Mon.Nov 26, 2018

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Forecasting – A Product Management Task

The Product Bistro

The role of Product Management brings many responsibilities, some great, some awful, and many that are just “there” One of the “there” responsibilities is forecasting. Being at the center of the organization, Product Management is the logical focal point for this activity, even though it requires input from groups outside their control. i.e.

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When You Know Your Customers As Well As They Know Themselves…3 Things

Product Management University

When you know your customers as well as they know themselves, three things will happen. Your solutions deliver value that’s indispensable. Your marketing messages speak directly to the agendas of influencers and decision-makers. Your salespeople are treated as trusted advisors. Consistent growth and profitability (and great products) are the result.

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Forecasting - A Product Management Task

The Product Bistro

The role of Product Management brings many responsibilities, some great, some awful, and many that are just “there” One of the “there” responsibilities is forecasting. Being at the center of the organization, Product Management is the logical focal point for this activity, even though it requires input from groups outside their control. i.e.

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The 100 answer challenge: How our support team helped train Answer Bot

Intercom, Inc.

We recently launched Answer Bot , an intelligent chatbot that provides precise answers to customers and which successfully resolves 29% of your most common frequently asked questions, right there in the Intercom Messenger. It was the culmination of a huge amount of work by multiple product teams, and vast amounts of research by our machine learning experts.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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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Good Product Managers Never Say "No"

The Product Guy

Over the course of a great product management career, one receives a ton of great advice. What could rank higher than … don’t just say “no”? Join us as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.

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TEI 204: Do you know if your Go-to-Market strategy is ready to go – with Mike Smart

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers combine process and metrics to achieve a successful product launch. Do you participate in launch planning, or what may also be called go-to-market planning? In some organizations, product managers are directly involved, but not always, and that is a waste. You’ll hear why in this discussion, along with six elements addressed by a go-to-market strategy: Defining the target market.

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What Can India’s Paytm Mobile Payment System Teach Product Managers?

The Accidental Product Manager

Paytm is trying to take the place of cash in India Image Credit: Kiran Jonnalagadda. I live in the U.S. When I want to buy something, I have roughly four different options for how I can pay for it: cash, a check, credit cards, or PayPal. In India, they have traditionally only had one option: cash. In the past few years, the global credit card companies have started to arrive in India, but it has been slow going and not that many stores accept credit cards and not that many people have credit car

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The art of storytelling you should master as a product manager

The Product Coalition

How to narrate a story of your product and make it appealing. A very important skill needed for being a product manager is to be a good storyteller. Storytelling is an art of course but fortunately, it’s an art that can be learned and mastered. Over time with some experience, you will become a good storyteller, after all, you are selling your product and your work all the time to different audiences.

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Dear Strategy: 070 Interacting With Your Customers

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “How do you work/interact with your customers, so you can get ahead of their needs and bring about the desired results?”. . Thankfully, we get a lot of questions on this show about gathering customer needs. I say “thankfully” because – well, we’re just coming off the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. and I am, in fact, very appreciative of all the product and business managers who are attempting to put the needs of their customers above the needs of their companies.

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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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Online Writing Workshops Return!

Johanna Rothman

I have revamped my writing workshops (finally). The Q1 workshops are now available. See. Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer (Q1 session starts Jan 1, 2019). Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 2: Secrets of Successful Non-Fiction Writers (Q1 Session starts Jan 2, 2019). If you are ready to learn to write better and faster, take Writing Workshop 1.

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What is a Product Roadmap?

Actuation Consulting

Moving Your Product Strategy Forward. When you begin developing your product roadmap, you start to envision how your product strategy will actually be accomplished. You tangibly define the phases or activities required to reach your aspiration goals. These set of activities will typically cover multiple product development cycles and define high-level deliverables.

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The hard skills needed to become a great product manager

NextBigWhat

Product management is as much about the soft-skills (of negotiation, articulation etc) as it is of the hard skills. In fact, on a daily basis – it is a ‘hard job’ with different hard skills needed to move up the ladder. While the answer for hard skills might vary depending on your industry, here are […] More The post The hard skills needed to become a great product manager appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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Dear Strategy: 070 Interacting with Your Customers

Dear Strategy

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “How do you work/interact with your customers so you can get ahead of their needs and bring about the desired results?”. Read The Full Blog Post. The post Dear Strategy: 070 Interacting with Your Customers appeared first on Dear Strategy.

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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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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

[Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? We answer, emphatically, yes! Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. From “Unbundling Craiglist” to “Uber for X” – we lay it all out in a single framework.

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The Product Market Fit Engine | Rahul Vohra, CEO, Superhuman | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Rahul Vohra, CEO & Founder, Superhuman. About ten minutes in to this talk by Rahul Vohra, CEO and Founder of Superhuman, I tweeted… I’m getting a feeling I might be listening to a genius. #BoS2018. — (@MarkLittlewood) October 3, 2018. This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter.

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Market Problem Framing Example

Tyner Blain

As Steven Haines first told me, “strategy first, roadmap second.” There is a step between the two – deciding which problems you will focus on solving with your product. Strategy defines the context for product strategy, and your product roadmap is a planning (and communication) tool for executing your product strategy. Understanding how problems are framed in your market is critical to developing a successful product strategy.

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Break Down Silos to Build a Culture Focused in a Single Direction

Mind the Product

Have you ever worked in an environment where one part of the business didn’t talk to the other? Are your Product and Engineering teams pushing (or pulling!) in different directions? Does your Marketing team know what is happening in the Contact Centre? Does Logistics know what has been happening on the website recently? Does the HR team know what direction your Product is going in?

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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.