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The World Needs Human-first CEOs, Not War-time CEOs

Gainsight

One of my favorite business books of all time is The Hard Thing About Hard Things. It’s a compendium of stories from current venture capitalist and former CEO Ben Horowitz about his time running companies. What’s so compelling about the book, even six years after its publication, is that it’s built around the principle that there are no easy answers or quick fixes in leadership.

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Remote Agile Transitions

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. Here are my top-10 challenges of organizational change that remote Agile has made more urgent to address than ever before. ??

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Teams Need to See Each Other—Eventually

Johanna Rothman

We've all heard of big organizations where the top management said, “No need to ever be back in the office. Work from home, as long as you want.” And, the Wall Street Journal has this article, Business Travel Won’t Be Taking Off Soon Amid Coronavirus (you might need to subscribe to see the article). (I find the article rife with other meeting challenges.).

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These Are the Metrics Great Product Managers Track

The Product Coalition

The Importance of Data-Driven Product Managers If you don’t have a background in data science, managing data as a product manager can seem like a daunting task. But it’s something you absolutely need to wrap your head around. That’s because data: Gives you important user feedback on your product Helps you build the right thing and solve problems quickly Is a powerful communication tool between teams and stakeholders The good news is that while it’s incredibly important to be a data-driven Produc

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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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Build half a product, not a half-ass product: Jason Fried, Basecamp

NextBigWhat

Jason Fried, Basecamp (and also Hey cofounder): in response to “ What is the ideal product launch plan you suggest to young entrepreneurs?” as part of NextBigWhat AMA (which happened in Oct 2019): Launch plan: “Build half a product, not a half-ass product”. The tendency is to want to make version 1 AMAZING and include EVERYTHING, but that leads to super long projects and time frames which can be demoralizing.

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Implementing GraphQL for Backlog’s Boards feature

Nulab

GraphQL — the query language made by Facebook — has gained a lot of popularity in recent years and for good reasons. The biggest selling point is that it allows frontend developers to precisely select the data they need in the UI, which can substantially reduce the size of response payloads. Another significant advantage is that backend and frontend share a schema which exposes what queries and mutations are available.

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5 Reasons Why Product Managers Need to Understand Content Management Technology

The Product Coalition

2020 is only halfway done, but it already was a big year for Product Management. We all learned that Product Management is not just about managing products really. We manage everything from product launch, forecasting, planning to product marketing and sales and when things change drastically Product Managers are expected to be agile and stay on top of technology tools to save the day.

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Product Love Podcast: Marc Abraham, Head of Product at ASOS

ProductCraft

?? Product Love · Marc Abraham, Head of Product at ASOS: product mindset This week on Product Love, I sat down with Marc Abraham, head of product at ASOS.com, a fashion retailer for trendy 20-somethings. Incidentally, two things I am not. Marc initially joined as the company as a product ownership practice lead, where he. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Marc Abraham, Head of Product at ASOS appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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A guide for establishing a product discovery framework (pt. 1/6)

The Product Coalition

A practical guide for building a robust, scalable, and lean product discovery framework in your organization. Provided by Unsplash All too often, product discovery articles read like high-level strategy think-pieces. I wanted to do something much more practical that anyone can take away and apply to their own role in their own organization. So I’ve written a series of articles that I hope can provide you with a concrete and insightful guideline to take away and start implementing.

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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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Drivers for Services Convergence

TSIA

As technology companies retool their businesses to be effective in the current economic environment, there are new organizational capabilities that need to be established. TSIA has curated an inventory of capabilities that are not yet common in the industry, but TSIA researchers believe are critical to the next generation of technology business models.

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Benefits of a product discovery framework (pt. 2/6)

The Product Coalition

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Establishing a product discovery framework from scratch takes cross-team effort, so it’s important to get the right people on board from the start. I always make a point of highlighting the different parts of the organization that can directly benefit from the results of product discovery?

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What Does A Product Manager Do – Job Description, Role & Responsibility

The Basics of Product Management

The Product Manager Job Description has a few things in common across companies. Essentially, the Product Manager is the CEO and the janitor of the product. A Product Manager is expected to be the liaison between the business teams and the development teams. Learn how to break into product management. An organization may choose to follow agile or waterfall , but the Product Manager is always expected to be a follower of the agile methodology.

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Change the Game in 5 Minutes: Lorna Henri Tackles Technical CS At Scale

Gainsight

Welcome to our Change the Game in 5 mins Series. Today I’m chatting with Lorna Henri , a customer success trailblazer and Global Vice President of CS, TAM, and Support at Mapbox. I wanted to talk with Lorna about hiring rockstar CSM and TAMs who are personable enough to build relationships and technical enough to know the product inside and out. After all, isn’t that every CS leader’s dream?

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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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Feel Giving Back is Bad for Business? We Know We’re on the Right Track.

Bain Public

At Bain Public, we believe that giving back is good business and excellent for the pedagogic value of enhancing our technology, market and industry understanding. Over the last year, through ongoing giving to Canadian accelerators, we’ve contributed over 700 hours of pro bono work for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders.

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The Perks of Website Personalization

AB Tasty

Online shoppers agree, website personalization is a huge value add. What do they appreciate? When their needs are anticipated. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as The Perks of Website Personalization.

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Podcast: Savvy PMs Engage All Their Audiences

Mironov Consulting

Sean Flaherty & Paul Gebel produce the Product Momentum podcast. They invited me to join this episode: Savvy PMs Engage All Their Audiences. While everyone else has carved out their own place in the organization, the product manager is the person nobody works for. And who, it often seems, works for everybody else. But their role also puts them at the center of the action, wielding influence that drives product success.

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Metrics that matter to Primephonic: the KPI that drives product roadmap prioritization

Mixpanel

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment

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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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Problem Space Solution Space

Product Solving

Join hundreds of other entrepreneurs, product managers, and developers in leveling up your product building skills. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out on the next post! Subscribe now “You focus on the what , and stop telling me how to do it.” - Every Engineering Leader Ever Many people have heard that the product team focuses on the what and the engineering team focuses on the how.

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Metrics that matter to Primephonic: the KPI that drives product roadmap prioritization

Mixpanel

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment

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Introducing Mobile Carousels: The best way to engage customers on mobile

Intercom, Inc.

Our smartphones are the most personal computing devices imaginable – with us at all times, they have become, in many ways, an extension of ourselves. As a result, mobile apps pose an exceptional opportunity for businesses to build deeply personal, long-lasting relationships with their customers. But forging that connection with customers on mobile is notoriously hard – somewhere between a fifth and a quarter of users abandon an app after their first use and only 32% of users will launch an app