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Better engineering through management – the surprising benefits of becoming a manager

Intercom, Inc.

One of our core values at Intercom is “We love people who genuinely want to learn and grow.”. Of course, celebrating and encouraging a growth mindset is all good and well, but how do we put in place structures and processes that actually encourage career growth? In the Engineering org, we’ve thought deeply about how to foster long-term growth opportunities for people.

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B2B Product Manager Magazine October 2020

Product Management University

The B2B Product Manager October 2020. The product led growth model is gaining tremendous momentum. This month we look at the impact on product management and product marketing. It’s big, or maybe that’s just the way it should have always been. As most companies deal with leaner sales pipelines, your product demos are even more critical to making the shortlist.

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Negotiating with Sales: A Guide for Product Managers

Mind the Product

As a product leader, you’ve likely been in this situation. The sales team needs one specific feature to close a new opportunity with a large new prospect. Your gut instinct tells you that you’ve done right through customer interviews and competitor research. You have a solid roadmap to execute, and you wonder if maybe the [.]. Read More. The post Negotiating with Sales: A Guide for Product Managers appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The 40 Best Questions to Ask in an Interview — How to Go Deeper Than “What’s the Culture Like?”

First Round Review

Top startup leaders shared their favorite thought-provoking questions for candidates to ask during an interview to stand out from the crowd and gain in-depth knowledge about the company, the team, and the role.

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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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Can you be a Mom and a Product Manager? – Shelly Kalish & Karen Hershenson on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

“People are hard.” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. As product managers, we have to deal with demanding, unreasonable people who hold us to unrealistic standards and want everything delivered yesterday – and as a parent, you have to deal with stakeholders and team members [.].

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Here are the 10 most clarifying questions a PM should ask (often)

The Product Coalition

Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash I recently came across this article on “ Eigenquestions ” which speaks about the idea of identifying the most important question when looking to make a decision or taking on an initiative (“the question where, if answered, it likely answers the subsequent questions as well”). This got me thinking about ways to frame questions that can help busy PMs quickly get to the root of the matter.

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Ready, Set, Read: Starting a PM Book Club at Your Organization

ProductCraft

Are you looking for a way to transition your org to a more product-focused mindset? I wouldn’t blame you — there are numerous benefits to shifting to a product mindset, from becoming truly Agile to transforming into a fully-fledged product-led organization. But how do you do it? Here is one idea that can help: Start. Read more » The post Ready, Set, Read: Starting a PM Book Club at Your Organization appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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How to Develop Your Product Career, Using the Product Quadrants

The Product Coalition

Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash Most of us have a hard enough time living in the here and now and doing our day jobs, let alone thinking about the future. It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown?

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Six Lessons from a Marketing Fraud | Tiffany Da Silva | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

Tiffany Da Silva // flowjo.co. We’ve all been there. You finally step foot into the job you’ve wanted forever only to feel like you aren’t good enough for the role, or worse, a complete fraud. You’re not alone; an estimated 70% of people from all walks of life, both men and women experience imposter syndrome at some point in their careers.

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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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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 6, Create Your Agile Approach

Johanna Rothman

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need.

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Why software sales is different from hardware sales and tips for bridging the gap

Innovatemap

While it’s true a good sales professional can sell anything, it’s also true that the way to sell is different depending on what is being sold. When it comes to software sales versus hardware sales, the differences in selling tactics are many. Sales professionals making the switch from a physical product to a digital one need to arm themselves with more information, and often more patience, to lead to prospects through an extended sales cycle.

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Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups

First Round Review

In Dan Hockenmaier's and Lenny Rachitsky's experience, founders are often surprised to learn that there are very few routes to scalable new customer acquisition. Here, this duo unpacks the three ways to drive consumer startup growth, offering a detailed framework and set of case studies for accelerating in each lane.

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User Research Is Your Cheat Code

Modus Create

You have probably heard that user research is a great way to limit risk. But more importantly, it’s a competitive advantage for your company. Too many product companies chase feature parity with competitors. While they waste time catching up to competitors, those same competitors build new features that give customers even more reason to choose their product.

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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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Collection, Analysis, Action: A Beginner’s Guide to the Product Stack

Mixpanel

This post is written by TWG, a product consultancy specializing in modern application development , data engineering, and product growth. Since 2002, they have helped both scale-ups and large enterprises achieve their conversion, engagement, and retention goals. Simply put, data is at the core of good product management. But making the most of the data that organizations collect is a process that’s often hindered by unnecessary complexity.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Stop “ plan the work and work the plan ” thinking? Release something of value earlier? Especially since teams now had these levers, from the iterative and incremental approaches: Prototype something for fast feedback.

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Citrix NetScaler ADM for Virtual App and Desktop Performance Management

eG Innovations

Extend NetScaler MAS for End-to-End Citrix Monitoring. Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) – previously called as Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) – is a centralized management solution that provides administrators with the ability to manage and monitor Citrix application networking products from a single, unified console.