Thu.Oct 31, 2019

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Prioritization Shouldn't Be Hard

Melissa Perri

A while ago, I was interviewing a VP of Product candidate for a client. They were on the case study portion of the interview, where they had to prioritize major initiatives for the company. We explained that the objective wasn’t to get the prioritization completely right, and it was more for us to understand their thought process. They had access to any people or any data they needed from the company.

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How do you Make Your Mark as a new Product Manager?

Mind the Product

If you’re new to a product management job then it can often be very hard to get access to all the information you need. But I’ve found that by building relationships, setting the future vision, and having faith in your capabilities as a product manager you can carve out a place for yourself. One of the critical things you learn in a large corporation is that information is king.

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Make your product sing: The importance of UX writing (and how to do it well!)

ProductBoard

This post originally appeared on the Single Grain blog. If you work in tech, it’s likely that you’ve heard of UX writing: “A UX writer is someone who writes for user experience…[and uses] the words we read or hear when we use a digital product. Their goal is to help and guide the user.” With companies like Google, Spotify and Airbnb spearheading the trend, UX writers are increasingly recognized as.

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When should engineering managers write code?

Intercom, Inc.

Many engineers who make the transition to a management role face a bit of a conundrum – if I stop doing hands-on work, my team will lose a strong engineer and instead will gain an inexperienced manager. When I became a manager three years ago, this thought kept popping into my head, especially in the first few months, and breaking out of this mindset was one of the biggest challenges in my transition from maker to manager.

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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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How to test your website’s iconography

Userzoom

In which our very own UX Researcher, Tom Hayes, investigates the world of online iconography and how you can test whether users understand all your various navigation signs and symbols. What does this icon mean? Now I would be very surprised if anyone isn’t thinking ‘search’ right now. This icon, or variations of it, tend to be used by companies all over the world and users recognise it.

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7 CTOs Share Their Insights On Managing Distributed Teams

Arkenea

“One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone’s performance.” Jason Fried (Co-Author Of Office Not Required) Remote development teams are an asset for entrepreneurs and businesses looking to expand the talent pool. Rise in remote work opportunities helps you in connecting with experienced […].

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The key to visualizing your ideas with a concept map

Miro

The key to visualizing your ideas with a concept mapEver need to brain dump your ideas, but don’t know how to make sense of the ideas once they’re on the page? If so, consider using a concept map. What is a concept map?Concept maps are a great framework to use to tease out the relationships […]. The post The key to visualizing your ideas with a concept map appeared first on MiroBlog | A blog by Miro.

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Steve Jobs' 30% Rule to stay focused

NextBigWhat

When Steve Jobs was brought back to Apple, he applied 30% rule to create a flywheel. —-. We examined the future product roadmap … and what we found was that 30 percent of them were incredibly good. And about 70 percent of them were either pretty good, or things that we didn’t really need to be doing. Businesses we didn’t really need to be in. And so, we’ve pared a lot of that back, so we could focus the same amount of original resource even more on what was remaining–and add a few new things in.

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Foolproof Qualitative Analysis Tactics—For Whether You Have a Month or an Afternoon

dscout People Nerds

Use these tactics to analyze for findings that “fit”—even when your timeline doesn’t suit the study.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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Cosmetics: The Future of the Customer Experience

AB Tasty

The cosmetics industry is booming. Check out the tactics working now for our clients, and what the future of CX holds for beauty brands. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Cosmetics: The Future of the Customer Experience.

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October Product Update

Indicative

We’ve launched some features that we think you’ll love! Take a look at our October updates and announcements: Google Tag Manager. Improved Save Experience. Data Defined. At Indicative, we value our customers’ feedback. Thanks to customer feedback we have a lot of exciting features in the pipeline, that’s why we’d love if you shared your feedback (good or bad) here through our two-question survey !

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UX Wars: eHow vs wikiHow

TryMyUI

A DIY death match between two sites that aren't Pinterest. Happy Halloween, and happy usability testing! The post UX Wars: eHow vs wikiHow appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Top 5 MVP tips to avoid a product wreck

Product Warrior

For too many product managers, pressures and influencers wreck the the MVP by turning it into the first release of a new product or update which is ‘minimal’ enough to keep all stakeholders happy. This serves to inflate leadership’s confidence in the performance of the product; a spell that is all too often lifted after months of delay, huge overspend, unhappy customers and peer pressure.

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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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Welcome New TSIA Members! October Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping technology organizations both large and small grow and advance in the industry. We’d like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional research practices TSIA has to offer.

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How Premium Demo Designs Enabled the 120WaterAudit Sales Team to Close Deals

Innovatemap

Our drinking water, and what’s in it, is federally regulated. 120WaterAudit is a water program management company that uses software, kits, and services to manage and execute water quality programs that improve public health outcomes. Inspired by the Flint Michigan water crisis, they are a team of crusaders fighting for safer drinking water to protect public health.

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What is Field Services? A Quick Guide

TSIA

Field services refers to any work needing to be completed at a customer site where your products are installed. For example, in the enterprise IT, industrial equipment, and healthcare technology industries, field services involves managing the installation, maintenance, or repair of hardware or equipment installed “in the field” If you have products installed on a customer premise, field services and field service management can play new exciting roles in the success of your company.

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Hiring Product Managers? Here Are 8 Places to Share Your Listing

ProductPlan

Hiring a good product manager is hard to do. Think about how lucky your company is to have you! But seriously, augmenting your team with additional product management talent is a tough task, far more challenging than adding a new developer or salesperson. Evaluating product managers is more of an art than a science. Their unique role in the organization requires such a diverse skill set.

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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 T-Mobile used dscout to harness qual data on their team’s (lean) timeline

dscout People Nerds

T-Mobile’s Andrea Lindeman takes us through two transformative use cases for longitudinal, in-context research.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

? ? ?. Two weeks into Tim Campos’ job as the CIO at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s executive assistant asked him to join the CEO for an important meeting at 8 a.m. the next morning. But when he arrived, his boss was nowhere to be found. In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings.

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How the Thumbtack Team of Three Scaled Research to 200+ Stakeholders

dscout People Nerds

Cordelia Hyland on the what “research democratization” really means—and where it can fall short.

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