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Four Project Management Lessons from March Madness

Atomic Spin PM

As I write this, we’re in the midst of another March Madness college basketball tournament season. Last-second game-winning shots, upsets, Cinderellas, and busted brackets abound. If you’re going to win your office pool, it’ll take a combination of skill and luck. Once the dust clears and the nets have been cut down, here are four lessons we can take away from the excitement of the tourney and apply to project management and planning. 1.

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Incorporate fast customer feedback into every product decision, a Q&A with Tanya Koshy and Michael Mace

UserTesting

In a recent webinar Tanya Koshy, VP of Product for UserTesting, and Michael Mace, VP of Market Strategy for UserTesting, sat down with us to share how product teams can make great product decisions in real time using fast customer … The post Incorporate fast customer feedback into every product decision, a Q&A with Tanya Koshy and Michael Mace appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Creative Leadership by John Maeda

Mind the Product

Moore’s Law isn’t really a law, but semantics aside it essentially stipulates that computers have been doubling in speed roughly every two years. The compounding effect of this doubling is sometimes difficult to comprehend, but it means that today’s computers are two billion times faster than they were just a few decades ago. And if you extrapolate that compounding effect forward, the numbers get even stranger – by roughly 2040 that computer will be nine quintillion times

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Creating Flow and Value in Product Development

Amplitude

Let’s consider the time it takes to go from agreeing to do something to a customer receiving value. It may come as a surprise, but most of that time is not spent working. It’s spent waiting—waiting in backlogs, waiting for other people, waiting for feedback, waiting to be rolled out and adopted. In this 7-minute video, I explain why limiting work in progress, the scope of work, and handoffs between teams can increase flow and value in product development.

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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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The Lizard Loop – How to Back up Rigour With Intuition by Roisi Proven

Mind the Product

In this #mtpengage Manchester talk, Roisi Proven of Gower Street Analytics talks about the lizard loop, which she describes as “backing rigour with intuition, after you’ve already backed up your intuition with rigour”. System 1 and System 2 thinking originate from the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. System 1 thinking, also known as your lizard brain, and is responsible for fast, automatic, frequent, unconscious decisions.

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What tech can learn from cops

Obo

Lou Hayes, Jr. is not a software guy. He’s a self-described “Police Officer/Detective/Sergeant for a suburban Chicago police department” whose assignments include: Patrol, Field Training Officer, Criminal Investigations, Firearms & Tactics Training Unit, Crisis Intervention Team, and Tactical (SWAT + medical). Yeah, he’s impressive. In the world of software and technology, we of course think we are the center of the universe.

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Resilience: A Business Acumen Superpower

Business Acumen Institute

Change is hard. Being positive, calm, and logical in the face of change can feel downright impossible. Yet, the most successful business people do exactly this! They are resilient, and it’s an important skill to master when every business, company, and team are undergoing one transformation or another. So, what is resilience ? According to Merriam-Webster, it’s the ability to recover from or to adjust easily to misfortune or change.

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This Week in Product – Apr. 5, 2019

ProductCraft

Push Business, Not Features Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured#productmanagement #prodmgmt #startup #startupaus [link] — Alana Fisher-Chejoski (@aussiegoldy) April 3, 2019 When you’re a busy PM, it’s easy to focus so much on shipping the next feature.

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Understanding Customers is an Essential Part of Business Acumen

Business Acumen Institute

Understanding Customers is an Essential Part of Business Acumen. There was a time when product development did product development, sales did sales, IT did IT, and the customer? Well, that’s the job of customer service and marketing. Most businesses have figured out that approach no longer works. Instead, product developers are working side-by-side marketing staff to apply agile methods to bring products to market.

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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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How to Provide Effective Support at Every Stage of the Customer Journey Map

The Product Coalition

There’s this cliche: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In the case of the user journey that ultimately leads to a purchase, your customer’s journey starts way before they even see your first sales pitch. Which leads us to the question: if the customer journey begins way before the actual purchase, why do most businesses only start offering customer support at the point of purchase or post-purchase?

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Resilience: A Business Acumen Superpower

Business Acumen Institute

Change is hard. Being positive, calm, and logical in the face of change can feel downright impossible. Yet, the most successful business people do exactly this! They are resilient, and it’s an important skill to master when every business, company, and team are undergoing one transformation or another. So, what is resilience ? According to Merriam-Webster, it’s the ability to recover from or to adjust easily to misfortune or change.