Mon.Nov 02, 2020

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The Challenge of Leadership: Asking for Help

Mind the Product

As one of the leaders in a company, the buck stops with you. And while this is generally thrilling and also what you signed up for, it can occasionally be the source of headaches as well. Whether you’re the CEO, COO, the Head of Product or leading a business vertical – a particular area that [.]. Read More. The post The Challenge of Leadership: Asking for Help appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Six principles of system design

Intercom, Inc.

The start of any journey begins with consulting a map. But if you’re a product designer starting out on a new project, you might find yourself with a blank page, and the job of drawing the map: of defining the high-level design direction that your team is going to use to chart their course. Mess it up, and you could find yourself quickly marching your team off a cliff.

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Paradoxes of Product Management

The Product Coalition

Originally a late-night brain dump on Twitter, I thought it’d flesh some of it out a bit here.  —  @ant_murphy Product Management is complex. Complex because it’s situational which makes being a good Product Manager about being adaptive. More than that. It's being able to contextualize and read the situation in order to adapt appropriately.

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Product Managers Find A Way To Turn A Profit

The Accidental Product Manager

The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. In fact, your application is so successful that your company got bought by another much larger online company for a lot of money just a few years ago.

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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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20 Questions from New Scrum Master to the Development Team

The Product Coalition

From Scrum Master to Development Team members, this set of questions addresses the foundations of a Scrum Team capability to build valuable products: technical excellence and what it takes to achieve this proficiency level. The questions have been modeled after some basic principles that high performing teams have in common?—?from keeping technical debt at bay to collaboratively creating a Product Backlog.

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6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager — Advice from Lambda School, Quip & Facebook

First Round Review

Carly Guthrie has run HR for major restaurant groups and startups. Here, she shares lessons for startups looking to hold onto their talent.

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Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: How to Prevent Initiatives from Failing

Emerge Insights

Recently Jonathon was interviewed by Janet Eastman on the Make it Right podcast, where manufacturing industry experts discuss the advancements, challenges, solutions, and opportunities in this highly technical industry. Their conversation ranged from falling in love with the problem, to advise on how manufacturing leaders can ground their approach in technological endeavors, and ultimately achieve […].

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How Gong’s Product Team Creates More Raving Fans

Gainsight

This is part 5 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. If you’ve ever watched an older sibling play a video game and cried, “Watch out!,” you know the vicarious thrill of being a video game spectator. Streaming networks like Twitch have proven that watching and commenting is a billion-dollar market, and now it’s a billion-dollar business in sales too.

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TDD + data driven with Jest

StubHub

During my years as developer, I have faced several troubles in production due to bugs. Bugs are everywhere and a lot of people have spent hours and hours trying to fix them. For me, this is a huge problem because I love to sleep, and I cannot sleep well if I have doubts about the quality of my code. Because of this, I started some years ago to study how to sleep well, which came down to learning about testing my code.

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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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How to Build Products That Maximize Retention: Lessons from Degreed

Gainsight

This is part 6 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. Deep in New Mexico’s Alamogordo desert there lie buried thousands of copies of the 1982 Atari game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The game was such a colossal failure it’s credited with precipitating the decline of the once-iconic video game publisher, and behind the game’s “completely broken” control system lies a lesson for product teams: People have to want to play if

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Getting Consensus is Investment

I Wonder The Value

Today I read the article of “Namawashi”, the Japanese term of the method to get consensus. This is my reflection when leaders with "Lean" mindset get faster consensus via "Namawashi" to make the project fast. Here is an example. - A leader has “Lean” mindset. He has internal stakeholders as a team. - In the first iteration, the person got consensus with the team quickly via Nemawashi. - The implementation was successfully done. - It created some results. - For the futher iteratio

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How a Croatian Unicorn Used Product-Led Growth to Expand Internationally

Gainsight

This is part 4 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. If you think of retro gaming as a U.S. phenomenon, it might surprise you to learn that it was quite an international affair. The home console heavyweights Nintendo and Sega are both Japanese. Tetris is from Russia—its theme song is an old Russian folk song. .

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6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager — Advice from Lambda School, Quip & Facebook

First Round Review

Carly Guthrie has run HR for major restaurant groups and startups. Here, she shares lessons for startups looking to hold onto their talent.

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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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TEI 307: Introduction to the PDMA Body of Knowledge for product managers and innovators – with Allan Anderson, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Discover the smorgasbord of tools for product managers and innovators. This is a little longer introduction than normal and there is a good reason for it, so bear with me for a moment. In 2007 I sat in a small conference room with 12 other people. We were there to prepare for the New Product Development Professional certification from PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association.

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Atlassian Announces Changes to Server Product Line

Modus Create

Atlassian made some major announcements last month and we’ve already heard from concerned clients about how these changes will impact them, so we wanted to try to create some clarity around these announcements and what they mean for your organization. Ok… What Happened? Earlier this year at the 2020 Atlassian Summit, Atlassian discussed their plans to roll out massive updates to its Cloud products, including a brand new top-tier product line, Enterprise Cloud, as well as a list of new features a