Tue.Aug 20, 2019

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6 Ways for Product Managers to Manage their Time Off (and Still Drive their Roadmap Forward)

ProductPlan

Product managers receive a lot of advice. You should prioritize this feature. Here’s a new market worth investigating. Some of my prospects say they’d buy our product if it did this. But one suggestion we think product managers don’t hear enough is: Take some time off, unplug, and clear your head. Product managers play a big role in their company’s success or failure.

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Good Product Management is the key to Organisational Happiness

Mind the Product

A few years ago I read Tony Hsieh’s book on Zappos , a company that has been lauded for its amazing culture. In the book he shares his view on the four pillars for happiness: progress, purpose, control, and connection. Although various people have made lists of this type, this particular list has resonated the most with me because throughout my life – when I’ve seen happiness or a lack thereof – I can always trace it to a healthy amount or lack in one of these areas.

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A Product Manager Is No Longer a “Luxury Hire”

ProductCraft

I started in the product management field almost 25 years ago. Only back then, what I did wasn’t referred to as product management. During the dot-com boom, only large, established tech companies like Sun, Oracle, or Microsoft hired specifically for roles with the title “product manager.” Barnesandnoble.com, where I worked, didn’t fit that bill.

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Product Managers Should Spend One Day a Month with Their SDR Team

DevelopmentCorporate

Sales Development Reps (SDRs) are the assembly line workers of the enterprise software market in 2019. While product managers are not responsible for sales, they should understand the dynamics of this critical aspect of their product’s sales machine. The post Product Managers Should Spend One Day a Month with Their SDR Team appeared first on Development Corporate.

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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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Never stop iterating: How a Zillow PM perfects a highly complicated product

ProductBoard

Welcome to our Age of Product Excellence series — a deep exploration of the Product Excellence Methodology, the product leaders who practice it, and the excellent products that result. Join us as we shine light on the strategies and thought processes behind an excellent product that customers use and love. “Hi Linda, we met on UberPool this morning!

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Marketplace Thinking – Christopher Nheu on The Product Experience [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 our co-host, Randy Silver. Randy Silver’s Pick.

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From Instant Pot to Instagram: Critical Lessons in Startup Community Building

First Round Review

Bailey Richardson (an early Instagram hire and current partner at People & Company) has studied ordinary people who started extraordinary communities. Here, she shares the nuts and bolts of how startups should approach community building, highlighting eight valuable lessons on how the best communities start, gain steam, and evolve as scale takes hold.

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Steps to Take Before and After a Mobile App Update

Alchemer Mobile

Two weeks after your team’s app update launches, your boss stops by your desk to share some bad news: App store ratings have plummeted from 5-stars to 3-stars and new download volume has decreased 25 percent. On top of that, they’re seeing negative reviews flood into the app store, specifically highlighting some of the key updates your team just released.

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From Instant Pot to Instagram: Critical Lessons in Startup Community Building

First Round Review

Bailey Richardson (an early Instagram hire and current partner at People & Company) has studied ordinary people who started extraordinary communities. Here, she shares the nuts and bolts of how startups should approach community building, highlighting eight valuable lessons on how the best communities start, gain steam, and evolve as scale takes hold.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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What is participant recruiting and why is it such a challenge?

Userzoom

Ask the nearest researcher what one of their most persistent pain points in conducting user research and usability testing is and we can almost guarantee that recruiting participants is up there near the top. In last year’s State of UX in the Enterprise survey , we asked researchers what phase is the most challenging part of their UX team’s process, and coming in at number one with 47% of the votes was *drumroll* recruiting participants.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

Data Security Becoming Increasingly Important for Consumers With data breaches becoming increasingly common, consumers are realizing that their personal information is at the mercy of the organizations they’re doing business with—resulting in changing attitudes around security. More than one-third of Canadian consumers have experienced the consequences of a security breach of hack, according to research conducted by PCI Pal , a company that provides secure payments to contact centers

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Prepare for a Product Management Interview at Google

The Product Coalition

Google Product Managers help bring to fruition new products and features that impact millions of users every day. They act as general managers of their products, providing leadership across engineering, design and business teams. Openings for Product Managers appear every day. Google is also one of the most notoriously tricky places to interview for, whether this reputation is deserved or not.

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How to Take Advantage of the Growing Audience for Smart Home Products

Centercode

Between 2018 and 2019, the forecasted number of smart home products shipping to consumers leapt from 643.9 million last year to 840.9 million by the end of this year. The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects that number to grow around 17% every year until 2023.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Create an Automated Customer Research Machine in 2 Hours

UserInterviews

How to get your whole team interviewing customers, all the time.

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How JLL Elevated Their Core Real Estate Business With A Digital Play

Innovatemap

In many industries, it’s common to stick to the status quo. It can feel unnecessary to innovate, if everything is running smoothly as is. But Matt Waggoner, Managing Director of JLL Indianapolis, chose to look at things a different way and ask: Why not innovate?

