Tue.Oct 01, 2019

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Free Your Product Roadmap and Ditch the Timeline

Mind the Product

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. So, when people replied to my tweet with questions I figured a post answering them might be helpful.

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6 Tips for Product-Led Customer Centricity

ProductPlan

No business can survive without their customers. Too often, organizations get caught up in their own priorities. While the company pursues metrics and objectives without considering the customers’ interests, they may negatively impact the customer experience. Customer centricity aims to always keep the customer top of mind. This way, you tie every decision and action back to how it affects the customer.

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What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions | Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Rich Mironov, CEO/Founder, Mironov Consulting. Your product roadmap is not a model, an algorithm or an artifact, it is an ongoing political process that requires careful management of the relevant stakeholders. One major challenge is that your stakeholders DO NOT WANT the same things. To make a Roadmap useful, you need an allocation model and a selling strategy that helps you: understand; manage the expectations of; deliver value to people across the organization who prioritize very different

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Proven sales plays for skyrocketing growth

Intercom, Inc.

There are no silver bullets in sales – no tricks, hacks, or mantras that can guarantee you’ll hit target. But there are actionable plays that high-growth companies use to scale their revenue. Having led sales teams at Facebook, Twitter, and now Intercom, I’ve developed and executed many of these plays. These sales plays are the answers to mission-critical questions like “What criteria will I use to hire sales reps?

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Product Positioning Tip 2 of 7: Creating Headlines That Hook

Product Management University

Web pages, literature, booth signage, presentations, email campaigns and the list goes on. They all need great headlines to hook your target audience. But coming up with simple attention-grabbing phrases that engage prospective customers might be one of the toughest parts of product marketing, especially for technical products. The Playbook: Our natural tendency is to create WE headlines because it’s important to let buyers know we can help them.

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Product Management is Changing

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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User Research vs Market Research

UserVoice

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Free Your Product Roadmap and Ditch the Timeline

Mind the Product

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4 Easy Marketing Tactics to Use for Your Next Survey Invitation

Centercode

Like your UX, support, QA, and product teams, a marketing team spends a lot of time trying to think like customers. We’re obsessed with discovering what attracts them, what engages them, and how to speak their language. So when it comes to creating the perfect survey invitation, taking on a marketing mindset is your best asset. Give these four easy marketing tactics a try the next time you’re promoting your survey with an email to your customers.

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How To Manage Multiple Product Teams For Successful Development & Delivery

Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple

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What Does a Product Manager Do?

BrainStation Product Management

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion. They help figure out what products should get made, ensure that they do get made, and report back on how users are responding to those products. In terms of digital product management, PMs are the glue that holds together the user experience, the technical requirements, and the business requirements of a product.

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4 Easy Marketing Tactics to Use for Your Next Survey Invitation

Centercode

Like your UX, support, QA, and product teams, a marketing team spends a lot of time trying to think like customers. We’re obsessed with discovering what attracts them, what engages them, and how to speak their language.

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Do Company Names Drive Success?

Under 10 Consulting

Quality is when the customer returns and the product doesn’t. . — Jim Taglieber, Miami Valley Steel Service Inc. Names by themselves have little or no impact on company or product success. Good products make a successful company. Maybe that’s why product-led growth is such a powerful concept. International Business Machines is a good name but it’s too long.

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Why Participants Participate in User Research with Brittany Rutherford of User Interviews

UserInterviews

We’ve talked a lot about how researchers do research, now it’s time to hear from the participants.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.

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Welcome New TSIA Members! September Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping technology organizations both large and small grow and advance in the industry. We’d like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional research practices TSIA has to offer.

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How we’re building a marketing engine to move upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Most SaaS companies start with a single solution designed for a single audience. But as they pick up steam, offering more products to multiple target markets, it’s easy for the message to get a little fuzzy. When Shane Murphy-Reuter joined us here at Intercom as SVP of Marketing earlier this year, he had to manage four different teams on two continents working on multiple products.

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Ionic, React, and Cloudflare Full Stack Made Perfect

Modus Create

As one of the best remote workplaces globally, we continuously seek new ways to keep Modus Create a family of the best talent in the world. Subscriptions to many productivity tools and services like Slack, Harvest, GitHub, or Google’s G Suite help us do the right thing at the right time. The data we generate through those services is invaluable but fragmented.