Wed.Jan 08, 2020

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6 Crucial Conversations to Have Before You Start Your Roadmap

ProductPlan

A carefully constructed roadmap can be a powerful tool that can align stakeholders and motivate coworkers. It can even jumpstart sales and growth. But a neglected roadmap can prove problematic and breed internal dissent. It can also mislead customers, misallocate resources, and erode a product manager’s credibility. Making sure a roadmap falls into the first category doesn’t happen by accident.

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How to manage user research priorities when you have limited resources

Userzoom

When your organization has bought into the idea of running user research throughout the entire design process , there’s one side effect you may not have expected to be an issue – the sheer volume of requests from multiple teams asking for your UX expertise. Now it’s obviously a nice problem to have, and democratizing UX through training and education can help, but how else can you prioritise research requests in the most stakeholder-pleasing way that’s ultimately also best for the user?

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Product Usage Analytics: Controlling Your Data

Revulytics

Product usage analytics are being collected at an exponential rate in software businesses. But with such powerful tools for decision making comes great responsibility. Whether facing requirements from GDPR or other data privacy and protection laws – or serving highly regulated markets like healthcare, finance, or government – vendors are taking a closer look at ways to control the data they are collecting.

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What I’m Saying Yes to in 2020 (With 2 Big Announcements)

Product Talk

For many of us, the beginning of the year is a fresh start. It’s an opportunity to recommit to the things that matter most to us. Last year, I wrote “ What I’m Saying No to This Year—And Why ” to clearly outline what I wanted to focus on in 2019. Over the course of the year, I reread that post at least a dozen times to help me stay focused on my priorities.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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7 UI trends you should be watching in 2020

Imaginary Cloud - Design

New year resolutions are everyone’s favorite thing I’m sure. But researching and knowing where to take a product’s creative direction should be on a to-do list before just going ahead and doing solely what has been done so far. Trends take new turns often enough that a product can be rendered outdated pretty soon, and this is why we, at Imaginary Cloud, decided to go ahead and make a list.

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Product Love Podcast: Brandon Chu, VP of Product at Shopify (Part 1)

ProductCraft

If you’re an avid reader, you’ve probably seen the name “Brandon Chu” floating around the PM-focused parts of the internet. He’s the creator of the Black Box of Product Management, a site that “shines the light on the PM discipline.” I’ve discovered so many amazing frameworks and insightful articles on his site that I knew. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Brandon Chu, VP of Product at Shopify (Part 1) appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Efficiency Innovation vs Tranformational Innovation

Strategyzer

Efficiency innovation is easier to do, it's about management. Where it gets hard is transformational innovation. So what can you do as a leader?

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The results are in: State of Feature Delivery

Split

Over the past few months we’ve been out in the field, chatting with development and operations teams from more than 100 different organizations around the U.S. We wanted to know how they get software to market. How often do they release new features to their users? How often do they run into problems in the release process? What does great look like for continuous delivery?

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How any business can benefit from User Story Mapping

CardBoard

If you were to do a Google search on the term User Story Mapping you might be led to believe that the theory and practice for is reserved for technology experts and those involved in software. However, User Story Mapping as a way of thinking can be used across all business structures. The only requirement is that an individual takes the time to learn the process and build out their map.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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ONE THING on Product and Customers

Product Culture

"Our larger prospects need to know they have a direct line to the product team itself. The PM is involved in those deals and starts to build that relationship. The fact that they could actually talk to people on the product team blew them away. They would say to us, 'Wow, our internal team doesn’t even talk to us.'" That's David Cancel, CEO of Drift.

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Dear Product Managers, Churn Is Good for You

airfocus

Churn is inherently bad, no questioning that. It is also a signal that can help product managers spot where they’re going wrong with their product.

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Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics?

Mironov Consulting

Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh , Phil Wolff and John Sebes , I’ve been thinking about tech products that are doing harm in the world – intentionally or otherwise. And whether a code of ethics or other agreement among product leaders/product managers would be helpful. This post is more about framing the problem as I see it rather than proposing solutions, with a call to action.