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The Product People We Want to Be – What We Learned at MTP Engage

Mind the Product

This week (6-7 February), MTP Engage Manchester 2020 saw over 500 product people descend upon the iconic Manchester Central to immerse themselves in two days of product learning. On Thursday, things kicked off with a range of deep-dive workshops and leadership discussions, followed by the conference on Friday. Let’s take a look at some of the many things we learned throughout the conference day.

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Calm Product Manager / Stressed Product Manager

The Product Coalition

There is a lot of great, great literature already published on what makes an awesome product manager. Look up the works from Steven Haines, Martin Eriksson, Teresa Torres, or Ben Horowitz for some of the most insightful advice on what it takes to become the ideal product manager. There’s just one challenge with putting all this advice into practice: It can be really, really hard to find the space and time to be the ideal product manager.

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Stop Technical Debt From Slowing Your Product Down By Asa Schachar

Mind the Product

What exactly is technical debt? In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Asa Schachar, Engineering Manager at Optimizely , explains exactly what technical debt is and how to stop it from slowing down the product development process. Watch the video to see his talk in full. Or read on for an overview of his key points: What is technical debt and why is it important.

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5 Steps To Test Your Product Ideas

The Product Coalition

When we have ideas, it’s like a piece of Playdoh. Follow these 5 steps to make the right decisions as a Product Manager. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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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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Understanding Retention

NextBigWhat

While retention is framed primarily as the percentage of users returning to the product itself, it is also useful to understanding specific product features and subpopulations of users. For example, you can examine how retention varies by geography, gender or behavioral characteristics (e.g., daytime vs. nighttime use) to paint a clearer picture of your users.

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A Designer’s Path to Empathy

NextBigWhat

The objective of any product designer is not to become a design machine that simply churns out many designs or just ships a lot of stuff. Instead, our primary goal should be to understand the people who will be using our tools. We need to take the time to investigate the needs and pain points of the people we’re designing for. We can’t always be perfect, but prioritizing people inspires us to improve our tools nonstop.

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Product management can make you a better parent, and vice-versa

The Product Coalition

My paid full-time job is as the software product person in a retail business. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Product Owner Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Scrum Product Owner Anti-Patterns If you are working as a Product Owner, there is?—?very likely?—?room for improvement. This list of some of the most common Product Owner anti-patterns might be a starting point. Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Product Owner anti-patterns list is a good starting point for a retrospective.

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How To Make Roadmap Conversations More Strategic

The Product Coalition

Photo by JESHOOTS.com from Pexels By Making Uncertainty Explicit with the Problem, Solution, Delivery framework There is an immense amount of “How to” roadmap articles. I hope this will not be yet another one of those… As a brief introduction, we will probably agree that roadmaps have a series of challenges, including: Communicating with different audiences: how do you use a single artifact to communicate with c-level stakeholders and the development team?

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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.