Tue.Sep 20, 2022

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5 Tips for Developing Your Product Sense

ProductPlan

Data drives our decisions, and A/B tests are the norm, gut feelings and hunches don’t carry much weight anymore. Stakeholders don’t want to hear what “feels right” or “seems” like a good idea. They want evidence and measurability to dictate which moves the product should make. This is why developing your product sense remains so important. This might lead some product professionals to bypass their own spidey senses in favor of simply facilitating prioritization exercises.

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How to Achieve a Successful Agile Transformation

280 Group

Great news! You’ve decided to move to Agile product development. Before you pop open the Champagne, here’s the bad news : 47% of Agile transformations fail. An immutable cultural mindset, lack of methodology training, too much technical debt, and a lack of vision and strategy are some common reasons. How can you avoid being part of this discouraging statistic?

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How to identify your North Star Metric

Mind the Product

A north star metric is an essential tool for navigating your business. It's a number that allows you to measure how successful or unsuccessful you are in achieving your goals. Let's jump into identifying the best metric for your product. [.] Read more » The post How to identify your North Star Metric appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Implement Caching Layers in Web3 Products

The Product Coalition

A web3 cache is a high-speed storage layer that stores a small subset of data instead of storing complete and permanent data in databases. This allows future requests for data to be processed faster than if they were kept in the primary storage location. The web3 products cache layer allows us to reuse previously retrieved and computed data. This layer stores data on fast-access hardware like RAM or in-memory, and it can also be used for correlation with a software component.

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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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Changing How You Solve Problems

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By Jon Moore and Marty Cagan This is the second of a three-part sequence on defining transformation. Changing how you build, test and deploy is important no matter what you choose to build, but for too many companies, they just become a more efficient feature factory. They ship more new features than ever, yet they. The post Changing How You Solve Problems appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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Structuring scaling product teams to prevent silos: A conversation with Productboard’s SVP of Product

ProductBoard

Srinivas Krishnamurti (or SK) has a little thought experiment for you. Imagine you’re a fast-growing startup with three to five teams in place. You give each of them ownership over a key area. You provide them metrics to track their progress. This is all standard practice, but according to Productboard’s SVP of Product, it’s also where the trouble can begin. “Before you know it.

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How We Use Research Hub

UserInterviews

Dogfooding User Interviews: An honest, insider’s look into how UI’s Research team uses our own recruitment and panel management solution.

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[Keynote] How climate tech companies can accelerate innovation, reduce waste, and avoid costly mistakes

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

The post [Keynote] How climate tech companies can accelerate innovation, reduce waste, and avoid costly mistakes appeared first on.

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A New Approach to Roadmapping

Gocious Blog

How to communicate product roadmaps across teams and departments with agility and clarity.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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How To Create A Good Old Business Case For Your Roadmap!

Bain Public

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision-making between product managers and the leadership team. Companies need to create sustainable growth by innovating through product features. As the legendary statistician and management consultant, W. Edwards Deming, argued in his book Out of the Crisis , 94% of most problems and possibilities for improvement belong to the leadership team, not the Product Manager alone; the most value-creating product improvemen

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9 Benefits of Dogfooding Your Pre-Release Product

Centercode

With so many company initiatives competing for often limited resources, understanding the return-on-investment of dogfooding is essential to proving its organizational value. Luckily, the benefits of dogfooding programs are immense. By identifying key metrics, you can make informed tweaks that improve program performance throughout your company.

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Bain Public will lead a product workshop for Centech's Accélération Program

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Centech's Accélération’s program is back for another season! Paul Ortchanian , President/CEO and Founder of Bain Public , will be leading an expert product workshop on September 29th in collaboration with Centech , a world-class business incubator based in Montreal, Canada. We are grateful to contribute again to this incredible program!

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BoS Conference Attendee Testimonials

Business of Software Conference

It not what we say, it’s what our attendees say that’s important. Business of Software Conference USA, Boston MA is coming up next week, 26-28 September. Check out some some short video summaries of previous conferences here. BoS Conference Attendee Testimonials. Here are a few thoughts from previous attendees that should give you a sense of what other people think about BoS… “Hands-down the best conference for Software CEOs” Gail Goodman, Former CEO , Constant Cont

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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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Bain Public will lead an Expert Product Workshop in collaboration with Quebec Incubator, Apollo13

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, President/CEO and Founder of Bain Public , will be leading an expert product workshop on Thursday, September 22nd in collaboration with Apollo13. Apollo13 is a Quebec based startup support incubator that helps web, app & SaaS startup leaders evolve their skills and enhance their businesses. Their incubator offer’s more than just advice for business projects; they promise to these startups is they can count on quality people and collaborate with other enthusi

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How to Write Effective OKRs in 5 Steps

airfocus

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a powerful tool that companies and their product teams can use to align on goals and measure progress toward meeting those goals. How you write your OKRs gets you off to a great start toward accomplishing part or all of your objectives. Here’s a look at five steps to follow when writing both Company and Product OKRs.

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Why BoS Conference is Different

Business of Software Conference

We can’t wait to be back in person for BoS Conference USA. As we prepare for our first in-person US conference for three whole years, we were looking back at some of the things that we think make BoS a special place for all who attend, as speakers, supporters and most important, attendees. I ended up spending more time than I meant to watching some of the old BoS summary videos that try to take some of the lessons learned at each conference, talk to the speakers and participants about what

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(Not just) User Interviews: a smarter approach to unmoderated research

UserInterviews

User Interviews’s unmoderated research workflow just got a major upgrade.

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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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Customer Onboarding Process: How to Get New Customers to Adopt Your SaaS Product

Userpilot

Nailing the customer onboarding process is one of the most important tasks for any savvy PM or SaaS owner. In this article, we’re going to break down exactly what it takes for your customers to start getting value from your product – and therefore boost adoption. Ready to get started? Let’s get into it! TL;DR. A customer onboarding process describes all the activities required for a user to experience value from your product (whether they’re new customers or experienced u

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What Is There in Common Between Locating Bugs and Investigating A Crime?

The Product Coalition

In this article, QA engineer on the release team at inDriver Ivan would like to allow himself to freely speculate on the similarity between cognitive activity models in software testing and criminal investigations. It seems to me that these two areas have a lot in common. For example, both processes are focused on investigating the results of misconduct, as well as its causes and effects, along with related records-keeping and documentation practices.

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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? If so, keep on reading, because that’s exactly what we’re diving into in this article. TL;DR. The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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Creating A Good Old Business Case For TrackTik's Roadmap!

Bain Public

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision making between product managers and the leadership team. Companies need to create sustainable growth by innovating through product features. As legendary statistician and management consultant W. Edwards Deming argued in his book Out of the Crisis , 94% of most problems and possibilities for improvement belong to the leadership team, not the Product Manager alone; most value-creating product improvements belong

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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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WoM in SaaS: Best Word-of-Mouth Marketing Strategies To Increase Brand Awareness [Examples Included]

Userpilot

Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the most effective marketing strategies that product marketers can implement. A defined word-of-mouth marketing strategy helps you encourage and accelerate conversations within your customer base that grow your brand. In this guide, we’ll discuss what the word-of-mouth marketing strategy is, why it is advantageous, and how you can drive it.