Thu.Jul 11, 2019

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Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide?

Mind the Product

What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty. The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer. Why is it Important to Know the Degree of Uncertainty Upfront? Let’s walk through three hypothetical scenarios.

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Product and Pricing Strategies to Realize Customer Value

bpma ProductHub

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Product Manager Money Wheel Analysis

DevelopmentCorporate

The Money Wheel is a sales deal analysis tool for product managers. It is basically a combination of root cause analysis and cohort analysis and for sales deals. It helps product managers understand what type of traction their offerings are achieving in the marketplace as well as data to support prioritization decisions. The post Product Manager Money Wheel Analysis appeared first on Development Corporate.

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How to Build Mobile Apps Customers Really Want

Alchemer Mobile

As I’m writing this article, there are 2,687,780 mobile apps available in the Google Play store, and there were 2.2M mobile apps in the Apple App Store as of February 2019. Consumers have lots of choices when it comes to picking a mobile application! So, as a product manager for a mobile application, how on earth can you build an application that stands a chance of becoming a well-used, frequently purchased application, let alone rise to the level of “top 10?”.

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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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“Software eating the world” creates a growing need to educate product managers.

Product Management Unpacked

Digital transformation impacts almost everything, so the demand for product management continues to increase – every day. When I started in product management in the mid-1980s, most product managers were hired to work in traditional B2C businesses, which is where the idea of product management originated. Modern product management started in 1931 with a memo written by Neil H.

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Protecting Your Roadmap from Influential Clients

The Product Guy

Executing on your roadmap is key to product success. Influential clients may ask you to work on non-roadmap efforts they want, killing your success. I’ll provide techniques and processes for how to keep your roadmap stable. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Jordan Bergtraum, lead a conversation on this topic. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.

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Product Dev: Think “Past, Present & Future”

The Product Coalition

I often like to frame product development as 3 buckets?—?Past, Present and Future. Past: What are the things we have shipped previously and how are they performing? Are our experiments achieving what we hoped they would? Present: What is the current sprint or work we should be doing today? What have we achieved this sprint and how is our product health looking right now?

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Introducing the First Keynote Speakers for MTP Engage Manchester 2020

Mind the Product

MTP Engage Manchester returns in 2020 on the 6th and 7th February, and next year its focus will be you – your conference, built for the product community, by the product community. With such a strong product management community, we’ve chosen to hone in on you, and focus on personal and professional development and how you can grow as a product manager, including how we build better products if we work together.

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Women in Product: How to Combat Bias in Product Management

ProductCraft

Traditional industries like retail, insurance, and banking may have a lot to learn from the software industry to evolve into digital enterprises, but they have plenty to teach as well. Especially when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Take retail, for example. Long before the software industry was reporting the demographics of its leadership and.

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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 Manage 6 Challenging Personality Types in Meetings – Part 6: The Persuasive Talker

Modus Create

We’ve talked about facilitating with many personality types , but we’ve saved the best for last. Of all the personalities you can work within a facilitation environment, this personality is perhaps the toughest to deal with. That’s because they introduce a dangerous trio of personality traits: Opinionated. People with strong personalities habitually play devil’s advocate — a habit which, on its own, is actually not bad.

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How to Maintain User Momentum & Motivation During Onboarding

Userpilot

Have you ever considered that product adoption is a lot like physics? Let me explain. We’ve all heard that “object in motion stays in motion,” and it’s an assumption we unknowingly apply to onboarding. We think that the inertia that got a user started on a free trial or new account will keep them going, but unfortunately, it isn’t that simple. You see, every new user can experience roadblocks during onboarding that slow them down.

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The Most Disruptive Trends in Automotive Software Development in 2019

The Product Coalition

Digital transformation processes are happening across all industries and the automotive sector isn’t an exception. The last year was challenging for automotive sales, showing no increase in sold units at all, according to Statista. With the increase of options for users and their expectations, it’s getting harder for manufacturers to provide a product that attracts attention.

