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Planning Ahead: How Far Should the Road(map) Go?

ProductCraft

As Lewis Carroll famously said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” While this quote certainly wasn’t said in reference to digital products, it’s an accurate representation of the importance of product roadmaps. A product roadmap is a high-level visual summary that maps out the vision and direction of. Read more » The post Planning Ahead: How Far Should the Road(map) Go?

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Keep your eyes open?—?Qualitative analysis at its best!

The Product Coalition

I travel for a total of 4 hours a day for work. Mind-boggling isn't it? It is indeed frazzling but over a year or so I have realized that if you keep your eyes and ears open, it can prove to be highly rewarding and insightful. As a Product Manager or a startup founder, the product-usage data and its analysis are of paramount importance. Data analysis at its core can be either quantitative or qualitative.

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How do you Build a Winning Product Team?

Mind the Product

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success. Choose a Diverse Group of People. In his 2019 #mtpcon London talk – High Performing Teams , Richard Banfield discussed a variety of things that help to drive success in product

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Precision in the Language of Messaging

Pragmatic Marketing

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. Div Manickam , director of portfolio messaging for Dell subsidiary Boomi , discussed subtle but significant differences in product marketing lexicon during an AMA on the evolution of product and solutions marketing to portfolio messaging.

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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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Cognitively Diverse Teams – Live from MTP Engage Manchester – Rakhi Rajani on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

At MTP Engage Manchester (February 2020), Rakhi Rajani (Associate Partner at QuantumBlack ) joined us for our first-ever live podcast recording. Talking to Rakhi we learned why Engage organiser Adam Warburton called her the smartest person he’s ever worked with as we discussed building teams, hiring at scale, when you need troublemakers, and why she had recruiters ask candidates what their teachers said about them at parent/teacher evening.

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productboard recognized on the 2020 Enterprise Tech 30

ProductBoard

Private enterprise tech companies are driving business growth and innovation globally, but unlike public companies or their B2C counterparts, it can be difficult to tell which have real momentum and business potential. What if enterprise technology had something like a coaches poll in collegiate sports, but where the most respected venture capitalists submitted their top picks for the most.

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Agile Development and Willie Nelson

The Product Coalition

How agile software development and country singer Willie Nelson share the same principles Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Introducing Stickies Capture: turn your ideas into action, faster.

Miro

Introducing Stickies Capture: turn your ideas into action, fasterHollis KoolContent & CommsHollis’s curious about people dynamics and social networks, and writes about the ways these play out in the workplace for better team collaboration and communication.Think about your last team brainstorming session: Ideas everywhere; Sticky notes all over the walls; Big ideas captured on small […].

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How Support Can Help the Sales Journey

TSIA

How can Customer Support safely assist in the sales motion? This is something we’ve been talking about for a long time at TSIA, and the short answer is that Support can be extremely beneficial to Sales in both landing new customers and uncovering opportunities with existing customers. But, this can’t happen unless there’s a company-wide understanding of just how valuable Support is to the sales process.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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7 Questions To Ask An eCommerce Developer Before Hiring One

Arkenea

Today, almost 54% of U.S. consumers say customer experience at most companies needs improvement. That’s quite an experience gap! The design and development team that you hire to build your eCommerce website can make or break the user experience visitors have. Needless to say, having the best developers working on your project has the biggest […].

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Shh, don’t talk out loud about PLM!

CONTACT Software

Phew, as a PLM fan you had to take a deep breath last week: Two well-known bloggers lowered their thumbs in the headlines: Joe Barkai: “Why I Don’t Do PLM” and Oleg Shilovitsky: “Are PLM conferences dead? Curiously, both pull on the opposite ends of the rope. For Barkai, the classic view of PLM as … Continue reading "Shh, don’t talk out loud about PLM!".

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15 Questions to Make Smarter Product Bets with Customer Insights

Amplitude

The products that offer the best customer experiences are the products that win. But given the abundance of new channels, devices, applications, and data, the digital experiences of products have become more complex. Consequently, product teams’ abilities to understand these journeys have become more complicated. Today, the best products go beyond function and deliver experiences that continuously engage, delight, and foster loyalty.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. What is Portfolio Product Management and How Does It Differ From Traditional Product Management? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management? What are the Key Best Practices for Adopting Portfolio Product Management? Are There New Roles in a Portfolio Product Management Model?

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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27 Sprint Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns article from our series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering not just the three Scrum roles, but also the stakeholders as well as the IT management. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 25k other subscribers. ?? Upcoming Scrum Training Classes, Liberating Structures Workshops, and Events 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns This list of notorious Sprint Anti-Patterns applies to all Scr

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UX lessons from our complicated relationship with Influencer Marketing

Userzoom

Influencer marketing is ubiquitous for any online service in the 21st century and the presence of internet celebrities has become part of everyday life. . Recently however, the major social media platforms have been introducing strategies to stamp out the very user champions who bring customers to their platform. I’m going to explain why this is a mistake and how, from a user research and UX point of view, influencers are actually a good thing (or at least a necessary evil) for the development o

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Making the Transition: From Product Marketing to Platform Marketing

Pragmatic Marketing

Evolving from product to solution and platform marketing produces a whole new set of challenges. Krithika Muthukumar , marketing team lead at Stripe , described how the San Francisco-based technology company helps clients open “new doors to the same house” during an AMA on solutions and platform marketing. It originally appeared on Sharebird —the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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Product Release Schedule vs. Roadmap

Product Management University

Is there a difference between a product release schedule and a product roadmap? In recent years, product release schedule and product roadmap have become synonymous. But they serve two very different purposes. Here’s the difference. A product release schedule is exactly that. It’s a schedule of product features currently planned or in development and the target or committed dates they’ll be released to market.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Making the Transition: From Product Marketing to Platform Marketing

Pragmatic Marketing

Evolving from product to solution and platform marketing produces a whole new set of challenges. Krithika Muthukumar , marketing team lead at Stripe , described how the San Francisco-based technology company helps clients open “new doors to the same house” during an AMA on solutions and platform marketing. It originally appeared on Sharebird —the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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I’m Predictable in an Agile Environment

ProductPlan

“Being Agile” and “being predictable” may seem mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to product management. A good sprint cadence creates a predictable frequency of software releases, but divining what’s actually in them feels harder. Isn’t the whole point of Agile that we can continuously adjust, making on-the-fly tweaks to seize opportunities?

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Business Intelligence vs. Customer Analytics: Why You Need Both

Indicative

Data is the most valuable asset of our time. But organizations of all sizes are struggling to tap into the full potential of the information that they collect. Part of the challenge is that the language of data isn’t always intuitive to our very human minds. So, we rely on software, spreadsheets, and statistical packages to make our best judgment calls.

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Birst automates the creation of data warehouses in Snowflake

Birst BI

Managing large-scale data warehouse systems has been known to be very administrative, costly, and lead to analytic silos. The good news is that Snowflake, the cloud data platform, lowers costs and administrative overhead. However, analytic silos can still be a huge problem if the business intelligence platform paired with Snowflake does not offer the right balance of IT governance and end-user self-service.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo