Fri.Sep 07, 2018

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First, Do No Harm by Mariah Hay

Mind the Product

Product managers are problem finders and problem solvers. But what happens when we become problem creators ? In her talk from #mtpcon San Francisco, Mariah Hay , VP of Product at Pluralsight, challenges us to think about our ethical responsibility as product managers. Great Power = Great Responsibility. It is crucial for us to understand ethics in the context of product.

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5 Ways to Foster Data Literacy Across the Organization

Indicative

352 billion dollars: that’s how much businesses worldwide spent on enterprise software in 2017. This number is expected to rise to over 400 billion by 2019. These numbers indicate the growing demand for intelligence software among businesses of all sizes. This is especially true for marketing and product professionals. Keeping track of how customers are interacting with their brands, and how long products are taking to catch on with audiences traditionally requires data teams to conduct lengthy

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Start Doing These 10 Things Today To Be A Better Product Manager

The Secret PM Handbook

Take Action Today With These Product Management Tips. I love lists, and the Internet loves lists. And I love immediately actionable product management tips that I can start using today to become better at my job. It just so happens that I include tons of immediately actionable guidelines in my articles on this site. There are over 50 at last count. 10 of the most powerful actions you can start doing today to become a better product manager, get your sales people to love you, win more deals, and

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What we shipped: 8 new features to increase conversions and grow your business

Intercom, Inc.

Volume and capacity are always top of mind for sales, support and marketing teams. At Intercom , we’re helping all three teams do more with their time to increase their performance. For sales and support, the volume of prospects and customers they handle, and their capacity to scale up that volume, is the reason they are so focused on efficiency and output.

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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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Proper Care and Feeding of Your Product Backlog

Clever PM

One of the least glamorous parts of Agile development for most Product Managers is the process of backlog grooming. It can be a challenge to get teams to engage when they’re in the middle of a sprint, it can be difficult to convince stakeholders to refer to the backlog instead of the Product Manager for […].

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What Is Anchoring?

Pragmatic Marketing

A colleague asked me: “Mark, what is anchoring? I wanted to get your explanation of the concept with regard to pricing and maybe an example if you have one.” Anchoring is a strange phenomenon where the mere act of thinking about a high number biases that person toward higher numbers. Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University conducted a fascinating study where he and his colleagues asked people to write the last two digits of their social securit

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What’s the power ingredient to ease into a PM role?

The Product Coalition

Imagine you’ve just been hired as a Product Manager and you are on top of the world. You’ve always wanted this job and you are happy to be alive! However, in the first few weeks, you have this lurking feeling that something is not right. Feeling some discomfort is natural but if you don’t feel settled you need to read on. Here is what could be going on.

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This Week in Product – Sep. 7, 2018

ProductCraft

Summer’s over, kids are back in school, no more out of office emails, and this week in product is all about change. Cha, Cha, Cha, Changes Had a great time sitting down with @karaswisher after all these years. Slack, product management, the future of work software, chicken fried steak: this pod passes the Bechdel test. The post This Week in Product – Sep. 7, 2018 appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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6 Tips to Improve the UX of Your Mobile Website.

The Product Coalition

It goes without saying that owning a website comes with a ton of different perks for your business. You can enjoy increased market visibility, larger audience, more sales, and, needless to say?—?more money. However, running a website has quite a few aspects which would need your utter attention. You’d be wrong to assume that you can enjoy reaping the benefits without laying down the hard work first.

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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.