Fri.Oct 11, 2019

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Empowering the Product Troika

ProductCraft

As the ancient proverb says, it takes a village to build a product. Well, it doesn’t actually say that, but the point still stands. Products, especially well-designed and innovative ones, aren’t built by a single contributor. So, who does build them? A product manager, a designer, and an engineer. Three drastically different roles working together, Read more » The post Empowering the Product Troika appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Five Steps to Positioning Your Product

Mind the Product

If building products is hard, positioning your product is harder. No matter what you build and sell, how you position your product dictates what you do. How you prioritize, marketing campaigns, sales strategy, it all changes based on how your product is positioned. So where do you start? How do you position your product? Step 1: Understand why Your Customers use Your Product.

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How to Communicate Product Priorities to Management

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. That happens because they are not include on the day-to-day routines of each squad that manages that product (obviously), so in many cases the most important channel they have to access that kind of in

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The Best Way to Find Competitors

The Product Coalition

Business is based on competition. If you want to suceed you need to identify your competitors. Here are the best methods to do it. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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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 Wistia’s Senior UX Research Manager Overcomes Common Challenges in Conducting User Interviews

UserInterviews

Mary takes joy in research. She loves having her assumptions challenged and getting to know Wistia’s users. In this post, she shares how she gets great research participants.

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Will 2020 Be Sequoia’s RIP Good Times Redux?

DevelopmentCorporate

Will the impending recession in 2020 prompt another version of the infamous Sequoia 2008 RIP Good Times presentation? The post Will 2020 Be Sequoia’s RIP Good Times Redux? appeared first on Development Corporate.

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How to prevent your backlog from becoming unmanageable.

The Product Coalition

Delete Things That You’ll Never Do There was a time when I took over 2 JIRA boards, one of them had over 1000 open tickets. The previous Product Managers let everyone add tickets to it and never bothered to prioritize it because everything was important and it had to be kept there as per cross-functional team's requests. It took me over a month to prioritize, clear and delete it to a manageable shape.

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Software Piracy in Russia

Revulytics

According to the most recent BSA Global Software Survey in 2018, software piracy in Russia is reported to be at 62 percent with a commercial value of $1.29 billion. While the piracy rate has remained relatively steady since 2011 (when it was 63 percent), the commercial value of unlicensed software has dropped nearly 60 percent in that time. Despite this, Russia continues to account for the largest dollar share of unlicensed software in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Powerful Customer Interviews: When You Need Them and How to Make Them Efficient

The Product Coalition

If you want to give your customers what they want, you’ll need to know how to ask them. Business is a bad place for surprises?—?after all, how many surprises in your life went well? If you’re starting a business or working on a new product, there are efficient ways to save yourself from unexpected things happening?—?like your product failing and you losing money.

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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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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Listen to the podcast episode here. Rebecca. Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm Rebecca Kalogeris, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Pragmatic Institute, and your host for this episode.

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Product Management Courses: Top 6 Platforms

The Product Coalition

The best way to advance your product management career is to develop yourself. But when you work 40+ hours per week, it is difficult to visit seminars, colleges courses or other further education programs. A flexible option to learn and progress are MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). MOOCs are courses available over the internet and can educate a large number of people at the same time.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Listen to the podcast episode here. Rebecca. Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm Rebecca Kalogeris, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Pragmatic Institute, and your host for this episode.

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How to develop strong Engineering, Product and Design partnerships

The Product Coalition

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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.

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Common Traits of Mediocre Product Managers and How to Avoid Them

The Product Coalition

Most of us like to think that it’s pretty obvious how to avoid being a terrible Product Manager. Some of us even know what it takes to be a great PM. Unfortunately, it’s much easier to find ourselves stuck somewhere in the middle. Not bad enough to be fired, not awesome enough to progress. Mediocre is, of course, subjective, and not everyone operates in the same way.