Thu.Jul 18, 2019

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Product Professional, What to do?

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Sean Raftery (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. This evolution is a result of the value that Product brings to an organization looking to build or scale digital products. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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New Relic’s Mark Weitzel on creating open developer communities

Intercom, Inc.

So what’s the key to having happy developers? A joyful, transparent development experience. As we keep building out our own platform so teams can customize Intercom for their own needs, we’ve loved getting to know the great group of developers and partners building apps for our customers and for themselves. I head up platform partnerships here at Intercom so every day I’m thinking about ways we can support those developers and make it as easy as possible for them to build useful and valuable app

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Product Management Strategies for Supporting Collaboration by Gretchen Anderson

Mind the Product

More and more organisations are switching to agile working, yet few business people have been trained in collaborative skills. Although we like the idea of working together, businesses can stifle collaboration and teamwork through competition and individualism. In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, product designer and author Gretchen Anderson shares her thoughts and experiences of collaboration as she discusses the impact of teamwork on businesses.

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The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager

First Round Review

Performance reviews are key to accelerating your report's career. A former Airbnb Product Lead shares the conversation template that he's used to build high-performing teams and motivate growth all year long.

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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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Q&A with Tristan Kromer, Lean Coach, Kromatic

Revulytics

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. In these blog posts, we ask the presenters to share their insights - we encourage you to watch the full on-demand webinars for even more details. Tristan Kromer , Lean Coach, Kromatic , presented Interpreting your Qualitative & Quantitative Data through Storyboarding.

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How to hack goal setting for more confidence

The Product Coalition

Photo by Wil Amani on Unsplash Have you ever thought to yourself, “If I had the confidence, I would be a better Product Manager?” Me too. In fact, this topic comes up often when I coach other product managers. Without confidence, we can fail to achieve our potential as a Product Manager “So far nothing we’ve found correlates with high performance scores across the board more than confidence.

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5 Ways to Make Time for Strategic Thinking

ProductPlan

The daily demands of product management make it challenging to carve out time for strategic thinking. But if we’re only worried about what’s in front of us, we’re doing our employers and our customers a disservice. Devoting time to long-range planning, competitive analysis, and assessing new technologies and opportunities simply won’t happen if we don’t make a concerted effort.

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The secret final stage of delivering great products

The Product Coalition

In a fast-moving world of development, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is your last best chance to talk about whether what’s being developed… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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You Should be Doing More Generative Research. Here’s a Guide to Get Started.

dscout People Nerds

Here’s why generative research matters, when you should be doing it, and an action plan for starting at your company.

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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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America’s growing and shrinking businesses: Examining the life expectancy of businesses in the U.S.

Nulab

There is no denying that the U.S. economy is booming – the rate of people seeking unemployment benefits has dropped to its lowest since 1969 , and there are more job openings than people looking for work. But while a decrease in unemployment is an overall positive experience, there are downsides. For example, finding qualified employees for available positions has become increasingly difficult.

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Project Management for User Researchers: How to Ensure a Smooth & Focused Project

dscout People Nerds

The role of a user researcher goes beyond just running research. Learn how to contribute to an effective, research-inclusive project.

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Scrum Misconception #3 – You Have to Know Every Detail to Size a Story

Atomic Spin PM

Estimating work is helpful for managing teams and planning for the future. But working through every nuance to provide an estimate can cause frustration and be time-consuming. Have you experienced a situation like this? You introduce a story to a team, and you all have a nice conversation about what the outcome is. You make the call to size the story.

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What does it take to reach a product leadership role?

DISQO

Over the past few years, there’s been plenty of insight (and conjecture) as to what sets product managers apart from product leaders. There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. But we decided to follow one of those best practices and actually look at our data to substantiate claims and determine how product leaders move up the ladder.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Scrum Misconception #3 – You Have to Know Every Detail to Size a Story

Atomic Spin PM

Estimating work is helpful for managing teams and planning for the future. But working through every nuance to provide an estimate can cause frustration and be time-consuming. Have you experienced a situation like this? You introduce a story to a team, and you all have a nice conversation about what the outcome is. You make the call to size the story.

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What does it take to reach a product leadership role?

DISQO

Over the past few years, there’s been plenty of insight (and conjecture) as to what sets product managers apart from product leaders. There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. But we decided to follow one of those best practices and actually look at our data to substantiate claims and determine how product leaders move up the ladder.

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How to Drive More Revenue Through a Segmented Renewal Sales Strategy

TSIA

TSIA members frequently ask us how to set targets for technology renewal rate performance and measure them the right way. When renewal rates are measured without context for vertical markets or renewal opportunity segmentation, performance can be misleading. This permits poorly optimized practices to exist, and therefore results in lost revenue. In this post, I’m going to share some recommendations for driving more revenue through a segmented renewal strategy, starting with making sure tha