Wed.Oct 23, 2019

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How to Crack a PM role right out of Grad School.

The Product Coalition

October 23, 2019: It’s my birthday today and as I sit here feeling incredibly grateful for the life I have right now, it compels me to share a few hacks/ resources that helped me get where I am. There are so many great product leaders doing tons of great work that’s available for free ( will list them later in the article ), it’s amazing how much good content is available out there.

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Insights from the #mtpcon Product Leadership Forum – Part 3

Mind the Product

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). (All of the issues discussed were under the Chatham House rule , so you won’t see any direct quotes, but everything reported here comes from the most forward-thinking people in the world of product.).

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How Reputable App Marketing Companies Can Support Your Business With App And Web Marketing Services

The Product Coalition

[link] If you are practicing the brink and mortar business then you need to learn to promote your business using web marketing techniques. You may even develop a mobile app, thankfully, there are freelance app developers that can help with affordable mobile app development, apart from the recognized app marketing companies. If you want your mobile app to enjoy massive downloads from your customers and even potential customers then there are certain features that you must incorporate in your mobi

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Making Product Roadmaps That Work: Q&A with Rich Mironov | Thursday 14th November

Business of Software Conference

Join us on Thursday 14th November for a live online Q&A with Rich Mironov on Product Roadmaps & Prioritization. The roadmapping process is almost always broken. Roadmaps are met with frustration and boredom in equal measure. That’s Rich Mironov’s experience of working with Silicon Valley software companies for 35+ years. Different voices in the company want different things.

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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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Mobile UX Trends for 2020 that You Can’t Miss?—?UXCam

The Product Coalition

Mobile UX Trends for 2020 that You Can’t Miss?—?UXCam It’s the same as every year. Trends come and go, especially in the fast-moving mobile market. But it’s useful to know what’s coming up to stay ahead of the game. 2019 is almost over and it’s time to cast a cautious glance onto which trends are coming up for 2020 and beyond. I’ve done a lot of research and today I want to present to you my favorite upcoming mobile UX trends for 2020. #1 AI Technology and Voice Control Text based inputs and cli

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Why Product Should Care About Customer Churn

ProductCraft

Churn is not the most appealing topic to write about, but it’s a reality that those of us in product must face. “Churn” is both an important and depressing metric to track. No product manager likes to hear that a customer has decided to move to a competitor. It stirs up feelings of failure because. Read more » The post Why Product Should Care About Customer Churn appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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A New Inbound Approach To Customer Success

Gainsight

If you’re familiar with HubSpot, then the word that probably comes to mind is “inbound.”. Inbound marketing was the concept upon which we founded HubSpot: that outbound, interruption-based marketing was going extinct, and instead of interrupting people to get their attention, you needed to start attracting an engaged audience to grow bigger and better.

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Miro opens Platform for developers and app-builders

Miro

Miro opens platform for developers and app-builders Now, any product development team or agile transformation consultant can build their own integrations and apps on Miro, the #1 visual collaboration platform with over 3 million users worldwide.The time has come to bring real freedom to the way unstructured work gets done. Say hello to the Miro […].

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Guest Blog Post: Four Quick Takeaways From #BoS2019

Business of Software Conference

Four Quick Takeaways from #BoS2019: Guest Post by Allison Grinberg-Funes. I learned a lot at the Business of Software Conference when I attended as a first-timer in 2018. Throughout the conference, it wasn’t hard to pinpoint takeaways that folks would be able to bring home to improve their individual growth or their team’s outputs. #BoS2019 was no different.

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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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User Research for Machine Learning Systems: A Case Study Walkthrough

dscout People Nerds

Michelle Carney talks us through tactics for building more human, more helpful, and more ethical AI + ML systems. .

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Researching Your Own Users with Chad Aldous of Abodo

UserInterviews

Researching with your own users takes special considerations

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Collaborate earlier - and more often - to make great products

Product Warrior

When and how do the product managers in your company collaborate with engineers, UX and the business? Is the product team’s first interaction with engineering or UX in iteration or sprint planning? If so, they have fallen for the classic product manager mistake; they’ve become ‘the lone ranger PM’. According to many product gurus such as Marty Cagen, product management is the epicentre between value, feasibility and design.

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Top Attended Sessions of Technology & Services World Las Vegas 2019

TSIA

This was my first Technology & Services World (TSW) conference since joining the TSIA Research team , and it has been a great experience having conversations with members and partners, gaining a better understanding the top issues members are facing, and seeing the hottest tools being demo’d by our partners in the TSW | EXPO. My colleague John Ragsdale asked me to write a quick blog with information on the top attended sessions from yesterday, which had a full day of conference breakou

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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The Catch-22 of building a business on Apple’s APIs #sherlocking

NextBigWhat

[link] What’s good for Apple isn’t necessarily good for you. Apple always encourages adopting their latest APIs, tools, and languages like Swift; they’re incredibly powerful resources, but they also make us dependent on Apple’s ecosystem. From Apple’s perspective, they are happy to lock developers in. If they can have tons of incredible and unique apps that are exclusive to their platforms, that makes Apple’s products that much more compelling to their customers.

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Why Elon Musk’s Brain Will Change The Future Of UX

UXCam Bluespace

Could Elon Musk take user experience to a new level?

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Taxonomy of Moats

NextBigWhat

An innovation is a type of competitive advantage (though not all competitive advantages are innovations) and the strategic job is to make that competitive advantage sustainable over time 1 , to maintain the advantage as a bulwark against competition. Mechanisms to deter or slow imitation are called, colloquially, moats. Moats draw their power to prevent imitation from one of four basic sources: The state, Special know-how, Scale, or.

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Technical Fluency for a Product Management role

The Product Coalition

(Including a 4-week crash course for the technical round of a Product Management interview) Product Managers are responsible for what is being built (and when/wh y), and not directly responsible for how it is built. Most product companies have aligned to the view that Product Managers do not necessarily need to have coding experience to perform well in a Product Management role, but they do need to have ‘Technical Fluency’?

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Top 10 DevOps Tools

eG Innovations

Over the years DevOps has become quite the buzzword. Although DevOps has been challenging to describe because of its abstract nature, it’s described mainly as a culture change, where Dev and Ops teams collaborate to establish a more agile and reliable framework that counts on trust, transparency, and seamless communication to improve productivity and speed of software development from code commit to deploy.

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How to Build a Successful Travel Service and Win Customer’s Heart

The Product Coalition

With more than 100k flights, 1.5 million bookings made every day, and every tenth person in the world employed in travel services, it’s no surprise that the value of the travel industry is estimated to hit $13.5 billion by 2027. That’s one reason why it’s become an attractive place to get into the game both for bold entrepreneurs and deep-pocketed investors.

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Making the Transition from Product Manager to Product Portfolio Manager

ProductPlan

Think being a product manager requires a lot of strategic thinking and long-term planning? You’re right. But you’ll need to tap into even greater strategic superpowers to make the transition from managing one product to product portfolio management. In this post, we’ll explain the differences between product management and product portfolio management.

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Say No With Confidence: How To Tell The Great Ideas From The Merely Good | Bruce McCarthy, Product Culture | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Bruce McCarthy, Founder, Product Culture. Wouldn’t it be great if no one could argue with your decisions? How awesome would it be if you could cut through politics, opinions, and circular arguments and have a clear way to prioritize? In this talk Product guru Bruce McCarthy arms you with his battle-tested approach to prioritizing your most critical initiatives that will increase your organization’s focus by increasing confidence in your prioritization decisions.

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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.