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How (and why) to design PWAs for better cross-platform UX

TryMyUI

Don't be on the wrong side of history! Native apps are done. Read the how-and-why-guide to design great UX for progressive web applications (PWAs). The post How (and why) to design PWAs for better cross-platform UX appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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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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From Awareness to Adoption: Keys to a Successful New Feature Launch

ProductPlan

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. If a new feature or product never gets used, it doesn’t matter how awesome it is… it’s gathering the same dust as every less great product on the market. To avoid an unsuccessful launch and weak usage, product teams and their product marketing counterparts must be in lockstep.

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How to Create and Manage Cross-Functional Teams

The Product Coalition

Guide on Managing Cross-Functional Team To develop a good project, you need to consider two important factors?—?a project idea and a team of specialists. Speaking about the team, there is always a question: what team structure to choose? Cross-functional teams or CFT becomes more and more popular nowadays despite the fact that 75% of them didn’t reach the final goal.

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Meet Hayley Jean Farr: Gainsight’s VP of Market Development

Gainsight

Our mission is to prove that you can win in business while being human first. So we want to put the spotlight on some of those humans helping Gainsight win in business! This time around, let’s meet our VP of Market Development, Hayley Jean Farr , and hear from her in her own words. Tell us a bit about yourself and what your role is at Gainsight.

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Should You Buy Into Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture?

DISQO

Last month, Facebook confirmed its rumored ambition to create a financial system based off a new cryptocurrency called Libra. What is Libra? According to Facebook, Libra will be developed by Calibra, a new subsidiary, and will be a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange, which is being called a stablecoin. What this means for consumers and users of the social media platform is that its value should not change much compared to other forms of currency, like the U.S. dollar. .

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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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5 Steps to Become More Comfortable Using Data

Amplitude

If we’re being honest, it is very difficult to create a culture that values data. I frequently see leadership teams purchase analytics software hoping that this new access will make everyone excited to use data regularly. Unfortunately, we have that good ole phrase, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”. If employees are not used to looking at quantitative information before making a decision, then they’ll probably be overwhelmed when you just suddenly give them access to

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What Isn’t Product Management

Under 10 Consulting

In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support [individual] customers or they support the market. —Peter Drucker, American management consultant. In recent years I’ve seen product management teams pulled increasingly into the technical aspects of the product, serving more as development managers than product managers, and neglecting both business strategy and go-to-market responsibilities.

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How to Design Your Customer Success Strategy to Win More Customers Faster

Gainsight

As a B2B SaaS company, your customer success strategy can be your best sales strategy. And I don’t just mean for expanding customers through upsells and cross-sells (farming). I mean for acquiring net-new customers. I’m talking about hunting. Your customer success strategy can be your best customer acquisition strategy. Here’s how I measure “best customer acquisition strategy” in this context: Win Percentage.

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Should You Buy Into Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture?

DISQO

Last month, Facebook confirmed its rumored ambition to create a financial system based off a new cryptocurrency called Libra. What is Libra? According to Facebook, Libra will be developed by Calibra, a new subsidiary, and will be a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange, which is being called a stablecoin. What this means for consumers and users of the social media platform is that its value should not change much compared to other forms of currency, like the U.S. dollar. .

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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A B2B Lead Generation Starter Guide For New Businesses

AB Tasty

Having great lead generation skills is important for any business. Read our starter guide for new businesses and budding entrepreneurs alike. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as A B2B Lead Generation Starter Guide For New Businesses.

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Should You Buy Into Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture?

DISQO

Last month, Facebook confirmed its rumored ambition to create a financial system based off a new cryptocurrency called Libra. What is Libra? According to Facebook, Libra will be developed by Calibra, a new subsidiary, and will be a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange, which is being called a stablecoin. What this means for consumers and users of the social media platform is that its value should not change much compared to other forms of currency, like the U.S. dollar. .