Mon.Dec 04, 2017

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Self-coaching methods to improve your leadership

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by John Packham The debate is still out about whether leaders are born or made, but if you are looking to up your leadership game this year, you’ll want to do what all great leaders do: practice self-coaching.

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Leveraging Failure in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Why Failing Can Be Hard. If we like it or not, failure is an essential innovation ingredient. It’s impossible to successfully innovate without taking informed risks and making mistakes. YouTube, for example, failed as a video-dating site and succeeded by pivoting to video-sharing site; and Google Glass failed as a consumer product and was recently re-launched as a B2B product.

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3 Ways to Enlist Your Usage Data to Drive Product Development

Mind the Product

Recently, Gartner revealed its top predictions for IT organizations for 2018. Among the expected buzz around technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things, was something a bit surprising to me. Gartner predicted that by 2022, most people in mature economies will consume more false information than true information.

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Driving Product Priorities with a Stakeholder Roadmap

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Marc San Luis (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dave Skrobela]. In the education-technology sector, there is one hard-set deadline. That deadline is simple: you must release a working product before back-to-school begins. Period. When I returned to the Ed-tech sector a year ago, I joined a team with a very aggressive goal.

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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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Here’s How to Wield Empathy and Data to Build an Inclusive Team

First Round Review

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, D&I leader Ciara Trinidad lets the data speak. When she left her last startup, the 125-person company was 59% women, its sales team had gender parity, and underrepresented minorities constituted the majority of its product team. Here she shares why a culture of data underpins a culture of inclusion — and how to do it.

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How Should Facebook Tell People About News?

The Accidental Product Manager

People get a lot of their news from Facebook, but what news should they get? Image Credit: Jurgen Appelo. So here’s an interesting question for you. If I was to ask you where people spend the most amount of time when they are on the Internet, where would you say that they go? Google? Yahoo? A sports site like ESPN? Those are all good guesses, but you’d be wrong.

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TEI 153: 3D printing and product management – with John Baliotti

Product Innovation Educators

3D printing creates new options for product managers and designers beyond prototyping. The discussion coming up is about the state of 3D printing for prototyping and additive manufacturing. 3D printing is evolving quickly with the capability to print in a wide variety of materials. Also, post-processing capabilities, such as metal-plating plastic printed parts, are creating new opportunities for ergonomically correct parts. 3D printing provides significant efficiencies and competitive advantages

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Still prioritizing features in a spreadsheet? Here’s why that should scare you.

ProductBoard

How product management has fallen behind in the new era of product excellence In 1878, the world was introduced to something that would forever change how people would communicate. That product was the telephone. Despite all its promise, reaching the masses took a lot of time. In fact, it took almost 80 years for the telephone to reach 100 million users.

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Field Report: Researching disasters in real time

dscout People Nerds

Salesforce Ignite’s David O’Donnell on redefining nimble in-context research for an app MVP.

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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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Still prioritizing features in a spreadsheet? Here’s why that should scare you.

ProductBoard

How product management has fallen behind in the new era of product excellence In 1878, the world was introduced to something that would forever change how people would communicate. That product was the telephone. Despite all its promise, reaching the masses took a lot of time. In fact, it took almost 80 years for the telephone to reach 100 million users.