or preachy?

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Which Headless CMS is the best fit for your Mobile App or React Application?

Emerge Insights

When creating a mobile app or web application, do you have a strategy for how the static content in the application is managed? An app can contain a myriad of static content that wouldn’t make sense to load dynamically from a database or server each time the content is viewed. Some types of content that […]. The post Which Headless CMS is the best fit for your Mobile App or React Application?

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How Insurance Companies Can Use Tech to Better Service Their Clients and Agents

Innovatemap

Technology flows and ebbs with the changing times and changing preferences. Many different industries have picked up on evolving consumer trends that have been driven by technology, and have altered their internal practices and external resources to better serve both internal and external groups. Insurance is one industry that has been slow to adopt strategic technology.

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Introducing airfocus Priority Poker

airfocus

Disciplined prioritization is likely the most important competency for product managers and decision makers for teams and companies.

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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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How Product Marketers Can Use Data to Drive Up Adoption

Amplitude

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Here Are the Winners of the 2019 Pulse Impact Awards

Gainsight

Acting has the Oscars, music has the Grammys, science and literature have the Nobel Prize. Now customer success has its own prestigious award! This year at our annual Pulse conference , Gainsight launched the Pulse Impact Awards. We wanted to save a spot on the biggest stage in customer success to honor teams that made an impact in four different categories over the last year.

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Monitoring and Troubleshooting Synchronization Issues in Java Applications

eG Innovations

Why Synchronize Java Threads? Java applications deployed in production must be multi-threaded for scalability. Threads can be used for performing different tasks or they could be executing the same task to service different user requests. Often, it is necessary to synchronize between different threads. For example, in an eCommerce application, different threads may be fulfilling different orders but to get an accurate count of the number of orders processed, synchronization may be used when incr

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How to Troubleshoot Java Synchronization Issues

eG Innovations

Why Synchronize Java Threads? Java applications deployed in production must be multi-threaded for scalability. Threads can be used for performing different tasks or they could be executing the same task to service different user requests. Often, it is necessary to synchronize between different threads. For example, in an eCommerce application, different threads may be fulfilling different orders but to get an accurate count of the number of orders processed, synchronization may be used when incr

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The Data Metaverse: Unpacking the Roles, Use Cases, and Tech Trends in Data and AI

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Sr. Staff Product Manager of Data & AI at BILL (Previously PM Lead at Twitter/X)

Embark on a transformation journey into the heart of the data ecosystem! This webinar is your gateway to a deeper comprehension of the foundations that drive the data industry and will equip you with the knowledge needed to navigate the evolving landscape. Delve into the diverse use cases where data analytics plays a pivotal role. We’ll explore how these applications are transforming with the introduction of Gen AI, and discuss the anticipated use cases for 2024 and beyond.