Thu.Feb 01, 2018

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17 Product Managers Who Will Own the Future of NYC Tech?—?and the 9 Frameworks They’ll Use to Do It

First Round Review

Last year, First Round hosted a seminar of 17 rising star product managers in NYC, taught by some of the best product leaders in the tech industry. Here's who they are and what they learned.

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Creating Happier Product Managers

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Getting to Here. > What inspires you in your day-to-day work? I’m inspired by making other Product Managers awesome. As a teacher, I’m always playing with new frameworks or ways of teaching. I inspect, adapt, and learn constantly. I believe that being able to explain complex patterns and ideas in a way that is actionable for others really helps firm up your own understanding of the craft.

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The Product Lifecycle

Clever PM

This post comes courtesy of a direct request from one of my supporters over at Patreon, who asked me if I could give them a 10,000 foot-level overview of the Product Lifecycle from ideation to delivery. While nothing here should be terribly earth-shattering or world-changing, I think it’s important for us as Product Managers to […].

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The entrepreneur’s ultimate guide to market research

The Product Coalition

It’s interesting how the simple act of searching the internet can yield so much data, but yet so little knowledge! While researching “market research”, I found it’s one of those topics that can be overwhelming, simply because I had to go through endless sources, most of which are very similar, and each carrying only a small piece of the puzzle. Bringing high-quality content to the world is one of our core values at Knowledge Officer ; this is why I decided to save your time and energy, and bring

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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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How to integrate RealtimeBoard into your Agile workflow

Miro

How to integrate RealtimeBoard into your Agile workflow When you are considering which Agile software project management tool to choose, it’s important to take into account its features and compatibility with your existing workflow. To help you make the right decision and consider all the pros and cons, we wrote about how you can integrate […].

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Thinking big and small with John Cutler

Product Warrior

Using data to make small tweaks to reach a journey destination [link] Click here to listen in iTunes. In episode 1 of the Product Warrior Podcast I am joined by John Cutler the well known product manager and medium author. We discuss the challenges of applying continuous learning and share techniques to align teams and stakeholders to discover true value.

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SaaStr 2018: Join UserTesting CEO Darrell Benatar and Accel Partner Vas Natarajan for insights into going upmarket

UserTesting

For years, we offered a tool that adhered really well within large companies, but within one specific role: the user experience researcher. However, 2017 confirmed for us that understanding and improving the customer experience (CX) has become the entire organization’s … The post SaaStr 2018: Join UserTesting CEO Darrell Benatar and Accel Partner Vas Natarajan for insights into going upmarket appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. That company, of course, is Slack, and Rachel’s growth marketing team now owns Slack’s full acquisition funnel, from demand generation and team creation to activation and monetization.

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SaaStr 2018: Join UserTesting CEO Darrell Benatar and Accel Partner Vas Natarajan for insights into going upmarket

UserTesting

For years, we offered a tool that adhered really well within large companies, but within one specific role: the user experience researcher. However, 2017 confirmed for us that understanding and improving the customer experience (CX) has become the entire organization’s … The post SaaStr 2018: Join UserTesting CEO Darrell Benatar and Accel Partner Vas Natarajan for insights into going upmarket appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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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How to Apply a Design Sprint to Voice-Based Products

Mind the Product

At the outset of 2018, there are already over 50 million voice-based devices shipped, up from 1.7 million in 2015 (see footnote). Consumer adoption of voice-based products has grown to the point where businesses need to understand what voice-based experiences can mean to them. But, as I’m sure we’re all aware, exploring new business models such as voice-based products and experiences doesn’t always come naturally to big companies.