Tue.Jun 09, 2020

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4 Key Takeaways of Building a Product Team

The Product Coalition

Elium Team About 18 months ago, Elium raised 4m€ with the ambition to scale its teams and revenues. To sustain this growth, together with the executive team we decided to restructure the company and double its size. As a direct result, I became Head of Product. I wanted to share what I’ve learned after doubling both product and engineering teams. The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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The role of UX research now and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Userzoom

There has never been a challenge like COVID-19. Not just for businesses, but for every individual. Some organisations have had revenues decimated, traffic come to a halt, markets practically vanish, supply chains cut off, conversion rates fluctuate like never before, and of course mass furloughing. I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a U

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Product management & retention: Closing the divide between customers and the product team

ProductBoard

This post is an excerpt from our ebook, “Building excellent products in the age of remote work,” written to help you overcome today’s unique challenges and focus on what really matters—building excellent products that customers truly need. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed many businesses under severe financial stress, forcing them to scrutinize every expense and trim the fat where necessary.

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Strategies for building a resilient business

Intercom, Inc.

The past few weeks have shown us how important it is for all of us to deeply empathize with those around us. With that comes the need for clear communication and open dialogue with customers and employees alike. These are all key components of a business resilience strategy, one that bolsters up a business that’s faced with challenges and sets it up for growth long-term.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Your Mobile Feedback Funnel is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It

Alchemer Mobile

Coronavirus didn’t break your mobile feedback funnel; it revealed it was broken all along. In this presentation originally delivered at Mobile Growth Summit, Apptentive’s CEO and Co-founder, Robi Ganguly, dives into exactly how companies can use feedback to predict churn and extend customer lifetime value. He reveals where your funnel has failed in the past and key strategies to improve it for the future.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Product Management; Upcoming Presentations

Good Product Manager

Product Management During a Market Crisis. My last post on this blog was February 9, 2020. A lot has changed in the world in the last 4 months. Part of the reason that I haven’t posted here is I’ve been so busy with helping product management leaders and product managers deal with the impact of COVID-19 on product management — hosting virtual discussions with product leaders, giving advice 1-on-1 product management clients, and doing a lot of research and writing.

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Organizational Alignment Through Vision and Principles By Elena Luneva

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, then Head of Product at Nuna, Elena Luneva explains the importance of making sure your company has a product vision to help make better product decisions and ensure organizational buy-in. The key points of her talk include: Establishing a product vision Aligning your team with the vision Using product [.]. Read More.

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5 Lessons We Learned Helping the Operations Department of Geneva’s University Hospital handle the COVID-19 Crisis

Strategyzer

This is a guest post from Stefano Mastrogiacomo, founder of TeamAlignment.co and the inventor of the Team Alignment Map (TAM). The TAM is a quick and simple visual tool to help teams align around common goals, gain team buy-in, build trust, reduce risks and deliver concrete results.

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Is it impossible or are you afraid of the unknown?

The Product Coalition

Impossible is a choice; you can change it if you want to! Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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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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COVID-19’s Impact on Product Management; Upcoming Presentations

Good Product Manager

Product Management During a Market Crisis. My last post on this blog was February 9, 2020. A lot has changed in the world in the last 4 months. Part of the reason that I haven’t posted here is I’ve been so busy with helping product management leaders and product managers deal with the impact of COVID-19 on product management — hosting virtual discussions with product leaders, giving advice 1-on-1 product management clients, and doing a lot of research and writing.

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How Can An Engineer Be A Product Manager? (For Software Developers)

The Basics of Product Management

Every software developer or an engineer should think like a Product Manager. It is important for engineers to speak up and voice their product opinions. This article is not a guide for how anybody can become a Product Manager (that article is here ). This article is for software engineers to understand the importance of developing a product mindset.

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Create More Management Transparency

Johanna Rothman

Create Transparency At All Levels Principle. In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency.

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Iteratively + Snowplow Analytics Destination Support

Iteratively Blog

We're huge fans of Snowplow Analytics , and we've been working with the team on releasing an integration over the last few months that makes it easier to define, instrument, and verify your analytics on Snowplow's self-hosted data collection platform. Overview of Iteratively & Snowplow Analytics. If you're new to Iteratively, we help teams collaborate to ship high-quality analytics faster without the bugs.

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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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Starting a New PM Role During COVID-19

ProductCraft

Recently, I started a new job as a product manager. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve been working from home since my first day. The company I joined isn’t used to remote work. In fact, they switched to virtual work the day before I joined ??????? So, my onboarding process went out the window… . Read more » The post Starting a New PM Role During COVID-19 appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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How OurHealth successfully built and launched new infrastructure for virtual patient clinic visits in 10 days

Innovatemap

Digital transformation leaders must balance blue-sky thinking with day-to-day task management. The COVID-19 pandemic required a dynamic response for both, especially for OurHealth ’s CIO and Interim COO Sherry Slick and Director of Solutions Engineering, Barton Bridge. Within 10 days they implemented a solution to book virtual and telephonic health appointments through a massive IT infrastructure project — a feat that, for a company with multiple locations across the region, was not necessarily

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Security Industry Insights: 5 Things We Learned From Security Executives At Our Virtual Campfire

Gainsight

A few weeks ago, Gainsight hosted an intimate virtual gathering of over a dozen Security executives, featuring two industry titans, Enrique Salem , Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, and Corey Thomas , CEO and Chairman of Rapid7, to discuss, “How Security Companies are Driving Growth from their Customer Base in a Downturn.”. We took away from the conversation 5 key lessons that can help Security companies thrive during this time: 1.

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What is the Role of a Technical Program Manager?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Are you interested in making the leap into becoming a technical program manager (TPM)? You may be intrigued by the exciting job descriptions and lucrative salaries. But you also want to learn a little more about what it means and what it takes to be a technical program manager before you dive in headfirst. We've covered all the bases in this article concerning the roles and responsibilities that come with technical program management.

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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.

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What I Learned From 3.5 Years as a Product Leader at a VC Backed SaaS Startup

The Product Coalition

I first heard of Elium , formerly known as Knowledge Plaza, in 2011. I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. Even though Elium already had some traction and gained many flagship customers, they were still doing on-demand development for other companies to cover their costs. It appeared that Talentsquare was their “last distraction”.