Tue.Dec 11, 2018

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Help Managers Visualize Their Problems

Johanna Rothman

I've been working with several managers at organizations large and small, who want to capitalize their software “earlier.” These managers have some strongly-held beliefs about the people: People are resources. Resources can multitask on several projects at a time. If “headquarters” does the difficult work, you can move the “grunt” work to lower wage areas and you will save money on the project.

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How To Build Better Products Using Continuous Discovery

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we discuss how to build better products using continuous discovery. My guest today is Teresa Torres. Teresa is a Product Discovery Coach helping companies establish proficient discovery practices. I’ve known Teresa for many years and I consider her one of the top thought leaders in the Product space.

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Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

A recent round of staff reductions at work has led to the expected “goodbye” emails, where departing colleagues send notes of their departure, some memories, and contact information. Alas, the ones I have recently seen were somewhat, uh, pedestrian , and uninspired. I wistfully remember the art and creativity that people used to put into it.

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Same but Different: Launching Products at an Established Company

Mind the Product

There are lots of resources to help startups through their first product launch (if you haven’t found them yet, try looking here ). But what if you don’t work for a startup? Is the process different if you’re a product manager in an established organisation, where products have already been launched? The answer is yes…and no! Yes, because your goals are similar, whatever the company size.

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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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Data in Product Management — The Good and the Bad

The Product Guy

Every modern product organization is data-centric. Learn how to best leverage the data and the often missed pitfalls to watch out for. Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Jordan Bergtraum.

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China’s Golden Week 2018 and its Impact on Software Piracy

Revulytics

We thought it would be interesting to update our blog post from 2017 in which we looked at China’s Golden Week and its impact on the use of pirated software by businesses. In that post we examined years of our compliance intelligence data on the use of pirated software with a focus on the impact China’s Golden Week has on piracy rates. This year, Golden Week took place from October 1 to October 8.

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Product Managing Your Career—Stanford PM Instructor Daniel Elizade

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Daniel Elizade teaches Internet of Things product management at Stanford University, and works as an Internet-of-Things PM Coach full-time. In this Path to PM blog post, Daniel and I discuss IoT product management and how to succeed in PM recruiting by imagining yourself as a product. Tell us about how you broke into product management. I was born and raised in Mexico City, went to school there, and graduated with a dual degree in Electronics and Computer Science.

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Product Love Podcast: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach and Writer of Product Talk

ProductCraft

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Teresa Torres, a product discovery coach. Teresa helps teams gain valuable insights from customer interviews, run effective product experiments, and drive outcomes that create value for their customers and their business. When she’s not coaching teams, or teaching a class at Northwestern University, she authors Product.

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Finding the Golden Moments of the Winter Games Experience

dscout People Nerds

Craig Saila and Irfan Pirbhai on how a diary study of Canadians’ user experience with the Olympic Winter Games put how people experience the event in context.

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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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Addressing Cybersecurity Concerns with the Internet of Things

TSIA

Before a company can successfully realize value from the wealth of information generated by IoT (Internet of Things) data, they must first understand and mitigate the risks created through interconnected devices. For healthcare technology companies, leaving IoT-transfered data unprotected can have consequences to the very human lives they are working to improve.

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Associate Product Manager Sample Resume

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Here's a copy of my resume when I was accepted to the Google Associate Product Management (APM) program. This resume should be used as a sample resume when creating your own resume. Here are some aspects worth highlighting on your resume: Software/Product Experience. Do you have experience shipping and building products? Data Analysis. Do you know SQL?

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Wireframing for Non-Designers – A Crash Course

Atomic Spin PM

Wireframes are not just for designers! As a software maker, you can and should be using them to eliminate risk and validate concepts. These tools benefit the entire team, and they can be created by any member of the team. This crash course will teach you why wireframes are important, when you should utilize them, and how to best present them to your stakeholders.

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How we leverage UserTesting: Product edition, part 2 Q&A with Tanya Koshy

UserTesting

Recently, we launched a five-part webinar series to help showcase the many creative ways UserTesting can be used across organizations. In the series, we’ll delve into how our teams in Design, Research, Product Management, and Marketing rely on the UserTesting … The post How we leverage UserTesting: Product edition, part 2 Q&A with Tanya Koshy appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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 B2C companies are using live chat to drive sales and offer a personalized customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

For online businesses, customer experience is king. It can be pretty simple if you listen to what your customers want, which usually boils down to a personalized, quick and low friction experience. Channels like live chat and self-service are highly preferred when it comes to customers getting answers to their questions. Crucially, enabling these channels can be just as much a vehicle for sales as it is for customer service.

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How to Build Product-Oriented Engineering Teams

Amplitude

Product-oriented engineering teams do more than just write code. They’re more than just a feature factory; they’re co-owners of the product experience. They look at the full picture to understand the value and impact of what they’re building. They talk to customers. And they rigorously analyze and measure the performance of features to unearth opportunities to improve.

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Why Business Teams Need to Start Together, Work Together, and Finish Together

ProductPlan

The most successful products I’ve been involved with in my career came about when the entire team opened the door to the mission at the same time, with similar expectations, and on equal footing. In other words, these teams started together. Not in silos. Not with each individual immediately going off to work on different aspects of the project.

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Is it Possible to Work Remotely as a Product Manager?

The Product Coalition

Some think that a discipline based on close contacts with products and stakeholders demands that you remain in the office. They’re wrong: it’s possible to be a remote product manager. Do you feel sometimes like you are physically tied to your seat? Even though product managers are supposed to engage various teams during the day, chances are you are not moving that much.

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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.