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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

“Purpose is not the sole pursuit of profits but the animating force for achieving them. Profits are in no way inconsistent with purpose — in fact, profits and purpose are inextricably linked.” — Larry Fink, CEO BlackRock Over my career, I’ve had many conversations about purpose and a similar number about value. Yet, those conversations rarely intersect despite being a perfect pair for a product.

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The key is communication: Leading a travel product through the pandemic

Mind the Product

We talk to Peek’s CPO Navya Rehani Gupta about the communication initiatives she instigated to see the travel company successfully through the pandemic. Read more » The post The key is communication: Leading a travel product through the pandemic appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower - Product Management

In 2023, there were approximately 26.3 million software developers worldwide. This vast pool of talent showcases a wide range of experience and portfolios, quality of work, and inquisitiveness. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. In the 25 years that TechEmpower has been in business, we’ve seen thousands of companies come and go.

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From Ideas to Impact: The Role of AI in Modern Content Creation

The Product Coalition

In digital content creation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a significant influence, transforming how content is produced and consumed. Utilizing AI for content creation, including video content, has transformed traditional approaches and significantly impacted efficiency. AI tools for content creation, powered by advanced machine learning algorithms, analyze extensive datasets to discern patterns and trends.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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467: Strategic product planning – with Yaroslav Lazor

Product Innovation Educators

Unpacking the BRIDGeS framework for product managers Today we are talking about strategic product planning, which involves decision-making, problem-solving, feature prioritization, and product vision creation. Our guest is Yaroslav Lazor, Founder and CEO of Railsware. He created the strategic product planning tools and frameworks that Railsware continues to apply on projects for customers as well as their own products.

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Get Ready for an Exciting 2024: Reveal’s New Features Unveiled 

Reveal

Reveal Embedded Analytics 2024 is just around the corner, and we’re thrilled to share a sneak peek into what Reveal has in store for you! Our commitment to providing cutting-edge embedded analytics solutions remains stronger than ever. Get ready to be excited as we introduce many new features that will take your analytics game to the next level next year. 1.

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You Can’t Take Everything Upon Yourself

The Product Coalition

As product leaders, our success depends on others. We are so used to helping people and making sure the company gets what it needs, that we sometimes take it too far. Where is the line that you shouldn’t cross? Here are three examples of things you shouldn’t do. Photo by Andrew Itaga on Unsplash As a parent, my instinct is to do whatever it takes to keep my kids safe and happy.

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Deceptive Patterns in UX: How to Recognize and Avoid Them

UX Planet

Promoting Ethical Design and Protecting User Interests Introduction Deceptive patterns in user experience (UX) design can have detrimental effects on users, causing financial loss, loss of privacy, and legal control. These patterns are pervasive on the web and are often employed to boost conversions at the expense of user well-being. As UX practitioners, it is crucial that we recognize and avoid deceptive patterns to ensure ethical design practices.

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Strategic Debt Is the Silent Killer of Startups

The Product Coalition

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. Not because it’s not important, but because it seems less urgent than everything else you have to deal with right here and now. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. And when left unhandled for too long, you might barely notice, but the impact can be deadly.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Multitasking During Meetings? How to Make Your Colleagues Indistractable

Nir Eyal

When I moved from a Google sales team in New York City to a Google operations team in Boulder, Colorado several years ago, I expected to find differences in culture and team norms. But one particular practice took me by surprise. Multitasking during meetings was rampant. Everyone was so distracted. This became grossly apparent during my first presentation in my new role.

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Strategic Roadmap Template

The Product Coalition

So you have done your planning and now want to communicate your roadmap to management or to the team. You know that you need a little more than a timeline with features on it, but what is this more exactly? Here is a template that will help you not only communicate your roadmap better but also build it the right way from the get-go. Photo by Tamil Vanan on Pexels You might have heard that I’m writing a book on product leadership.

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The Ultimate Conversation Design Course Guide

UX Planet

December 2023 Edition I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to write this post. The idea for a course catalog of conversation design courses has been parked in my drafts for the entire year. This was originally supposed to be titled, “The 2023 guide to conversation design courses,” but here we are, mid-December and I only now summoned up the courage to jot down my thoughts on this massively intimidating subject.

