Thu.Dec 20, 2018

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Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work

ProductPlan

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. “ If you have a problem, ignore it. It’ll go away ,” the famous TV dad advised his family on dealing with challenges. When you create a dedicated roadmap for technical debt, you are removing the the problem from your immediate sight.

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Dear Santa, All I Want for Christmas This Year

Mind the Product

Dear Santa, It’s me again – your favorite product manager! I am writing to let you know that I’ve been very good this year. I have been completely focused on my customers, talking to them regularly and incorporating their feedback. I have ruthlessly prioritized my backlog, always making sure I have the next most important thing at the top of the list.

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Product Management Process is Understanding

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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B2B Product Manager Magazine December 2018

Product Management University

The B2B Product Manager Magazine December 2018 is now available. We close out the year with a familiar theme: create solutions that make customers measurably better at their business and then deliver, market and sell them in a manner that drives consistent and profitable growth for your organization. If that theme resonates, a portfolio approach to managing, marketing and selling your products is the key to success.

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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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Celebrating World Usability Day at Amplitude

Amplitude

On November 8th, 2018 we celebrated World Usability Day at Amplitude. Instead of working on our product features that move our North Star metrics , the product team took a valuable pause in the middle of a busy quarter to sit in a room and work on improvements to our product. We called it Amplitude Usability Day. We value working fast, but we know that it comes with a cost: the inevitable accumulation of usability debt.

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Predictions?—?2019 And Beyond

The Product Coalition

Predictions?—?2019 And Beyond The point of making public predictions is not to be correct, but to at some point in future to ponder over the reasons for incorrect interpretation of the present. And most importantly it's a fun endeavor. LinkedIn LinkedIn (Microsoft) will acquire Up-work or a similar freelancing platform. Currently, it is a missing piece in the company’s vision which is to empower the world’s population to be more and more productive.

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The Art of Writing Sales Follow-Up Emails to Boost Customer Loyalty

AB Tasty

Every entrepreneur knows how essential it is to consistently provide excellent customer service. Did you know that US businesses have. Read more. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as The Art of Writing Sales Follow-Up Emails to Boost Customer Loyalty.

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Optimizing for Product-Market Fit | Free Online Hangout with Rahul Vohra

Business of Software Conference

Q&A with Rahul Vohra, 9th January, 12.30pm ET. Did you know that you can measure Product-Market Fit? Not only that, you can optimize for it. When building Superhuman (the world’s fastest email experience), Rahul Vohra and his team built a Product-Market Fit Engine – a way to measure and optimize for PMF. In his talk at Business of Software Conference USA 2018 , Rahul laid out the framework they used to improve Superhuman’s Product-Market Fit.

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PM Predictions 2019 – Cloudy with a Chance for Greatness

Sequent Learning

It’s late December and I’m on a tear with writing, teaching, and speaking around the globe. Business is booming and demand for world-class product management training is growing – and with good reason! As we head into 2019, here are my predictions for Product Management and Product Managers. Workforce development demands. 2018 saw U.S. unemployment drop to record lows, which has a clear impact on the global economy and more importantly on product teams – especially with regards to talent acquisi

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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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How to Successfully Grow Your Managed Services Business

TSIA

What has the biggest impact on the success of your managed services business? Though managed services is one of the fastest growing segments of the technology industry, many managed services providers lack certain organizational processes, which actively hinders their ability to grow and succeed. TSIA has identified hundreds of capabilities managed services organizations can implement to drive compelling results around revenue growth, profit contribution, and revenue retention, but here are 4 st

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Taking a look back at 2018 & Happy Holidays!

ProductBoard

2018 is coming to a close, and we here at productboard have a lot to celebrate! And we’re glad to get a little rest as well. As we take stock of the year, I thought I’d take a page from Alicia Dixon in our recently released eBook, when she stressed the importance of always learning and to “keep fresh by exposing yourself to new ideas or concepts.” So I asked some of the amazing folks over here.

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The Art of Writing Sales Follow-Up Emails to Boost Customer Loyalty

AB Tasty

Every entrepreneur knows how essential it is to consistently provide excellent customer service. Did you know that US businesses have. Read more. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as The Art of Writing Sales Follow-Up Emails to Boost Customer Loyalty.

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Sujan Patel on scaling growth with chatbots

Intercom, Inc.

Just ask Sujan Patel, one of today’s most well-known experts in growth. Sujan has seen first-hand just how powerful chatbots can be – greater efficiency, accelerated sales cycles and better customer experiences. Sujan’s no stranger to finding the cutting edge in growth. As the co-founder of WebProfits , he’s led marketing strategy for the likes of Intuit, LinkedIn and Salesforce.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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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How to Create Your Product Roadmap in 2019 (5 Templates Included)

The Product Coalition

Product Management is one of the toughest jobs out there. You are supposed to coherently navigate the development, design, and marketing of a product. Some tough waters indeed! Tools are like the anchors that serve to rein in inspiration, focus and achieve your goals. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application.

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How We Build and Sustain High-Trust Teams

StubHub

By Jennifer Lau, Senior Product Manager Wellesley College, 2008. It always comes back to soccer. Soccer is a game that I love and have learned from throughout my life. I have been the captain of my high school, college, business school and rec teams. In my role as captain, I relish having the responsibility of bringing the team together, fostering camaraderie, and most of all, creating an atmosphere that’s rooted in accountability and a drive to win.