Tue.Jan 21, 2020

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Why 36% is the magic number: Finding the right amount of text in mobile apps

Intercom, Inc.

I studied the first screen of 25 popular iOS apps to determine how much text they use. The results shows us the value of taking a principled approach to writing text for mobile apps – because product design is still all about the words. Mobile apps dominate our digital experiences. People downloaded a record 204 billion of them from the Google and Apple app stores in 2019.

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Repositioning Your Product

The Product Guy

As you gain experience as a Product Manager it’s likely you’ll eventually encounter a business scenario in which you decide to bring your product to a new audience. For the purposes of this talk we’ll focus on two cases. The first is when going from a consumer to business audience and the second is when going from one region to another. Learn how to make such repositioning a reality and some good frameworks that can help you decide when as well as how.

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Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

For the 50th episode of The Product Experience, we’re proud to have Chris Adams join us to talk about making your products more sustainable. One of the rare people who’s seen our world from all sides – Chris has been a developer, designer, researcher and product manager – he came on the show to share practical and implementable advice on how to move from intentions to actions.

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The Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth — Advice from My Time at Stripe and Facebook

First Round Review

Raylene Yung has spent a decade scaling eng and product teams at Facebook and Stripe. Here's her advice for engineers at every stage of their careers, from IC to org leader.

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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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Joe Leech: A Scientific Approach to Product

Mind the Product

If you work alongside Bristol-based product strategy and UX consultant Joe Leech then chances are you’ll also work alongside his dog Little Dude. The fox terrier travels everywhere with him – to London once a week, wherever it is, where Joe goes, he goes. That said, you’d be lucky to find yourself working alongside Little Dude, as Joe has to turn away the majority of the offers of work he receives.

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How to Retain and Reflect? (Reading Series?—?Part 4?—?Conclusion)

The Product Coalition

How to Retain and Reflect? (Reading Series?—?Part 4?—?Conclusion) Reading is a way to gain experiences that would otherwise be not possible. Experiences are only as good and as real as you retain them. In spite of being the differentiation factor from other species, the human brain has its limitations. The human brain will subconsciously grasp and ingrain into your psyche what you read but the goal of reading is for conscious, active & strategic change.

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How to build a world-class product team

Mixpanel

Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a product manager. The product I manage? Product managers. As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. If you, too, are responsible for your company’s product managers, the start of the new year might represent a chance to renew and strengthen your team.

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The College Problem

The Product Coalition

The College D ilemma Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash For many, the idea that college is not useful anymore is still a shocking thought, especially if you are not from the developed world. It is for most a contrarian thought. But not on Twitter. In the virtual streets of Technology Twitter, it’s a commonly debated topic. And there is a bullish trend for the argument ‘college is no longer worth it’.

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Best-in-Class Product Management Framework: The Product Management Life Cycle Model

Sequent Learning

The first and second editions of The Product Manager’s Desk Reference has been a faithful companion to tens of thousands of product managers around the world. I’m refreshing the book for a 3rd edition that will be released in about a year. In that new edition, I’m introducing an update to the Product Management Life Cycle Model. The Product Management Life Cycle Model has evolved over two decades and is based on a vast array of research done by my firm, Sequent Learning Networ

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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.

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Why you should work at a StartUp: Clarifying all Reasons

The Product Coalition

Why you should work at a StartUp: Clarifying Reasons The number of people looking for jobs at StartUps has been growing year after year in the last decade, a modest number of students are already planning to work in this type of company since the early years of the University. In addition to the increasing share of these companies in the market, they are also more widespread in the media and pop culture(take HBO's Silicon Valley for instance).

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When to Declare Backlog Bankruptcy

ProductPlan

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The complexity of what we were trying to accomplish became more evident as each day passed. The product backlog I managed grew daily. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Why Anthropologists Make Great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Anthropologists are often unique individuals. Most are naturally curious and often obsessed with getting to the root cause of human… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Engagement Workshop: How to Recruit Enthusiastic Testers

Centercode

What makes an ideal tester ? It isn’t just the right demographic or technographic qualifications — though target market testers are essential to netting accurate and actionable insights. But there’s another factor that goes beyond looking the part on paper. That X-factor? It’s enthusiasm! Enthusiastic testers are game-changers when it comes to maintaining test participation throughout the course of your Customer Validation (CV) projects.

