Fri.May 04, 2018

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Motivate your star performers with meaningful career conversations

Intercom, Inc.

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. In person. Your instincts tell you nothing good is going to come out of this conversation. And unfortunately, your suspicions are confirmed when they hand you their resignation and explain they’ve been offered “a new and exciting opportunity” that aligns with their career aspirations.

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Yes, You DO Need to Do Post-Mortems

UserVoice

Introduction. One of the most important, and often most-overlooked, aspects of adopting a “little-a” agile culture lies in the application of continuous improvement practices. By far the most important of these practices is looking back over past efforts so that we can identify root cause and propose remedial efforts. And while Scrum has this function built in on the team level, the sprint retrospective is.

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MTP Engage Hamburg 2018 was all About the People

Mind the Product

Music fans know all about that old chestnut of the “difficult second album”, but it’s a cliche that contains some truth. You usually get a decent helping of goodwill on your first public outing as the producer of something you’re passionate about, and this makes it very hard to live a up to a strong debut. We had a “second album in the making” feeling many times while we prepared for our second MTP Engage Hamburg, so we were relieved at how well it all turned

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The importance of proper ‘framing’ in UX research

Userzoom

Your research tasks are works of art – use the best frame possible! At the risk of sounding like a broken record in the UX space, ‘you ? user’. But as often as it is that this term is thrown around, its habitually easier to say than to put into practice. So why is it sometimes easier to say stuff than do stuff? Well, Daniel Kahneman (author of ‘ Thinking fast and slow ’ and Nobel Prize winner in economic sciences) and his late friend and fellow psychologist Amos Tversky provided an explana

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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What Product Manager Type Are You?

Hutwork

What do most people think when they hear “product manager”? They think of a slick, MBA-type who can fast talk his or her way around a product. Or maybe they think of a technical guru who understands “geek speak” and can relate it to end users. It’s interesting to note that other capacities in a business have a variety of well-defined words to tack on to their title to help others understand their function.

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How to create Habit forming shopping Experience

The Product Coalition

“89% of shoppers do online research before purchasing an item in-store, and 45% of those use their phone to do it.” “28% of consumer time is spent on social media, at an average of 1.72 hours per day, excluding SnapChat. “ - “Web/Store Cross-Channel Shopping Survey” The mushrooming connectivity, contextual product experience, and multi-screen experience have converged the technology and consumer behavior and lead drastic shifts in the shopping experience.

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[VIDEO] In-App Messaging for Product and Feature Education

Revulytics

It’s quick and easy to set up ReachOut messages to launch in your application – even without any technical expertise. In this short video, you’ll learn two, step-by-step examples of how to: Create a message that will reach all new users. Highlight your most valuable features for users who haven’t yet discovered them yet. ReachOut in-application messaging is a great way to educate new users about your software by pushing relevant educational content their way when it will be most impactful – whil

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Revisiting failing fast–and other innovation observations for product managers May 4, 2018

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Revisiting failing fast – why you should fail fast. Innovation means doing something new, which means the need for experimenting and learning. Learning when we do something new comes with failing along the way until we figure things out.

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Leading your organization towards Product Excellence

ProductBoard

It’s the dawn of a new era. It’s the dawn of a new era These days, customers don’t just buy products. And they care about more than just feature sets and brand. They’re looking for the best end-to-end experience to help them get a job done. And more than ever, they’re cognizant of the relationship they have with your product, and your organization.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Dear Strategy: 048 When New Leaders Disrupt Existing Strategies

Dear Strategy

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale, President of the product management and product strategy training company Sequent Learning Networks , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “Is there a best practice for when a new leader or CEO comes in with a new corporate strategy? How should they convey and implement that change without causing disruption – or is disruption good for this situation?”.

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Aligning your organization towards Product Excellence

ProductBoard

The tectonic shift in the way we build digital products is the ultimate forcing mechanism to change. We’re in an era where customers not only buy products but the vision and the team that help create them. While it might take extra effort to incorporate deep user insights, rally your team around your roadmap and build out a coherent product strategy, the end result will help you lead a happy team.

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Dear Strategy: 048 When New Leaders Disrupt Existing Strategies

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “Is there a best practice for when a new leader or CEO comes in with a new corporate strategy? How should they convey and implement that change without causing disruption – or is disruption good for this situation?”. This one’s for all the CEOs and corporate leaders out there, so please pay close attention – because your teams are trying to tell you something, and they may not always tell you to your face. .

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Yes, You DO Need to Do Post-Mortems

UserVoice

Introduction. One of the most important, and often most-overlooked, aspects of adopting a “little-a” agile culture lies in the application of continuous improvement practices. By far the most important of these practices is looking back over past efforts so that we can identify root cause and propose remedial efforts. And while Scrum has this function built in on the team level, the sprint retrospective is insufficient to serve the needs of continual improvement of the organization as a whole.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.