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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. It’s hard to win a battle you don’t realise you’re in. It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. The same is true in software. We are all in a battle, multiple battles in fact, with a lot at stake: whether it’s the fate of the company we work for or for the product that we build.

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Most startups don’t starve, they drown. Here is why, and how to survive.

The Product Coalition

Startups don’t starve, they drown. Here is why, and how to survive. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham. We gathered in an incubator with fellow founders like Joel Gascoigne , who was still working on OnePage at the time, and we were soaking up the knowledge and thinking

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IoT Product Leadership – Episode 04: How to Create an IoT Hardware Platform

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Andrew Scheuermann, CEO of Arch Systems, shares excellent insight on his company’s approach to modular solutions as well as expert advice on building hardware for the Internet of Things. Subscribe on iTunes | Android | Stitcher | Tunein | Google Play Topics we discuss in this episode: Andrew shares his background and about Arch Systems. […].

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Ship Products When You Promised, Not When Your Ready.

The Product Coalition

Ship Products When You Promised, Not When You’re Ready. There is a note card I keep taped on my whiteboard. I made it a number of years ago while leading product for eBay’s Retail and Mobile Innovation Team. It quotes Seth Godin: “It doesn’t ship because it’s ready. It ships because it’s due.” I misquote it all the time to my self?—?saying, “The product ships not because it’s done, but because you said you would” The note card is missing?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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UX Confessions – Does A UX Personality Type Exist?

UX Studio

As a UX researcher, I am constantly looking for patterns. Can we define a UX personality type? What attributes help UXers do their job on a daily basis? Has this job shaped their personality? I organized a loose discussion with three of my teammates to learn more. Once upon a time, three young people wanted to change career path. At UX studio, Luca Morovián and Rui Ramalhete work as designers and Ági Kiss as a researcher in UX.

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What are the major product management trends heading into 2018?

DISQO

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. It’s been an honor to watch the industry blossom and see the role emerge as one of the hottest in business. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. If you’re interested in really leveling up, you can read the full 16-page report here and listen to my interview with The Everyday Innovator.

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How to Deal with Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

When your team is trying to build something that doesn’t currently exist, the development process is full of moments of uncertainty. These are times where you don’t just not know what to build, you don’t even know how you would build it. These might be moments where you don’t really know what your real problem is—just that you have one. One litmus test for this: if you’re working on your product and you hit a roadblock, and you can’t find a satisfactory answer to your question on Stack Overflow.

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How Should Chipotle Product Managers Be Handling Their Current Food Poisoning Problems?

The Accidental Product Manager

Chipotle has food safety issues that are hurting their sales Image Credit: Mike Mozart. In the modern restaurant industry, most of the challenges of preparing and serving food to customers have been solved. This means that product managers spend their time working on trying to make the process of buying food from their restaurants easier and quicker for customers.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. When your team is trying to build something that doesn’t currently exist, the development process is full of moments of uncertainty. These are times where you don’t just not know what to build, you don’t even know how you would build it. These might be moments where you don’t really know what your real problem is—just that you have one.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How to Create an IoT Hardware Platform

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Andrew Scheuermann, CEO of Arch Systems, shares excellent insights on his company’s approach to modular solutions as well as expert advice on building hardware for the Internet of Things. Subscribe on iTunes | Android | Stitcher | Tunein | Google Play Topics we discuss in this episode: Andrew shares his background and about Arch Systems. […].

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What are the major product management trends heading into 2018?

DISQO

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. It’s been an honor to watch the industry blossom and see the role emerge as one of the hottest in business. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. If you’re interested in really leveling up, you can read the full 16-page report here and listen to my interview with The Everyday Innovator.

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IoT Product Leadership – Episode 04: How to Create an IoT Hardware Platform

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Andrew Scheuermann, CEO of Arch Systems, shares excellent insights on his company’s approach to modular solutions as well as expert advice on building hardware for the Internet of Things. Subscribe on iTunes | Android | Stitcher | Tunein | Google Play Topics we discuss in this episode: Andrew shares his background and about Arch Systems. […].

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What are the major product management trends heading into 2018?

DISQO

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. It’s been an honor to watch the industry blossom and see the role emerge as one of the hottest in business. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. If you’re interested in really leveling up, you can read the full 16-page report here and listen to my interview with The Everyday Innovator.

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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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Welcome New TSIA Members! February Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping services organizations both large and small grow and advance in the technology industry. We'd like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently renewed or expanded their membership to include additional research areas TSIA has to offer.

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TEI 165: 2018 Product Management Insights – with Nis Frome

Product Innovation Educators

Survey identifies growing pains as product management expands. The role of product manager formally dates back to the 1930s with its start at Procter & Gamble, but it has only been in the last few years that the role has become much better known. As the field has grown, a few annual surveys to were created to provide insight into the role. One that I follow is the Product Management Insights report, which was just published by Alpha.