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10 Easy Steps for Making Your Engineering Team Fall in Love With You

ProductCraft

No product manager can succeed without strong collaboration with their engineering team. In the best situations, this connection goes beyond collaboration or even trust – it becomes a symbiotic relationship. How do you build that, especially when you’re new to the organization and/or role? Do you send the engineers flowers? Boxes of chocolates?

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5 strategies to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

You often hear great talks about the founding story and how to drive that first phase of growth. At SaaStr , I talked about what happens after that, how you can drive your next phase of growth. When you are starting a business, or joining a new one, you are excited and full of ideas. You probably have a goal in mind. It might be to launch a new product, to define a new category or to hit $1M in revenue.

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Suneet Bhatt on the best onboarding practices for a distributed startup

Miro

Onboarding new people at a company can be a challenge. As a leader, you need to create a process that gives a new hire the ability to understand your team’s unique workflow and goals, and also ensure that they are fully equipped to start working and secure their first wins. These few months are so […]. The post Suneet Bhatt on the best onboarding practices for a distributed startup appeared first on RealtimeBlog | A blog by RealtimeBoard.

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3 techniques to quickly discover what your customer really needs

ProductBoard

Are you building the right product? “Building products means nothing when they’re not the right products.” This is something our CEO always says because while everyone is moving quickly to get to market, what often gets lost in the process of product launches and marketing campaigns is a clear understanding of whether your team is even building the right product.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Ask people for problems, not ideas

The Product Coalition

ID 101759912 © Faithiecannoise | Dreamstime.com Or… Ideas are not the hard part, sorting them is One of the things I have always struggled with as a PM leader is the constant flow of ideas coming my way. And how to make people feel their ideas are valued even though we can only act on some subset of them. The reality is that ideas are not the hard part of innovation and neither is execution (the sentence that typically follows that statement).

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Developing Trends and Challenges in the Industrial Equipment Industry

TSIA

"Softening momentum, high uncertainty" is the key takeaway from the International Monetary Fund's January 2019 World Economic Outlook. One reason is that outside the United States, industrial production has decelerated, particularly of capital goods. This is why alarm bells are ringing in a lot of industrial equipment (IE) companies. Additionally, executives should consider the long-term trends as well, which is that the Internet of Things (IoT) will speed up the trend towards the ou

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The power of fast experimentation for Product Managers

UserTesting

Product Managers (PMs) have a lot on their plates. In addition to managing the creation and launch of great products, they’re also responsible for identifying business or market opportunities and developing feature requirements, all at the breakneck pace of today’s … The post The power of fast experimentation for Product Managers appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Want to Write, but Don’t Think you can? How to Face Your Fears

Mind the Product

Last week, I was at a conference where people were invited to offer their expertise to others for conversation. Working at Mind the Product, I put forward a topic I know well, and decided to offer it on Twitter as well. Are you a #product person (founders – this is you!) at #SaaStrAnnual19 who has wanted to get into speaking or writing but don’t know where to begin?

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How to Solve App Usability Issues (Infographic)

UXCam Bluespace

Find out app performance issues before your users find them.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.