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If you Love Design, it’s Time to Stop Liking it

Mind the Product

The team casually assembles for the routine design critique. Stakeholders from the business and development teams join members of the design team as they prepare to review the latest concept designs and prototypes. The designer kicks off the meeting with a greeting and a review of the problem, audience, goals, and other inputs that have influenced design decisions.

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Frequent Releasing Can Lead to Short and Frequent Planning

Johanna Rothman

Agile approaches can help a team release more often. When a team releases more often, the product people can replan the product roadmaps. The project portfolio people can replan the project portfolio. Not every team releases often enough to take advantage of replanning small and often. Everyone falls prey to “too much” thinking. The product people don’t create MVEs or MVPs —they need the entire feature set.

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Advocating for Lean Practices

The Product Guy

How to align lean methodologies with various (and often competing) stakeholder objectives. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Advocating for Lean Practices”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor.

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How To Hold Better Meetings With The Help Of Graphic Facilitation

UX Studio

I first heard about graphic facilitation at a UX conference where the speakers made amazing drawings during their talks. I found it pretty cool but took it for just a great way to make some notes. Surely, this real-time drawing “show”, as I first labeled it, had nothing to do with my work as a UX designer. Gosh, so wrong! Graphic facilitation has great value and can make your product team better.

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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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Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall on the importance of material exploration for designers

Miro

Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall on the importance of material exploration and experience design At RealtimeBoard, we regularly talk to designers, product developers and other professionals leading the industry to gain insights about the future of experience design, product development and remote work. Today, we talked to Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall, designers from BERG […].

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10 All-Star Project Managers to Follow on Twitter

The Product Coalition

If you’re a project manager , you know what it’s like to wear multiple hats. With responsibilities such as planning, budgeting, and overseeing numerous project details, project managers must master the art of organization. Simplify your project management software and watch employee productivity soar. They must also become expert communicators. Successful project management requires a close working relationship with leadership to ensure each project is aligned with business strategy , even as co

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2018 State of Digital Product: Tesla, Google, IBM and 1000+ Brands Discuss Digital Challenges

The Accidental Product Manager

2018 State of Digital Product. Product managers understand that the number of connected devices that consumers use has increased and now includes a wide spectrum of devices. Consumers are more informed than ever before with more available options and want a seamless connected experience across their customer journey. Incite Group just published an in-depth, research-led report on the state of digital product, based on feedback from over 1000 product, UX design and engagement executives.

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Signal, Noise

The Product Coalition

We do… we do…: via Dilbert My wife has definitely mentioned on more than one occasion that my “positive comments” are sometimes difficult to understand because they are so heavily contextualized via my profession. I don’t immediately understand why what I’ve said is difficult to understand but I come around. Our job as technology professionals is to translate the very things that are difficult to translate… we can do a better job though.

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Case study: How Alpha enables LendingTree to improve speed-to-insight and make smarter product decisions

DISQO

The pioneer of digital lending marketplaces leverages Alpha’s on-demand consumer insights platform to scale experimentation and become a consumer-insight-driven organization. Background. In 1996, Doug Lebda wanted to buy his first home. His miserable experience with trying to find a suitable mortgage led him to build LendingTree, which is today one of the largest networks of lenders in the country.

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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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Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2018 and the growing consumer-grade bar for enterprise software

UserTesting

This week Mary Meeker released her brilliant and powerful Internet Trends 2018 report. While it covers everything from mobile and internet growth to the aggressive competition among the tech giants to commerce and consumer spend, we wanted to direct you … The post Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2018 and the growing consumer-grade bar for enterprise software appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Case study: How Alpha enables LendingTree to improve speed-to-insight and make smarter product decisions

DISQO

The pioneer of digital lending marketplaces leverages Alpha’s rapid consumer feedback platform to become a consumer-insight-driven organization. Background. In 1996, Doug Lebda wanted to buy his first home. His miserable experience with trying to find a suitable mortgage led him to build LendingTree, which is today one of the largest networks of lenders in the country.

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Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2018 and the growing consumer-grade bar for enterprise software

UserTesting

This week Mary Meeker released her brilliant and powerful Internet Trends 2018 report. While it covers everything from mobile and internet growth to the aggressive competition among the tech giants to commerce and consumer spend, we wanted to direct you … The post Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2018 and the growing consumer-grade bar for enterprise software appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Case study: How Alpha enables LendingTree to improve speed-to-insight and make smarter product decisions

DISQO

The pioneer of digital lending marketplaces leverages Alpha’s rapid consumer feedback platform to become a consumer-insight-driven organization. Background. In 1996, Doug Lebda wanted to buy his first home. His miserable experience with trying to find a suitable mortgage led him to build LendingTree, which is today one of the largest networks of lenders in the country.

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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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Is Your Finance Department Adding Value? 3 Signs That It Is, And What To Do If It Isn’t

The Product Coalition

What role does the finance department play? When you think of your role in the finance department, do you feel empowered to drive change across the organization? You may not, but you certainly should. Finance leaders, when leveraged properly, create cost savings, promote collaboration across teams, and advocate for technology advancements and company-wide automation.

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Lessons in Building Digital Identity Products from a 4x Founder

Amplitude

Some products live behind the scenes. They power the essential and unspoken functions that we do every day like reading and responding to email, or tracking our to-do lists, for example. But with behind-the-scenes products, the world doesn’t know or really care which product it is as long as the task gets done. Other products, meanwhile, live front and center.

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Adventures in Product Feedback: Q&A with a Trailblazer in B2B SaaS

The Product Coalition

Thanks to Jay Reed, Flickr We were recently lucky enough to spend some time with a talented team building a new B2B SaaS product within a global organization. They are an impressive bunch who are cracking into a huge market with their new product. We talked about building SaaS products, the challenges we are working on, the power of Customer Success and how product feedback can be used effectively.