Tue.Jul 30, 2019

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Should You Try to Extend Your Mature Product’s Life, or Build a New One?

ProductPlan

Product managers will encounter many forks on the road to growth and product success. Those forks always require answering difficult questions. For an early-stage company or new product, the question might be, How will we prioritize features before we have customers? Growing companies will ask, Is it time to scale up our product team ? At some point later in your product’s evolution, you might face another tricky question.

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Unlock your product organization’s potential by defining “done”

The Product Coalition

Simplifying and aligning conversations with a definition of done Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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How do you Find Enterprise Product/Market fit?

Mind the Product

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3 Ways to Leverage Your Strongest Product Management Skills

280 Group

One of the best ways to learn more about a topic is to teach it to someone else. We see this all the time in our product management classes, where one student is able to help another based on their knowledge and expertise. Walking someone through a process not only teaches them the steps, but also reinforces your own learning. In this article, we’ll discuss ways to leverage your strongest product management skills and share your knowledge through mentorship, writing and speaking engagements.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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Overcoming uncertainty: Why we need to redefine confidence for the workplace

Intercom, Inc.

We have never been more aware of how crucial healthy self-perception is to our well-being and success, with countless books , articles and podcasts dedicated to the importance of maintaining a healthy sense of confidence in ourselves. Our relationship with confidence affects multiple aspects of life, but many of us feel it most acutely in the workplace.

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The Black Mirror Test – Roisi Proven on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. That’s useful – but she’s also found a way for you to engage your team in a creative way, using the model of the show Black Mirror , in an effort to make better decisions.

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What is a click test and why should it be part of your UX toolkit?

Userzoom

Whether it’s evaluating a current website, testing a prototype, or iterating throughout the product development cycle, click tests are a fast and cost-effective way to ensure your design works for your users. So if you’re new to the world of clickmaps, heatmaps and darkmaps, let’s explore click testing and how it can benefit your product development… What is a click test?

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From Zero to IPO: How Growth Needs to Evolve at Every Startup Stage

First Round Review

There's no one-size-fits-all growth advice. Brian Rothenberg, former VP of Growth at Eventbrite, breaks down the three broad phases of the startup lifecycle. For each phase, he identifies key targets that startups should aim for to kick their growth strategy to the next level.

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What are the core skills of a Product Manager? Not the boring usual ones…

The Product Coalition

This questions come up a lot. Below are some less obvious core skills. This is by no means a comprehensive list. You’ll need more than these skills to be a good PM, but these are core skills I find useful, would love to hear your thoughts about them. Here goes: Define the goal/problem?—?What are your trying to accomplish? What problem are you solving?

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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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Are You Using Feature Flags for Controlled Rollouts, but Winging It for Observability?

Split

Review: Feature Flags For Control of Code Rollouts. In my last post and video, I cleared up some confusion between the general idea of configuration flags and the specific pattern of using feature flags to decouple deployment from release. The main point in What’s The Difference Between Feature Flags and Other “Flags” in Software Engineering?

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How I PM: Rachel Kaplan, Product Manager at Coinbase

Amplitude

Rachel Kaplan is a product manager on the Identity team at Coinbase. Before joining Coinbase, Rachel was a technical solutions engineer and growth PM at Dropbox. As a PM, Rachel’s technical background—mixed with experience in UX and product—helps her team solve the difficult questions that stem from building a financial system that is both secure and user-centric.

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Kokorogamae (???): Preparing for Your First Business Meetings in Japan with Potential Partners

freshtrax

“Hey KJ (that’s me), I’ve set you up for a meeting with a CEO from the U.S. coming to our Tokyo office,” my colleague halfway across the world messages me. As a UX design consultant across cultures and as a native Japanese and English speaker, I have spoken with many business leaders from all over the world who have the desire to expand their business into the Japanese market.

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Subscription-Based Offers in Industrial Equipment

TSIA

Industrial equipment companies are in the middle of a massive transition. The Services part of their businesses are following the to help customers improve their operations, achieve outcomes, and receive more value. TSIA research shows that more and more industrial equipment (IE) companies are offering their technology on an “as-a-service” or subscription basis.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Fast 25: Leaders Say Success Boils Down to People

Innovatemap

CEO Mike Reynolds explains how he attributes Innovatemap's success to the team, and how it can be broken down into hiring, retaining, and treating people well.

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7 Surprising Ways Product Management Will Change in the Next 5 Years

airfocus

Due to evolving responsibilities and an exponential rate of digital innovation product management is changing at lightning speed. What does it mean for you?

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My First Week of Interning at Modus Create: Drinking From a Firehose

Modus Create

They say that if you’re a summer intern, you’re basically treated as the freshman of the workplace. You’re considered the new guy, a kid compared to the others in the office. Especially as a software development intern, where you have to deal with some heavy duty code, you’re said to be treated even worse because everyone seems to have a higher knowledge and skill set than you.

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3 Easy Steps To New Product Adoption

Userpilot

So, you’ve successfully launched a product and now you’re planning to launch a new product within the category. If that’s the case. This blog is for you. We’re here to give you ideas for your new product adoption. If you’ve already achieved product-market fit with your first product, you might think that you can easily achieve it with your new one.

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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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Who’s Head Coaching your Product? Set in Place a Mindset for your Team

Bain Public

The path to turning a product vision into reality is no smooth ride. Obstacles along the way are inevitable. Without focus and determination, unavoidable challenges such as market shifts, competitors, and customer changing needs will stager even the most powerful companies. Consequently, ambitious roadmaps are deemed impossible, and the ever-stagnant comfort zone becomes home once again.

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Beta Testing Must Evolve to Support Agile and DevOps

Centercode

As teams introduce Agile and DevOps development practices that emphasize continuous release into their organizations, they’ve taken massive strides to improve the speed and velocity of software development. Like the software they produce, all practices need to keep pace with changes within the industry. And those legacy software testing processes that are unable or unwilling to do so are at risk of being replaced.

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July’s Top Customer Experience Trends and Product Management News

Alchemer Mobile

Twice a month, Apptentive sends out a newsletter highlighting some of the biggest news stories related to customer experience trends, VOC, mobile marketing, app development, and product management. Here are the top 14 articles from the month of July. __. 1. Google Play Store Ratings Changes: Learn What’s Changed and Shift Your Strategy to Win. At this year’s Google I/O conference, big changes were announced around how its Play Store app ratings work.