Wed.May 30, 2018

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Make yourself "Redundant"

Ask Benny

Heavily rely on your team to make daily decisions in order to help you focus on the long-term strategy. The Illusion of Importance As product managers, especially those that had been engineers before, you can sometime feel insecure in your position and contribution. This feeling may be enhanced due to many people not actually understanding the role of product management.

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Take the wheel and choose your own career direction

Intercom, Inc.

We all like to think we’re the drivers of our own life. We intuitively feel that we are choosing the route, direction and speed of our journey, and even the type of car we’re traveling in. We have an inbuilt tendency to believe we are deciding our destination, that we are actively mapping out our career direction and our life story. The truth is, however, that most of us are mere passengers in our own life journey.

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How to Improve Your Team’s Conflict Competence by Julia Whitney

Mind the Product

Conflict can be a productive way to collaborate as a team, ensuring a variety of perspectives are brought into a solution. It can also push teams apart, when it is focused on personal attacks rather than ideological disagreements. Improve your team’s conflict capability and you’ll see better decisions, more intense commitment to them, people holding each other to account and better results.

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What is the Problem You are Trying to Solve ?— Is Only the First Question

The Product Coalition

I had the opportunity to speak with a couple of very promising start-up founders recently. The attribute I admire most of entrepreneurs is not just how smart they are but their tenacity in face of challenges. It is always amazing to observe how fast these businesses can grow and perhaps the easiest way to learn about this is to see how huge start-up office spaces get filled up in short span of time.

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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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[VIDEO] Encouraging Users to Upgrade With In-App Messaging

Revulytics

There’s a reason that in the software world, we often say we are “pushing” users to the latest version – as it often requires a bit of encouragement to get users to upgrade. Using ReachOut in-app messaging software, we can easily target certain customer segments and offer timely, relevant offers to upgrade. This positions customers to innovate, while freeing up valuable internal resources devoted to supporting legacy versions.

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How I PM: David Packles, Senior PM at Peloton Cycle

Amplitude

David Packles was a PM before he knew what product management was. A career in finance, another in consulting and a stint in freelance laid the stepping stones for David to find product. While helping small creative agencies build processes and systems to grow, he learned that an actual role for this existed and it was called product management. He landed his first official product role at Peloton , the company behind the smart indoor exercise bike that’s taking the fitness world by storm.

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3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Remote User Interviews

UserInterviews

A few simple tips can help you make the most of your remote user interviews and research.

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Alpha’s fresh funding and on-demand insights platform is enabling every Fortune 500 to experiment like startups

DISQO

Virtually every company is trying to be customer-centric and experiment-driven in order to deliver valuable solutions to the market better and faster. But informing decisions about users, products, and new markets has long been a painstaking process, often done manually and at an incredibly slow pace. This has been especially crippling at the world’s largest enterprises, where the process can take months; much too slow in today’s real-time climate where nimbler companies like Amazon disrupt a di

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3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Remote User Interviews

UserInterviews

A few simple tips can help you make the most of your remote user interviews and research.

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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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Alpha’s fresh funding and rapid consumer feedback platform is enabling every Fortune 500 to experiment like startups

DISQO

Virtually every company is trying to be customer-centric and experiment-driven in order to deliver valuable solutions to the market better and faster. But informing decisions about users, products, and new markets has long been a painstaking process, often done manually and at an incredibly slow pace. This has been especially crippling at the world’s largest enterprises, where the process can take months; much too slow in today’s real-time climate where nimbler companies like Amazon disrupt a di

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Alpha’s fresh funding and rapid consumer feedback platform is enabling every Fortune 500 to experiment like startups

DISQO

Virtually every company is trying to be customer-centric and experiment-driven in order to deliver valuable solutions to the market better and faster. But informing decisions about users, products, and new markets has long been a painstaking process, often done manually and at an incredibly slow pace. This has been especially crippling at the world’s largest enterprises, where the process can take months; much too slow in today’s real-time climate where nimbler companies like Amazon disrupt a di