Fri.Jun 19, 2020

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How to Make Your Product Experience 5-Star

Userpilot

As more and more SaaS companies wake up to the fact that we live in a product-led era, improving product experience is becoming a top priority. Nowadays, SaaS companies need to let their products do the talking. That means providing the best possible product experience. That’s what keeps customers coming back for more. In fact, product experience is arguably the single biggest factor when it comes to increasing retention.

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Continuous Integration: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Split

Blind spots have a way of coming back to bite you down the road. When building software, the size of that “bite” grows exponentially with time. What if I told you that your team doesn’t need the latest innovation in tooling or methodology, but rather a better understanding of an idea that dates back to the 1990s, to virtually eliminate blind spots? That idea is continuous integration (CI).

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How to Refine Your Leadership Style

Mind the Product

When it comes to leadership style there’s no one size fits all. Undoubtedly, the leadership style you employ will depend on your experience, your team, and the environment and/organisation in which you work. Hopefully, yours is working well, but what if it’s not? Here we talk to three experienced product leaders: Cait O’Riordan is currently [.].

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Competitive Analysis: How to Dismantle the Competition

280 Group

“It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.” —Gianni Versace, Designer. How well do you really know your competition? When your boss or the CEO wants to know which competitors are the most challenging in a particular market, do they come to you? Do they ask you first when they want to know how your product’s TCO compares to competitors?

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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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A Team Is Not a Bonsai Tree by Salma Alam-Naylor

Mind the Product

Teams are imperfect and beautiful things, just like us. Salma Alam-Naylor, a Software Development Lead at Code Computerlove, illustrates this in her 2020 MTP Engage Manchester talk, where she draws on her experiences as a tech leader to present a very horticultural metaphor that explores leadership, cultivating empowered teams, and the human condition.

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Implementing Mailchimp’s New Measurement Playbook – Lessons Learned

Mind the Product

When Jake Walker joined Mailchimp as Director of Product Analytics in July 2019, he quickly set out to implement a user-friendly framework, measuring the overall product experience. In just six months, his framework was in place. Here, he explains the steps he and his team took to implement this new initiative and what they’d do differently if [.].

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Product Strategy Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum, featuring Hadrien Raffali

ProductPlan

In our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product , Hadrien Raffali discusses the importance of tracking market activity and tweaking plans accordingly. He has experience building products around the world, including stops in South America, Australia, Asia, and is now in Denver working for Pivotal Tracker, part of VMware. Watch the webinar, below!

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10 Key Performance Indicators to Consider When Monitoring Server Performance

eG Innovations

Server Performance Monitoring is Not Just about CPU and Memory Monitoring. IT applications are vital for today’s digital economy and for the business to succeed, these applications must be highly available and performing well. Application performance degradations can occur for several reasons. There may be code-level issues, database slowness, or network bandwidth constraints.

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Product Management 101: Product-Led Growth

ProductCraft

As software products have evolved, so has the software sales model. Gone are the days of IT officers making the call on whether or not to purchase and implement an expensive and highly technical software solution. Now, it’s more likely that the product “sells itself.” Free trials, freemium memberships, and product tours place the decision.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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7 Easy Ways to Improve Product Experience and Increase Retention

Userpilot

As more and more SaaS companies wake up to the fact that we live in a product-led era, improving product experience is becoming a top priority. Nowadays, SaaS companies need to let their products do the talking. That means providing the best possible product experience. That’s what keeps customers coming back for more. In fact, product experience is arguably the single biggest factor when it comes to increasing retention.

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Cancer, Competitors, And The Cacophony Of Being A CEO | Patrick Campbell, ProfitWell | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Patrick Campbell, CEO ProfitWell. Building a company takes an extraordinary amount of effort, no matter your role, and neither life nor competitors hold punches for anyone. CEO and Founder of ProfitWell, Patrick Campbell knows this first hand. Using his experience bootstrapping ProfitWell to $10M and beyond (while simultaneously undergoing some pretty big personal roadblocks), he talks us through essential frameworks to help you handle problems in the proper context, while also teaching some op