Thu.Jan 14, 2021

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How Storytelling can improve User Experience

Imaginary Cloud - Design

Stories have always been around to help us understand and make sense of the world. It goes from the stories we used to listen to as kids to the regular ones of our daily lives either in marketing, Saturday night dinners with friends, or even our work environment. Stories are part of who we are as humans, being at the core of how our minds work and interpret the world.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to making something people want, Hubert Palan always does his homework. With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Bootstrapping a Product Team, by Ibrahim Bashir

Mind the Product

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Ibrahim Bashir, VP Product at Box, discusses different product management archetypes and when to bring each one into a team. Watch the session in full, or read on for the highlights. Archetypes You end up defining how successful your product org will be at the point when you set [.]. Read More. The post Bootstrapping a Product Team, by Ibrahim Bashir appeared first on Mind the Product.

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10 Innovative Health Apps to Inspire Healthcare Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Have you ever considered what our healthcare systems and treatments might look like in 2065? In this fantastic report from Deloitte, they share a vision of healthcare that could be based entirely on an individual and their personal needs: “Shoes will adapt their insoles for the perfect arch support to correct an individual’s gait as he or she goes. Cappuccino will be served in a smart cup that calculates the calories of its contents while ordinary looking earrings track heart rate, noise levels

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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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Great Fun on the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

I had a great time with Jeff and Squirrel on their podcast, Troubleshooting Agile. They focus on what our conversations can tell us about ourselves. We spoke about the Modern Management Made Easy books in Johanna Rothman on Modern Management Part 1. Here's a highlight idea from the podcast: a transition to management is a career change. If we want to be great managers, we need to learn how to be a manager.

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How to Use Cohort Analysis to Master Product Retention in the Health, Wellness, and Fitness Industry

Indicative

We get it—retaining your customers is hard work. When it comes to mobile, health and fitness apps boast the highest retention rates of any category. That follows years-long trends toward healthy living, fitness, and overall wellness that yielded an explosion (upwards of 300% growth) in the sheer number of users and apps at play in the industry. . However, a recent uptick in demand thanks to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic notwithstanding, user growth in the segment has slowed in recent year

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Aspects of A Well Oiled Product Team

The Product Coalition

How to go from “Good” to “Great.” Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Who We Design For

dscout People Nerds

Crystal Yan talks to us about the beauty working in the public sector and what happens when our careers hit close to home. .

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6 things to keep your employee’s spirits up during the COVID-19 pandemic

nulab

One of the biggest changes brought forth by COVID-19 is the virtualization of the traditional 9-to-5 work culture. The more the number of cases increases, the higher levels of anxiety and doubt among employees. As a result, one of the biggest questions faced by business leaders right now is how they can maintain the essence of company culture and keep team morale high despite everyone working remotely.

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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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The Leap to PM Lead

The Product Coalition

What got you here *will* get you there! Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Bain Public to lead an product-centric workshop with Centech's winter 2021 cohort

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a workshop on January 22nd in collaboration with Centech: a world-class business incubator based in Montreal. Centech is dedicated to high-tech (deeptech) companies with high growth potential. It is a non-profit organization fueled by ÉTS open to everyone and offers two support programs for startups: the acceleration program (12 weeks), then the strongest potentials are selecte

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Plaid & Dropbox’s Jean-Denis Grèze’s playbook for building an engineering culture of ownership

The Review by First Round

Today’s episode is with Jean-Denis Grèze, Head of Engineering at Plaid, which securely connects your bank to your apps. Before joining Plaid, Jean-Denis served as Director of Engineering at Dropbox, and even had a stint in law school and one year as a lawyer under his belt before diving deep into the world of CS. While he says becoming a lawyer was a “four-year detour he probably didn’t need,” there’s a lot to be said for how it’s shaped his engineering career and management philosophy.

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Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework

First Round Review

Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a lightweight "jobs-to-be-done" framework for early-stage product teams, along with templates and go-to-market tactics.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.