Tue.Apr 16, 2019

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The Definition of Done: What Product Managers Need to Know

ProductPlan

Are we there yet? This is a difficult question to answer when no one agrees on where exactly “there” is. In an Agile world full of cloud-based solutions, there’s no shrink-wrapped container full of widgets that truly signifies completion. And, there’s always an opportunity to ship code that is far from a “finished” product. That’s why agreeing on what we call the “Definition of Done” is of critical importance to achieving a consensus on when projects, initiatives, and features are actually compl

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Innovation by Design: How to Unlock New Business Opportunities

UX Studio

The term “design” often describes a visual output – a form, colour, texture, layout – or a styling activity. In other cases, the meaning of design goes beyond a product’s appearance, also referring to how it works and its functionality. In this article we discuss how design transforms organisations and inspires innovation. Get ready to dive into the world of innovation by design.

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APIs and Open Technology by Jeremy Brown

Mind the Product

Jeremy Brown heads up Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and he works with organisations who are looking to adapt their operations for the technology landscape of the digital era. In this ProductTank London talk, Jeremy discusses the best contexts for teams to work in, and he passionately endorses using the open source model that is popular in code to build your business culture.

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How to scale a global sales operations team

Intercom, Inc.

As your sales organization scales up, there’s one function that becomes crucial to your ability to drive revenue efficiently – sales operations. Until Xerox created the first team in the 1970s, sales operations didn’t exist. Fifty years later, it’s still one of the hardest functions to nail. On the surface, their mission is simple: enable the sales organization to run better and faster.

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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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Getting into Product Management

The Product Guy

There are so many paths into product management and so much to learn from all of them. Some great takeaways from Alisa’s journey. Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.

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Think Out Loud 101: A User Researcher’s Guide

Userzoom

Frowned upon at the movies, beloved in research. Welcome to our UX 101 education series about the different types of studies and research methodologies you can use with the UserZoom platform. In this article we will introduce readers to the exciting world of think out loud (TOL) studies! What is a Think Out Loud (TOL) study? TOL is a study that is used to get verbal feedback from participants.

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Our 6 Must Reads for Honing Focus and Managing Your Time

First Round Review

How do you find focus in a world of competing priorities? Operate with intention. We share the Review's six best strategies for resisting distraction, boosting productivity and making every minute meaningful.

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UX Collective: How two designers in two locations run the largest design publication on Medium

Miro

UX Collective: How two designers in two locations run the largest design publication on MediumWHEN I STARTED MY UX DESIGN CAREER IN BRAZIL, all content available about the topic?—?in books, blogs, online forums?—?was in English. But the challenge of finding UX content in Portuguese became my motivation to learn a new language.Every Saturday morning I’d […].

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Stakeholder Communications

Pragmatic Marketing

“It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” — Danish proverb. What does “second quarter” mean to you? For most technical teams, the second quarter is when they work on a project from April to June, hoping to deliver it by late June or early July. For executives and marketing teams, second quarter means the project will be available on April 1 at 8:00am so they can start promoting it.

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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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Product Love Podcast: Randhir Vieira, VP of Product at Headspace

ProductCraft

Being a product manager, especially in the tech industry, can be a little overwhelming. Any PM who wants a mental refresh and a resurgence of energy might consider meditation as a way to manage their busyness and stress. Just ask Randhir Vieira — he’s been a meditator for over 25 years. Randhir has been attending. The post Product Love Podcast: Randhir Vieira, VP of Product at Headspace appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Stakeholder Communications

Pragmatic Marketing

“It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” Danish proverb. What does “second quarter” mean to you? For most technical teams, the second quarter is when they work on a project from April to June, hoping to deliver it by late June or early July. For executives and marketing teams, second quarter means the project will be available on April 1 at 8:00am so they can start promoting it.

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Making the switch to sell for a product-led company

ProductBoard

It was a Tuesday morning. Our team was gathered around a long conference room table, each of us seated comfortably, coffee cups in hand, and necks craned. Two Goldendoodles splayed out in the laps of their doting companions. The oversized television screen in front of us connected us to our team in Prague while our Google Slides presentation was ready to take us through our recent accomplishments.

