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How I applied my Product Management skills in my transition to people manager

Mind the Product

After seven years working in product, I had the opportunity to become People Manager. Using the skills and knowledge I got over the years working with products, I framed this change in familiar terms that helped me in the transition: SWOT analysis, Vision, Product Lifecycle, Market fit… Whether you’re considering taking a similar step in [.

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Top 59 Global IT Channel Media Outlets – What MSPs, MSSPs, Resellers, Integrators, and IT Consultants Read

Jay McBain

Out of the 14 different spheres of influence that we track at Forrester, the channel industry trade press ranks near the top. Smart vendors and distributors know that the magic of finding, influencing, recruiting, enabling, and nourishing a top performing channel boils down to three simple questions about partners: What do they read? Where do […].

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A UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox

First Round Review

Zoom’s Jane Davis answers all of your tricky customer development questions, creating a highly tactical guide for founders flying solo on UX research as they explore startup ideas, validate concepts, iterate on prototypes, and troubleshoot common product problems.

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Updating and Optimizing XaaS Product Roadmaps

TSIA

While XaaS value propositions are different from traditional value propositions, product management practices continue to follow the traditional approach in cloud native and newly transitioned XaaS businesses. The popular frameworks for assessing value and prioritizing the product roadmap make no distinction of or accommodation for the differing business models.

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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 build a united front between product and engineering

ProductBoard

It’s well known that companies struggle to get the dynamic right between product and engineering. Pulling from their years of experience in technical leadership, Andrew Lau, CEO and Co-Founder of Jellyfish, and Srinivas Krishnamurti (“SK”), Head of Product at Productboard, divulged their thoughts during a fireside chat on what works and (what doesn’t) when it comes to fostering productive.

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Updating and Optimizing XaaS Product Roadmaps

TSIA

While XaaS value propositions are different from traditional value propositions, product management practices continue to follow the traditional approach in cloud native and newly transitioned XaaS businesses. The popular frameworks for assessing value and prioritizing the product roadmap make no distinction of or accommodation for the differing business models.

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Why premature scaling fails: The Traction Treadmill

Andrew Chen

Hi readers, I’m back writing! Well, tweeting mostly, but then developing my points more thoroughly and cross-posting them to my blog. Hope you enjoy this one, which was inspired by a convo I had with Gagan Biyani at Maven about when to scale versus not. Also, a brief announcement: I’ve released the Table of Contents for my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem.

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User Research x Account Management: Tips for Successful Cross-Team Collaboration

dscout People Nerds

Through their work with customers, account management and service teams have a wealth of knowledge on the user. Working closely with them can help you unlock more of the user’s goals, needs, and pain points.

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How to pivot your way to product/market fit & other 0-1 lessons — Rupa Health CEO Tara Viswanathan

The Review by First Round

Today’s episode is with Tara Viswanathan, co-founder and CEO of Rupa Health. Tara started Rupa Health in early 2018, but the product vision today looks very different from what she first built. As she’ll talk about over the course of today’s interview, she went through plenty of sometimes painful pivots on the path to finding product/market fit for Rupa.

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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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Top 59 Global IT Channel Media Outlets — What MSPs, MSSPs, Resellers, Integrators, And IT Consultants Read

Jay McBain

Out of the 14 different spheres of influence that we track at Forrester, the channel industry trade press ranks near the top. Smart vendors and distributors know that the magic of finding, influencing, recruiting, enabling, and nourishing a top-performing channel boils down to three simple questions about partners: What do they read? Where do they […].

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Making Space For An Important Team Member: Our Indy HQ

Innovatemap

2021 has shown to be quite the year of growth for Innovatemap in who we serve and who we are. We sit today with 64 percent growth in our team size, growing from 22 to 36 people since January. The way in which we collaborate and deliver our services to clients looks different. And we’re having a lot of fun. As our team grows to accommodate these exciting changes, one crucial but silent team member needed attention.

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Motivating Mindfulness: Headspace's Cross-Functional Commitment to Delighting New Members

dscout People Nerds

As new users turned to Headspace for mental wellness, Headspace turned to dscout to pinpoint their key motivations.

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Meet the team: Intercom’s PMMs discuss our approach to product marketing

Intercom, Inc.

At a product-first company like Intercom, our product marketing team has always had a crucial role – and over the years, we have often discussed how we approach product marketing. Of course, not all companies go about product marketing in the same way. Some product marketing managers focus on the pre-launch strategy, others on the go-to-market strategy and marketing campaigns for nearly finished products, At Intercom, however, our approach is what we call full-stack product marketing.

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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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Best Strategy For Growth In SaaS [+9 Tactics To Apply It Successfully]

Userpilot

What if you could increase sales, establish your industry presence, and expand into new markets all at the same time? Whether you're trying to drive product expansion in your current market or want your business to conquer uncharted territory, a solid growth strategy is exactly what you need. Today we're going to go over the top strategies that both small companies and large corporations can leverage to drive business growth through the roof.

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The Make Up of Senior Product Leadership

ProductPlan

Though there have been some strides in the wage gap, some glass ceilings remain stubbornly in place. They hold qualified women back from climbing career ladders and reaching a senior product leadership position. Product management has long been a field where women have thrived and significantly impacted their companies and industries. Yet, they’re still stubbornly absent from the leadership teams in far too many organizations.

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Top Fintech Companies & Startups Revolutionizing Financial Services in 2021 and Beyond

The Product Coalition

We are witnessing the dawn of next-gen finance. These fintech companies and startups are among the most impactful digital disruptors bringing it to reality in 2021 and beyond. Source: Executium on Unsplash During these tough economic times, many financial innovations were born as the crisis demanded shifts in current business strategies and consumer journeys.

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Feedback management on Usersnap: 10 dashboard tips to boost your collaboration

Usersnap

It’s not difficult to get feedback, it’s about what you do next – your feedback management approach decides if you’re truly listening to your customers. (And if collecting customer feedback is still the challenge for you, please read that blog post first.). Usersnap’s dashboard is designed to help teams work through feedback faster and gain deeper insights on your customers.

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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.