Tue.Sep 03, 2019

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Empowering Development Teams

Roman Pichler

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Socially Preferable by Nathan Kinch

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Nathan Kinch, CEO at Greater Than X, examines the issues of ethics, privacy, and trust. He looks at how product managers can kick-start their ethics journey and ship products that make life better for everyone. The Edelman Trust Barometer is a resource that measures levels of trust in different contexts. It shows us that in 2017, trust levels were the lowest they have ever been.

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5 Harsh Realities for Product Managers

ProductPlan

Often here at the ProductPlan blog, you’ll find us writing about why it’s great to be a product manager. But all good things come with a price. And obviously, a profession this awesome—where you bring products to market that could help thousands or even millions of people—can’t always be easy. Product management (PM) is a challenging career. It’s high stakes.

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The Path to Product Qualified Leads

ProductCraft

Traditionally, businesses looked at growth as “build the product, market it, and drive sales.” Of course, along the way, teams listened to their customers and used their suggestions to improve the product. Then they marketed those improvements to drive more sales. This traditional approach, which has long proven reliable, emphasizes growth metrics that focused on.

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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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What number of users is right for my usability test?

TryMyUI

How many testers is enough for your usability test? We dive into the numbers to find the baselines and reasoning behind those baselines. The post What number of users is right for my usability test? appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Three Techniques for Uncovering Root Cause Customer Needs

Product Management University

When it comes to uncovering customer needs, it’s easy to get caught in the trap reacting and developing products and features that they ask for without first understanding the real business need and its value. Here are three techniques you can employ to uncover customer needs at the root cause level before reacting and investing in products or services that may not hit the mark. 1.

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2 Big Product Management Trends to Keep an Eye On

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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Rapid Prototyping – Philip Pantelides on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

For our first episode back after a summer break, we chat with Philip Pantelides, who takes us on a journey through Japan, Indonesia and beyond. (er, Bristol.) As the Head of Product for Premium Services at Cookpad, Philip has become known for his unstinting attention to detail, and taking rapid prototyping to a whole new level. Quote of the Episode.

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Brainstorming techniques, ideas & rules for group brainstorming

Miro

Brainstorming techniques, ideas & rules for group brainstormingA comprehensive resource to help you become a strong brainstorming session facilitator. Includes brainstorming techniques, ideas, and rules to go by.Brainstorming is one of the most popular ideation techniques. In this guide, we will learn why brainstorming is important, how to run an effective brainstorming session, and when […].

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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 Love Podcast: Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell

ProductCraft

Bootstrapping. Pricing. Freemium. Three words that incite fear in most product people. But don’t close your tab just yet. This week on Product Love, I sat down with Patrick Campbell, who has managed to turn those three things into a successful company called ProfitWell. ProfitWell is a company out of Boston that helps subscription companies. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Telecommuting in Japan: Growing Demand for Online Conferencing Software

freshtrax

Telecommuting, a working style that allows employees to work remotely is no longer a new concept in the United States. According to OwlLab , 52% of employees in the United States work remotely at least once a week. However, that’s not the case in Japan. According to research conducted by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications , only 13.3% of the respondent companies allow employees to telecommute and only 8.2% of employees have telecommuted before.

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3 Surefire Ways To Enhance Your Customer Experience

Usersnap

Boost your business growth with the outstanding customer experience and build products your customers will love. We’ve entered the era of the customer. The SaaS market is getting more and more crowded every year, consumer expectations are getting higher and higher and the voice of the customer is louder and louder. Customers have gained unprecedented power and with the competition being just about a click away, they won’t hesitate to switch if they think the grass is greener over there.

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The Product Coalition Podcast

The Product Coalition

Podcast The Product Coalition Podcast aims to show the real people behind products and illustrate the passion and emotion product people have for their products. Interviews are with product leaders, founders, co-founders or lead employees, who have a love for product management, product design or engineering. If you’d like to appear on The Product Coalition, email me at jay@productcoalition.com, or respond to this post.

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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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Thinking Like a Researcher: First Steps for Product Managers

Centercode

Being a product manager means getting asked a lot of questions. Being a great product manager? That means asking a lot of questions in return. The desire to know more about your product, your business, and your customers is a unifying trait within the product management field.

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The Product Coalition

The Product Coalition TV The Product Coalition Podcast aims to show the real people behind products and illustrate the passion and emotion product people have for their products. Interviews are with product leaders, founders, co-founders or lead employees, who have a love for product management, product design or engineering. Watch ProductCoalition.com TV here TV was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and respondin

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Why You Should Attend our Product Conference, Amplify 2019

Amplitude

It’s already September and Amplify is right around the corner (seriously, where did the time go?). With speakers from Zoom, Pinterest, Lightspeed Ventures (and more!) confirmed, we are on the edge of our seats for this year’s conference and you should be too. Amplify, hosted by Amplitude , is unlike any other We strive to bring the world’s most passionate and influential product experts under one roof. product conference you’ll find.

