Fri.Feb 05, 2021

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What To Do In Your First 90 Days As A Product Growth Manager?

Userpilot

Product management roles have experienced steady growth in recent years. The role of a Product Growth Manager (also Growth Product Manager) is an extension of the role to keep up with the evolving industry trends. The interest in the role has been growing rapidly over the last 5 years, which reflects the general trend of Product-Led Growth. Source: productled.org.

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Capturing Customer Context for Cross-Channel Experiences by Cheryl Platz

Mind the Product

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Cheryl Platz, a multimodal design expert and author of Design Beyond Devices, shares a framework for capturing customer context and deepening your understanding of customers inspired by her time in improvisational theatre. Cheryl gets us thinking about the answers to questions such as: Is your customer experience straining at the [.].

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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels *Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ ?—?check it out! As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes, I have found that there are several under-appreciated ways things change when you move into a product

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Technographics: Your Shortcut to Improving Interoperability

Centercode

With consumers adopting more and more smart tech, the everyday spaces of your customers has become an interoperability minefield. The key to navigating that minefield without a performance blowup? Tapping into an aspect of growing importance within the realm of beta testing: technographics. Today we’re talking technographics — what they are, why they matter, who they benefit, and how using them improves your testing efficiency and product performance.

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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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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. After his master’s degree, Michael discovered that he no longer wanted to be an engineer. He spent a few years working in business analysis and account management while searching for a job in which he could use his unique combination of engineering, design, and analytical skills.

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The Critical Skill Product Leaders Need that No-One’s Talking About

The Product Coalition

And it has nothing to do with product management Well, not no-one. There are a few people in the product world who talk about the importance of coaching for product leaders. One of whom is Marty Cagan. I was super-excited to see that he spends several chapters on coaching in his latest book, Empowered. (For those who don’t know Marty, he’s the Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group , a prolific author, and often referred to as the “most influential person in the product space.

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JBoss Performance Tuning

eG Innovations

How to Tune a JBoss Application Server for High Performance. JBoss is an open source, standards-compliant, J2EE application server implemented in 100% pure Java. There are many variants of JBoss available today: JBoss EAP is the name for the Java EE application server that Red Hat produces and supports. JBoss AS and WildFly are the community versions of the JBoss application server.

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Product Managers and Technical Skills: What’s the Deal?

The Product Coalition

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Successful Product Managers come from a huge variety of backgrounds, and bring all kinds of skills to the table.

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How to Tune a JBoss Application Server for High Performance

eG Innovations

JBoss is an open source, standards-compliant, J2EE application server implemented in 100% pure Java. There are many variants of JBoss available today: JBoss EAP is the name for the Java EE application server that Red Hat produces and supports. JBoss AS and WildFly are the community versions of the JBoss application server. While Apache Tomcat used to be the underlying engine for JBoss EAP and AS, more recently, Undertow is used as the application server engine.

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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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How To Get The Most Out Of Customer Interviews | Lena’s Blog

The Product Coalition

How To Get The Most Out Of Customer Interviews We are at risk of only listening to what we want to hear. The main lesson I learned from conducting almost 100 customer interviews for product discovery over the last six months is that there are many ways in which we can become biased during customer interviews. I have read many books, articles and blog posts as well as listened to podcasts about how to effectively talk to customers, but doing a large number of customer interviews myself was how I

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The Stories Your Customers Tell You | Sally Foote, GoCompare | BoS Europe Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

Sally Foote // VP ECommerce, GoCompare. Should you or shouldn’t you listen to your customers? Do they know what they want or just what they think they want? Famously, pre-automobile era, people didn’t want a car, they wanted faster horses. So how do know when to listen to your customer feedback and when not to? In this talk from BoS Europe 2020, Sally Foote (VP of ECommerce at GoCompare) shares her experience and expertise working with some high-profile digital businesses operating a

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Negar studied marketing in university and later worked as a Marketing Executive at a professional association. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager.

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Answering is easy, asking is harder: Leadership often is about not showing the way

Bruno Bergher's Writing

Oh, that urge to provide a solution. You know what I mean. You're talking to someone – a member of your team, a co-worker, a friend, your child –, they're laying out a problem and asking for your help. It's a pretty complicated issue, and they don't know how to move forward. You want to give them….

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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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Front-End Testing: How to Test Your Website Layout

The Product Coalition

Little things that make the user’s world better. Believe. Hope. It is common that front-enders have to take on the HTML/CSS developer’s mantle. The biggest trap to avoid here is being overconfident. Why? Because even if the layout looks great on one desktop, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s that ‘great’ on other screens, browsers and resolutions. Assume that you’re given a project.

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Giving answers is easy, asking questions is harder: Leadership often is about not showing the way

Bruno Bergher's Writing

Oh, that urge to provide a solution. You know what I mean. You're talking to someone – a member of your team, a co-worker, a friend, your child –, they're laying out a problem and asking for your help. It's a pretty complicated issue, and they don't know how to move forward. You want to give them….

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Idea To Invalidation In < 3 Months

The Product Coalition

Idea To Invalidation In < 3 Months | Lena's blog How it all started Ever since I quit my full-time job in February 2020, I’ve kept an eye out for opportunities to work on new business ideas with other people. I was very vocal about this with my friends, acquaintances and mentors. In late August 2020, an acquaintance of mine introduced me to two experienced entrepreneurs who had an idea for a marketplace in the e-commerce space.