Thu.Aug 16, 2018

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Where Should Product Design Sit in the Company?

ProductCraft Debates

We’ve had a few debates now related to product-related organizational structure, responsibilities, and reporting lines. Because product management touches so many other business functions, these issues continue to be a source of discussion within companies, but also across industries and between product creators of all stripes. One issue we’ve ignored in these discussions a bit is.

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Agile Software Development: We’ve Come Full Circle

Product Management University

Remember when the internet was going to eliminate the middle man? How’d that turn out? When Agile software development took the software world by storm, it was like many other paradigm shifts before it. Agile promised to be the next panacea for whatever ailed software companies. And just like the internet, we didn’t know what we didn’t know, but now we’re in a much better place.

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Customer Obsession

Mind the Product

I have been the CPO/VP of Product for four startups as they scaled to thousands of employees. Because of these experiences – and the many challenges of growth – I’ve become obsessed with different tools and tactics that creative leaders can use to keep fast-growing companies pointed in the right direction. Having a clear, well-defined mission, strategy and culture are helpful tools, but I’ve found that one of the best methods that helps to define a “true north” for a product or

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Data v. Opinion: The Ultimate Battle

Clever PM

One of the challenges that we commonly run into as Product Managers is the battle between opinions and data. And though it would be nice to pretend that data always wins, and that there's always truth in Jim Barksdale's famous quote, "If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine," we know from practical experience that this is simply not the case.

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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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Tips for Product Managers on their First __

The Product Guy

You just started a new product management job. What should you be focused on your first day, week, month, and beyond? More in the video with product management expert, Alisa Warshawski….

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Cooking Your Own Recipe (or What Product Managers Should Be Good At)

The Product Coalition

‘What are the top skills of effective product managers?’, ‘Top X skills of successful product manager’, ‘X skills every product manager must have’… The Internet is flooded by articles about the skills that make an outstanding product manager. …Strategic thinker, visionary, data-driven, great communicator, problem solver. But should you really care? Not much.

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Improving Cold Calling with Product Usage Analytics

Revulytics

Designed to somewhat scare a prospect into paying attention, an increasingly favored form of cold calling seems to be the “Your ( insert title of executive in target line of business here) told me you’d be interested in our offering” phone call, or worse, email. That rather Machiavellian strategy often results from sales guru Mike Weinberg’s #5 of “Not-So-Sweet 16” reasons salespeople fail at new business development: “they have awful target account selection and lack of focus.”.

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Do You Have a Plan to Grow Existing Customers?

TSIA

Most TSIA member companies have utilized our LAER framework and best practices to improve their Service and Customer Success engagement models. Unfortunately, this innovative approach hasn’t permeated into Sales teams or their processes to the same degree. At most companies, selling to existing customers looks exactly the same as selling to new customers.

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4 Factors That Increase The Value Of Gated Content

DemandMatrix

The debate on whether or not to have gated content as part of an overall content strategy continues. There are definite pros and cons to asking your audience to provide their contact details in exchange for content. However, as a professional marketer, you cannot deny the great potential of using gated content to drive new leads into your database and begin moving them through the customer journey process.

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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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UserTesting success story: How Ryanair flies past the competition

UserTesting

When asked how they prefer to do vacation research, U.S. consumers are nearly unanimous in their response: 95 percent say they prefer doing research online (versus offline). Digital travel sales are projected to top $800 billion in the next couple … The post UserTesting success story: How Ryanair flies past the competition appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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4 Biggest Challenges of Content Gating

DemandMatrix

The debate on whether or not to have gated content as part of an overall content strategy continues. There are definite pros and cons to asking your audience to provide their contact details in exchange for content. However, as a professional marketer, you cannot deny the great potential of using gated content to drive new leads into your database and begin moving them through the customer journey process.

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An Interview with Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture, and Making Decisions

Split

Chances are if you’re an engineer or product manager who works on anything even somewhat related to continuous delivery, Jez Humble wrote your handbook. Literally. This co-author of the Jolt award-winning Continuous Delivery also made hefty contributions to both Lean Enterprise and The DevOps Handbook. And if his list of publications weren’t impressive enough, Jez Humble’s Linkedin profile is sure to inspire similar feelings of inadequacy and awe as few, like Jez, have had such an opportunity to

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Tech Needs Leaders with Global Experience

Amplitude

“Blindsided” “Caught flat footed” “Overly idealistic”. These are some of the ways that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg described how the company leadership felt when it was revealed that the product they’ve built has been used around the world for nefarious and anti-democratic purposes. While Facebook is the biggest tech company whose leaders were shocked and surprised by what people were doing with their product, it is certainly not the only one.

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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.