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Why Cost of Delay is a Product Manager’s Secret Weapon

ProductPlan

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How product development teams can build a culture of collaboration

Miro

How product development teams can build a culture of collaborationProduct development teams today are working in a changing environment: our work is becoming more distributed, and our tools for work and communication have migrated online. Not only that, but teams are highly cross-functional in nature: we are designers, developers, product managers, scrum masters.

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Product Manager vs. Project Manager

Pragmatic Marketing

Titles are a mess. Some organizations have such a profusion of titles that any one team may have product managers, project managers, product owners, programs managers or product marketing managers. (Learn more about how we differentiate some of these titles here. ). And they might all be doing the same (or at least similar) jobs. I find the easiest approach to differentiate these titles is to consider roles against the product life cycle.

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B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2019

Product Management University

The B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2019 is now available. If your perception of portfolio management is that it’s more advanced or involved than traditional product management, it may be time to reconsider. This month we focus on the upside of adopting a portfolio approach to product management and the strategic value it brings to your organization as well as your customers.

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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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Product validation: making the case for internal evaluations

Userzoom

Working in a UX agency means that sometimes you’ll get limited budget for an entire project or for certain parts of a project. In my time at Grapefruit I am proved time and time again that most clients will choose to reduce costs in the validation phase of a project. As designers we need to educate our clients about our desired process on a daily basis.

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Make Friends With the Monster Chewing on Your Leg, and Other Tips for Surviving Startups

First Round Review

After telling us to 'Give Away your Legos,' Molly Graham is back to dig deeper into tactics for handling the emotional rollercoaster of scaling startups. Here, she shares the strategies she used at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip and Facebook to keep her head on straight and defang three common challenging situations.

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Product Manager vs. Project Manager

Pragmatic Marketing

Titles are a mess. Some organizations have such a profusion of titles that any one team may have product managers, project managers, product owners, programs managers or product marketing managers. (Learn more about how we differentiate some of these titles here. ). And they might all be doing the same (or at least similar) jobs. I find the easiest approach to differentiate these titles is to consider roles against the product life cycle.

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How to improve your product management process to ensure buy-in

ProductBoard

As the scope of their role expands, product managers are increasingly expected to drive high-level business outcomes. Instead of merely overseeing feature releases and development cycles, product managers must plan and build products that will drive business goals as well. Having clearly defined objectives are instrumental to a product manager’s success in achieving these expectations.

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Why I do the thing I hate

BrainMates

Given we all hate reading documents so much, why do I spend my life writing them? Hint. It’s not for the money. As an analyst I don’t think it necessarily hurts that I hate reading myself. (Unless it’s fiction. I love fiction). I’ve got things to do, people to see, Netflix to watch. We all need to be convinced it is going to be worth our while to give up our precious time to read.

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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 Manage 6 Challenging Personality Types in Meetings – Part 3: The Great Debaters

Modus Create

Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. In this part of the series, we’re talking about people who relish debate. A Cautionary Tale. I was once working with a small scrum team during a release planning session. As a designer on the project, I was part of the delivery team. The delivery team’s goal was to inform the product owner about technical feasibility and dependencies.

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SMS verification for SaaS sign ups

The Product Coalition

Why we used it and why we stopped. A Deep Dive on our user on-boarding. When we started OHNO , a big focus was getting feedback to ensure we could iterate quickly. In the early days, I sat down with a lot of potential users, asked questions, showed them prototypes, but nothing is the same as real world users. The reason I wanted to write this article, is because too often, articles about product management focus on agile tradecraft which is so idealistic, it’s essentially impossible to implement

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How Sonos is Leveraging User Research to Enhance Their Beta Program

Centercode

Beta testing is much more than a box to check off on a list. While some companies only think of it as a last-ditch effort to tie up loose ends before launch, others are tapping user research to play a more fundamental role in the product development process. In fact, today’s most forward-thinking companies are increasing their competitive edge by extending their beta programs in creative ways.

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6 Important Product Management Metrics (And How to Improve Them)

Gainsight

As a product manager, metrics affect every move you make. You need to know the right ones to get the job done—and to prove you did it right. Today’s Product teams are under increasing pressure to deliver outstanding products and exceptional user experiences. Three new market dynamics have contributed to the evolution of our product expectations: Subscription models.

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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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How to Identify User Frustration

UXCam Bluespace

Every second, users are getting frustrated and delete apps. Do you know how you can identify these issues?

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Ready to Pivot? Forget Lean Methodology and Listen to Your Gut!

Oren Steinberg

Yesterday I met a true expert in test automation. After years of designing tests for startups he had his eureka moment about solving a problem he faced on a daily basis, in an original way. So he left his job and founded his startup. Built his MVP, got a few paying customers, raised some money, joined one of the best incubators our Startup Nation can offer, and like most of us, he hit a slump.

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Why ProductCamp is so Valuable for Product Managers

Mind the Product

I attended ProductCamp London earlier this month and it brought home to me why I get so much value from this “unconference” style of conference. So what makes the unconference style so useful? It reinforces that, in the product world, we all face similar challenges, regardless of our industry. No matter how much we talk about empowered, flat and balanced teams, many organisations still hold a single individual accountable for decision-making and priority calls.

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In-App Messaging and In-App Marketing using ReachOut

Revulytics

You have collected a wealth of runtime intelligence via Revulytics Software Usage Analytics which has helped you unearth some interesting trends about your users. Your top concerns are that some of your main features are not being discovered by trial users, you have way too many customers still dragging their feet running older versions of your product and through conversion analytics you discovered that users who do not convert to a purchased license within the first 20 days of evaluation have

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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.