Tue.Jun 11, 2019

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Why Most Outcome-Based Roadmaps Fail (and How to Keep Yours From Doing the Same)

ProductPlan

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. Each major release or theme has an intended impact that can even be measured and validated. The problem with outcome-based roadmaps comes when the desired outcomes don’t actually accomplish what companies hoped they would achieve.

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How QA Testing is Moving Up in Today’s Agile Value Chain

Usersnap

In the past, the core goal of testing is to find bugs and fix them. But the dynamics of IT and testing landscape have changed now. Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Are your QA testers up to speed? As a QA tester or manager, how you scale up your skills to match today’s innovative challenges is the key to improving testing productivity and advancing your career prospects. .

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Everything you need to know about what product managers do all day

ProductBoard

“What does a product manager do?” is a question that’s asked pretty frequently. Now, in the simplest possible terms, product managers decide what features to build next. Well, apparently that simple answer barely begins to scratch at the dozens of different things a PM has to do to make that happen. In fact, deciding what features to build next can take so many twists and turns that it seems like.

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How a Well-designed Mobile App can Eliminate the Stress of Travel

Alchemer Mobile

Picture this: You’re sprinting through the maze-like airport as the airline calls your name over the intercom. You have exactly three minutes until they close the gate doors. You finally get there with 30 seconds to spare and try to quickly scan your boarding pass. You had downloaded it while waiting in the hour-long security line, thankful there was a convenient way to quickly access your info.

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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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How we Learned to Build Users’ Trust in a new Product Category

Mind the Product

I’m really proud to have been part of the team who launched Echo’s new website – our digital pharmacy users can now manage their medication from whichever device they like, without downloading our app. When we started building our web product, our plan was pretty simple: “Just build the same features as our mobile app but make it work on bigger screens.” .

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Beyond the Hype on AI – Ashwini Asokan on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Ashwini Asokan, CEO and co-founder of intelligent retail automation platform VUE.ai, is working to evolve the world of retail, making shopping more of an entertainment experience. She’s spent a lot of time thinking about artificial intelligence and she sat down with us to go beyond the hype – and give us some practical advice about how to make use of it as a product person.

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B2B Product Manager Magazine June 2019

Product Management University

The B2B Product Manager Magazine June 2019 is now available. Every product company wants successful products. This month we contrast the differences between structuring your product management function for product success vs. customer success. Determine which approach is most conducive to successful products over the long haul in your organization. We’re also celebrating graduation month here at Product Management University.

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Our 6 Must Reads for Onboarding Tactics That Help New Hires Succeed (and Stay)

First Round Review

Onboarding is so much more than the standard-issue IT set-up: It's the foundation for how new hires settle into their roles and their future at the company. We gathered perspectives on how to prime your newest employees for success.

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Top 10 Japanese Tech Companies

freshtrax

According to an article by Tech :: Note , the Japanese tech industry has grown as a whole with continual increases in the total revenue of the industry, from 14,380 billion yen (approx. 133 billion USD) in 2013 to 14,899 billion yen (approx. 137 billion USD) in 2014 to 17,268 billion yen (approx. 159 billion USD) in 2015. To give you a bigger picture of the Japanese technology industry, we dive deeper and introduce the top technology companies in Japan based on the following four criteria: capit

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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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Home-Based Research Visits: Participant Comfort Comes First

Generation Focus

Home-Based research offers unique and valuable insights. Meeting at home provides a chance to connect with participants intimately, in a way that builds empathy with the user and gleans qualitative data on their lifestyle. However, home visits may present some difficulties for researchers accustomed to remote and on-site studies. There is less control over the environment, you dont know what to expect, and each visit is different.

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It’s Not About How Cool the Solution Is, It’s About Solving the Problem

The Product Coalition

If you were the product manager of ATM, what would you deliver? Photo by Matt Antonioli on Unsplash Most of us have seen and used an ATM to withdraw cash before. How would you design an ATM, the automated teller machine that can be seen everywhere in the world? Maybe you were just like me. The first thought that came to my mind was the cool UI that is nothing like the current boring ATM and a friendly process that make sure the user won’t forget the bank card.

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Home-Based Research Visits: Participant Comfort Comes First

Generation Focus

Home-Based research offers unique and valuable insights. Meeting at home provides a chance to connect with participants intimately, in a way that builds empathy with the user and gleans qualitative data on their lifestyle. However, home visits may present some difficulties for researchers accustomed to remote and on-site studies. There is less control over the environment, you dont know what to expect, and each visit is different.

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Meet the Betabound Team

Centercode

If the Customer Validation platform is the skeleton, Betabound is the beating heart of Centercode. Every day, members of our 200,000+ tester network are putting their time and energy towards helping our customers build spectacular products. Leading the collaboration between our tester community and our customers is the Betabound Team. From expanding and diversifying the tester community to innovating recruitment strategies and initiatives, the Betabound Team is hard at work matching products wit

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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 Define the First 3-6 Months of a Customer Health Journey

Gainsight

We’re starting to see more and more often Customer Success teams serving as the intersection between all kinds of departments Marketing, Product, Sales, and Support. What’s the one thing these teams have in common? The customer, of course! So it makes sense that this is happening—both organically and as part of a customer-centric strategy.