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Management Routines That Work for You

The Product Coalition

Part of your role as a product leader is pure management: management of the execution, and of the people who report to you. It can be quite challenging, both because it is objectively complex and because of time management. In order to succeed, make sure to create the management routines that would help you. Here’s how. Photo by Click Espezi on Pexels My oldest daughter is a basketball player.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Most of the portfolios I review have these key problems

UX Planet

Stop yourself from making the same mistakes and get your foot in the door for your next UX role Continue reading on UX Planet »

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Two Pitfalls of Great Managers

The Product Coalition

Great managers empower their people. They give them the freedom and their full trust to simply show their greatness and shine. But there is a thin line between empowerment and too much freedom. Too much freedom doesn’t work for them as much as it wouldn’t for you, even if you are not willing to admit it. Here is what you need to be aware of if you want to keep being a great manager, not just in your head.

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Introducing Amplitude Academy Badges

Amplitude

Learn about Amplitude Academy Badges, designed to help you acquire industry-recognized Amplitude and analytics skills. Use these badges to build your credentials.

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How Product-Market Fit Really Works (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. In order to successfully navigate it, you need to understand how it works. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh on Pexels When I first started my consulting business , I attended a sales coaching workshop.

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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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Conducting a Year-End Retrospective to Supercharge the New Year

The Product Manager Coach Blog

The new year is a great time to set goals for the year ahead. Before you can set goals, though, you need to know where you’re starting from. A year-end retrospective can help you make the most of your successes, identify areas for improvement, and chart the roadmap for the year ahead. Here’s our guide to help you put together a successful end-of-year retrospective.

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Insight From Marty Cagan’s Coach the Coaches Workshop (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. As these are topics close to my heart, I had a lot to say — so here are my thoughts backed by SVPG’s insights on these topics. Quite a few weeks have passed since I attended SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ session. I went back to my normal life, personal and professional.

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Top 20 Software Development Trends in 2024

TurnKey Labs

When it comes to software development trends, it always pays for tech startups and high growth companies to be one step ahead so they can proactively leverage these trends to their advantage. This year, they face new challenges and find new opportunities.

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When Your CEO Needs a Strategy Now

The Product Coalition

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Here is how to give the CEO what they need while staying true to your professional standards. Photo by Mae Mu on Unsplash My youngest daughter just turned three.

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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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The 5 ‘must-have’ for identity design

UX Planet

How to create visual symbols that can become the icons of the future. Five fundamental principles to create successful identity design. Identity designers are great conceptualists, mastering the art of visual communication to summarise the heart of a business into one simple visual. These symbols will be invested with meaning and emotional connections as the audience interacts with them.

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Great Sales and Marketing People Aren’t Enough

The Product Coalition

There is a perception that great salespeople can sell anything to anyone. They might, occasionally, but do you really want your success to depend on that? Here is what it takes to help them succeed consistently and at scale. Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance.

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Refactoring Productboard’s design system to the next level

ProductBoard

It can be a tough conversation to have, but reworking your design system can be what’s best for everyone. It’s a familiar experience that lots of us have shared — migrations to merging, refreshes and refactors. First, it was Photoshop to Sketch, then Sketch to Figma (for the most part).

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Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

The Product Coalition

We all want maximum value for minimum effort or cost. But which one is more important? In times of an economic downturn, it is very tempting to offer less for lower prices. But is it really what your customers want? Here’s how to look at it in order to make the right decision for your customers. Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay A few years ago I changed one of the service providers I was using since I started my company.

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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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Achieving Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Owners

Emerge Insights

Every entrepreneur has experienced the high of an exciting product idea. And almost as many have suffered the gut punch of weak customer traction after launch. Why the disconnect? More likely than not, a lack of product-market fit between the team’s intended solution and the actual market’s needs is to blame. Product-market fit represents finding […] The post Achieving Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Owners appeared first on EMERGE | UX Agency.

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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive an Economic Downturn

The Product Coalition

COVID is gone, and despite the initial hype, the resulting economic slowdown is here to stay. To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. Beijing’s Forbidden City, July 2003 (photo taken by me) June 24th, 2003, was the first day of life after SARS in Beijing. The World Health Organization just removed the travel warning for the area.

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Minion Yellow: An Iconic Palette Emerges from Collaboration

UX Planet

Illuminating the Spectrum of Color Continue reading on UX Planet »

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