Mon.Jan 25, 2021

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React Native Challenges and Benefits

The Product Coalition

Hi! I’m Sasha Putrov, a team lead in React Native development agency. I ‘m here to share with you my impressions of this framework as it is?—?using real projects as examples. No odes to Facebook, seriously. You won’t find here a word about how they turned over mobile development by giving birth to a multipurpose technology. This is a very to-the-point article that covers both React Native challenges and benefits?

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To MRD or not to MRD.

The Product Bistro

That is the question. In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. Now, the general consensus seems to be that the MRD is dead as the Dodo, replaced by a product backlog, groomed by a product owner, and lean startup techniques that encourage build/test/evaluate/pivot cycles until you achieve the magical “produc

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How to Prioritize Features and Projects: Here’s the Ultimate List of Prioritization Frameworks

The Product Coalition

With 70+ methods listed, this is the most complete list of prioritization frameworks on the internet with tons of linked resources. This… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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To MRD or not to MRD …

The Product Bistro

In the modern era, it seems that product management and organizations have eschewed the venerable MRD or marketing requirements document. However, it still has a place in the toolkit, and it should be leveraged more often.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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An Explorer’s Mindset, by Tendayi Viki

Mind the Product

In this talk at ProductTank Cardiff, Tendayi Viki draws on ideas from his latest book – Pirates in the Navy – to share a rich set of tools for product leaders who are trying to balance the needs of exploration, innovation, and execution. Ultimately, it boils down to developing a pragmatic model for managing risks and investments, and [.].

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How to Maintain Your Product Momentum on A Limited Budget

The Product Coalition

Managing a product with no development budget can be a product manager’s worst nightmare, but it doesn’t have to be a death sentence for the product. If you manage a product in a company with few product lines?—?it can happen to you as well; new priorities, new initiatives, and suddenly all of your development resources are moved elsewhere, leaving you with no development budget at all.

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Is This An Amazon Product Manager Failure?

The Accidental Product Manager

Amazon is abandoning its restaurant delivery business Image Credit: ulterior epicure. I’m pretty sure that by now we all know who Amazon is. They are the very large company that started out as a book seller and over time has morphed into a company that sells just about everything and seems to do just about everything. The Amazon product managers seem to have an almost golden touch when it comes to their product development definition – everything that they lay their hands on seems to be ve

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Will online stores ever beat real ones? + Survey results of what customers think

Usersnap

Ecommerce shopping has grown significantly in 2020, and many companies are questioning if it will replace the need for brick-and-mortar retail. While it’ll never likely get rid of every store on the block, there may be some customer groups and product types that shift online and never look back. What’s important is figuring out if those are your customers or not.

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Free User Persona Template for SaaS – The Fastest Way to Create a User Persona for Your SaaS Business

Userpilot

User persona templates are a shortcut to creating a user persona from scratch for your SaaS business. If you need a template RIGHT now, take a deep breath – you have come to the right place. Contrary to conventional wisdom, for B2B SaaS, you don’t need to fill in every little detail about your user like their favorite food or where they went to school to create a user persona – it’s not a dating profile.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Wide-Ranging Conversation About Modern Management with Tom Cagley

Johanna Rothman

Do you listen to Tom Cagley's SPaMCAST? (Software Process and Measurement CAST). Tom has interviewed me several times before. This time, in SPaMCAST 635 – Practical Ways to Manage, A Conversation with Johanna Rothman, we discuss the Modern Management Made Easy books. As always, we had a fun, free-ranging conversation. Enjoy! The post Wide-Ranging Conversation About Modern Management with Tom Cagley appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Successful Surveys: Tips & Tricks for Effective Questionnaire Design & Distribution

Generation Focus

When it comes to research methods, surveys offer many advantages compared with other research strategies. Surveys are cost-effective and offer an excellent opportunity to gather information from large sample sizes, sometimes with hundreds or even thousands of participants. Larger sample-surveys create more accurate representation, meaning the results are more likely to represent the preferences, habits, or opinions of the larger population.

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How to Leverage Your Data for Faster Conversion of Free to Paid Users

Indicative

For product managers at companies offering freemium mobile apps and trials, turning free users into paid ones is often a primary goal. The faster and more effectively you convert free users into paying customers, the higher your MRR and the faster your app can grow. While plenty of marketing and sales ink is spilled in that effort, the key is data. The answer to which features encourage free users to upgrade lies in your data.

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Successful Surveys: Tips & Tricks for Effective Questionnaire Design & Distribution

Generation Focus

When it comes to research methods, surveys offer many advantages compared with other research strategies. Surveys are cost-effective and offer an excellent opportunity to gather information from large sample sizes, sometimes with hundreds or even thousands of participants. Larger sample-surveys create more accurate representation, meaning the results are more likely to represent the preferences, habits, or opinions of the larger population.

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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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How to grow your newsletter and podcast

NextBigWhat

My day job is growing startups. I’ve worked with a few hundred by now. Here’s how to grow your podcast, newsletter, blog, YouTube, and Twitter. Hope this helps! A thread: Growth marketing, a timeline: 2015: “We need to go viral.” 2017: “Well, we raised $25m of VC. Let’s dump it on Facebook ads.” 2021: “Wow.

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Successful Surveys: Tips & Tricks for Effective Questionnaire Design & Distribution

Generation Focus

When it comes to research methods, surveys offer many advantages compared with other research strategies. Surveys are cost-effective and offer an excellent opportunity to gather information from large sample sizes, sometimes with hundreds or even thousands of participants. Larger sample-surveys create more accurate representation, meaning the results are more likely to represent the preferences, habits, or opinions of the larger population.

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Curated Content – A low down of news and views from the past 30 days

Business of Software Conference

Regular BoS Newsletter readers will be familiar with our “Curated Content” section. Every week we collate the most interesting stories from the SaaS world and send them to out in our Newsletter. We know our community of SaaS founders are busy – they don’t have time to scour the internet for niche software news and articles all the time.