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The dos and don’ts of mentoring in product

Mind the Product

“Mentoring others is one of the main but unfortunately still an underutilised responsibility of a product manager once they reach a certain seniority,” says Floriane Gramlich, CPO of online fashion retailer Zalando. Plenty would agree with her, both inside and outside product management. A 2019 survey of 3,000 full-time employees by Olivet Nazarene University in the [.

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Stop Asking Asking Customers What They They Want, Instead Ask What They Do

The Product Coalition

Ask them what they do, when they do what they do, what challenges are they running to, and how are they solving those challenges today. One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do.

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Keeping product creative, innovative… and fun! by Manon Dave

Mind the Product

In his keynote session at #mtpcon London 2022, Manon Dave talks about his awesome career experiences and how he has kept his work creative, innovative and fun. Watch this video or read on for key highlights from the talk. [.] Read more » The post Keeping product creative, innovative… and fun! by Manon Dave appeared first on Mind the Product.

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AI Powered Automatic Classification: The Challenges in Managing Data in Clinical Trials

The Product Coalition

AI powered systems are adept at reading 1000s of documents and automatically classifying them into the right categories. Sorting through and organizing high volumes of unstructured documents can be time consuming and painful. Organizations that receive documents from multiple channels (paper, email, electronic fax, FTP, etc.) need an efficient and convenient way to sort through all of their documents and data streams to identify documents related to specific processes and handle them accordingly

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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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Customer Engagement Dashboard: Which Metrics to Track and How to Create One

Userpilot

A customer engagement dashboard is invaluable for interpreting customer data and making the right business decisions. Having one will enable your team to collaborate more effectively. With ease, you’ll gather, analyze, and share user engagement insights that will reduce churn and drive product growth. Read on to learn how to choose the right engagement metrics for your dashboard and how to build one code-free.

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414: Stakeholder management for product leaders – with Bruce McCarthy

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can align stakeholders on product projects. Today we are talking about the need for product leaders to manage stakeholders and the associated challenges this creates. Aligning the perspectives of stakeholders on a product project is desirable as well as difficult. Helping us with this difficult task is Bruce McCarthy. Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps.

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Side Hustles for Product Managers: 16 Great Ways to Leverage Your Skills

The Product Coalition

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Product Managers Promote The Vaping Of Vitamins

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers are taking a different approach to vaping Image Credit: Lindsay Fox. It’s currently a tough time to be a product manager for vaping products in the U.S. right now. Vaping products exploded on the scene a while back and have become very popular. However, there have been a number of serious health-related issues that have started to show up and all of sudden people are starting to view vaping as perhaps being a dangerous thing to do.

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How IBM and Google Shaped the Term “Beta”

Centercode

At Centercode we use the term “beta” countless times every day. We realized that even though we use it so much, we’d never taken a moment to step back and consider where it came from.

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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.

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War and Peace: The CSM Edition

Gainsight

In his memoir, Charlie Beckwith, the founder of the US Army’s Elite Delta Force, stated that risk is inherent to any job worth doing. What separates the elite operators is their thorough preparation or the ‘practiced plan’ for the foreseen risk and their ability to adapt to unforeseen risks. He essentially explained the old army adage: The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. .

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The Iceberg of Beta Tester Benefits

Centercode

Most companies recognize the value that beta testers bring to an organization before product launch, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The mass that lies beneath the water line expands far beyond what you see on the surface.

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Experimenting with scrollytelling: bringing scroll-animations to the World Cup with no-code

Michael J. Fordham

One of the most powerful things you can do as a designer or marketer is to tell an interesting story. A captivating story can capture your reader’s attention, make them empathise with your cause, and understand your point of view. However, there is now so much content out there that it’s difficult to make your story cut through the noise. You need to differentiate yourself from the crowd.

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Determining Your Beta Testing Objectives

Centercode

One of the most unique aspects of beta testing is the wide variety of different objectives it can achieve compared to other forms of product testing.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Product Management Roadmapping Through a (Possible) Recession | Roadmunk

Roadmunk

Learn more about three key product management roadmapping ideas to help product managers plan ahead for a strong 2023 through a possible recession.

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How Userpilot Analytics Helps You Drive Product Growth with Powerful User Insights

Userpilot

What analytics functionality does Userpilot offer? How can product managers and other members of the product team benefit from Userpilot product growth insights ? These are the two main questions we’re exploring in the article, so if you’re after the answers, you’re in the right place. Are you ready to dive in? Let’s get to it! TL;DR. Userpilot is a product growth platform that allows you to harness user data to drive customer engagement and product adoption.