Tue.Sep 18, 2018

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#mtpcon comes to Singapore in 2019!

Mind the Product

Mind the Product started with a simple premise – that by coming together as a community we can all learn from each other, become better product managers, and improve our craft. We started with just 25 people in the back room of a London pub, but have quickly grown that product community to over 155 cities around the world. In 2012 we wanted to connect all those communities and share even bigger lessons, so we started a conference in London.

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Portfolio Product Manager Responsibilities

Product Management University

To what extent should a product manager be concerned about the portfolio? Is there a portfolio product manager role? There are portfolio product manager roles, but all product managers share responsibilities for the portfolio. There are things you do to your products for purposes of customer retention and then there are things you do to your products in conjunction with other products to form solutions.

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How to get Things Done: Raise Your Organizational Awareness

Mind the Product

Organizational Awareness: The Leader’s Sixth Sense. In our product management community, we rightly place a great deal of attention on the people who are going to use our products. We are constantly answering that seemingly basic (yet challenging) question: What problem are we trying to solve for customers? We test our ideas again and again. Ensuring the design, functionality and technology meets that crucial – often unspoken – user need.

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Announcing our new four-part series on sales – The Sales Handbook

Intercom, Inc.

Today we’re publishing a brand new, four-part series on sales – The Sales Handbook. Sales is the lifeblood of every business. Without it, you have no way of acquiring new customers, upselling existing ones or of driving predictable, scalable revenue. But sales is also one of the hardest functions to get right, especially today. Modern buyers have hundreds, if not thousands, of choices, and selling to them is far more complex than scheduling a generic email cadence or relying on a few differentia

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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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IoT Framework for Product Managers

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

In this post, I present an IoT framework to help Product Managers tackle the complexity of IoT products. This framework provides an easy-to-follow structure to uncover requirements at each layer of the IoT stack, including business decisions, technical decisions, and more. Product Management for an Internet of Things product can be very daunting and confusing, even for […].

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Leverage Marketing’s Expertise

Pragmatic Marketing

Product management and product marketing professionals shouldn’t tell marketing teams how to generate leads; they should focus on problems in product growth and let marketing design the appropriate campaigns. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations. Who is responsible? Who must be consulted? Who is informed? In addition to the confusion between product management and product marketing, we see confusion between product marketing and corporate marketing teams.

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How to align a distributed product team around a shared goal

Miro

Here at RealtimeBoard, we set out on a mission to build a universal whiteboarding tool that helps companies embrace digital transformation, manage remote teams and think visually in order to speed up internal processes and delight their customers. That’s why we are always curious about the ways leading companies from around the world approach product development […].

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Leverage Marketing’s Expertise

Pragmatic Marketing

Product management and product marketing professionals shouldn’t tell marketing teams how to generate leads; they should focus on problems in product growth and let marketing design the appropriate campaigns. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations. Who is responsible? Who must be consulted? Who is informed? In addition to the confusion between product management and product marketing, we see confusion between product marketing and corporate marketing teams.

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Being Human with Richard Atherton

Johanna Rothman

I recorded a Being Human podcast with Richard Atherton. It’s wide-ranging from thinking about agile approaches as a way to improve organizational flow and what that means for us as humans. I had a blast. I think Richard did, too. He’s a think-before-he-speaks person, and if you watch the video, you can see him thinking. I’m a speak-before-I-think person, so our dynamics are quite fun to watch.

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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 do you personalize products in the digital age?

DISQO

According to Kevin Kelley, a futurist and New York Times Bestselling Author, “Every 12 months we produce 8 million new songs, 2 million new books, 16,000 new films, 30 billion blog posts, 182 billion tweets, 400,000 new products.” That’s great news for consumers, but what does it mean for those of us trying to engage distracted consumers? How do you compete when anyone with a garage can spin up a server and disrupt a market within days?

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4 Tips for Conquering Resource Management

TSIA

For those leading a Professional Services organization today, it may come as no surprise that seven of the top ten business challenges that peers expressed in the 2018 State of Professional Services report are linked to the topic of resource management. Another recent professional services industry study conducted by market research firm, Research Now in conjunction with Mavenlink, found similar results with the challenges of “forecasting resource demand” and “managing unplanne

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How do you personalize products in the digital age?

DISQO

According to Kevin Kelley, a futurist and New York Times Bestselling Author, “Every 12 months we produce 8 million new songs, 2 million new books, 16,000 new films, 30 billion blog posts, 182 billion tweets, 400,000 new products.” That’s great news for consumers, but what does it mean for those of us trying to engage distracted consumers? How do you compete when anyone with a garage can spin up a server and disrupt a market within days?

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Learning Product Management From An Entrepreneur

Sequent Learning

There was an article in from Entrepreneur.com entitled “ What Not to Do.” I was intrigued by it because it was about the most common mistakes that start-ups make and how to avoid them, plus a few other things that one could do to ensure the success of your business. The Author, Mark Henricks described his entrepreneurial style and shared his list of 17 mistakes.

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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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How do you personalize products in the digital age?

DISQO

According to Kevin Kelley, a futurist and New York Times Bestselling Author, “Every 12 months we produce 8 million new songs, 2 million new books, 16,000 new films, 30 billion blog posts, 182 billion tweets, 400,000 new products.” That’s great news for consumers, but what does it mean for those of us trying to engage distracted consumers? How do you compete when anyone with a garage can spin up a server and disrupt a market within days?

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Learning Product Management from an Entrepreneur

Sequent Learning

There was an article in from Entrepreneur.com entitled “What Not to Do.” I was intrigued by it because it was about the most common mistakes that start-ups make and how to avoid them, plus a few other things that one could do to ensure the success of your business. The Author, Mark Henricks described his […]. The post Learning Product Management from an Entrepreneur appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.

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Creating Your Product Vision: Two Parts Customer, One Part Product

Product Management University

Creating your product vision can be difficult when you focus too much on the product. Legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!” Apply that same consumer product philosophy to B2B products and creating your product vision will be simple and it will resonate with everyone.

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Enhance your answers – how to handle frequently asked questions

Intercom, Inc.

Our customers often ask us how they can run an excellent customer support operation. One of the most frequently asked questions we get asked is, well, how do we handle frequently asked questions. No matter the industry, customer support teammates find themselves dealing with the same frequently asked questions – how to reset a password, how to change profile information, how to download invoices, etc.

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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.