Tue.Oct 15, 2019

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Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for the Product-Led Company

ProductCraft

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t magic. It also isn’t a product. It’s a feature. And like any feature, you should understand the problem, and the value proposition, before you write that first JIRA ticket. In this article, we’ll demystify machine learning for product managers and explore an MVP framework for product-led companies. What Is Artificial Intelligence.

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An Imposter’s Guide to Giving Presentations

Mind the Product

Whether you’re a product person prepping for an important in-house presentation, working up the courage to step on stage at a big conference like #mtpcon, or just want to brush up on your public speaking skills, this practical guide will help you to prepare a killer presentation. Rik Higham speaking at #mtpcon London 2018. I fall through the cracks between an extrovert (I enjoy performing) and an introvert (I’m the quiet one at the party).

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How to Lead Tech Teams as a Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. When I was at Hutchinson Telecoms, I was a Product Manager within the Marketing function. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the only ‘Technical’ person I spoke to was my content Producer. However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers.

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How To Create Kick-Ass Product Roadmaps (Spoiler Alert: There are 3 types of Roadmaps)

The Product Coalition

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap? A product roadmap is a tool used by PM’s to communicate the what and the why of a product.

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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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Five Deadly Product Management Career Sins

280 Group

In this article, we’re going to talk about some issues that can stop people from rising quickly in Product Management. I call these the five deadly sins that can kill your career, and it’s based on watching people over the past 30 years in my career. In some cases, I personally have committed some of these sins, so I have an idea of just how challenging things can be if you make a big mistake.

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Unconnected Dots of Product Tools

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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The “Accidental” Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The “Accidental” Product Manager?—?what skills are required to be a great PM PM Meowalot Product Managers can come from various paths?—?from Engineering to UX to Marketing to Project Management, Sales, Business Analysts, Entrepreneurs, Customer Service, and sometimes Marketing. The “Accidental” Product Manager can come from career paths As diverse as they are, one thing in common is that most of us just stumbled into the role and ended up being the ‘accidental product manager’.

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Podcast: How to Get Actionable User Feedback for Your Product

Sachin Rekhi

Listen: Lean B2B Blog | YouTube | Transcript. I joined Etienne Garbugli on his Lean B2B Podcast a few weeks back to share my best practices on getting actionable user feedback for your product. We covered a wide-range of customer feedback topics, including: developing and validating your product's initial product/market fit hypotheses, assessing whether you are building a vitamin or a painkiller, the benefits of conducting waves of customer discovery interviews, the 3 top dashboards you need for

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How To Use Data in Product Management

The Product Coalition

How to Effectively use Data in Product Management According to IDC, we’ll have 40 trillion Gigabytes of data by 2020. A massive leap from what we had 10 years ago. A vast majority of the data will be stored in the cloud. “As modern Product Managers, data should be your friend,” says every Product person ever. However, when I started, I was chanting the song, but I had no idea what I was singing about.

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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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Breaking into Product Management from a Non-Technical Background

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

We talk to Azi, an Exponent alumni, on his journey to breaking into product management from a non-traditional/non-technical background. Azi is currently PM at LinkedIn, working on Onboarding and Retention for its online education platform LinkedIn Learning. Q: How would you answer the “Tell me about yourself” question? I’m insatiably curious about a variety of disciplines.

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What flavour Product Manager do you need?

The Product Coalition

As a Product Manager my background is officially very recent, with only my last two roles directly being related to a product function… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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How Continuous Development Turns Product Managers into Experimenters

AB Tasty

With Continuous Development platforms, the focus shifts from subjective ideas to customer feedback and data. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as How Continuous Development Turns Product Managers into Experimenters.

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Data in Product Management: How to Collect the Right Data

The Product Coalition

How to Create a Tracking Plan for Your Products In my previous post on How to Use Data in Product Management , I talked about what is Quantitative and Qualitative data. (If you want to read from the begging, please click here.) In this blog, we’ll discuss the topics below: 1, Understand what data you should collect 2, Tracking the quantitative data using a tracking plan 3, Tracking the qualitative data using feedback tools Once you’ve understood how to use Quant and Qual, you’ll need to define

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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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Product Love Podcast: Jason VandeBoom, Founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign

ProductCraft

This week on Product Love, I talked to Jason VandeBoom, CEO and founder of ActiveCampaign. ActiveCampaign is an email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation, and CRM software platform for small- to mid-sized businesses. Growing up, Jason always had a passion for building things. His entrepreneurial career in tech began when he found odd jobs online.

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Thinking strategically by asking Why and How

The Product Coalition

[link] “How do I develop my strategic thinking?” This is a question I’ve wondered for many years and often get asked by junior PMs. It is an intangible concept that non-traditionally-MBA-trained product leaders tend to struggle with. To me, strategies are just solutions to problems. And any solution can be labeled as a “strategy” once its scope includes understanding of competitors and the tactics to beat them.

