Tue.Aug 27, 2019

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How to use the 5 Whys to Manage Stakeholders

Mind the Product

A few years ago, I worked with a client in a very hierarchical organization. Position and title were very important at the organization, and everything was done in strict accordance with operating procedures. My team had been brought in to teach a new way of working, and to show how it’s possible to move quickly. We quickly discovered what we were up against when we attempted our first small task: scheduling user interviews.

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How To Apply Design Thinking To Product Management

ProductCraft

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The Women In Product Everyone Should Be Following

ProductPlan

There is no shortage of prominent male product leaders populating social media with their wisdom. But well-rounded product managers should be hearing from a diverse chorus of voices. No two product managers are the same. That’s why we need to curate our feed and follow the best and brightest, that also provide a unique perspective on the evolving product landscape.

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Creating Creative Product Environments

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Don’t Worry About Being Cool with Petra Wille [Rebroadcast]

Mind the Product

We’re taking a short break from releasing new episodes for the month of August. We’ll be back with new interviews in September. But don’t despair! We’ve asked a few friends to pick some of their favorite episodes to re-broadcast in the meantime. This week’s pick comes from Mind the Product co-founder, Martin Eriksson. Martin Eriksson’s Pick.

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5 Ways To Analyze Your Website Traffic

AB Tasty

Your website traffic is the source of a wealth of information that will help you increase engagement and conversions. Analyze it well! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as 5 Ways To Analyze Your Website Traffic.

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5 Pieces of Terrible Advice That New Product Managers Get

The Product Coalition

There is an abundance of great advice offered to new/aspiring Product Managers. There is also some easy to spot bad advice doing the… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Keep Your Product Owner in the Loop with Intermediate Deliverables

Atomic Spin PM

It’s ideal to write stories that can deliver a feature, end-to-end, all at once. But sometimes–especially when integrating with new systems, dealing with complex data processing, or working with a complex story dependency graph—it makes more sense to break up the work so you can deliver each story as its own link in a long chain. But while you and the rest of the development team may be able to clearly understand each link in the chain and visualize it independently, your product owner may

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Humanizing the Role of Beta Managers Through Communication

Centercode

If you’ve attended a QA or testing conference recently, it seems as though manual testing is a dying discipline. Due in part to the speed of development, test automation, and artificial intelligence, a greater proportion of test management is now influenced or even controlled by developers. In our interview with Jennifer Bonine, CEO of PinkLion.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Save 35% Communication Time on Client Approval with Guestlist from Usersnap

Usersnap

Your clients look to you and your agency for functional, appealing websites. As the creative pro committed to customer satisfaction, you and your company must balance that goal while maintaining an efficient communication flow that allows you and your team to do your best work. When the processes that are in place for feedback and client approval become too time-consuming or disruptive, it is high time to reassess and see what options you may have for improvement.

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Humanizing the Role of Beta Managers Through Communication

Centercode

If you’ve attended a QA or testing conference recently, it seems as though manual testing is a dying discipline. Due in part to the speed of development, test automation, and artificial intelligence, a greater proportion of test management is now influenced or even controlled by developers. In our interview with Jennifer Bonine , CEO of PinkLion.ai (formerly VP of Global Delivery and Solution at Tap|QA), she illuminates the evolving role of test and beta managers.

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Keep Your Product Owner in the Loop with Intermediate Deliverables

Atomic Spin PM

It’s ideal to write stories that can deliver a feature, end-to-end, all at once. But sometimes–especially when integrating with new systems, dealing with complex data processing, or working with a complex story dependency graph—it makes more sense to break up the work so you can deliver each story as its own link in a long chain. But while you and the rest of the development team may be able to clearly understand each link in the chain and visualize it independently, your product owner may

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Welcome New TSIA Members! August Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping technology organizations both large and small grow and advance in the industry. We’d like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional research practices TSIA has to offer.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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PM Interview Estimation Case Study - Laundry Detergent

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In this post, we'll review a case study submission from one of our Exponent members, Abin Abraham. Question: Estimate how much laundry detergent is used every year, across the world? If you want to brush up on the basics of answering Estimation Questions, check out Exponent’s lesson on how to ace the estimation interview question. Recommended Structure Here is a framework that we recommend you use for Estimation questions.

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Four areas retailers must analyze to stay ahead of the competition

Birst BI

Have you used a digital product or service while shopping in the past year? The answer is almost certainly “yes” and each time you are online, your actions generate data – from research, online ordering or in-store pickup, coupons, mobile payments, voice commands and more. The question is, how do retailers make the best use of this data to stay ahead of the competition?

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Estimation Case Study - How much Laundry Detergent is Used Every Year across the World?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Source: Unsplash Intro Hello Exponent PM community members, today we have a case study submission from one of our amazing members, Abin Abraham. Abin worked on an estimation question to estimate how much laundry detergent is used every year, across the world. If you want to brush up on the basics of answering Estimation Questions, check out Exponent’s Estimation Course.

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Feature-less Roadmap: The Balance Between Delivering Concrete Features vs. Planning with High-level Themes

Amplitude

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Definitive Guide (2019) To HIPAA Security Rule + Checklist

Arkenea

Jocelyn Samuels, Director of Office of Civil Rights (Dr-OCR), sounded an alarm in February 2016 about HIPAA compliance violations. She went on record to say: ”While OCR prefers to resolve issues through voluntary compliance, […] we will take the steps necessary, including litigation, to obtain adequate remedies for violations of the HIPAA Rules” This is […].

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3 Steps to Creating an Attractive Value Proposition

UX Studio

The value proposition of a product provides one of the most important meeting points for user experience design and marketing. Although it deals mainly not with serving the customer but selling, it involves matching their needs with your product. Also, it usually gets better conversions and comes with additional benefits as well. It can set a common goal for your company, something easy to refer to when you have doubts on which feature to develop and much more.

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New feature: invite observers to your Live Conversation sessions

UserTesting

When we launched Live Conversation , we were excited to offer customers an alternative to high cost, in-person interviews without losing the personal touch of face-to-face interaction. Within our platform, you can share your availability using the calendar feature, identify … The post New feature: invite observers to your Live Conversation sessions appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Top 5 Social Media Platforms in Japan 2019

freshtrax

To be successful in any market, properly marketing your business to the right audience and choosing the right marketing tactics are very important factors to consider. In this age of technology, social media has become a very powerful and popular marketing tool that can reach a large population and a variety of users. However, it’s important to remember that each social media platform caters to a different demographic and creates a unique experience for its users.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.