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HOW A CAPSTONE PROJECT LED TO A ROBUST FUTURE IN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT.

Product Management Unpacked

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. “I’d worked for a startup in Hyderabad, India where everyone had to wear different hats,“ recalls Debashish. “I realized that I wanted to expand my focus into product management.”.

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Behind The 10 Most Common Product Management Interview Questions

The Product Coalition

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. It’s getting inside your interviewer’s mind, and understanding why they’re asking you these questions, and what they want to know. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Identifying Growth KPIs that are leading indicators of product success

Mixpanel

Imagine you run a lemonade stand. You meticulously track how many people purchase from your stand each week, because that’s how you make money. For the first two months, the number increased without fail. Then, as if you took a false step on your hike to profit, it started tumbling down the hill. What happened? And how did you not see it coming? After sitting down with some trusted friends and family members, they broke the news that your lemonade simply wasn’t any good.

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Does your Testing Reflect Enough Domain Knowledge?

The Product Coalition

Domain Knowledge is a key factor in every IT field, be it Business Analytics, FinTech, Mobile App industry, Information Protection, Data Privacy, Database Testing, Security, Software Testing, and Quality Assurance. But the last two in the list remain crucial in every IT domain because with testing and QA rest of the technical aspects are met successfully.

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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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The power of interviewing above your weight class

Mind the Product

“It was really close, but we’ve decided not to extend an offer at this time.” I thanked the Lyft recruiter for her time and asked a few follow up questions on areas where I might be able to improve. After we hung up, I stepped outside and paced along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville [.] Read more » The post The power of interviewing above your weight class appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Create Successful Wireframes

TryMyUI

Wireframing is a technique that involves visualizing the product. These are user experience or UI designs that summarize the design process. These can be hand-drawn or made using complex designing software. If you are working for a client, they will likely ask for a visual representation of the process. Providing wireframes is the best option in this case.

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Innovation Tools: Questions for Leaders vs Project Scorecard

Strategyzer

Having the right tools often makes the difference between success and missed opportunity. An equally important factor that gets much less shine however is the use of the right tool at the right time. Even within an arsenal of ‘good’ or even ‘great’ tools, one must understand the tools well enough to pick and choose which is most relevant when.

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Conversations in Tech: From graphic design to UX/service design

Nulab

Conversations in Tech is a live video podcast (via YouTube and Facebook Live ) where we interview professionals in the tech industry to learn more about their work, experiences, and how they’ve become who they are today. Viewers can ask questions during the show and have them answered by our guest speakers. From graphic design to UX/service design. In this episode, we invited Huang Weiming , Experience Designer at OCBC Bank to be our guest on the show.

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Master effective whiteboarding in 7 easy steps

nulab

Everyone has heard the saying, “Work smarter, not harder.” The phrase is truly applicable to almost anything — from homework in high school to mastering the cello to fixing an engine. Adding methods to make your work process more strategic and timely is just one of the many keys to becoming more effective in everything you do. Why would whiteboarding be any different?

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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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Prototyping for Pluralism: Design as a Means for Social Change

dscout People Nerds

Project Pluralist founder Hina Shahid takes us through her career and explains why now is best the time for designers to make a social impact.

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What is Product Led Growth?

TSIA

For many established businesses, product led growth (PLG) is new and forward thinking in the strategy to grow recurring revenue. By recognizing that the technology product is the only scalable differentiator they have, and by turning their product into a virtual customer success manager, businesses can reap the rewards of scalable growth. Product Led Growth (PLG) is a strategy centered on applying a digital product to the marketing, sale, and successful growth of a supplier’s value proposi

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How to Start a Rolling Research Program (An Easy 9-Step Process)

dscout People Nerds

Rolling research programs boost your stakeholder’s research acumen, while providing a steady stream of quality insights. Here’s how to kick-start your own.

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How Does a M&A Exec Look at Your Product Management Organization?

DevelopmentCorporate

The pace of mergers and acquisitions is accelerating due to the record valuations in today’s market. The chance that your organization could be acquired is greater than ever. Prudent product management leaders should understand how M&A execs analyze and assess product management organizations. This could not only help maximize the valuation of their company, but help them preserve their own role in a merged enterprise.

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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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Get Early, Critical Feedback Before You Launch: Try Alpha and Beta Testing

dscout People Nerds

Alpha and beta tests can help ensure that any major bugs or experience improvements can be made prior to your product/feature being fully developed. We walk through example tests and use-cases. .

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What is Product Led Growth?

TSIA

For many established businesses, product led growth (PLG) is new and forward thinking in the strategy to grow recurring revenue. By recognizing that the technology product is the only scalable differentiator they have, and by turning their product into a virtual customer success manager, businesses can reap the rewards of scalable growth. Product Led Growth (PLG) is a strategy centered on applying a digital product to the marketing, sale, and successful growth of a supplier’s value proposi

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5 Key User Retention Metrics for SaaS [+ How to Measure and Improve Them]

Userpilot

You probably all know the famous study that claims increasing user retention metrics by only 5% can increase profits by as much as 25-125%. And it makes sense – in a subscription business model, most of your revenue comes from recurring purchases – aka retaining your users – not from the new acquisitions. So improving your user retention metrics can make or break the success of your product marketing efforts.

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Dark Mode in Mixpanel is here

Mixpanel

For years, we at Mixpanel have gone all in on making light work of product analytics. Today, that ends. That’s because we’re happy to announce our new Dark Mode display theme is arriving in your dashboards, reports, and everywhere else you do your tooling inside of Mixpanel. Let’s take a look at how it works (and looks). How to enable Dark Mode.

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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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World Product Day 2021 – epic talks, Tweets, awards, GIFs and more!

Mind the Product

On Wednesday 26th May, product managers around the world came together to celebrate World Product Day. Here we share some of the highlights including talks from ProductTanks in New Zealand, Lagos, and Hong Kong, plus ProductTank award winners, and insights from the community. ProductTank talks In 24 hours, 65 ProductTanks around the world, worked together [.