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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

It’s been nearly five years since Sundar Pichai took the reins as CEO of Google. How did this relatively unknown product manager in his early 40s rocket through the ranks to take control of one of the largest and most powerful tech companies of all time? The short answer: By realizing that a decidedly unsexy yet strategically critical aspect of Google’s search business was vulnerable and turning it into the key driver behind some of the tech giant’s most influential products.

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AI at an Early Stage Startup by Zara Tam

Mind the Product

Zara Tam loves building things that make an impact. Now at Verve, she was formerly a product manager at Founders Factory, where she led a revolutionary AI recruitment product called Chosen. Built with the latest machine learning and search technologies, Chosen can help recruiters to find brilliant talent in a matter of minutes. In this ProductTank London talk, Zara shows how AI can transform the time-consuming processes that companies face when they scout for talent.

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The Best Thing about being a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Recruiting Tech Specialists for Research: Why it’s Hard and How to Make it Work.

Generation Focus

If you have ever needed to recruit technical profiles for research, then you probably know that this is a challenging group to reach. We’ve spent time investigating the underlying causes of this issue and fool-proofing the outreach strategies that can give you the best chances of success in finding and engaging the people you need. Why technology professionals are hard to recruit: People who work in tech are difficult to engage for many reasons, but mainly because they are busy.

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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 Manage 6 Challenging Personality Types in Meetings – Part 2: The Swoop-and-Pooper

Modus Create

Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. In the last article , we discussed how to work with “silent geniuses” — people who have great input, but don’t voice that input. In this part of the series, we’re talking about “swoop-and-poopers” — people who provide late round feedback that sends you back to the drawing board.

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The Path to Product Management

ProductCraft

“How did you get into product management?” I’ve gotten this question a lot, and I’m sure many other PMs have as well. I’d attribute my success moving into product management to a few things: not taking “no” for an answer, honing my skills/craft as a PM in any/every role I could find, education, and mentorship. The post The Path to Product Management appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Japanese Web Design Trends: 3 Consumer Behavior Traits to Consider

freshtrax

In March 2019, btrax hosted “Web Design Trends in Japan. Don’t get lost in Translation” where btrax CEO, Brandon Hill , and Wix Marketing Strategist for Japan, Kazu Mori , presented on different aspects of design to consider when entering the Japanese market. With over 10 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, Kazu is committed to creating marketing and acquisition programs to drive growth and brand awareness in Japan.

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Miro’s guide to managing UX teams

Miro

Miro’s guide to managing UX teamsAs digital businesses realize how outstanding UX design gives them a competitive advantage, they’re investing in talented teams to deliver the exceptional experiences that users demand. Over the past several months, we talked to the leading companies in this space, including WhatsApp, Salesforce, and Upwork, and collected the insights about […].

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Webinar #10: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns [Video]

The Product Coalition

TL;DR: Webinar Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns The tenth Hands-on Agile webinar sprint retrospective anti-patterns covers twelve anti-patterns of the sprint retrospective?—?from #NoRetro to the dispensable buffer to UNSMART action items to a missing product owner. Watch The Replay of the Webinar Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns The video of the webinar is available now: [link] Note : If the browser will not start the video automatically, click here to watch the replay of the webinar Sprint

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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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Miro’s guide to managing UX teams

Miro

Miro’s guide to managing UX teamsAs digital businesses realize how outstanding UX design gives them a competitive advantage, they’re investing in talented teams to deliver the exceptional experiences that users demand. Over the past several months, we talked to the leading companies in this space, including WhatsApp, Salesforce, and Upwork, and collected the insights about […].

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Looking for Twilio or Plivo Alternative? Contus Fly is your Best Bet!

The Product Coalition

An effective communication system is the need of the hour where networking in the corporate business world is the single driving force to make any businesses to grow and reach out to potential clients instantly. At the same time, the providers should offer an enterprise level standard and scalable model that supports billions of users at the same time with minimal latency rates.

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The Best Video Conferencing Tools for Remote User Testing

UserInterviews

We did some research to find out which video conferencing tool you should trust with your remote user testing

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Do Product Managers Need To Be Technical?

Under 10 Consulting

How technical do product managers need to be? . Technical enough. Many product managers don’t have adequate technical background to understand the questions or to give practical answers. For example, a product manager demanded a specific capability from the team. After the meeting, the dev lead fully explained the implementation that had just been mandated and the product manager said, “Oh, is that what I asked for?”.

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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 Increase Revenue Responsibility Within Customer Success

TSIA

“Should customer success managers (CSMs) own the contract renewal process?” is perhaps one of the most commonly asked questions by Customer Success organizations in TSIA’s membership community. This also appears to be a hotly debated topic in the customer success blogosphere. However, I would encourage a different approach to this question: Should your Customer Success organization own some portion of your company’s revenue?

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The Best Video Conferencing Tools for Remote User Testing

UserInterviews

We did some research to find out which video conferencing tool you should trust with your remote user testing.

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UXCam Updates: Rage Tap Heatmaps, Session Sharing and More

UXCam Bluespace

Learn about UXCam's new features.

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The Best Video Conferencing Tools for Remote User Testing

UserInterviews

We did some research to find out which video conferencing tool you should trust with your remote user testing.

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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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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales.