Wed.Dec 04, 2019

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Technical Debt vs Product Managers

Ask Benny

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features.

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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? I get back all sorts of replies, but by far the biggest issues are about prioritization, in some shape or form. Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different.

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

National politics might dominate the headlines and dinner table conversations. But office internal politics impact your everyday life in a completely different manner. These outbreaks of disagreements, egos, and power grabs stand between you and your goals. They stymie your efforts to “move fast and break things.” They derail approvals and send you back to the drawing board.

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Technical Debt vs Product Managers

Ask Benny

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features.

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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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Product Love Podcast: Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer at Adobe

ProductCraft

I asked Scott Belsky the age-old product cliché — is product management a science or an art? His answer was that it’s clearly both. Sure, product management has scientific themes — there’s the experimentation, testing, and data. But it also calls on some things that are more qualitative, like empathy for the user and the creativity. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer at Adobe appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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#BoSFAQ | Jobs-to-be-done

Business of Software Conference

#BoSFAQ – Your questions, answered by our expert speakers. We like to help all our subscribers with a full catalogue of interesting and insightful talks from our previous Business of Software conferences. With over 200 talks to watch there is something for everyone – the first step is knowing your problem; that’s where #BoSFAQ comes in. Here we answer your questions, with the help of our expert speakers.

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The three strands of brand authenticity

Intercom, Inc.

One of the biggest determining factors of a company’s success is the clarity of its message, and how that clarity comes across in every interaction across the product and brand. It is the combination of clarity and consistency that builds trust – after all, as people we make judgments about each other based on how we behave, and on how reliable that behavior is.

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Introducing The North Star Playbook

Amplitude

At Amplitude, we care deeply about giving passionate teams the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to help them build great products. That’s why, in addition to the Product Intelligence platform that we offer, we spend hundreds of hours running interactive workshops and creating our Product Analytics Playbooks. To date, our premier resources for mastering user retention and engagement have been viewed over 100,000 times.

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How to include user research in early product development

Userzoom

According to our recent State of UX in the Enterprise survey , ‘including research within the product development process’ is now the #1 challenge faced by UX teams in 2019. Since last year, securing budgets and resources have become less of an issue as executive buy-in has risen dramatically , but now the major concern is in the actual nitty-gritty of running research within an organization’s product development lifecycle.

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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.