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Need a Product Manager Mentor? Here’s How to Find a Great One

ProductPlan

When we’re new at something, we turn to trusted experts. Sure, we also glean all we can from the resources available to us, but there’s nothing quite like learning directly from someone who’s been through it all before. Experts can make great mentors because they’ve acquired valuable wisdom and mastered their craft through years of day-to-day experiences.

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Feature Creep: How to keep your UX project on track

TryMyUI

How can you keep your UX project from getting overwhelmed by feature creep? From startups to agencies, everyone is vulnerable to feature creep. The post Feature Creep: How to keep your UX project on track appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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The Upside of Being a B2B Software PM

ProductCraft

In my previous post, I told you about five of the main reasons why being a PM for a B2B enterprise software product is a real struggle — lack of visibility, certification nightmares, and a whole lot of complexity. After reading that piece, you were probably left wondering, “Why would anyone want this kind of. Read more » The post The Upside of Being a B2B Software PM appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. You also need to evolve and adapt at a greater pace than more established peers.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Erika Hall Knows How to Fix Your Design Process (But You’re Probably Not Going to Like It)

dscout People Nerds

The Mule Design co-founder and Just Enough Research author on why doing good research scares us, experience design is a misnomer, and real creativity requires logging off.

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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 2: Start with Outcomes

Johanna Rothman

Now that you've framed your proposal, start with what you want people to talk away from the talk, the outcomes. Why? Because too many descriptions are a promise for an outcome or what people will learn. If you're coy about the outcomes, people can't select themselves in or out for your presentation. Speakers who say, “Everyone should hear my ideas” kid themselves.

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Portals, Chatbots and best practice in Government search

The Product Coalition

In 2011, I led a project at Sensis to investigate the implementation of best practice Government search in the Australian White Pages… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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The PB&J of UX and Product

ProductCraft

You’ve got a new feature that you’re excited to start working on. Not only are you motivated by how cool this feature will be, but you also need to build it ASAP. It would be nice to take some time on it and get feedback from the UX team, but given how fast it needs. Read more » The post The PB&J of UX and Product appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Why Product Managers should care about Development Culture

The Product Coalition

Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting strategy and execution. When it gets to development culture many product managers feel it is not their problem because it is the domain of the VP R&D. While this is true, I do not think that as product managers we can ignore the development culture.

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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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How 3 Researchers Landed Their Dream Jobs with Jud Vaughan, Khalida Allen, and Christianne Elliott of Mailchimp

UserInterviews

Sometimes the winding career path is the best one

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Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

The Product Coalition

The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Viktor Cessan Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. Today’s guest is Viktor Cessan. Viktor has dedicated his career to helping companies consciously design organizations that keep motivation, engagement, and performance levels high. In the 14 years since he started working with Agile methodologies, he has helped companies such as Spotify, H&M, King, Avanza Bank, Telenor, and Sony Ericsson work more effectively.

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5 Usability Testing Tools Every UX Designer Should be Using

UXCam Bluespace

Understand what users think about your product.

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The Product Pre-Mortem

The Product Coalition

Before you build or invest, take these steps to de-risk Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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How we Built a Ride-Hailing app for the Polish Market

Mind the Product

Faced with the continual need to fix bugs and having to work with outdated code, the team at Polish cab-hailing app iTaxi realised a need to go back to basics and opt for a complete rebuild of our app. This is how we did it. Based in Poland, iTaxi is a ride-hailing platform that connects passengers and licensed cab drivers – rather like Lyft, Uber or Bolt.

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Breaking hearts and making stars

UserTesting

In 1976, Elton John and Kiki Dee serenaded audiences, beseeching: “Don’t go breaking my heart…” . Well, we at UserTesting didn’t follow that “heartfelt” plea. We broke it—the heart, that is. When watching completed test recordings, customers were accustomed to seeing … The post Breaking hearts and making stars appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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What Do You Really Need: In-House Team, Outsourcing or a Tech Partner?

The Product Coalition

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Before it became a world sensation, the company was called Tiny Specs, and their initial product had nothing to do with collaboration in the workplace. Instead, it was an MMORPG called Glitch. Six months after the release in September 2012, the company had to shut down the game servers and admit it couldn’t compete with other online RPGs that already had sustainably growin

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Top 7 Tomcat Metrics for Java Performance Monitoring

eG Innovations

What is Apache Tomcat? The Apache Tomcat software is an open-source implementation of the ava Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. Tomcat is often used as a backend application server that connects to other web-facing servers like Apache and Microsoft IIS. Tomcat also includes its own native HTTP connector that allows it to be used as a standalone HTTP server.

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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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Managing Outsourced Teams Across Time Zones: Remote Collaboration Must-Haves

The Product Coalition

Managing Outsourced Teams Across Time Zones: Remote Collaboration Must-Haves With globalization gaining momentum, work practices have changed and evolved. Finding the best people for the team has become less of a challenge, since the whole world has been turned into a giant hiring pool. Over the past few years, businesses have collected ideas and working practices that can help them to make the most of remote work and allow everyone to be as effective as possible, no matter their zip code.

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The Importance of Effective Communication in Project Management

The Product Coalition

During project planning, communication is often overlooked. Most project plans only consider the actual development?—?but what about discussing and explaining the tasks at hand? You know how they say, “The truth is born in an argument”? Talking about what the team is supposed to do can not only bring the truth to light but might actually reduce the project’s duration (and cost) and improve the product, as long as everyone understands what’s expected from them and has the right to make suggestion