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Chris Messina on building and scaling products that matter

Miro

Reading time: 8 minChris Messina on building and scalingproducts that matterA conversation about sharing, succeeding, and diversityWhen you’re starting a new project, developing an idea, or founding a company, it’s easy to think you need to keep everything to yourself—including your knowledge, your code, and most other things. For a lot of people, this seems […].

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Why Are Product Managers Moving Away From Focus Groups?

The Accidental Product Manager

Focus groups are the way that product managers used to find out how customers felt about their product Image Credit: RSNY. When a product manager is put in charge of a product, one of the first questions that they would like to be able to answer is just exactly what do potential customers think about the product? There are number of different ways to go about answering this question and testing our product development definition, but one way that we’ve all be using for a long time is the v

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Building trust with your teams

Lead on Purpose

Another key element of a successful product management organization is creating trust with your teams, the teams you work with to build your products.

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How to Give a Great Product Talk

Mind the Product

That’s me, giving my “Customer Obsession” talk at ProductTank in SF. Have you ever watched a speaker and said to yourself, “I could do that!”? Are you interested in building your network to accelerate recruiting or to discover new opportunities? Or, like me, do you love new creative outlets and teaching? If your answer is “yes” to any of these questions, then I hope you enjoy this post.

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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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Product Roadmaps for Good

The Product Guy

Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Product Roadmaps for Good and debated Featured Product, ADP… And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…

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Playing Catch Without Arms, or: Why I’m going to learn to code as a PM.

The Product Coalition

Not the real artwork for “Catch Without Arms”, but made you look, didn’t it. ??Bad facsimile credit: Myself Hi reader, Wait a sec, please don’t run away! This isn’t your usual run-of-the-mill “should PMs code or not” piece that you’ve read a thousand times?—?promise. How? I’ve been a Product Manager for 3 years now, and a Product Marketer for 2 years before that, but I went to business school before that.

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The Way We Teach Ourselves: How Our Internal Training System Evolved

UX Studio

I can remember my first week at UX studio pretty well. Three years ago our whole company could fit into a small apartment. Obviously designed for housing and not businesses, it looked out on a neighborhood just outside the Budapest city center from the fourth floor of an old apartment building. . We had two small meeting rooms and always had to cross one to get to the toilet.

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How I use GIST for personal planning

The Product Coalition

Moving beyond endless ToDo lists Staying productive is as challenging to me as it is for most people. Procrastination, constant feeling of not doing enough, working long hours?—?I have all the symptoms. However, as I started working with companies and observed their notion of productivity, often keeping everyone busy chasing projects that lead nowhere, I started seeing the flaws in my own perceptions: Like many companies my plans were mostly based on intuition and gut feeling, yet they were not

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TEI 210: Make time to accomplish what you need to today- with John Zeratsky

Product Innovation Educators

A simple framework for product managers to increase focus and eliminate distractions from your day. How would you like to get more done this year? That begins by getting more done today and our guest has the four-part framework for making that happen. This is not just another time management approach, but what the creators and authors of the Google Design Sprint found to be the practices to get more done.

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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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Experiments that matter

The Product Coalition

Slide from Andy Johns’ presentation hosted on Youtube by First Round Review [link] Large companies love mini optimizations; they use many product teams executing tiny experiments that make small optimizations which add up significantly over time and by the end of the year, these optimizations may triple users. However, these types of tests are time consuming, resource intensive and require many users to confirm statistical significance in optimizations this small.

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Why Customer Success Teams Are Using Aptrinsic

Gainsight

We don’t have a handle on how each customer is using the product. We need to scale our customer onboarding. Our biggest challenge is product adoption. These challenges are nothing new to Customer Success (CS). But as SaaS becomes the global standard for delivering software, it’s urgent that companies get to the root of the problem. In the Age of the Customer, buyers will hold you accountable for outcomes, and users are increasingly expecting consumer-grade usability and product experience.

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From Academia to UX with Toni Rosati of Gloo

UserInterviews

Rigorous research, community contributions, and the power of bringing the truth about products to stakeholders.

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Voting in CardBoard!

CardBoard

Getting feedback and the opinions of your team is very important when looking to get products to market. Your shared understanding and work flow matter to us. Therefore, we took the time to develop a new tool: VOTING! Read below to learn more on how to vote. Getting Started. Within the toolbar you will see a new icon: This is the new voting feature.

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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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How to Set a Budget for Your Custom Software Project

Atomic Spin PM

Software is never done—there are always more features and functions you could add. So how much should you budget for a custom software project? Some companies keep throwing money at the project without any budget at all. But they can miss out on early client feedback and end up wasting money on the wrong things. Other companies focus on making their budget as small as possible.

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From Academia to UX with Toni Rosati of Gloo

UserInterviews

Rigorous research, community contributions, and the power of bringing the truth about products to stakeholders.

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?4 Actionable Tips on App Onboarding by David Jones

UXCam Bluespace

Why you should focus on the aha-moment.

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From Academia to UX with Toni Rosati of Gloo

UserInterviews

Rigorous research, community contributions, and the power of bringing the truth about products to stakeholders.

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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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4 Actionable Tips on App Onboarding by David Jones

The Product Coalition

Are you happy with the onboarding of your app? Yes? No? Maybe? Whatever the answer is, you should listen to what David Jones has to say about the topic. Here is why: David has founded three start-ups in his lifetime, his first one exited with over 1B Australian Dollars earlier this year. Now his latest company, Pointzi , seeks to improve the onboarding of mobile and web apps.