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Product design is about cost-benefit analysis

Intercom, Inc.

Product design is about cost-benefit analysis. How useful is something versus how hard is it to do. Here’s how I think of it: The cost-benefit analysis of features. Every type of feature can be identified as belonging to one of four quadrants: low reward and low effort; low reward and high effort; high reward and low effort; and high reward and high effort. .

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How our Success is Killing us by Matt Stratford

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Matt Stratford, Senior Product Manager at Elsevier, shares a reminder that the Earth cannot sustain the level of consumption our modern society has built. For the sake of the planet, Matt suggests “product management for good”. Product managers are among the most entrepreneurial people in the world and embody the spirit of capitalism more perfectly than any other profession out there.

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AI in Business

Pragmatic Marketing

Is it just us, or do you think of robots taking over the world whenever someone mentions artificial intelligence (though probably not this one )? And while our robot overlords as still a few decades away (depending on which movie you’re watching), AI is very much in the present, and growing more and more popular with businesses every day. But how does AI work in business?

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TEI 216: Avoid disruption and create new value for customers – with Thales Teixeira, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Map your value chain and rethink your business model to stay ahead of the curve. Many companies have faced disruption. Of course, Uber and Airbnb are the poster children of disruption, but there are many more. Kodak was displaced by the digital camera. Blockbuster’s physical doors could not stay open in the face of Netflix’s virtual service.

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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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AI in Business

Pragmatic Marketing

Is it just us, or do you think of robots taking over the world whenever someone mentions artificial intelligence (though probably not this one )? And while our robot overlords as still a few decades away (depending on which movie you’re watching), AI is very much in the present, and growing more and more popular with businesses every day. But how does AI work in business?

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Welcome Trello Fans!

CardBoard

We know we have several customers who really like Trello. It’s really easy to use, doesn’t cost money and is so versatile in its uses. Today, the CardBoard team is proud to announce support for Trello integration! After you have completed your User Story Map, you can simply push all of your cards over to Trello. It’s really that simple.

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Gaining (And Inspiring) Confidence as a Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Influence is probably one of the most valuable currencies as a product manager. Because you likely don’t have a lot of authority, you have to rely on your ability to understand others and help them understand your perspective and ideas. A key part to influence is having and inspiring confidence. You must first be confident in what you’re doing and what you’re proposing to do.

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Is It Time For Product Managers To Go Meatless?

The Accidental Product Manager

What role can product managers play in the creation of meat product substitutes? Image Credit: Kelly Garbato. So let’s see a show of hands. Who here enjoys a delicious, juicy, burger? Hmm, I don’t see everyone’s hands going up, but I do see just about everyone’s hands going up. There is no question that in the developed 1st world countries, people do love their meat.

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Lawrence of Arabia, the Original Agile Disruptor, Had Sore Feet

The Product Coalition

… And what that means for startups and innovators today [We were] just sentient puppets on God’s stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless, merciless, so long as our bruised feet could stagger forward on the road … so very brief and sore was life with us. With the sorrow of living so great, the sorrow of punishment had to be pitiless … — T.E. Lawrence (i.e.

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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.

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Reflecting on Agile Thinking with Roy Osherove

Johanna Rothman

Years ago, Roy Osherove interviewed me about project management, agile thinking, hiring, and management. We had a great conversation. (See Roy's Archived Interviews page for my interviews with him.) I just listened to some of the questions and answers. If you are not sure about effective management, listen to the interviews. After a nudge from one of my recruiter friends/colleagues (Recruiting Animal, @animal ), Roy and I recorded another interview.

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Who do you vent to?

The Product Coalition

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for more updates :) Who do you vent to? was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Jessica Drizin on managing Upwork remote research team

Miro

Come see Jessica in San Francisco at the UX meetup on Feb 27!We’re excited to host a live event on February 27 as part of our “Reshaping Teamwork” series for the Bay Area UX design and research community. “Fostering a Collaborative UX Team: Tips from Salesforce, Upwork, Copper Inc., and Zendesk” will take place at […]. The post Jessica Drizin on managing Upwork remote research team appeared first on RealtimeBlog | A blog by RealtimeBoard.

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Path to Business Acumen Excellence

Business Acumen Institute

Systemic + Strategic Thinking = Path to Business Acumen Excellence. “We live in webs of interdependence”. What path can one take to achieve business acumen excellence? Successful business people are adept at strategic planning and execution, and therefore, it’s a given that this is a vital business acumen building block. With this, the process of planning and executing strategy appears fairly straight-forward: identify goals that position the company for future success and implement a plan to g

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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 Four Skills of Product Management

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

PM roles vary a lot. But what are the skills every product manager must know? Beyond some core competencies, most PM roles require a highly variable combination of four major skill-sets: The primary competencies of Product Management. I’ve included relevant skills between each. Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap.

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Path to Business Acumen Excellence

Business Acumen Institute

Systemic + Strategic Thinking = Path to Business Acumen Excellence. “We live in webs of interdependence”. What path can one take to achieve business acumen excellence? Successful business people are adept at strategic planning and execution, and therefore, it’s a given that this is a vital business acumen building block. With this, the process of planning and executing strategy appears fairly straight-forward: identify goals that position the company for future success and implement a plan to g

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The Four Skills of Product Management

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

PM roles vary a lot. But what are the skills every product manager must know? Beyond some core competencies, most PM roles require a highly variable combination of four major skill-sets: The primary competencies of Product Management. I’ve included relevant skills between each. Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap.

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Mobile Marketing isn’t the future – it’s the present!

UXCam Bluespace

A systematic, reliable and proven guide on how to increase app installs via mobile marketing.

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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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Product engagement: the most important metric you aren’t tracking for your SaaS business

Intercom, Inc.

If you have followed us over at Sherlock , you will likely have heard us say many times that product engagement is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. This is because the entire SaaS business model is dependent on people using (and getting value from) your product consistently over time. The entire model is dependent on product engagement. In short, creating a method for scoring engagement is essential for every SaaS business.

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?UXCam wins 2019 Premium Awards in Customer Experience Management Software Space of Established Platform for SaaS Reviews

UXCam Bluespace

We are proud to announce that UXCam has received the 2019 Premium Usability & Rising Star Awards from FinancesOnline.

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The 5 Most Important Traits To Look For In A UX Consultant

UX Studio

Working with the right UX consultant could be added to your list of healthy, relaxing habits. UX consulting can keep you, your team and your product healthy. In this post, you will find the most important traits to look for in a UX consultant. In this article we discuss: What a UX consultant does. Traits to look for. Problems to avoid. UX consultancy ranks as one of the hot UX topics these days.