Wed.Feb 23, 2022

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Products Don’t Exist in A Vacuum: A Practical Guide to Business Models

The Product Coalition

The value proposition has become such a buzzword that some started believing it’s all they need to achieve success. It’s not. Photo by Felipe Furtado on Unsplash Even the most prominent value proposition is useless if it can’t be supported by solid business fundamentals. One can’t feed mouths or pay salaries with a value proposition. Some think they don’t have a business model?

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Wellbeing coach Marilyn Suttle on curbing burnout and attrition

Intercom, Inc.

The past couple of years have been … challenging, to put it nicely. Most of us have been working remotely, isolated from friends, family, and coworkers, uncertain of what the future might bring, and it has all taken a toll on our mental health. We’re stressed, exhausted, overworked, and burned out. As a result, resignation rates have been on the rise – a record number of 4.53 million Americans quit their jobs last November, and research shows that 72% of tech employees are thinking of quitting i

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10 teamwork tips custom-built for 2022

Atlassian

5-second summary. 2022 promises to (finally) be the transitional “light at the end of the tunnel” year we’ve been waiting for. Which means the shape of teamwork is likely to change (again). When we asked our Atlassian Community members for their top tips, communication and empathy featured prominently. Community members also shared ideas for reducing burnout and workplace stress.

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Survey Bias: How to Avoid Bias In Your User Surveys And Collect Better Data

Userpilot

Survey bias is real, and most of the time not intentional. Conducting surveys regularly and gathering user sentiment data is one of the best ways to fast-track your business to success. Without online surveys, you can’t generate leads, gather feedback, or collect important customer data. The challenge is, your survey questions can trigger bias. Interestingly survey bias can be so subtle that survey creators and respondents might not even notice it.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Product Optimization

ProductPlan

What is Product Optimization? Product optimization is the process of refining and improving a product to make it more valuable to current users and more attractive to new ones. As a product manager , you should optimize your product pre-launch during the initial development. The process should continue after the product hits the market and until your company sunsets it.

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See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 1: Inside the Team

Johanna Rothman

Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult. Too many teams have a built-in dependency creator—code review. When we take time to perform code review after we write the code (or the tests), we create dependencies between the people on the team.

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How to adopt a hybrid schedule and make it work for your team

Nulab

At the start of the millennium, a fully remote or hybrid schedule seemed like a rare privilege. While remote work has slowly gained ground over the last few decades, the pandemic catapulted this work model into the spotlight. Covid made working from home a necessity, but as we emerged from global lockdowns, many businesses have realized it’s not only possible — in many cases, it’s preferable.

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How Product Managers Can Use Video to Improve Cross-Functional Team Alignment

ProductPlan

Narrate Roadmap Walkthroughs with a Vimeo Recording: How Cool Is That! As a product professional, you know a roadmap is a valuable tool. The roadmap allows you to create strategic alignment with teams across your company. And with ProductPlan’s new Vimeo integration (available only on our Professional and Enterprise plans), you can now make your roadmaps more straightforward.

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Becoming product-led: What does it mean?

Mixpanel

Becoming product-led has become an aspiration of many technology product companies today. Despite the rise in popularity, there are still many misconceptions about what it truly means to be product-led. At its core, being product-led means focusing on providing true value through your product. . In contrast to more marketing- or sales-led models, product-led companies focus on acquiring and retaining customers through their product experience and unique value proposition.

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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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SaaS Product Management: The Central Nervous System to Product-Led Growth (PLG)

Usersnap

Every SaaS company, whether B2B or not, looks to get more intimately connected with their customers’ needs and pains to grow. Which one wouldn’t? In order to understand customer needs, get more customer feedback , and use it actionably, the rise and importance of SaaS product management within digital companies are “mooning” ??. What do I mean by this?

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Defining the "Value" of Being a Research Participant

dscout People Nerds

Research participants (scouts) share the top five non-monetary motivations they have for participating in user research, and how you can move from transactional to relational in your dscout designs.

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The role of user interface and user experience design in video games

TryMyUI

Video games are not just about the game any more. The user interface and the user experience design of video games is now an integral part of what makes them successful or unsuccessful. This handbook will help you learn how to create a better video game, by understanding these two aspects of gameplay that are often overlooked by developers. The post The role of user interface and user experience design in video games appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Product-Centric

ProductPlan

What is Product-Centric? Product-centric describes a company focused on the details of its products above other considerations, including its customers’ needs. At the opposite end of the spectrum are customer-centric companies. These businesses focus on understanding their user and buyer personas, learning about their challenges, and building solutions to address those challenges.

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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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Giving Voice to Small Businesses and Their Workers

dscout People Nerds

Erin Duncan, a Design Research Manager at Intuit QuickBooks outlines a case study in consumer-led research and shares best practices for engaging stakeholders early.

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We’re growing — now what? Ways CS teams can accommodate more customers

UserIQ

"As the World Churns" podcast Episode 6 transcript, featuring guest Nils Vinje:

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Research For the User, Created With the User

dscout People Nerds

Research Specialist Bryn Pernot explores the value of participatory research in experience design and what UXRs can learn from museum professionals.