Thu.Aug 01, 2019

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Why Feature FOMO Stalls Product Innovation

Mind the Product

Messenger apps started as the simplest way to start a conversation online. Open the app. Select a person to chat with. Go. Today, those apps have seemingly endless ways for users to engage: video chat, send gifs, send emojis, send money, use a filter, buy and sell goods, play games, talk to bots, and more. So much, in fact, that the product leaders behind these apps are slimming them down.

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A Product Manager’s Guide to Building Customer Loyalty

ProductPlan

In a world where advertising-supported products, SaaS products with monthly renewals, and free trials are de rigueur, customers don’t have nearly as much incentive to stick around as they used to. With switching costs reduced to typing in a different URL or downloading an alternative app on their phone, consumers can be as fickle as they’d like with minimal impact on their wallets; not to mention avoiding painful personal interactions to cancel their subscriptions or the hassle of returning a ph

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UX is everybody’s business

CONTACT Software

Professionally and privately computer work and the use of apps and other digital tools have become everyday occurrences. UX ensures the easiest possible operation and focuses on the user experience. This means that digital products are intuitive, reliable and, at best, fun. Why is a UX strategy important? The goal of UX is to make … Continue reading "UX is everybody’s business".

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Treat Your Product Team Like a Product

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? Read on to learn how, through collecting and analyzing their operational data, a team was able to quantify and improve their processes on the path to being able to establish clear rel

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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 6 Decision-Making Frameworks That Help Startup Leaders Tackle Tough Calls

First Round Review

Startup leaders make tough calls every day. We spoke with 6 top operators to gather the tactics and strategies they use to make smart decisions under pressure, garner trust with stakeholders and execute with conviction.

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The Transition From Customer Success to Product Management

ProductCraft

If you had told me, a fresh 2008 graduate with a master’s degree in social work, that I’d eventually be working at a fast-growing tech startup as a product manager, I’d have laughed. To me, and probably to most people, they are two completely unrelated things. Coming from a small town in Georgia, I didn’t. Read more » The post The Transition From Customer Success to Product Management appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Is Software the Best Solution? These 5 Questions Will Help You Decide

Atomic Spin PM

These days, most companies are expected to have some sort of digital or connected solution. Even industries that have been paper-based or seem removed from connected solutions are feeling pressure. Their executives may think they need a solution, but what should it be? And how do you determine if software is the right solution? It is very, very easy (and expensive) to build the wrong thing.

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The Jobs to be Done Interviewing Style: Who are our Users Trying to Become?

dscout People Nerds

How this popular framework can guide your user interviews.

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Is Software the Best Solution? These 5 Questions Will Help You Decide

Atomic Spin PM

These days, most companies are expected to have some sort of digital or connected solution. Even industries that have been paper-based or seem removed from connected solutions are feeling pressure. Their executives may think they need a solution, but what should it be? And how do you determine if software is the right solution? It is very, very easy (and expensive) to build the wrong thing.

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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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Is your product management process creating more problems than it solves?

DISQO

Insights from interviews with product leaders from Intercom, Drift, InsightSquared, and Betterment. Building a product is a cross-functional endeavor. The problem is that, as Martin Eriksson recently and definitively concluded , the product manager is “ultimately responsible for the success or failure of a product” but doesn’t have authority over any of the people involved in the collective effort.

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Is Your Sales Organization Ready to Sell Technology Subscriptions?

TSIA

Over the last few years, one of the TSIA’s hottest query topics has been around how member organizations can cost-effectively grow revenues when their customers are changing the way they want to buy and consume their technology solutions. Most of today's organizations recognize that they are facing the greatest period of change in the technology industry in their lifetime.

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Company culture

DISQO

Hiring and retaining top talent in a high-performing environment. Every founder and business leader quickly learns that a talented and high-performing workforce is the first and foremost prerequisite for success. But in the war for talent, it’s easy to feel like David taking on Goliath. Unfortunately, there’s no silver slingshot — no simple way to stand out from the crowd of employers when the latest and greatest perks quickly become table stakes.

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Bridge the gap with agile product planning

Obo

Product managers must constantly navigate the gap between longer-term business strategy and shorter-term sprints—without falling into the abyss between them. It's not easy!

