Mon.Nov 16, 2020

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Do these stories reflect your experience? Yes, the stories reflect my experience. Let me offer a little history. My History, Not Anyone Else's History. I started to work as a programmer in the mid-1970s.

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Product Vision 2020

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Paavan Buddhdev – previously Product Designer at AND Digital and now Founder of Sound Off – discusses the concept of product vision through design lens. Here are the key areas discussed: Vision: a prerequisite to strategy Properties of a vision statement How do we get there: Hills and Storytelling framework Conclusions: an [.].

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Stakeholder Involvement in The Scrum Events

The Product Coalition

Exploring the myth around stakeholder involvement as not required other than the Sprint Review in Scrum Photo by Gabriel Benois on Unsplash ‘Stakeholders are not allowed to attend any Scrum event other than the ‘Sprint Review’ that occurs before the end of the Sprint’ How many are familiar with such similar misunderstandings around Stakeholder involvement in Scrum events?

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Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework

First Round Review

Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a lightweight "jobs-to-be-done" framework for early-stage product teams, along with templates and go-to-market tactics.

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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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TEI 309: Product management strategy – with Allan Anderson, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

The importance of an organizational game plan for product managers. I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager. It gave me a framework for integrating what a product manager does, and I have since taught it to many other product managers. .

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8 Top Product Writers to Follow Outside of Medium

The Product Coalition

Back in September, I published a list of the best people for you, as a product manager, to follow on Medium to make the most out of your… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Designing Breakthrough Business Models | Alex Osterwalder & Tendayi Viki | BoS USA Online

Business of Software Conference

Alex Osterwalder & Tendayi Viki // Strategyzer. In this interactive session, Alex and Tendayi work with a real life BoS Conference attendee (the guys from PDQ.com ) to show how to: evaluate your portfolio of existing innovations, evaluate your existing business model; understand its strengths and weaknesses; then use the right questions to redesign a breakthrough business model.

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Winning the climate change argument: A Story from Kutch

NextBigWhat

No one is really out to save the environment yet almost everyone uses a solar product. A thread from Bhuj, Kutch. Kutch weather is perfect for use of solar. We bought a plot in Bhuj 5 years back. During the construction phase, agents approached everyone in the area asking if they wanted a rooftop solar water heater installed instead of an electrical one.

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Call to Action: A Simple Guide to More Conversions

AB Tasty

Calls to Action. We've all seen them, but do we know how to design the perfect button that turns browsers into buyers? Let's find out. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Call to Action: A Simple Guide to More Conversions.

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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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Are You Experimenting With Pricing While Chasing Product-Market Fit?

ProductCraft

When chasing product-market fit, teams often iterate on product features, tweak their positioning, and sometimes even completely pivot their product and value proposition. However, a frightening number of teams use a “set it and forget it” approach to pricing and don’t explore it as much as they should. Also, pricing is often the last thing. Read more » The post Are You Experimenting With Pricing While Chasing Product-Market Fit?

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Product Leadership beyond Managing PMs

Mironov Consulting

Cyrus Eslamian hosts the “ Product Manager Hub ” podcast. He invited me on to talk about product leadership, organizations, working across departmental silos. Key questions: What are the main sets of challenges for Product Leaders that are different from managing individual products and how to tackle each. How does a Product Leader should go about standardizing processes across multiple Product teams.

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How Adobe Analytics Drove 343% Higher Adoption with a Pale Blue Dot

Gainsight

This is part 10 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. Throughout this series, we’ve used retro gaming to explain product-led growth and product analytics. In this post, we stray into the early 2000s to discuss a slightly newer game, Halo: Combat Evolved, because the coincidental similarities between that game and Adobe’s Pulse for Product presentation is simply unreal. .

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Podcast: Product Leadership beyond Managing PMs

Mironov Consulting

I joined Cyrus Eslamian for an episode of his Product Manager Hub podcast. We talked about challenges that product leaders face, working with other C-level executives, strategy versus process, mentoring, and building trust/empathy across departments.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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How Monday.com Launched a Tiny Feature That Increased Visits 40%

Gainsight

This is part 11 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. Today, in our quest to retire every video game reference possible as we explain our retro gaming-themed user summit, Pulse for Product, we have a special treat. It’s actual footage of a customer success manager navigating the hurdles of submitting a feature request and getting it built.

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Lessons in digital transformation from Swarovski, Gymshark & Compassion International

ProductBoard

Last month, we hosted our inaugural Product Excellence Summit – a series of live events featuring product visionaries from across the globe. The first panel discussion of the day – moderated by Vish Srivastava, Lead Product Manager at BCG Digital Ventures – was all about digital transformation. Joining Vish were three product leaders from very different organizations: Megan Scott.

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How to Create a Best-In-Class Free Trial Experience

Gainsight

This is part 12 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. At the dawn of video gaming, California-based Atari was on top. For nearly its entire golden era, the company succeeded with very little intentional marketing. . “They had no sales, no advertising, no marketing, nothing but R&D,” recalls an executive vice president of a company that put money into Atari at the time.

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How (and Why) You Should Run an Ideation Workshop

dscout People Nerds

Need an exciting way to engage your team and generate innovative product ideas? Run an ideation workshop.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Enhancing Soundcloud’s Discovery Experience and Positioning through Content Categorization

The Product Coalition

Photo by Ryan Quintal on Unsplash This is the second part of a case study regarding Soundcloud’s content categorization and exploration of strategic opportunities. You can find the first part here: Case study: what’s wrong with Soundcloud and what opportunity it misses I will be exploring how differentiating the content can: Allow a highly tailored experience across different areas of the product Help Soundcloud catch strategic opportunities while playing with their own strengths.

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Effective Remote Project Management for Experience Researchers: Three Tactics for Impact (& Sanity)

dscout People Nerds

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How Conversica Optimized Their Renewal Management Process Using Gainsight

Gainsight

Everyone understands how critical renewals are to your business. Despite the importance of renewals in business growth, many companies and teams struggle with a few key challenges–lack of visibility into the renewal book of business, siloed data, and disconnected workflows between Sales and CS teams. . Gainsight has a solution that alleviates those pains—Renewal Center.