Thu.Feb 08, 2018

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When Push Comes to Shove – Picking Your Battles

Clever PM

In many organizations, conflict is part and parcel of the culture — some conflict can be constructive, some destructive, but most of it can just be downright annoying. And, because we often sit right in the middle of all of the random agendas, battles of ego, and emotional storms that can rage throughout the company, […].

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Techniques to Help you Build a High-Performing Team

Mind the Product

I think of high-performing teams like a personal best on a run: they don’t happen overnight or by accident, but they’re worth it. As product managers, we’re often on point for building team culture. And we really feel the benefit of it when teams are working well together: a team that can move fast, understand each other and make effective decisions is a team that ships and iterates faster than a team full of people who struggle to understand each other or the outcomes they’re trying to reach.

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Four Categories You Need to Nail for Healthy Startup Growth — and Top Tips for How to Do It

First Round Review

Mike Brown managed all facets of Uber's business in Asia for four years as it went from $0 to billions. Here are his key takeaways for early startups to lay the groundwork for healthy growth.

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The Power of Discounts

Pragmatic Marketing

I wish everyone made decisions rationally. OK, I’d be happy if I could make decisions rationally. Last night while having dinner with my wife I caught myself being irrational … again. We went to our local sports bar at halftime of the Super Bowl. This is a place we eat all the time. The prices are reasonable enough that I just order what I want, without regard to price.

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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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Healthcare Product Management Trends; Twitter Chat

Good Product Manager

Four Healthcare Product Management Trends for 2018. We work with b-to-b product management teams across many industries at SiriusDecisions, but lately we’ve been with more product management teams in companies that are healthcare-focused (e.g. healthcare information technology, medical devices, health analytics) as well as product management teams that have “horizontal” products (e.g. content management) where the organization is targeting healthcare as a key growth area.

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Healthcare Product Management Trends; Twitter Chat

Good Product Manager

Four Healthcare Product Management Trends for 2018. We work with b-to-b product management teams across many industries at SiriusDecisions, but lately we’ve been with more product management teams in companies that are healthcare-focused (e.g. healthcare information technology, medical devices, health analytics) as well as product management teams that have “horizontal” products (e.g. content management) where the organization is targeting healthcare as a key growth area.

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5 Quick Business Audits to Tackle in January

The Product Coalition

Once February hits, is the new year really the new year any more? Tackle your business audits in January! We all know about personal New Year’s resolutions. Go to the gym three times a week. Quit or cut back on smoking or drinking. Carve out more quality time for the family. January is also an ideal time to implement new procedures and strategies to enhance and streamline your business operations in ways that will benefit the bottom line.

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Four Categories You Need to Nail for Healthy Startup Growth — and Top Tips for How to Do It

First Round Review

Mike Brown managed all facets of Uber's business in Asia for four years as it went from $0 to billions. Here are his key takeaways for early startups to lay the groundwork for healthy growth.

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The 10 Thorniest Problems In Product (And The Solutions That Successful Companies Are Using To…

The Product Coalition

The 10 Thorniest Problems In Product (And The Solutions That Successful Companies Are Using To Tackle Them) As research for my upcoming fourth book, I’ve been interviewing dozens of product leaders and creators. Combined with what we learned from writing Product Leadership the patterns are becoming increasingly obvious: Product teams around the world are all encountering the same handful of problems.

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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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Education Services Delivery Options You Should Explore

TSIA

In my recent blog, “What Is Education Services?” I covered the basics of what the definition of education services is, and even touched upon what it isn’t. In this post, I will briefly cover the traditional forms of delivery used by most Education Services (ES) organizations and then discuss less traditional delivery options that are proving to be successful.

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Inside the Product Insights Team at UserTesting: Why Data Science and Research teams are better together

UserTesting

Recently, I gave a talk at ProductTank San Francisco to share some insight on something we feel strongly about at UserTesting: incorporating qualitative and quantitative insights into everything we do. Specifically, I wanted to share how the creation of our … The post Inside the Product Insights Team at UserTesting: Why Data Science and Research teams are better together appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Rune Madsen on the intersection of user experience and design systems

Intercom, Inc.

More than 50 years ago graphic designers realized that having shared underlying rules when creating a bunch of related objects, a design system, was a smart idea. But in today’s world there’s tension between a very broad general purpose design system and an in-house design system for a given company that’s very specific and tailored to them – like our Full Stack Design System , for example.

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Inside the Product Insights Team at UserTesting: Why Data Science and Research teams are better together

UserTesting

Recently, I gave a talk at ProductTank San Francisco to share some insight on something we feel strongly about at UserTesting: incorporating qualitative and quantitative insights into everything we do. Specifically, I wanted to share how the creation of our … The post Inside the Product Insights Team at UserTesting: Why Data Science and Research teams are better together appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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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Announcing Influential Agile Leader, 2.0, June 7-8, 2018

Johanna Rothman

Gil Broza and I are thrilled to announce the updated version of our flagship workshop, the Influential Agile Leader. We’re leading the workshop in the Boston area, June 7-8, 2018. If you have these kinds of challenges: Your business can’t “stop” to recreate itself as an agile organization. You need to continue and to nurture the cultural changes necessary for a successful agile transformation.

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Inside the User Science team at UserTesting: Why Data Science and Research teams are better together

UserTesting

Recently, I gave a talk at ProductTank San Francisco to share some insight on something we feel strongly about at UserTesting: incorporating qualitative and quantitative insights into everything we do. Specifically, I wanted to share how the creation of our … The post Inside the User Science team at UserTesting: Why Data Science and Research teams are better together appeared first on UserTesting Blog.