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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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Is your product management process creating more problems than it solves?

DISQO

Insights from interviews with product leaders from Intercom, Drift, InsightSquared, and Betterment. Building a product is a cross-functional endeavor. The problem is that, as Martin Eriksson recently and definitively concluded , the product manager is “ultimately responsible for the success or failure of a product” but doesn’t have authority over any of the people involved in the collective effort.

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Your app’s headquarters – UXCam Overview

UXCam Bluespace

UXCam Overview allows you to gain insights on your app in one look - without manually searching for individual sessions.

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Company culture

DISQO

Hiring and retaining top talent in a high-performing environment. Every founder and business leader quickly learns that a talented and high-performing workforce is the first and foremost prerequisite for success. But in the war for talent, it’s easy to feel like David taking on Goliath. Unfortunately, there’s no silver slingshot — no simple way to stand out from the crowd of employers when the latest and greatest perks quickly become table stakes.

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Brex’s Michael Tannenbaum on fintech growth strategies

Intercom, Inc.

But although it’s inspiring to look at the paths other companies have successfully traveled, you also run the risk of ending up at the exact same destination. That’s why Brex’s CFO Michael Tannenbaum believes in breaking a few rules. “Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been ke

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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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Company culture

DISQO

Hiring and retaining top talent in a high-performing environment. Every founder and business leader quickly learns that a talented and high-performing workforce is the first and foremost prerequisite for success. But in the war for talent, it’s easy to feel like David taking on Goliath. Unfortunately, there’s no silver slingshot — no simple way to stand out from the crowd of employers when the latest and greatest perks quickly become table stakes.

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Nulab Drinking Code: UX & UI Design

Nulab

For July, Nulab Drinking Code Singapore featured the theme of UX and UI Design for our meetup. We invited two speakers to NuSpace – our community space in Singapore – to share their knowledge with everyone. The speakers were: Victor Ong, UX Lead at IBM iX. Muhammad Haris Bin Samingan, Software Developer at pslove. Most people had come to the meetup straight from their workplace, so they were understandably hungry.

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SDK Integration - Getting Started with Usage Intelligence - Part 1

Revulytics

In the first article of this 3 part series, we will be looking at how you can integrate your application with Revulytics Usage Intelligence in 4 easy steps from registering your product to viewing the first call-home data in your Dashboard. We will be using a simple calculator application and the.NET SDK with C# code examples to demonstrate these steps (we also offer SDKs and API documentation for C/C++, Objective-C, and Java ).

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The Rise & Fall Of Enterprise Software | Bill Janeway, Warburg Pincus | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Bill Janeway, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. There are few people as qualified to talk about the landscape of software investment as Bill Janeway. On joining Venture Capital firm Warburg Pincus in 1988 he built their IT Investment practice, which focussed heavily on Enterprise Software. It’s fair to say that they were pretty successful, investing in companies like VERITAS and BEA… In this talk, Bill looks at the state of the software investment market and comments on how the move

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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How to Live by Product Principles, and Improve Your Process

The Product Coalition

Most people reading this will know the product development principles they want to live by. Outcome focussed, guided by data, experimental, a focus on learning…the list goes on. But knowing the principles is only the first step though. The second step?—?living by them?—?is more difficult than it first seems. How many times have you launched a new product or feature and realised you could have validated it far sooner, and far easier?

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Nostalgia – 7 Talks from #BoS2019 Speakers

Business of Software Conference

This September there are 7 returning speakers at Business of Software. It’s a delight to be welcoming Rahul Vohra , Rita McGrath, Alex Osterwalder, Steli Efti, Matt Wensing, and Patrick Campbell back to the stage at BoS, and to have Claire Lew back to lead a half-day workshop. We don’t welcome speakers back to BoS lightly – we’ve asked them to come back because their talks were top quality and because the BoS community have asked to hear more from them.

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Product Management- A Complete Definition

The Product Coalition

A walkthrough of the Product Management role. The tl;dr version “For a given universe, a Product Manager aligns all stakeholders towards a set of outcomes, defines dynamic paths to achieve those outcomes, and finally drives execution along those paths while constantly measuring progress across comprehensive metrics and milestones?—?all on a foundation of user focus.