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Step Up Your Sales Coaching Game — Dig Into The Numbers to Help Your Reps Level Up

First Round Review

Sales managers have an unprecedented opportunity to lean into the numbers and level up as coaches — but in Karen Rhorer's experience, most are leaving this potential untapped. The startup sales veteran shows how founders and managers can incorporate data into 1:1s, performance conversations and goal-setting to make sales teams stronger.

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Start with a Prototype, Follow with an MVP and Then Get to the Final Product

The Product Coalition

Do you have a product concept in mind? Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? Test the waters first and get your idea validated. Many companies struggle to decide whether creating an MVP (minimum viable product ) or MMP (minimum marketable product) or any other type of a minimum product is the right way to start. With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow.

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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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Five Neuromarketing Research Findings in 2019 and What They Mean

AB Tasty

We explore the topic of neuromarketing by looking at five of the most recent neuromarketing research findings in 2019 - and what they mean. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Five Neuromarketing Research Findings in 2019 and What They Mean.

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The Latest Iteration of Alpha

DISQO

Alpha turned five last week. In celebration, we announced to our customers what we got ourselves for our birthday: a new brand and a business evolution. Yesterday, we launched a fresh new logo and brand identity across our platform, website, and social media presence. What’s changed? Our logo, fonts, color schemes, and iconography. What hasn’t changed?

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Only a lean business case puts outcomes first

Product Warrior

We often read about sexy, start-up product management techniques, but they are not always easy to embrace inside a large enterprise. Big companies have: legal restrictions to consider existing revenues to protect complex politics to navigate economies of scale to achieve policies to follow, and an established culture What, then, needs to change so that large enterprises can innovate?

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As Expectations for ‘Insights on Demand’ Grow, What’s the Ripple Effect on Market Research?

DISQO

We’ve all known this person (or maybe we are this person): Activity tracker firmly attached, obsessively monitoring sleep cycles, heart rate, blood pressure, steps taken, distance covered, calories consumed, calories burned. Technology has made it possible for endless data about our health to be captured at every (literal) step. What was once nice-to-have health tech for that little extra motivation became a must-have, a simple and quick way to keep tabs on your well-being.

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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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Bain Public is honoured to lead an expert workshop in collaboration with Techstars Montreal AI Accelerator

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, is honoured to be leading an expert workshop in collaboration with Techstars Montreal AI Accelerator, a world-wide network committed to authentic mentorship, collaboration and start-up growth. Techstars accelerators has helped launch the likes of Rover.com , who is now at a 970 million dollar evaluation and ClassPass who successfully funded $255 million.

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The Latest Iteration of Alpha

DISQO

Alpha turned five last week. In celebration, we announced to our customers what we got ourselves for our birthday: a new brand and a business evolution. Yesterday, we launched a fresh new logo and brand identity across our platform, website, and social media presence. What’s changed? Our logo, fonts, color schemes, and iconography. What hasn’t changed?

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Dear Strategy 097: Getting Buy-In For Your Strategy – Revisited

Dear Strategy

This week’s questions are… Dear Strategy: “What is the best way to get continued buy-in for my strategy and ensure the organization remembers and ties their work back to the strategy?”. AND. “What are some methods to gain buy-in from the bottom-level up in an organization that is not structured as a product/service organization?”. Read The Full Blog Post.

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As Expectations for ‘Insights on Demand’ Grow, What’s the Ripple Effect on Market Research?

DISQO

We’ve all known this person (or maybe we are this person): Activity tracker firmly attached, obsessively monitoring sleep cycles, heart rate, blood pressure, steps taken, distance covered, calories consumed, calories burned. Technology has made it possible for endless data about our health to be captured at every (literal) step. What was once nice-to-have health tech for that little extra motivation became a must-have, a simple and quick way to keep tabs on your well-being.

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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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Leverage your own customer panels with UserTesting’s My Panel

UserTesting

My Panel enables companies to onboard and connect with panels of their own users, prospects, partners, and even employees within the UserTesting platform. Making better, more confident product decisions requires companies to connect with their users and get feedback from … The post Leverage your own customer panels with UserTesting’s My Panel appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Your Guide to Networking at #mtpcon London

Mind the Product

Heading to #mtpcon London later this week? In this blog post you’ll find some easy ways to network with every product person who crosses your path. Expanding your professional (and personal network) helps you to broaden your thinking, share knowledge, discover new ideas, understand market opportunities, get inspiration, and simply to meet like-minded product people.

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How to spend more time generating insights (and less time doing research)

UserTesting

Spend more time generating insights through Saved Audiences and Saved Test Plans with the ability to design, save, reuse, and share custom-built demographic specs, screener questions, and test plans. Scaling research across an organization can be a heavy lift that … The post How to spend more time generating insights (and less time doing research) appeared first on UserTesting Blog.