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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 to use AI in Banking & Fintech and How it’s transforming Fintech

The Product Coalition

LeewayHertz AI provides the capacity to make intelligent decisions or accurate predictions with algorithms within a particularly given as well as specified trouble domain name. There are different sorts of AI?—?Narrow knowledge, General intelligence & Superintelligence 1. Narrow AI Narrow AI is provided towards particular tasks?—?such as brand-new recommendation on Facebook and also Google, classifying spam e-mails on Gmail, product referrals on Amazon.com or Netflix, or Residence worth fore

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How to kill (and improve) your product for the benefit of humanity

NextBigWhat

What would you do if you find that your product is receiving a lot of searches related to vaccines? And well, your site doesn't have helpful content? Here is what Pinterest CEO, Ben Silbermann did. “And we made the decision then, that as a starting point, we would just not serve up content because we couldn’t ensure that we were giving people great information,” Silbermann said.

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Life Through the Lens of Alex Hannold’s Free Solo

The Product Coalition

PHOTOGRAPH BY JIMMY CHIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Every now and then, human beings accomplish things that stretch the imagination of what is possible. It also reminds humanity why it is the dominant species. These events expand our definition of possibility. Our traditional notion of achievable gets challenged, changed and increased. These seminal events come from different corners of human endeavors.

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Bain Public to Work Pro Bono with Notman House Startup

Bain Public

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. What is Notman House exactly? On a mission to support and grow the Montreal startup ecosystem, Notman House is a technology hub that provides office, event, and communal space for startups, investors, technology partners, and community groups.

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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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What and Why, The Books I Read In 2018

The Product Coalition

Books in 2018 Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Managing Products or Managing Products to Deliver Solutions

Product Management University

If we’re managing products versus managing products to deliver solutions, three staples of product management take on completely new meaning. Start with this concept. Products are what we build. Solutions are what customers do. If we just make them better at doing things that improve their business success, our success is all but guaranteed. To get there though, we need to recalibrate our V , our O and our C.

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The Unique Nature of AI Products

The Product Coalition

How to better manage internal and external interfaces when leading machine learning products In the last few years AI invaded our life in many ways through many products. It is expected to make a more dramatic impact during this decade. In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability.

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Create & Manage the Project’s Bounds, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Do you know your project's bounds? Do you know what your sponsors want from your project? For many years, I heard about the “iron triangle.” Sometimes, the triangle was “Scope, Quality, Cost.” Sometimes, it was “Scope, Date, Cost.” It was always three things out of a minimum of four possibilities. I never saw a triangle in practice.

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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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Know your metrics

The Product Coalition

8 crucial metrics every payments PM must track With the increase in adoption of digital payments across the world, there’s an increasing need for payments product professionals who understand the complex payments ecosystem?—?the participants, systems and processes to successfully route every digital payment request. Payments PMs are responsible for improving payments experience on the site along with the payment success rates.

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The QuartzOpen Planning Canvas

Under 10 Consulting

No two organizations are the same. Build your own best practices using QuartzOpen. As the founding instructor at Pragmatic and later when helping teams implement modern methods at Under10, I saw a need to define a process to go from idea to market. . When one organization showed me their 40-page process that no one could really explain, I knew we needed something simpler.

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Scrum Mastery in 300 Words

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Scrum Mastery How to make Scrum work? Read on to learn more about my top three objectives for Scrum Masters striving to achieve Scrum Mastery. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 24k other subscribers. The Top Three Objectives: Achieving Scrum Mastery is no rocket-science: Make sure that the Scrum Team delivers a valuable, potentially shippable Product Increment every single Sprint with the precision of a Swiss clockwork.