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Hey Product Management, Strategic Direction is Yours for the Taking. Here’s How!

Product Management University

If you’re waiting for someone to crown your product management team the kings and queens of strategic direction, you better get a nice comfy chair with all the reclining, heating and massaging accoutrements because you’re in for a long wait! Strategic direction is all about influence, and influence is all about earning the trust and credibility of your colleagues across the organization from top to bottom.

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How A Product Management Internship Built A Future Career with Home Depot.

Product Management Unpacked

“I’m actually a pretty avid DIY-er,” confides Pranita Ramakrishnan, MS of Product Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Class of 2019. “I grew up in a family where if you didn’t take a trip to Home Depot twice a month to get some type of materials for a project, something was wrong.”. When Home Depot came to the Carnegie Mellon campus to interview Product Management intern candidates, Pranita’s interest was piqued.

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Why Accessibility Matters in a Post-Pandemic, Majority-Digital World?

The Product Coalition

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. For much of the past year, life in countries around the globe have been in a coronavirus-driven lockdown. Friends gathered online instead of in bars and pubs. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes.

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What makes for effective product management by Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe

Mind the Product

In a small startup, product managers may find themselves wearing multiple hats. In this ProductTank Vienna talk, Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe, product managers at Riskine, dispel some of the myths about what it means to be a product manager working in a smaller B2B business and explain how they needed to think outside the [.] Read more » The post What makes for effective product management by Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Pitting API Testing Against UI Testing

The Product Coalition

What is API testing? Before we get to the problem of identifying which of the two, API testing and UI testing, is easier or more difficult, we need to begin by defining them. Especially the former. But it comes with a caveat. API testing can cover several different and distinct concepts and knowing which one you’re interested in is often dependent on your role in a software testing company.

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How to Choose a Chat API and SDK Provider for Android, iOS & Web?

The Product Coalition

No one wants to wait. Responding faster to customers always keeps them satisfied and invested. When someone learns about your business, the easiest and fastest way to initiate communication is the ‘chat’. Chats can help people in different ways; from clarifying basic queries or customer support to converting inquiries to business. Why do Businesses need Real-Time communication?

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How to Write Better User Stories With Gherkins (Template Included)

Userpilot

User stories are an Agile technique of defining product functionality and requirements. They focus on telling a story for an action a user will take and what the expectation is when successful. The concept of user stories is widely used, but telling good stories can be quite difficult. User stories have taken a bit of a hit in the last few years though, as they’re slight oversimplifications and lack empathy for the user.

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Program Increment (PI) Planning With Miro

The Product Coalition

Create with a bit of customization the perfect board for your next remote planning Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How To Evolve As a Product Manager

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

A Learning Framework for growth

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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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Focus On One Goal At A Time: A Product Manager’s Failure Story

The Product Coalition

Fail, Learn and Repeat Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How To Evolve As a Product Manager

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

A Learning Framework for growth

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Drugstore Product Managers Try To Solve The Last Mile Problem

The Accidental Product Manager

CVS wants to find ways to cross the last mile to get to their customers Image Credit: Mike Mozart. One of the things that every product manager would like to have would be a guaranteed customer base. We’d all love to know that there was a group of customers out there that really needed our products and would probably always be buying from us. It turns out that there are a few markets that are like this.

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Prioritizing Focus

The Product Guy

Great product managers prioritize EVERYTHING! Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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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 Do You Nurture Product Discovery as a Leader? Interview with Teresa Torres

Fearless Product

Are you a product leader seeking to improve the discovery practices of your teams? Do you want to create a culture and leadership team that values discovery-based, customer-centric product roadmaps over executive-only ideas? In this episode of Fearless Product Leadership, Teresa Torres of ProductTalk and I discuss how product leaders can nurture product discovery in their organizations.

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Are You a Rabbit or a Kangaroo?

Ken Norton

What dual ladders for product managers could look like in practice -. My previous newsletter was a call to normalize dual-track career ladders for product management, allowing people to choose between advancement in product leadership over people management. I was pleased with the response, which was overwhelmingly positive. Scores of readers saw themselves in my words.

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Managing Known And Unknown Unknowns

Clinton M. Padgett

If you could look into a crystal ball and predict everything that would happen in the future with perfect detail, you’d be more than just a successful project manager. Unfortunately, none of us have that ability. Instead, we plan for and adapt to all the unknown circumstances life throws at us as best as we can. Fortunately, it is possible to predict potential scenarios based on our experience as project managers and human beings.

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How Do You Nurture Product Discovery as a Leader? Interview with Teresa Torres

Fearless Product

Are you a product leader seeking to improve the discovery practices of your teams? Do you want to create a culture and leadership team that values discovery-based, customer-centric product roadmaps over executive-only ideas? In this episode of Fearless Product Leadership, Teresa Torres of ProductTalk and I discuss how product leaders can nurture product discovery in their organizations.

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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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A better product is marketable, valuable and useable

Innovatemap

If you’ve interacted with an Innovatemap team member, you’ve likely heard the phrase “marketable, valuable and useable” at least once or twice. It’s more than a motto – it’s a philosophy that guides everything we do for our clients. It represents our four disciplines and how they work in harmony to produce winning digital products. Over the past seven years of being an agency, we’ve had more than 175 clients come to us with a digital product need.

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Best NPS Feedback Software to Use in 2021 [+ What to Do After Sending Your NPS Survey]

Userpilot

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) captures your user sentiment and informs you how likely your users are to recommend your tool to their friends. But what is the best NPS feedback software for this task? Here is a list of the top five NPS software tools, with a set of questions to help you evaluate which one should go into your SaaS martech stack. Use the table of contents below to jump straight to the tool comparisons if you don’t need to know what NPS is and how it’s calculated.

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Build Audience Before the Product: Here is how

NextBigWhat

Build audience before product. But how do you do it? Here’s how I’ve built an audience across channels and grown my startups from 0 to $2 million revenues. Involves a mix of marketing & writing. (1/11) When building audience on any channel, make personal connections. Share your personal experiences, stories & learnings vs. company or product updates.

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What is IMPACT: Spark Your Product Success With An Impact-First Focus

ProductPlan

Why Do Product People Need to Focus on Impact? As the VP of Product at ProductPlan, there’s nothing that I enjoy more than talking to customers. I enjoy identifying a significant problem that sounds impossible to solve and then bringing it to my engineering and design peers. The ensuing conversations energize us as we look at the pain point from different angles before ultimately taking the first impactful step.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.