Wed.Mar 14, 2018

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Featured Product Management Consultant: Leslie Bixel

280 Group

Every few months or so, we will bring you a new interview with a featured 280 Group Consultant who discusses a number of Product Management issues. Our second featured interview in this series is with Leslie Bixel, a seasoned PM veteran who talks about how she broke into Product Management and her advice for individual Product Managers and organizations Be a great communicator.

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How to run a successful beta in 7 steps

Intercom, Inc.

Prior to joining Intercom as a Product Manager, I had never run a structured beta. When it came to finally running my first one, I was surprised to find very little information online that could help me. I’ve run a lot of successful betas now but I learned my craft through tribal Intercom knowledge, built up by other Product Managers over the years.

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Sometimes Success Takes a Little Luck

Clever PM

Have you ever stopped to think about what makes some products successful while others languish in obscurity? What made Orkut fail while Facebook took the world by storm? What made StackExchange such a tremendously popular forum when there are literally thousands of others who have attempted the same thing? As much as we Product Managers […].

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Comments on “Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great.” (Hint, It’s About Pricing.)

Pragmatic Marketing

I just read for the first time a Harvard Business Review article, “ Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great ,” by Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed (April 2013). The rules come from a statistical analysis of thousands of companies over decades. Here are the three rules as written in the article: 1. Better before cheaper—in other words, compete on differentiators other than price. 2.

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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.

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From Writer to UX Researching-Product Manager with Norman Dalager of Bloomberg

UserInterviews

Norman Dalager shares his user research tips from years of experience at Bloomberg, Bravo, MTV, and About.com.

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Blending Service and Sales Motions in Industrial Equipment

TSIA

Offering smart, connected products and monetizing IoT services requires a collaborative approach between Sales and Service teams across the board. The moats between Sales and Services need to be crossed, but to do this, organizations also need a blend of Marketing, Sales, and Service motions to maximize customer lifetime value.

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Dear Strategy: 041 Moving Closer To Your Goal

Dear Strategy

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale, President of the product management and product strategy training company Sequent Learning Networks , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “What indicators will you use to let the team know we are moving closer or further away from our goal?”. Read the full blog post. Original Music by Bob Caporale.

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From Writer to UX Researching-Product Manager with Norman Dalager of Bloomberg

UserInterviews

Norman Dalager shares his user research tips from years of experience at Bloomberg, Bravo, MTV, and About.com.

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Dear Strategy: 041 Moving Closer to Your Goal

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “What indicators will you use to let the team know we are moving closer or further away from our goal?”. In Episode 32, which you can find by clicking here , I talked briefly about the concept of using The Balanced Scorecard to help establish and track your strategic objectives. To answer this week’s question, I want to pick up where that episode left off and talk about how you can communicate your strategic progress to your implementation team. .

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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From Writer to UX Researching-Product Manager with Norman Dalager of Bloomberg

UserInterviews

Norman Dalager shares his user research tips from years of experience at Bloomberg, Bravo, MTV, and About.com.

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Spotting Patterns in Qualitative Data with the Analysis Tab

dscout People Nerds

How to easily surface rich data from your qualitative research in dscout.

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Release Notes: March 2018

Amplitude

Our March 2018 product update includes new features to: make Amplitude easier to learn; help product teams measure the impact of feature releases; and support instrumentation and data governance. 1. Make Amplitude easier to learn. We think folks should not have to be a product analytics expert to get value from Amplitude. That’s why one of our focuses this month has been on helping new users get value from the tool (without needing to become event taxonomy experts).

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What a Good Continuous Discovery Team Looks Like [Case Study]

Product Talk

One of my favorite parts of Mind the Product London this past fall was meeting a product manager and a designer who I had coached in the prior year. We met for afternoon tea and to my surprise they gushed about our time working together. They had so much they wanted to share about how their work had changed. They described how much time they were spending with customers and what impact it was having on their work.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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The 10 best and worst Venn diagrams explaining product management

The Product Coalition

“What do I do all day? Let me draw you some circles”, said every product manager ever. Product management has come a long way in the last decade. There used to be one Venn diagram trying to explain what we PMs actually do. Now, for better of for worse, there’s at least 10. 1. The classic PM venn diagram Martin Eriksson This is the one that started it all.