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Market Problems and Frustrations

Pragmatic Marketing

Much of what product managers do on a daily basis is prioritize a long list of requests. Requests that come from everywhere: a feature needed to close a deal, an idea from the dev team, a list of open items from support, and on and on and on. And everytime we have a meeting, we walk away with another list of requests. What’s missing for many product managers—perhaps most—is first-hand experience.

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How Product Teams can Build Trust with Internal Teams

ProductPlan

For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product managers can get stuck in an ongoing cycle of attempting to quash doubts by revisiting topics over and over again because they haven’t secured buy in on various ideas, projects and initiatives. A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge ti

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career

First Round Review

Zainab Ghadiyali's extraordinary career has taken her from nonprofit work in Peru to life as Product Lead at Airbnb. With tactical advice on building transferable skills and beating impostor syndrome, she shows entrepreneurs how to embrace the unconventional path and forge a career fueled by curiosity.

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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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Market Problems and Frustrations

Pragmatic Marketing

Much of what product managers do on a daily basis is prioritize a long list of requests. Requests that come from everywhere: a feature needed to close a deal, an idea from the dev team, a list of open items from support, and on and on and on. And everytime we have a meeting, we walk away with another list of requests. What’s missing for many product managers—perhaps most—is first-hand experience.

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Introducing: Image Matchmaker

AB Tasty

Check out our latest product innovation, 'Image Matchmaker', the AI-powered dynamic widget that makes optimizing your product page images a breeze! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Introducing: Image Matchmaker.

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Our 6 favorite interface design talks from Krupa 2019

ProductBoard

On April 6th, I, along with my colleague and fellow designer Petur Pilat, hopped on a plane to Kiev, Ukraine for the interface design conference, Krupa 2019. We attended several amazing talks about what different people are doing today in the field of design, and we were so fortunate to have the one and only Don Norman, who headlined the conference, sign his book for us!

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9 In-App Messaging Examples That Boost User Engagement

Gainsight

In-app messages are popping up everywhere and SaaS products are no exception. In-app engagements is a highly effective way to increase user retention and engagement. In fact, products that use in-app engagements see a 3x boost in engagement and a 4x increase in conversions. An in-app engagement can take many forms such as a guide, survey, or notification.

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Everything Is Tracked?—?What power do we have?

The Product Coalition

Everything Is Tracked?—?What power do we have? When I skip a track of music on Spotify, I think “are they tracking me?” In the age of automation, I don’t need to speak for my preferences to be known?—?my actions are captured and my desires assumed. The tracking of actions has become like money?—?the system works. Knowing how it works is “uneasy,” as a friend of mine says.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Fueled's Jessica Wagner on Intersecting Product and Growth with Data

Amplitude

In order to better understand users—their wants and their unique problems that need proactive solutions—it’s crucial to involve data in every step of the product-development process. Jessica Wagner believes that building products should be a user-centric process from beginning to end. Her career in digital product and strategy has taught her that products only succeed when they offer solutions that users actually need.

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How to run remote design interviews

Miro

How to run remote design interviewsJordan StanisciaDesigner at AbstractAs teams become increasingly distributed, all the processes associated with hiring, onboarding, building new teams and evaluating their results change. The interview process is no exception. Instead of flying candidates to their HQ for an onsite session, modern collaboration tools allow companies to interview remotely.

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How “Better Together” Technology Combinations Drives Better Agility

TIBCO - Thought Leadership

With the dramatic rise in the importance of AI and automation, digital business leaders are faced with a daunting challenge: they need to simultaneously become more insight-driven, more automated, and more agile. Innovative technology is the solution. But technology is also a challenge, as too many tools are inefficient and too few tools are incomplete.

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Your Guide to Building a Support Staff/Help Desk Team: Recruitment, Hiring, and More

TSIA

As the head of TSIA’s Support Services research practice, I’ve had a noticeable uptick in questions from TSIA member companies related to Support recruiting and hiring. These questions are specifically around motivating staff, helping staff deal with the large amount of change they face in their roles, and how to hire and build a Support team for the next generation of Support.

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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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Announcing the next batch of Product Management Course: April Batch | Live Classes

NextBigWhat

Ladies and Gentlemen:As a discipline, Product Management is still in its infancy in India and the major missing component is lack of fundamental thinking. Most courses aim to fix the… The post Announcing the next batch of Product Management Course: April Batch | Live Classes appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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31 prototype testing questions every designer should ask

UserTesting

You already know that fast human insight is key to building a great customer experience. Whether you’re creating a website, mobile app, landing page, or other product, testing can happen at any stage of the design cycle. Despite this, many … The post 31 prototype testing questions every designer should ask appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Announcing World Product Day 2019 – the World’s Largest Product Management Event

Mind the Product

Last year, on 23 May 2018, we celebrated the first ever World Product Day – a day all about shining a spotlight on our global tribe of product people, connecting local communities with each other, highlighting the craft of product management, and having fun along the way. On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 we’re back again, and this year it’s going to be bigger and better than ever.

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Introducing real-time sales reps to accelerate growth

Intercom, Inc.

Customers today enter the sales cycle full of knowledge, opinions and feelings about your product and your company. In most cases, your buyers have already educated themselves. They might have even played around with freemium versions of your product. Personally speaking, this is how I purchase software. “In most cases, your buyers have already educated themselves” You want to catch me when I’m most interested – clicking around your website and investigating your offering and p

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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How Technology Drives the Evolution of Beta Testing

Centercode

We may associate the idea of beta testing with Google, Microsoft, video games, and other tech with roots in the late 20th century, but IBM cemented “beta” as far back as the 1950s. The Director of Betabound, Brad Day, wrote about the history of beta. To paraphrase him: IBM referred to testing feature complete products as “B” testing (in contrast to testing theories and ideas, or “A” testing).

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Setting Up A Monorepo React App with Yarn

Modus Create

The folder structure and module management of an application can become very complex and cumbersome as the application grows. This growth can quickly become difficult to track. A good way to structure the app is to write it in a per-feature basis, where each feature lives on its own place. A common and simple pattern is to split the application in different folders, but this can be taken further by creating different packages, that can be shared among different applications where each package re