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How Soft Skills Can Save a Business

The Product Coalition

People often cringe at the mere mention of the term soft skills. This is because far too often the importance of these traits are thrown to the wayside and perceived as non-quantifiable characteristics that are useless in driving results. The truth about soft skills is that they can be the make-or-break factor for a business. Much of this is largely due to the fact that internal politics exist in almost all companies.

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Top 10 Takeaways From Pulse 2019

Gainsight

Pulse 2019 is over, but I’m still basking in the afterglow. Maybe it’s recency bias, but I truly believe it was our best Pulse ever and probably our best week ever as a company. If you were there, you know what I mean. If you missed it, I wanted to give you the top 10 highlights in this blog. 1. Customer Success Hit the Main Stage. We made it.

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Home-Based Research Visits: Participant Comfort Comes First

Generation Focus

Home-Based research offers unique and valuable insights. Meeting at home provides a chance to connect with participants intimately, in a way that builds empathy with the user and gleans qualitative data on their lifestyle. However, home visits may present some difficulties for researchers accustomed to remote and on-site studies. There is less control over the environment, you dont know what to expect, and each visit is different.

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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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How to Grow Maintenance and Support Revenues

TSIA

While many technology companies are struggling under the weight of rapid product commoditization and the upheaval of the XaaS business model shift, there remains tremendous opportunities to deliver revenue growth from maintenance and support offers. So, how do you do this? TSIA has identified three key levers that produce optimized support revenue outcomes and can help you grow your service business: Attaching New Contracts: This lever is defined as the rate at which new “for fee” su

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Home-Based Research Visits: Participant Comfort Comes First

Generation Focus

Home-Based research offers unique and valuable insights. Meeting at home provides a chance to connect with participants intimately, in a way that builds empathy with the user and gleans qualitative data on their lifestyle. However, home visits may present some difficulties for researchers accustomed to remote and on-site studies. There is less control over the environment, you dont know what to expect, and each visit is different.

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Bain Public to give a Guest Faculty Talk at the Institute of Product Leadership

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be giving an expert talk webinar at the Institute of Product Leadership, a niche management school with 4 campuses in India. Paul has a strong business track record, a unique message worth hearing and a natural speaker/storyteller. The Institute of Product Leadership is a B-school designed to create product leaders with new age skills.

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Home-Based Research Visits: Participant Comfort Comes First

Generation Focus

Home-Based research offers unique and valuable insights. Meeting at home provides a chance to connect with participants intimately, in a way that builds empathy with the user and gleans qualitative data on their lifestyle. How,e,ver, home visits may present some difficulties for researchers accustomed to remote and on-site studies. There is less control over the environment, you dont know what to expect, and each visit is different.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Exactly! I think beautiful design is not only visual but functional.

Michael J. Fordham

Exactly! I think beautiful design is not only visual but functional. If someone cannot use a product, then it isn’t a good enough design yet. I’d love to learn more about how we can improve inclusion and UX in VR. Must be so interesting! Thanks!

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Home-Based Research Visits: Participant Comfort Comes First

Generation Focus

Home-Based research offers unique and valuable insights. Meeting at home provides a chance to connect with participants intimately, in a way that builds empathy with the user and gleans qualitative data on their lifestyle. However, home visits may present some difficulties for researchers accustomed to remote and on-site studies. There is less control over the environment, you dont know what to expect, and each visit is different.

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9 Common User Story Mistakes Most Product Managers Make

airfocus

In this article, we'll run through 9 of the most common user story mistakes that product managers make, as well as tips on how to do better.

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Testing at every stage of development

UserTesting

It is widely known that a majority—up to 80%—of new products fail. The reasons are manifold. Perhaps the new product couldn’t oust a longtime customer favorite. Maybe the new product was aesthetically wonderful but was also so hard to use … The post Testing at every stage of development appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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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airfocus Wins Fresh Capital To Expand Its Global Strategy Platform

airfocus

Hamburg-based startup airfocus specializes in strategic planning and roadmapping and has just completed its first round of financing.

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How to keep new users engaged with your welcome page

Intercom, Inc.

If you have an application or SaaS product, the welcome page that users see after signing up is much more than a cheerful “hello” to your users. Or, at least, it should be. The welcome page comes at a really critical time for your app. It’s during the onboarding period when new users will decide if you can follow through on the promises you made of saved time or increased revenue.

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6 practical methods to improve app retention rate

The Product Coalition

Mobile app companies across the globe are in the middle of a mobile engagement crisis. While new user acquisition and the number of downloads give you an initial high, what matters in the long term is your apps user retention i.e how many users are sticking around. Like any other relationship, the one between the app and the user also boils down to how happy the users really are.