Fri.Mar 02, 2018

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Vivek Bedi – The Awesome Product Manager

Mind the Product

Vivek Bedi is the Head of Product at LearnVest. He has over 15 years’ product management experience, working for companies like Goldman Sachs, Sterling Backcheck, and now LearnVest. In his presentation, talks about LearnVest, the role of a product manager, and what he’s learned from his years as a product manager. A Great Product Manager. Vivek believes a huge part of being a product manager is being a strategic thinker.

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How to break into product management (when all you have are “business” skills)

The Product Coalition

You need hunger, luck and you need to know how to market yourself The famous Venn diagram shows product management at the intersection of tech , design and business. Anyone who’s used a website or an app can see why tech and design skills are critical for managing digital products. The role of business skills is a bit less obvious. Yet digital products are, of course, businesses.

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Data Protection: How to Prepare for GDPR by Creating a Culture of Stewardship

Mind the Product

It seems to be a weekly occurrence that an organisation suffers some form of hack or data breach. A government survey published in May 2016 revealed that two-thirds of large UK businesses had been hit by a cyber breach or attack in the previous 12 months. Regular penetration testing, bug bounty systems, and getting to know your local “white hat” ethical hacker can all help, but one of the best defences is, I believe, to develop a culture of stewardship across your organisation.

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Learn and Measure Before You Build: Using JTBD to Improve The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop

The Product Coalition

You can use Jobs-to-be-Done to learn from your customers and measure a new product idea before building anything. The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core tenet of the lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries. The main argument is spending too much time behind closed doors, chasing down a perfect product, increases the cost of failure.

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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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How Software Usage Analytics Helps Vendors Succeed with Subscription Pricing Models

Revulytics

Last year PTC announced a major shift from perpetual licensing to subscription licensing for all new software licenses in the Americas and Western Europe for its core CAD and PLM software and ThingWorx IoT platform. In explaining the decision PTC President and CEO Jim Heppelmann said that “In our most recent quarter, over 75% of new software bookings were sold as subscription in the Americas and Western Europe, again validating the value customers ascribe to consuming enterprise software as a su

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Marketing doesn’t stop when you’ve acquired a customer

Intercom, Inc.

In the very early days of any SaaS business, you will employ numerous marketing tactics to acquire your first customers: blog posts, paid advertising, landing pages, hero videos, webinars, everything but the kitchen sink. If you’re lucky, the signups will start pouring in. Time to put your feet up and wait for the dollars to roll in, right? If you don’t show your new signups how to succeed, don’t be surprised when they simply walk away.