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Why mistakes are key for product excellence

Mind the Product

We all like to be right, to do things perfectly, to get praise. I am super guilty of this and more times than I can remember people around me told me that I have to get comfortable with ”good enough”. That my chase for quality is sometimes my biggest enemy. I always struggled with this [.] Read more » The post Why mistakes are key for product excellence appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Q3 Writing Workshop Open for Registration

Johanna Rothman

My Q3 writing workshop, Free Your Inner Writer, is now open for registration. It starts July 12, 2021, and ends on Aug. 23, 2021. (The weekly debriefing calls are optional. I record them and provide transcripts.). Here's what you get from the workshop: 6 weeks of self-paced lessons with a writing assignment each week. Private feedback from me on your writing each week, if you want it.

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The ProductTank awards 2020

Mind the Product

Organising and running ProductTank meetups requires dedication, not to mention a huge amount of effort, and all of our ProductTanks do a fantastic job. At World Product Day this year, we wanted to honour a selection who have seen great success, and have gone the extra mile. On the 26th of May, we hosted the [.] Read more » The post The ProductTank awards 2020 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to beta test, with award-winning learning app Pocket Prep

Usersnap

Surely all software companies are familiar with beta testing, but how well do you actually do it? If you’re not all that confident with answering this question, hey, that’s cool too, because you’ve found the right article to get some practical ideas! We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process.

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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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How Do You Think About Failure?

The Product Coalition

A CEO recently asked me to explain how I think about failure. I fumbled with my answer that how failure works in business depends on framing. Here’s the answer I wish I’d given her at the time: in some situations failure definitely needs to be avoided and in other situations failure needs to be reframed. Failure is a charged topic. Startups and the innovation community berate established companies for not embracing failure.

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3 Effective Methods for Content Tests (Beyond Usability Testing)

dscout People Nerds

When testing content, usability often identifies the problem—without giving you much direction on how to fix it. Try a cloze test, recall-based test, or highlighter test instead. .

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How to Expand Your Audience through Moderated Testing

TryMyUI

Image source: Pexels There are extensive methods and techniques to expand your business audience. One way is to ensure the delivery of optimal services and product experience that can enhance the meaningfulness to the user. In simple words, moderated testing encompasses the use of advance criteria and techniques to improve user experience through usability testing.

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Taming the dangerous animals of product management—a discussion with Dean Peters and Stephen Walker

ProductBoard

As a product manager, you will often field urgent requests from stakeholders. “This must be built,” they insist, “and right away.” Meet the dangerous animals of product management. Left untamed, these (usually) well-intentioned stakeholders and situations can get in the way of your careful product plans. To avoid being devoured, product managers must master influence without authority—an art that.

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Establishing Excellence in Product Management?—?Part 3 of Becoming a Product Leader

The Product Coalition

Establishing Excellence in Product Management?—?Part 3 of Becoming a Product Leader Great Product Leaders raise the bar for product management across an organization. They consistently strive to improve how product management is practiced, ensuring better outcomes over time. In this article, I discuss how individual contributor Product Managers can demonstrate leadership by establishing excellence in product management themselves and across their organization.

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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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Lucrative Business Ideas for Stay-at-Home Moms to Make Extra Money

Spice Catalyst

Starting a business ?has never been more popular than now, and women of all ages are increasingly becoming entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur is just French for Product Manager.

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Web 3.0 is here. Don’t Let Your Digital Product Fall behind.

Emerge Insights

The internet is in the early stages of a monumental shift. The predominant paradigms that are collectively known as Web 2.0 are beginning to be displaced by newer technologies that will dramatically change how we interact with digital products. As a product owner, you need to know how these shifts and trends will impact your […]. The post Web 3.0 is here.

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2 Fast 2 Innovative: Recap of the Day 2 Pulse Everywhere Keynote Session

Gainsight

Can you recall the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown? If so, you realize how important your television and your streaming services were. They were our lifelines and connections to the outside world. It was our source of news, entertainment, and communication pathways. Did you get addicted to a show that you just had to finish watching, but you had to wait for the next episode or season?

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Use These 3 Exercises to Become a More Creative Researcher

dscout People Nerds

Use these techniques to break out of a research rut and generate compelling insights from your next study.

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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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Killing stories and creating categories — Comms tips from Shannon Brayton’s 25+ years in tech

The Review by First Round

Today’s episode is with Shannon Brayton, a Silicon Valley veteran with more than two decades of experience shaping corporate narratives and leading teams at companies like LinkedIn, OpenTable, eBay, Yahoo!, and Intuit. She recently joined Bessemer as the venture capital firm’s first-ever CMO. In today’s conversation, Shannon shares the comms and leadership lessons she’s picked up along the way.

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And The 2021 GameChanger Award Goes To…

Gainsight

Every year we are astounded by the attendance at Gainsight’s Pulse events. It’s a symbol that people are focused on learning more about customer success. They want to improve best practices that will affect their businesses while achieving more as individual CS professionals. . Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand the need for remote work and social distancing.

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All the Feels – Unveiling the Future of Customer Success and Journey Management at Pulse Everywhere

Gainsight

One of the reasons I LOVE tech conferences, especially as a Product Marketer, is the ability to get a first-hand look at the new innovations and features that are often being launched and demoed from the keynote stage. Here at Gainsight, I guess you can say I’m pretty much living the Product Marketer’s dream, having such a vibrant and active community and a stage like Pulse to showcase our own new features and capabilities each and every year, as well as our amazing team who builds them.

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Episode Two: Pulse Everywhere Session Recaps and Takeaways from Day Two

Gainsight

It was a chilly day in San Francisco, but it was hot and happening on day two of Pulse Everywhere. With the amazing content from day one, our presenters had a lot to live up to. But they brought their best game with some incredible moves, tips, and tricks. It was informative instruction, both live and virtual, to help up attendee’s plays and performance.

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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.