Fri.Jun 29, 2018

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Gods, Superheroes, and Product Managers by Randy Silver

Mind the Product

John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China” is a 1980s masterpiece, and easily one of the silliest action movies you’ll ever see. It’s remarkable for a very simple reason: Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) may be the film’s lead character – he’s front and centre on the poster — but he’s not actually the hero of the story. He’s actually the goofy sidekick.

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How Can Car Rental Product Managers Deal With Upstarts?

The Accidental Product Manager

Established car rental firms are trying to overcome upstarts Image Credit: Don O’Brien. When you travel and you need transportation at the other end of your trip, what do you do? If you are like most of us, when you are buying your airplane ticket and making your hotel reservation you go ahead and call up an established rental car company and make a reservation.

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Do Some Tactical Product Management Before Your Next Strategic Acquisition

Product Management University

If your organization is making acquisitions to deliver more strategic value to the customer, some tactical product management might be in order before your next purchase. Acquiring a company can be a lot like buying your next electronic gadget. There’s the anticipation and excitement of “new” and the promise of many benefits. Then, just like your new gadget, the acquisition loses some of its sheen when reality doesn’t live up to the hype – and there’s never any shor

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Continue, Stop, Start: a new take on retrospectives

Intercom, Inc.

When faced with a problem or new process at work, most people usually don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they look for patterns and frameworks that are widespread and valuable. A common challenge for many teams is how to run retrospectives. There are plenty of solutions, and one of them is Start, Stop, Continue – a framework to structure a retrospective for a team, career or project.

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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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Personalization with Anonymous Data (Not an Oxymoron)

Revulytics

“Dear , in order for us to keep inserting your first name here, new laws require us to get your explicit permission to keep doing so. Our lawyers want you to Click Here to Opt-In.”. It’s likely that you have received numerous emails with a preamble (sort of) like this as companies seek to reconcile their marketing efforts with GDPR. Depending on what you read, GDPR is either a boon for marketers, finally giving them a way to access quality data, or akin to that massive computer being rolled into

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A Tinder Product Analysis à la Jimmy Jr.

The Product Coalition

How Tinder keeps users using Overview How did Tinder, popular dating app, grow from launching across a few college campuses in 2012, to 12 million daily matches in just 2 years? I believe, intentionally or otherwise, it utilized a rendition of The Hook Model , a user retention recipe proposed by Nir Eyal in his book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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Continue, Stop, Start: a new take on retrospectives

Intercom, Inc.

When faced with a problem or new process at work, most people usually don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they look for patterns and frameworks that are widespread and valuable. A common challenge for many teams is how to run retrospectives. There are plenty of solutions, and one of them is Start, Stop, Continue – a framework to structure a retrospective for a team, career or project.

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Why No One’s Listening to Your UX Research Report (And How to Get Them to Listen)

UserInterviews

Using narrative storytelling structure can help your audience engage with your report the same way they’d engage with their favorite movie.

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Smells like team spirit – what sports and engineering teams have in common

Intercom, Inc.

There is something unique about the joy of being on a high-functioning, high-achieving team – and that goes as much for a sporting team as a professional one. We borrow a lot of the words and concepts we use to describe our engineering teams from the world of sports – from huddles and scrums to sprints and even goals, the terminology resonates from the pitch to the 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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Marketing Attribution Methods 101

Bryce York

Imagine you’re promoting a party in every way you can. The party was a huge success, but it was a LOT of work. You’re sure that some things worked better than others at getting people to attend. The role of marketing attribution methods is figuring out what caused people to come to your event. Assuming you can get reliable data, the critical question is how you assign credit when people were reached with multiple strategies!

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How to help your team get started with RealtimeBoard

Miro

How to help your team get started with RealtimeBoard Simple steps that will help your team work collaboratively in RealtimeBoard Now that you and a few teammates are using RealtimeBoard and seeing the benefits of simple visual collaboration, you might be ready to get the rest of your team on RealtimeBoard. Let us help you […]. The post How to help your team get started with RealtimeBoard appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.

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Webinar Recap – Scaling Agility: 5 Practices to Get Your Organization Started

Agile Velocity

Webinar: Scaling Agility: 5 Practices to Get Your Organization Started from Agile Velocity. In this webinar, Mike and Bryan discussed different tactics and practices that organizations can take as they begin to scale agility across the organization. You can find the webinar summary and Q&A transcription below. Summary. Start Simple. There are a number of really good Agile scaling frameworks out there–SAFe, DAD, LeSS, Enterprise Scrum, etc.

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Why No One’s Listening to Your UX Research Report (And How to Get Them to Listen)

UserInterviews

Using narrative storytelling structure can help your audience engage with your report the same way they’d engage with their favorite movie.

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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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Shift Right with Feature Flags: Best Practices for Testing in Production

Split

Shift left, shift right. Continuous integration emphasizes test execution early and often, providing rapid feedback to development teams for each new code commit. The shift-left testing mantra is ‘test early, test often’. Shift-right extends application testing into the production environment. While monitoring and alerting systems aim to detect application issues before customers experience a change in service, shift-right testing focuses on prevention by conducting functional and performance te

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Why No One’s Listening to Your UX Research Report (And How to Get Them to Listen)

UserInterviews

Using narrative storytelling structure can help your audience engage with your report the same way they’d engage with their favorite movie.

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