Tue.Dec 03, 2019

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Complete stakeholder mapping guide

Miro

Complete Stakeholder Mapping GuideAs many leading companies advocate for a less hierarchical organizational structure, product developers feel more empowered to innovate and drive change even if they don’t hold senior positions. This shift generates a lot of positive changes, but it also means communication and alignment are even more important to make sure your project […].

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Tips for Effective Product Strategy Reviews

Roman Pichler

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile. Contrast this with a mature product , which tends to have a more stable product strategy.

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Mastering Business Testing: Formulating Strong Hypotheses

Strategyzer

When you are working on a new business idea, you may be confident that you are on the right path. However, each building block of your business model and value proposition represents an area of risk that needs to be tested: Customer segments, key resources, channels, value propositions, revenues and costs. In order to run good experiments to test our business ideas we need to formulate strong hypotheses that are testable, precise and discrete.

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Degreed CPO Kat Kennedy explains the skills you need to excel as a product executive

ProductBoard

Written by Kat Kennedy, Chief Experience Officer at Degreed, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. Seven years ago, my CEO asked me if I was interested in moving from my software development role into a product management role. I was a little skeptical about it because I already loved what I was doing, and to be perfectly honest, I wasn’t exactly sure.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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Product Management Across Cultures by Claire Parker

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Claire Parker, Group Product Manager at the Financial Times tells us how the strategy for a global publication partnership can be executed. She takes us through: Problems and pitfalls. Learnings and overcomings. Watch the video to see Claire’s talk in full. Or read on for an overview of her key points. Problems and pitfalls.

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Great Gifts for Product People

Mind the Product

If like us, you work a lot, travel a lot and generally spend most of your time with one too many balls in the air, then this is the ultimate gift list for you! Use it to plan your festive shopping and peer inside the minds of the people behind Mind the Product as this collection of gift ideas comes straight from the team. Logitech HD Pro Webcam. ÂŁ89.99.

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Influencing the Product Roadmap

Pragmatic Marketing

One of the fastest-growing social gaming giants doesn’t play around when it comes to developing future products. San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. has stayed on top of a rapidly evolving market by conducting research that delivers such products as the Game of Thrones Slots Casino , one of the drivers of the publicly traded company’s (Nasdaq ZNGA) third quarter, the best in its 12-year history.

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The Truth Behind the Data – Jimena Almendares on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Jimena Almendares has held senior product roles and leadership positions at Zynga and Meetup , and now runs the Global Expansion efforts for Intuit. She has plenty of great stories to tell from those roles, but it’s her time as Chief Product Officer at OKCupid that we wanted to talk about. Jimena’s team completely revamped the customer onboarding flow and profiles using a data-informed approach that led to some amazing results – and some learnings that can help super-charge you

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Influencing the Product Roadmap

Pragmatic Marketing

One of the fastest-growing social gaming giants doesn’t play around when it comes to developing future products. San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. has stayed on top of a rapidly evolving market by conducting research that delivers such products as the Game of Thrones Slots Casino , one of the drivers of the publicly traded company’s (Nasdaq ZNGA) third quarter, the best in its 12-year history.

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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 to Fix the Co-Founder Fights You’re Sick of Having — Lessons from Couples Therapist Esther Perel

First Round Review

Renowned couples therapist Esther Perel now has her sights trained on helping a different kind of pair: co-founders in the startup world. Here, she reveals her playbook for resolving recurring conflicts and communication failures between co-founders by sharing her favorite techniques for getting to the root of disagreements and tactics for navigating fights in the heat of the moment.

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What I learnt pricing my product

The Product Coalition

Startup Lessons: What I learnt pricing my product Original Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash , edited by Sheshank for this blog Pricing your product or service is one of the hardest things to do. There are so many dimensions to it that it is easy to get lost. I am going to share what I learnt. Disclaimer: I don’t run a fortune 500 company but I’ll be honest and bare my soul(dramatic, sorry).

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Piracy Impact Podcast: John McInnes and Jodi McLane

Revulytics

Jason and Michael travel to Worcester, Massachusetts to speak with John McInnes and Jodi McLane, founding partners of intellectual property law firm McInnes & McLane. John and Jodi discuss the importance of software vendors laying the groundwork to protect their intellectual property rights and the trends they are seeing in software license enforcement.

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What is Important for a Young Scrum Product Owner?

The Product Coalition

Photo: Pixabay/Little Prince Before I decided to become a Scrum Product Owner , I had read many articles about the characteristics of a great Product Owner. I got back to those articles today and found many of them helpful, especially for a person who wants to learn more about this role. Nevertheless, I consider much information superficial and rather theoretical than practical.

