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Measuring Your Product’s Performance With Benchmarks

ProductCraft

I recently heard something from Calendly’s product team that made my jaw drop. Their product is being used to schedule millions of meetings per month. Many, many millions. Lots of companies have vanity metrics in the millions. But they are called vanity metrics for a reason — they don’t go deeper than the surface level. Read more » The post Measuring Your Product’s Performance With Benchmarks appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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What to do When Investors Say No to Your Product Idea

ProductPlan

Imagine this scenario. You’re a product manager working for a software startup, and you’ve come up with an idea for a new app. Your executive team likes the idea so much that they present it to the company’s investors. The investors are so enthusiastic about the app’s potential that they greenlight all of the funding your team will need to develop it.

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What are the Secrets to Enabling Sustainable Growth?

Mind the Product

Fewer than 10% of startups survive and grow into large companies and, for every time growth is done right, there are 100 ways it could have been done wrong. Here, I’d like to share the lessons I’ve learned from my years working as a product manager, focused on growth. If they could, organisations would choose always to grow – not only bigger but faster.

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How to Be a Career-Changing Mentor — 25 Tips From The Best Mentors We Know

First Round Review

Powerful “aha” mentorship moments can change the course of careers. But while every mentor has experience and wisdom in spades, it’s not always immediately clear how to most effectively share it. Here, mentors from First Round's Fast Track mentorship program share their best tips for helping mentees level up.

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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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Beats, Bootstrapping and Life – Mat Clayton on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more. Quote of the Episode.

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Announcing NextBigWhat Meetup: Finding Your Career Path In Product Management

NextBigWhat

Ever since Product Management has gone from relative obscurity to greater spotlight over the past decade – owing to the rise of tech companies – there has been confusion about the typical Product Manager’s career path. From experienced Product Managers to newbies alike, many people have no idea as to how to chart out a path for themselves and to have well-defined goals in mind.

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Of Chickens, Eggs and PMs

The Product Coalition

Here’s a scenario you might be familiar with. Say you’re starting a new role as a PM in a startup company (congrats!). You find that the startup has created a robust product with many different features and capabilities. Trying to gain some clarity and focus you ask: “which of those features are most/least used?”. Turns out, nobody knows. So you implement basic analytics mechanisms, wait for a week or two and then come back to the team equipped with a bunch of fancy graphs.

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How Companies Should Manage Their Innovation Portfolios

Strategyzer

The leadership challenge for today’s companies is managing innovation in the context of their current business. This article will illustrate innovation management best practice through a case study with original data from the German company Bayer.

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Reasons Why PHP Development Companies Enjoy Using The Platform For Web Development Services

The Product Coalition

[link] Website development is getting much easier by the day, as different open-source web development platforms are being built by top software development companies. CodeIgniter, Scala, Python, Ruby on Rails, and even PHP. Speaking of PHP, the software development company that provided the PHP development of web applications has provided a platform being used to develop amazing websites.

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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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ONE THING on Special Requests

Product Culture

A frequent challenge to an established roadmap is the request to “slip in” a feature, fix, or one-off version for a “special” customer or a partner. This often will come from sales. “If we can just add this one little thing,” they’ll plead, “we can close this big deal and make the quarter.” Whenever a request comes in that, if granted, would adjust the roadmap, I recommend asking three questions: What problem is this request trying to solve?

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Product Management and Roadmapping Platform airfocus Raises €1.7M to Help Businesses Make Better Decisions

airfocus

airfocus, a collaborative product management, and roadmapping software, has today announced closing a €1.7M seed round from pan-European VC, Nauta Capital.

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Don’t Let the Bright Shiny Toys of New Technology Distract You

TIBCO - Thought Leadership

Shawn Rogers, Senior Director of Analytic Strategy at TIBCO and internationally recognized thought leader on analytics, visited top technology institutes, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Indonesia and Asia Pacific University (APU) in Malaysia, to share his expertise on how to drive innovation with Big Data. To students and scholars alike, he spoke about the evolution of Big Data and how businesses can best take advantage of the new developments.

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Metrics that matter to ZipRecruiter: The data point that leads to better job matches

Mixpanel

In this installment of “Metrics That Matter,” we talk to Akio Bandle, the Senior Product Manager, Mobile, at ZipRecruiter. Akio currently manages ZipRecruiter mobile apps, including the number 1 ranked job search app for iOS. Here’s what you’ll learn: How the highest rated mobile job search app uses metrics to maintain its market position How ZipRecruiter uses Mixpanel to minimize reliance on their data science team How data gathered through Mixpanel helped ZipRecruiter refine its product offeri

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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 (Finally) Put an End to Pointless Arguments

Nir Eyal

The post How to (Finally) Put an End to Pointless Arguments appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Piracy Impact Podcast: Vinod Moza, Worldwide Head, License Compliance at Cadence Design Systems

Revulytics

In this episode we share the final interview from our conference in Paris where Jason spoke with Vinod Moza, Senior Group Director and Worldwide Head, License Compliance, at Cadence Design Systems. Vinod shares that “once confronted with the [infringement] data, it was real” and how piracy is a “problem, but also an opportunity.”. He also discusses the importance for software vendors to focus on their license compliance philosophy and then do the pre-work that will lead to mutually beneficial ou

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Team Spotlight: A Look at Amplitude's Sales Development Team

Amplitude

Victoria Reardon, our Sales Development Manager, has worn many hats since joining the company three years ago. During her time at Amplitude, she has worked as an SDR as well as SMB Account Executive and Corporate Account Executive. Currently, she applies her expertise to lead our growing team of SDRs. Victoria Reardon, Sales Development Manager at Amplitude.

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How to Get More Instagram Followers for your Travel Brand

AB Tasty

Learn how your travel company can increase their Instagram followers - and why this social network is a great way to drive brand awareness. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as How to Get More Instagram Followers for your Travel Brand.

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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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Alex Osterwalder and Rita McGrath Named Top 5 Business Thinkers in 2019

Business of Software Conference

Never the smartest in the room… They say if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. The lovely thing about Business of Software Conference is that you are likely to be surrounded by some extremely smart people but as I am likely to be there, you don’t run the risk of being the dumbest. I aim to serve… I was in London yesterday for the bi-annual Thinkers50 Awards , a day of talks and conversations with some of the people who are recognised as being th

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5 Things Companies Miss Out While Aiming For a Top-notch Product

The Product Coalition

With a strong desire to deliver a flawless software product faster, companies do their best to introduce a quality assurance function in the project. However, not all of them know how to do it the right way. Many companies hire QA engineers once the development starts (or even later), entrust them with testing, and expect them to contribute to delivering an impeccable software to the market.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift. Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. He is a keen advocate for transparency, eating humble pie, and being big enough to own your mistakes.