Wed.Jul 06, 2022

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Ask Teresa: How Do You Get Your First Product Job Without Experience?

Product Talk

Landing your first or even your second job in product can be really tricky. Many candidates encounter a Catch-22 situation: Most companies only want to hire product managers with experience, but you can’t get experience if no one will hire you. And what do we even mean by “experience,” anyway? Landing your first or even your second job in product can be really tricky.

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Built for you: Two-way SMS, a next-generation Inbox, smarter bots, and more

Intercom, Inc.

We started off the summer with a bang – hosting the Summer 2022 edition of New at Intercom and announcing three huge new product releases: SMS , the next-generation Inbox , and Custom Actions and Custom Objects in bots. If you joined us for New at Intercom last month, you may already have some idea of what’s in store on Built For You this month, (but if not, you can watch it on-demand here ).

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Can Lean Product Management Help Startups Build Strong Products?

The Product Coalition

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today.

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Progressive Onboarding 101: How to Improve UX and Drive Adoption With Contextual Onboarding Flows

Userpilot

How can progressive onboarding help you create a personalized user onboarding experience ? Is it a better way to onboard new users? How’s it different from function-oriented app onboarding? This article will guide you through how to use progressive onboarding to boost customer engagement in your app. We’ll also dive into how to switch to a progressive onboarding process and common mistakes to avoid when getting started.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Why Acting Like the “CEO” of Your Product Might Be Doing More Harm Than Good.

The Product Coalition

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. In a lot of ways, I think Ben was right on the money, but here’s the problem… many a product managers use this line as a justification for their behavior, and don’t seem to understand that there are both “good” and “bad” CEOs.

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HUMAN RESOURCES & HUMAN CONNECTION IN A DIGITAL WORLD: A CONVERSATION WITH DEBORAH BORG

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Episode Information. In this episode, Clint has a conversation with Deborah Borg, Chief Human Resources and Communications officer at Bunge. During their talk, the two chat about how video conferencing can serve as “the great equalizer,” when to deploy verbal communication versus written communication as a leader, and why being intentional about creating moments for remote employees to connect is so important.

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How to Hire and Evaluate Your Next Chief Product Officer

Dragonboat

Executive Summary Every company needs a Chief Product Officer (CPO). Why? Because someone needs to champion a portfolio management approach that optimizes outcomes across the entire enterprise. Managing a portfolio isn’t about the number of product lines or your platform’s size but rather about collaboration and managing complexity while delivering outcomes.

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ONE THING on Vision and the Back-Plan

Product Culture

When working on vision with stakeholders, I like the Cover Story exercise, which I outlined last week. A great exercise to follow the Cover Story is the Back-Plan. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up. Subscribe to One Thing Weekly. Name. *. First Name. Last Name. Email. *. Our Privacy Policy. *. You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at bruce@productculture.com.

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Looking ahead for TryMyUI + Stitchology

TryMyUI

As we recently shared, we have acquired Stitchology.ai, a robust session recording and web analytics platform that blows Google Analytics and Hotjar out of the water. With this tool, we have been able to create a platform that sheds light on the full user journey and gets to the nitty gritty about your website’s full experience for your customer base.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Mobile app user journeys: definitions, analysis, and best practices - Mixpanel

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

A user journey is a technique for gleaning insights about your users by observing their experience. Designing a mobile app involves building great user journeys.