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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 More Accurate PM Job Description

ProductCraft

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the increase in competition for product management jobs in the tech industry. Whether it’s MBA students vying for PM jobs in the Valley, young undergrads looking for a spot in the top APM programs, founder-turned-PMs, or internal transfers, many smart, high-performing individuals are finding themselves in the.

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Why One-on-One Meetings Suck and What We Can Do About It

The Product Coalition

If you’re like me, you’ve probably experienced a variety of terrible one-on-one meetings. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Leo and Topics

Roy Madden

Leo lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds. Broad business and tech publications produce hundreds of articles per week. Not all those articles are relevant to the topics, companies, or products you care about. Manually filtering out the noise can be overwhelming and time-consuming. Relevance is a problem we are very passionate about.

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The Secret to Sustainable Product-led Growth

The Product Coalition

Fewer than 10% of startups survive to grow into large companies. Do the odds improve when they try to become larger? Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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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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Growth through segmentation: lifecycle analysis to understand your users

Mixpanel

Every product or service has a core purpose it serves for its customers. For a ride-sharing app, it may be to get users from point A to point B; for a video platform company, it may be to let users search, browse, and watch videos. Product teams at these companies typically track the number of “active users” over time, which is just the number of users that perform some key action to experience the product’s core purpose at some frequency in order to assess engagement and overall health of the p

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Feedly AI and Topics

Roy Madden

Feedly aI lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds Broad business and tech publications produce hundreds of articles per week. Not all those articles are relevant to the topics, companies, or products you care about. Manually filtering out the noise can be overwhelming and time-consuming. Relevance is a problem we are very passionate about.

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The Impact of a Customer Contact Strategy on Churn Rates

TSIA

A frequent topic for TSIA members concerns contact strategies with customers and the implications on renewal rates, churn rate, and SaaS/XaaS revenues. When companies fail to deploy effective customer contact strategies or deploy them in an ineffective manner, they leave themselves vulnerable to revenue leakage, higher churn rates, and generally experience poorly optimized renewal revenue outcomes.

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Agile physical product development?

CONTACT Software

My last blog post was about teams that only become really agile through experience. Today, the focus is on the challenges that agility brings to engineering. Almost 20 years after the Agile Manifesto, agile software development has become widely accepted. It is no longer about whether, but only about best practices in detail and agile … Continue reading "Agile physical product development?".

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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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ONE THING on Vision

Product Culture

"Unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working," —Dropbox’s new mission statement. They followed up with their product vision to "transform the share folder into a collaboration space." A product vision is the change you want to see in the world and just a hint of how you will make it happen. A solid vision statement will address three things: 1) The target customer — the who?

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productboard is now even better for entire product organizations

ProductBoard

Have you been waiting for the right excuse to get your fellow product manager colleagues using productboard? Want to ensure your product organization is benefiting from all the functionality introduced to productboard in 2019? As we turn the page on a new year, and new decade, there’s never been a better time to step back, reflect, and fine-tune the system that supports all your product processes.

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The 5 Skills Of An Innovator | Bob Moesta, The ReWired Group | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Bob Moesta, Founder, The ReWired Group. How do you see innovation and how do you harness it effectively to make it work? How do people learn, and how can they work better? Every innovator comes across daily problems that they don’t know how to answer or where to even start thinking about the answer. In this fast-paced talk from BoS USA 2018, jobs-to-be-done expert and lifelong innovator Bob Moesta helps give you the skills to make all your innovation outcomes more predictable, and successf

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How to Analyze the Health of Your App’s Product-Market Fit Through Growth Accounting

Amplitude

Data is empowering. At Tribe Capital , our goal is to be great at recognizing and amplifying early-stage product-market fit. We believe that in order to achieve this goal we need to have standard quantitative approaches to understanding product-market fit. We want to empower everyone on the team—developers, designers, salespeople, and marketers—not just data scientists, with an objective evidence oriented understanding of the pattern of product-market fit so that they can work together on amplif

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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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Crucial Questions to Ask When Creating Mobile Apps with Internal and External Audiences

Emerge Insights

When creating a mobile application that has both an internal and external audience, the product owner must make some decisions. Do I build the functionality into single or multiple apps? How do I deploy these to my user base? Product owners need to understand and decide how to best build and deploy the mobile app […]. The post Crucial Questions to Ask When Creating Mobile Apps with Internal and External Audiences appeared first on EMERGE | Digital Product Agency.