Mon.Oct 22, 2018

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How to retain more users with value-based onboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Brand new users aren’t committed to your product when they first sign up. They’re just trying it out. A great first use experience has to prove to these new and uncertain customers that your product will actually make their lives better. It’s not surprising that onboarding flows focused on demonstrating all the features of a product become leaky buckets as new customers quickly lose interest.

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Product Management in the Age of the Customer

Aptrinsic

I’m incredibly excited about the merger of Aptrinsic and Gainsight. Here’s why. We started Aptrinsic because we wanted to solve one of the biggest challenges businesses face: achieving hyper-growth in an era where products and services are being consumed through web and mobile apps at an unprecedented pace. This being the case, a big part of the customer experience today is actually delivered through the product.

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Product Management Rockstars

The Product Bistro

I read a post today by Tom Leung on his blog, “Always be Shipping” that got me thinking. The premise of the posting was that only superstars need to apply. As someone in my earlier days who viewed himself with many of the qualities that are being sought, and to a large degree still lives […].

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What we Learned at #mtpcon London 2018

Mind the Product

On Friday, we gathered with 1,700 of our closest friends from over 50 countries to spend a day sharing with each other, hearing from amazing speakers, and taking time out to focus on our craft. Following a day of focused workshops and leadership discussions, we came together at London’s Barbican Centre to talk product. Here’s what we heard: Martin Eriksson at #mtpcon London 2018.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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3 ways Answer Bot saves your support team time

Intercom, Inc.

Answer Bot is a big part of our vision for the future – a world where Messengers, Bots and Apps provide radical efficiencies for your business. At its core, it is designed to save time – especially for support teams. Cleo, one of our early adopter customers, found that Answer Bot resolved one in five of all of their inbound conversations. Imagine what your team could be doing with all of that extra time… but before you get too distracted, let’s dive into how Answer Bot saves time for your suppor

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‘CSM & Product’ Is the New ‘Sales & Marketing’

Gainsight

If you take a look at my LinkedIn page (and scroll way, way down), you’ll see exactly where my career took a left turn. (No, not Chipshot.com—you scrolled too far!). I started my professional career as a product manager. Well, I tried to start my career by doing a Master’s in Computer Science in college, which taught me I wasn’t smart enough to be a developer, but maybe I could hang with them.

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F Customer Feedback

The Product Coalition

My talk from this year’s SaaStock conference in Dublin We had a great time as Silver sponsors at SaaStock 18 over in Dublin this year. Brilliant meeting so many new people and catching up with so many Receptive customers too. On the first day, I was lucky enough to be one of the speakers. Here’s the write up & slides from it. It was called: F Customer Feedback Video will be available soon too.

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TEI 199: A panel discussion with women product VPs and Directors – moderated by Shaughnessy Speirs

Product Innovation Educators

Female product leaders on grit, grace, and everything in between. There are several thousand product managers on LinkedIn and many of them are women. However, I noticed that few product VPs are women. About the same time, I attended a “Women in Product Management” panel at Rocky Mountain Product Camp, moderated by Shaughnessy Speirs. Afterward we discussed how few product VPs are women and how it would be valuable to have a panel discussion focused on women in senior product roles.

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The Nuance of Better

The Product Coalition

If you want better products from your teams, define what better means and what needs to be better. Here’s a ritual that will help your team do this more effectively. This article is co-written by Mary Sherwin. Illustration by Megan Lynch / frog What we’ve created isn’t good enough. The people on your team never really want to hear this. Yet it happens all the time when working on products of all shapes and sizes.

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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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How to Build Human-First Products

Gainsight

Today we announced that Gainsight is acquiring Aptrinsic. I couldn’t be more excited to start working closely with Aptrinsic’s CEO and co-founder Mickey Alon. I’ve come to respect Mickey deeply as a thought leader, and his vision for how to help his customers is very aligned with ours. In this post I’ll share the “why” behind this acquisition, which gets to the root of Customer Success philosophy.

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Why an SRE should be among your first 15 hires

Split

As a follow-up to Why Quality Automation Should Be Among Your 10 First Hires , I’d like to discuss why an SRE (Software Reliability Engineer) should be among your first 15 engineering hires. With the evolution of cloud computing and SaaS technologies, combined with the practice treating infrastructure as code (See Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible), the term DevOps has emerged as a way to view many aspects of operations as a software problem.

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Announcing the 2018 STAR Awards Winners and Finalists!

TSIA

At our recent Technology & Services World conference, we honored the technology and services companies who have shown exceptional dedication to innovation and excellence in our annual TSIA STAR Awards ceremony. As one of the highest honors in tech, the STAR Awards are a way for these organizations to be publicly recognized by their peers as being among the best in the industry.

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All Your Aptrinsic Questions Answered

Gainsight

We know you have questions about Gainsight’s acquisition of Aptrinsic. We tried to answer all the questions we anticipate will be common, but we’d love to field any specific inquiries you might have. If you don’t know who to contact, just email us at info@gainsight.com. First, why not take a look at this video—you can hear from both companies’ leadership in their own words why they made this decision and what it could mean for you.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Product Management & Automated Testing

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Valia Lekka (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Felix Sargent]. A little less than two years ago, I joined the first in Greece to receive large venture capital funding, to have great offices, perks and a wonderful working environment. I was hired to become the product manager for the company’s mobile products.