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Why you need to know about different product manager types

Mind the Product

Have you ever heard a product management talk from another Universe? It’s when you realize that your product management world is in another universe from the speaker’s one. It appears that you do one thing and the speaker does something else. Then you hear another talk and see another world. It’s so confusing, it’s not [.] Read more » The post Why you need to know about different product manager types appeared first on Mind the Product.

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

Well, at the beginning of 2020, no one had the playbook for that. And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Resilient Management: AMA with Lara Hogan

Mind the Product

In this AMA session for MTP Leader members Lara Hogan, author, public speaker, and coach, provided insights on how leaders can manage product teams in the tech industry. Watch the recording in its entirety or read on for the highlights, including: Building resilient teams Dealing with change amongst teams Managing yourself before your manage others Empowering [.

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How to Transition from Engineer to Product Manager in Seven Steps

The Product Coalition

So you’re looking to switch up your career path from engineer to product manager? This can be a difficult transition for some people but… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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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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Better Meetings Make for Better Days — 20 Tactical Ideas to Try Out With Your Team

First Round Review

We're spending more time in meetings than ever. The sharpest folks we've interviewed share their best tips for making sure this time is well spent.

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The ROI of UX Research

UX Studio: Product Management

Knowing how to sell UX research is an important part of every UX researcher’s toolkit. This might not seem like the most exciting news for you. “I didn’t get into research to end up doing sales,” might you say. I’m sure you haven’t. However, the number of doors this key will unlock for you is well worth the detour of reading this article. I’ve made it concise and to the point for you.

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Positive Deviance: Rachael Dietkus on the Abundance of Empathy and Curiosity

dscout People Nerds

Social Workers Who Design Founder and Principal, Rachael Dietkus, takes us through her journey of blending social work with design and the untapped collaboration potential between the two sectors.

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5 Customer Engagement Solutions For SaaS You Can Implement Right Away And Drive Growth

Userpilot

Are you looking for customer engagement solutions that can give you an upper hand in creating stronger customer relationships? It can be quite confusing if you don’t know what tactics will improve customer engagement in your product. Furthermore, you won’t know the answer until you start to test and track customer behavior to see what works. P ersonalized customer engagement leads to a domino effect on product metrics like: User sentiment (Net Promoter Score NPS ).

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Quickly Assess Corporate Innovation Health

Strategyzer

As an advisor on corporate innovation, I need to be able to quickly assess the state of corporate innovation in any organisation. Typically, a detailed assessment of a company’s innovation ecosystem can take up to 3 months. This involves the analysis of current blockers and enablers of innovation and coming up with a high-leverage action plan to improve the ecosystem.

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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.

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Cyprian Vero, Chief Product Officer of Lobster Ink

ProductCraft

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Cyprian Vero, the Chief Product Officer of Lobster Ink. Lobster Ink is a behavior-based system of training that enhances the frontline performance of leading organizations. On this week’s episode, we dove into embracing constraints as product people. In business, we sequence constraints all of the time.

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Aug 19: How to Manage Misaligned Stakeholders

Mironov Consulting

Prioritization is hard, and we HOPE that a clear corporate strategy plus well-considered OKRs will get our internal stakeholders to agree on what’s most important: unambiguous #1 and #2 and #3 priorities. That our spreadsheets and analysis will sell everyone on our plan. But that rarely happen.

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Getting startup employees to stick around & learning from couples therapy — Flatiron’s Alex Buder Shapiro

The Review by First Round

Today’s episode is with Alex Buder Shapiro , the Chief People Officer at Flatiron Health, a company that focuses on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care. Alex first joined Flatiron back in 2016, after an 8-year stint on Google’s People Operations team. Before her promotion to Flatiron’s executive team this past March, Alex previously ran the HR business partner and employee relations team as the startup rapidly scaled.

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We Acted As An Exclusive Product Advisor to Bonjour Startup Montreal's Startup Radar Platform

Bain Public

CLIENT ANNOUNCEMENT. Bain Public acted as an Exclusive Product Advisor to Bonjour Startup Montreal’s Startup Radar platform in defining their roadmap. Bonjour Startup Montréal is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the creation, growth and public exposure of Montreal startups, with the goal of positioning the city among the world’s 20 most dynamic ecosystems.

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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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Enterprise SaaS Demand Generation in 2021. How Not To P**s Off Prospects

DevelopmentCorporate

Demand generation for enterprise SaaS firms is tough. A seasoned CIO offers his direct feedback on what works and doesn’t work for him. The post Enterprise SaaS Demand Generation in 2021. How Not To P**s Off Prospects appeared first on Development Corporate.

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Product Feedback: What It Is, Why It Matters, and 7 Steps to Success

Alchemer Mobile

Customers want to be heard. Product feedback is the ideal way to hear from specific customers and understand their needs before they move to one of your competitors. Proactively gathering feedback allows you to quickly identify and solve their pain points. Here’s how to better collect and act on product feedback from your customers. What is product feedback?

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How To Simplify Complex Products For Your Stakeholders

The Product Coalition

Complexity Does Not Need To Look Complex Photo by Karina Zhukovskaya from Pexels You are still on a high from developing that elegant Product idea that would solve all your users’ problems. But the investment is high and you need to convince the higher-ups. People working with you daily have traveled that bumpy road by your side. But nothing really happens without the people putting in the money.

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Large Features and Long Deadlines Mean You Have a Gantt Chart, Not a Roadmap

Johanna Rothman

Several of my clients have internal struggles about how to internally see the future of the product. The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. The managers want rigid roadmaps. Why? Because the managers want to “know” the teams will deliver it all. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above.

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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 I went from struggling with math to becoming a data and analytics advocate

Mixpanel

I’ve struggled with math since high school. It wasn’t that I was incapable of doing simple algebra here and there. My hangup was the topic in general. I always had a hard time applying any real focus on the abstract shapes and concepts with no tangible connection to what I actually cared about. I’m sure this was my dad’s philosophy rubbing off on me.