Wed.Mar 13, 2019

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Adopting a Continuous Discovery Mindset Across the Organization

Product Talk

I teach two courses at Northwestern University. I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people working at companies who are starting to adopt continuous discovery practices (in other words, many of you). The first course focuses on teaching practitioners how to use design methods to solve business challenges related to learning and organizational change.

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Your Product’s Most Important Feature Isn’t Getting the Attention it Deserves

280 Group

Misalignment between satisfying end users and wowing decision makers may hurt your bottom line. Every product team tries to prioritize features that most significantly drive sales and retention. Few however realize that reporting dashboards present exactly that opportunity and emphasize it accordingly. That’s because product teams are typically focused on end users while sales teams interface with actual buyers and decision makers.

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Expand your addressable market to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

During your first wave of growth, your initial customers are very important. You have to build a product that solves a problem and works well for them. As you reach your next wave of growth, you need to continue to invest in those customers and in that product, and recognize that, in order to keep growing, you need that product to appeal to more people.

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Take Control of Prioritisation – Holly Donohue on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Before financial software provider Aquila Heywood transformed how it approaches prioritisation, it had a backlog that was more than 20 years long and its projects took about seven years to release. Product Director Holly Donohue was part of the team that changed how the business approaches its work, so that it now sees value being realised in a few months.

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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 Measure Product Manager Performance

ProductPlan

Product management is a role largely comprised of soft skills and strategy, which, at first glance, would make it difficult to quantifiably measure. But for a job that is all about moving the needle on key corporate metrics, there must be some way to measure their performance and put a number on how they’re doing, right? The benefit of including quantifiable metrics in evaluating a product manager’s performance is, well, immeasurable.

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How I PM: Charlie Huang, Product Manager from WeWork, Spotify

Amplitude

As an Administrative Business Partner at Google, Charlie Huang was eager to break into the product management world. After seeking advice from one of his mentors, Brad Bender , Charlie began investing time and energy into developing the skills and expertise needed to grow into a product management role. Since that time, Charlie has been a product manager at companies including MightyTV (acquired by Spotify), Spotify, and currently WeWork.

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Google’s 3 Principles of Product, Extended

The Product Coalition

Product. As part of the tech community then you’ve probably already said the word “product” today. You’re co-workers have likely said it a few times over the week. Your job may even have product your job title. But, how often do you step back to consider what it actually means? What does it mean when you say “oh, Google is a product company but XYZ Telco is not”?

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Why As-a-Service Businesses Rely on Managed Services

TSIA

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: most tech companies that are not pure-breed managed services providers (MSPs) have a love/hate relationship with their managed services business. They know managed services is a potential revenue growth engine for them, yet they worry about how MS revenues will affect their P&L. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that managed services was “dilutive” to the company’s margins, I could buy ad space in Times Square announci

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How to Align Every Team Around your SaaS Product

The Product Coalition

You can’t please everyone all of the time, or so the old saying goes. Yet when it comes to their products, SaaS companies can’t help but try. This leads to a disjointed product, a Frankenstein’s monster that scares everyone away. Fortunately, there’s a fairly simple solution that enables you to feed your hunger for keeping everyone happy, AND doesn’t lead to a mish-mashed product.

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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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Want More “Agile” Qualitative Research? Take it Remote.

dscout People Nerds

Working with the agile methodology or at a company where stakeholders use sprints? Learn how to make your research faster with pro tips from Carrie Yury and Kirsten Lewis.

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Product-Wide Software Licensing Strategy That Drives Compliance

Revulytics

The chain of events set in motion by SAP’s actions against so-called “indirect access” (where 5,800 users utilized SAP ’ s software engine on a single license through a third party application) was front-page news in the world of enterprise software compliance. But when the dust settled on the lawsuits, customer controversy and ultimately, SAP’s development of new licensing terms, one of the most interesting things to come out of the situation was the compliance-related organizational changes th