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How Travel Data Co-op, ADARA, Expanded Business to Japan and Built Relationships With Public Sectors

freshtrax

As the venue for the quickly approaching Rugby World Cup (RWC) in September 2019 and 2020 Olympic Games, Japan is gearing up for a great influx of inbound travelers. Companies and regional governments alike are hoping to attract tourists, and ADARA, a B2B global travel data co-op, helps them do so by providing a holistic understanding of travel consumers’ behavior.

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Bain Public to become an official sponsor and advisor of the 2019 Holt Fintech accelerator cohort.

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a customer-centric design workshop, as well as acting as a product coach for 5 of the 10 chosen teams during the 2019 Cohort program. Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Dear Strategy 093: Global vs. Regional Product Strategies

Dear Strategy

This week’s question is… Dear Strategy: “How do you make sure there is an effective inter-working between different levels in a dynamic strategy evolution?”. Read The Full Blog Post. Subscribe to Our Mailing List. The post Dear Strategy 093: Global vs. Regional Product Strategies appeared first on Dear Strategy.

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A playbook for the impatient SDR: 4 key tips to grow your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

There’s been a lot of discussion around the role of SDRs in modern sales, and what’s changed about the role over the past decade. Buyers now have more information than ever before, inbound and outbound SDRs have to change their approach to capture buyer interest and add value, and the skill set needed to be successful has changed. However, one thing that hasn’t changed is the following: almost every SDR’s goal is to be promoted into a closing sales role, usually as fast as possible.

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How to Take Advantage of the Growing Audience for Smart Home Products

Centercode

Between 2018 and 2019, the forecasted number of smart home products shipping to consumers leapt from 643.9 million last year to 840.9 million by the end of this year. The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects that number to grow around 17% every year until 2023. This statistic confirms what the industry already knows — smart home products are here to stay.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

Data Security Becoming Increasingly Important for Consumers With data breaches becoming increasingly common, consumers are realizing that their personal information is at the mercy of the organizations they’re doing business with—resulting in changing attitudes around security. More than one-third of Canadian consumers have experienced the consequences of a security breach of hack, according to research conducted by PCI Pal , a company that provides secure payments to contact centers

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The Data Metaverse: Unpacking the Roles, Use Cases, and Tech Trends in Data and AI

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Sr. Staff Product Manager of Data & AI at BILL (Previously PM Lead at Twitter/X)

Embark on a transformation journey into the heart of the data ecosystem! This webinar is your gateway to a deeper comprehension of the foundations that drive the data industry and will equip you with the knowledge needed to navigate the evolving landscape. Delve into the diverse use cases where data analytics plays a pivotal role. We’ll explore how these applications are transforming with the introduction of Gen AI, and discuss the anticipated use cases for 2024 and beyond.

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5 Key Operational Differences Between Renewals And New Logos

Gainsight

Revenue leaders who own both renewals as well as new business recognize that managing renewals is a completely different beast. From forecasting to managing KPIs, the renewals motion requires a fundamentally different approach. But what exactly makes managing a renewals business unique? We outline five key differences: 1. You Have Access to Rich Customer Data That Enables Better Forecasting… When it comes to forecasting a renewals business, you have a secret weapon that you don’t have when

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The Path To Progressive Delivery

Split

Last week I said I would start a two-part series on progressive delivery. Here’s the promised first installment. Whether you’d rather read or watch the video, let’s jump right in! First “Radical” Idea on the Path to Progressive Delivery: Continuous Integration. The story starts with the birth of Continuous Integration. When Continuous Integration began, it was a bit of a “radical” idea: developers should merge their changes as often as possible into the

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How To Unlock Millions Of Dollars In Expansion Using Customer Data

Gainsight

If you’re a Revenue leader, chances are you care about two pretty straightforward things: 1) acquiring new customers and 2) selling more to existing ones. But when it comes to the latter, very few Sales execs are completely confident they aren’t leaving money on the table somehow. Whether they missed an upsell opportunity with a customer they didn’t know was at capacity or they discover a rep didn’t push a certain product because they didn’t realize a customer could benefit from it, every

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Making the Leap to Embedded Product Analytics

Amplitude

Prior to joining Amplitude to work on the Professional Services team, I was deeply entrenched in the business intelligence and analytics world. In that world, product management and product development happened elsewhere in the organization. We made sure we had clean data, answered questions, and designed reports, but we were not a part of acting on those insights.

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CHALLENGES OF A PRODUCT MANAGER IN CYBERSECURITY IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT PROJECTS

Product managers involved in Identity and Access Management (IAM) projects within the cybersecurity domain encounter unique challenges. This paper describes each of this challenge.

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The Evolving Needs of Application Performance Monitoring

eG Innovations

“Change is the only constant in life.” This is a quote often attributed to the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus. In the world of application performance monitoring , you know this to be true. Things are always changing. New technologies force you to come up with new ways and processes for doing things. And new challenges force you to develop new methods of solving old problems.

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A skinny on colors for data scientists

nulab

Color palettes are important. This may sound like an oversimplification, but it’s definitely true. Colors can change how we perceive things, as well as how we process information. They can make data sets either easier to understand or more difficult. They also play a part in what we do with what we learn: whether we pay attention to it, ignore it, remember it, or act on it.