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Top Announcements from Atlassian Summit 2019

Modus Create

The Modus team recently attended the 2019 Atlassian Summit in Las Vegas. Among all the Keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking, there were a lot of exciting announcements at this year’s event about the future of the tool suite. Check out our list of the most interesting announcements and upcoming features from Summit 2019 below. Atlassian Cloud Premium for Jira and Confluence.

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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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Have a Clear Hypothesis and Focus Area Before You Start A/B Testing

The Product Coalition

[link] I’m continuing with my video series on A/B testing. I added a few new questions this week and the transcription is below. Here are links to part 1 and part 2. Is there anything that should be done before you can start A/B testing? Before you can start A/B testing, it’s really important that you have a clear understanding of what you’re actually testing.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Identifying Beta Program Metrics

Centercode

What are beta program metrics exactly? Which ones are important? Why do I need them? These are the types of questions that suddenly pop into the minds of product and program managers when an executive team comes looking for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). I recently had an opportunity to work with Alex Larsen , the manager of the technical operations beta team at Trimble Transportation, on just that.

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7 Secrets to Becoming a Citrix Hero: A Must-Watch Webinar For Citrix Pros

eG Innovations

Things don’t always go right. And when things do go astray, you need to save the day. Especially in a Citrix digital workspace environment, there are too many things that could go wrong and affect application/desktop session access. When your end users are in peril, you – the Citrix admin, engineer, architect, consultant – need to become a superhero and save them: Diagnose the cause of issues they are facing and triage them to ensure seamless and uninterrupted connectivity. eG Innovations

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Deep Dive into Azure Sphere

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we discuss Azure Sphere. My guest today is Dr. Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer & Managing Director, Microsoft Azure Sphere. Dr. Hunt founded and leads the Microsoft team responsible for Azure Sphere. IoT security is one of the biggest challenges that IoT companies face today. In my previous episode […].

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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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Leadership Is Not an Option — It’s a Necessity

ProductCraft

“What?! We couldn’t believe what we were hearing. This officer wanted our team of mentor-Marines to patrol the route with the record for the greatest number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ever found in our area of operations. On foot. At night. With Afghan military partners we had just met — partners who seemed an. The post Leadership Is Not an Option — It’s a Necessity appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Locked-In Syndrome: What we can learn from Boeing’s 737 Max decisions

Radical Product

The 737 was Boeing’s best-selling product. Airlines knew the product well and bought it year after year. Pilots were comfortable flying it. So when Airbus announced the A320 Neo in 2010, Boeing didn’t see it as a major threat. According to a New York Times article , executives believed they had a decade before they needed to build a new aircraft from scratch.

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“Be careful if you show up to your board meeting as a Growth gentleman” : AMA with Indus Khaitan, Chief of Growth @ Chargebee

NextBigWhat

Indus Khaitan, Chief of Growth at Chargebee joined us for a lively AMA on the ProductGeeks Community (Slack Channel) on growth, product and much more. Here is a quick summary of all that went down. The post “Be careful if you show up to your board meeting as a Growth gentleman” : AMA with Indus Khaitan, Chief of Growth @ Chargebee appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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How to Improve Your Product Management Acumen and Excel in Your Career

Sequent Learning

Whether you’re a new product manager or one with a few years of experience, you’re probably on a quest to improve your effectiveness and produce better outcomes. As you may know, if you don’t find ways to accomplish all that’s expected of you, you’ll be driven by the urgent demands of others. If you don’t possess enough knowledge of the proper context, others will create that context for you as you put out fires and react to the urgent demands of the day.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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How to Get Hired as a Customer Success Director

Gainsight

In January, as a result of a merger, I started to search for a customer success leadership position. Over the course of a few months, I met with many CS leaders and got to hear about their challenges and also learned many lessons about the search process. The easiest way to move into leadership is by being promoted at your current company. However, that may not be an option, and this post focuses on how to be hired into a new company.