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A Product Managers’ take on the Nielsen Norman UX Conference 2019

The Product Coalition

Don Norman first coined the term User Experience in 1993 and in the last 26 years, UX has exploded. It’s now a vital capability for brands and it’s forecasted to total 100 million jobs by 2050. It’s misunderstood by many to solely be the interactions on a screen to get from A to B. But UX is about human-centred design, no matter the product nor the audience, creating services that help people in one way or another.

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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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LAER: The Roadmap for Revenue Growth

TSIA

Land, Adopt, Expand, Renew—Well before its official debut in Technology-as-a-Service Playbook in 2016, TSIA proposed the LAER model as the ideal framework for technology business growth, and it has become far more than just an acronym since then. LAER has helped shape the customer approach for the entire XaaS movement and the technology industry as a whole.

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Thinking Like a Researcher: First Steps for Product Managers

Centercode

Being a product manager means getting asked a lot of questions. Being a great product manager? That means asking a lot of questions in return. The desire to know more about your product, your business, and your customers is a unifying trait within the product management field. But surviving in today’s fast-paced tech landscape demands more than curiosity.

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Business of Software Conference USA 2019 Speaker Reading List

Business of Software Conference

Business of Software Conference USA 2019 Speaker Reading List. What do the smartest people have in common? It is pretty well established that a thirst for learning is a common trait. Here are the books that this year’s Business of Software Conference USA 2019 speakers say have had the biggest influence on their business lives, and what they are reading now.

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Nulab Drinking Code: DevOps & Containers

Nulab

In August, Nulab Drinking Code Singapore hosted a meetup with the theme “DevOps & Containers” at NuSpace. Our speakers for the event were: Florian Besser, Lead Software Architect at Zuhlke Engineering. Priyanka Dive, DevOps Engineer/Senior Solutions Architect at PCCW. Florian is a familiar face at our meetup; he gave a talk on “Advanced Docker Concepts” in our November Drinking Code meetup last year.

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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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Top Digital Marketing Tools To Consider Using in 2019

AB Tasty

Our list of top marketing tools in 2019 will save you time as you research how to up your marketing game, quick! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Top Digital Marketing Tools To Consider Using in 2019.

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“Oops, I Did A Marketing” | Shawn Anderson & Shane Corellian, PDQ.com | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Shawn Anderson & Shane Corellian, Co-Founders, PDQ.com. How does a bootstrapped software company effectively market especially when its founders despise (and, in fact, suck at) sales and marketing? The answer for PDQ.com finally came, in part, from Charles Bukowski: Don’t Try. The founders just started doing what they loved: Talking tech. They offered solutions and suggestions for Sys Admins via content in blogs, KB’s, videos and webcasts.

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How to Forecast Renewals

Gainsight

Signing new customers costs five times as much as retaining old ones. So why are businesses failing at renewals? One of the most common problems I see in forecasting renewals is that businesses simply don’t know how to leverage their data in the right ways. They treat it the same as they treat sales and are stumped when their forecasts show up as less than accurate.

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How we built a component API for interactive data visualizations with Ember

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, one of our core principles is to run less software , which involves using standard technology. By doing so, we all become experts in the same tools, allowing us to increase our speed of building new product and reduce the cost of engineering decisions. An example of this is our admin app, which is built with Ember.js. We have invested in building and documenting an internal design system made of reusable Ember components, so that any Intercom product engineer can skim the markup in

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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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Top 8 Active Directory Performance Problems and How to Solve Them

eG Innovations

Microsoft Active Directory is a key component of the IT infrastructure of any organization that uses Microsoft Windows servers or desktops. Active Directory is responsible for managing users, their accounts and their access to individual computers, shared drivers, printers, servers and more. From a user’s perspective, Active Directory’s single sign-on capability ensures that users do not have to remember and use different passwords for different types of accesses.

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Lee Duddell, Senior Director of UX Research, on ‘Common mistakes rookies make when testing (and how to overcome them)’

Userzoom

Lee Duddell, UserZoom’s Senior Director of UX Research, reveals some of the mistakes that newbies make when they’re running tests for the first time and how they can avoid them. . In the following video and transcript of his talk at BetterUX London 2019 , Lee takes a deep-dive into some of the most common mistakes newbie researchers make and how these can be avoided through training, guardrails and teamwork.