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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You can use MBWAL with collocated teams. MBWAL doesn't work for distributed or dispersed teams. Remember, working remote is Not Business as Usual. (And won't be for a while.). And, you might still have this question: “If no one's in the office, how will I know what they're doing?

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“Truthiness” in Product Management

ProductCraft

At last month’s ProductCraft Conference event in San Francisco, Niels Hoven of Cloudflare talked about a particularly widespread problem in product management. As PMs, we should be seeking the truth. After all, only accurate information can help us build valuable and delightful products. However, some product professionals are moving away from the truth and toward.

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Product Management In Corona Times

NextBigWhat

Every single business and product today will either have a headwind or a tailwind. There are no products that are going business as usual right now. Both types of businesses need to make their amendments fast enough. More. The post Product Management In Corona Times appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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Hiring Product People in AsiaPac

Mind the Product

As the practice of product management develops across AsiaPac, two experts in recruitment consider some commonly asked questions and discuss the future of hiring as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) impacts working life as we know it. Our Experts. John-Simon Purcell is Senior Director of Product and Technical Strategy at Naspers/Prosus , a global internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world.

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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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Women In Product Management You Should Be Following

Mixpanel

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. And that’s to the detriment of organizations that are looking to outperform their competitors. When gender diversity at the executive level is brought to parity, organizations are 15 percent more likely to gain more profit , improve customer experience , and attract and retain expensive talent , accordi

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How Do You Know If Your Business Is At Risk From Disruption?

Strategyzer

Over the last weeks the coronavirus disrupted the entire global economy and almost every business on the face of the planet. Yet, Covid-19 is a black swan and a once in a century event. When things get back to normal (yes, it will take quite some time), companies need to prepare for more common types of disruption. In this blogpost, we explain how you can systematically assess the risk of disruption with our Disruption Assessment Tool.

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Dunkin Product Managers Take On Starbucks Product Managers

The Accidental Product Manager

Dunkin product managers are ready to go to war over coffee Image Credit: Mike Mozart. So I’m not sure if you are aware of it, but it turns out that all of the people in the world can be divided into one of two different groups. These groups consist of people who like to get their morning coffee from Dunkin and people who like to get their morning coffee from Starbucks.

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7 Lessons To Help Transitioning to Virtual Workshops Easier

Agile Velocity

As a person who has a high preference for in-person workshops, transitioning to a 100% virtual delivery and facilitation has been an experience to say the least. However, there are a few things I learned in the last few weeks that helped make our workshops more fun and engaging. I’m sure there are many more things to learn, but I wanted to share sooner than later with all my colleagues and folks who are interested in delivering or taking a virtual training course or workshop.

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How to Provide a High-Touch Product Experience While Social Distancing

Gainsight

With the global shift to remote work, our customers have experienced a 50% increase in Monthly Active Users. All of us are spending more time in our day-to-day products in an effort to stay connected and collaborate with coworkers. We’ve never faced something like COVID-19 on a global scale such as this. It’s pushing us to become more creative and infuse more compassion into everything we do—inside and outside of the workplace (or more accurately, home office).

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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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The COVID-19 Professional Roller Coaster

Agile Velocity

For the last 18 months, I have had the honor of working on-site with a client that has become family to me. We have gone through twists and turns and have made so much progress but just as we really start to accelerate the emergency brake was pulled by COVID-19. This virus has caused so many mixed emotions, but a few that stand out are fear of the unknown, vulnerability, and anger. .

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In-Person Medical Visits Remain Top Choice Amid Overloaded Hospitals, But Virtual Care Gains Traction

DISQO

Never has understanding and accessing medical care and testing seemed more important than during the current global COVID-19 pandemic. Using Alpha , we asked more than 400 adults, ages 18–75, about their knowledge and opinions of coronavirus-related medical care and testing. While most do not personally know anyone who has been tested for the virus, a majority of people say they know how to go about being tested.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You can use MBWAL with collocated teams. MBWAL doesn't work for distributed or dispersed teams. Remember, working remote is Not Business as Usual. (And won't be for a while.). And, you might still have this question: “If no one's in the office, how will I know what they're doing?

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In-Person Medical Visits Remain Top Choice Amid Overloaded Hospitals, But Virtual Care Gains Traction

DISQO

Never has understanding and accessing medical care and testing seemed more important than during the current global COVID-19 pandemic. Using Alpha , we asked more than 400 adults, ages 18–75, about their knowledge and opinions of coronavirus-related medical care and testing. While most do not personally know anyone who has been tested for the virus, a majority of people say they know how to go about being tested.

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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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Best of our Contributor Product-Centric Articles

Bain Public

Nearly all Product Managers are now exposed to high-level business objectives and strategies and are challenged by the growing demands on time and responsibilities. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that our contributors published. They help define the product management role and focus on finding ways to leave an impact on business strategy and initiatives.

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Dealing With a Crisis Situation

Dear Strategy

On this special episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about why long-term planning becomes more important than ever during times of crisis. When unexpected events happen, many companies may actually be deterred from thinking about the future because everything in the present seems so uncertain. But companies that take the time to think past a crisis may just find themselves with a competitive advantage on the other side of the horizon.

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More Virtual Doctor’s Appointments, Fewer In-Person Visits Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

DISQO

Never has understanding and accessing medical care and testing seemed more important than during the current global COVID-19 pandemic. Using Alpha , we asked more than 400 adults, ages 18–75, about their knowledge and opinions of coronavirus-related medical care and testing. While most do not personally know anyone who has been tested for the virus, a majority of people say they know how to go about being tested.

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Qual Research at the Speed and Scale Innovation Demands (New dscout Releases)

dscout People Nerds

Now, more than ever, qual research needs to be accessible, flexible, and fast. Here are two new platform features that should expand your research capacity.

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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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‘Product vs Design vs Tech’: A Partnership, not a Battlefield

The Product Coalition

What high performing Product Teams actually look like This is something that comes up often for me?—?I get questions like: “What’s the difference between a Product Designer and Product Manager?” “There seems to be a lot of overlap between Design and Product Management? Who does what?” “But if there is overlap who’s ultimately accountable? Who owns which part?

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Bernard Hosanna on Growing With Grab

Mind the Product

Today, Bernard Hosanna is based in Singapore and works a product strategist at SouthEast Asia’s super app, Grab , but, like many in the game, he hasn’t always worked in product. Bernard studied engineering with a focus on telecoms at Singapore’s Temasek Polytechnic. While he remembers being a “fanatic about handphones and gadgets”, telecoms wasn’t for him, and he then went on to study investment finance and economics at a US university.

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Product Management: Saying No Without Shutting Them Down

Bain Public

As a product manager, one of the hardest things you have to do is say ‘no’ to ideas, suggestions, requests and urgent demands from customers and internal stakeholders. However, adding the word ‘no’ to your management vocabulary is essential in order to make those difficult product decisions. You can’t be afraid to use it or else you end up with half-baked projects with an archive of features and no finished product.