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Are you a Product Manager? Or a Project Manager in disguise?

Mind the Product

In this guest post, Karen Velasquez, Product Manager at Signable, delves into the difference between product management and project management from her experiences in both roles. [.] Read more » The post Are you a Product Manager? Or a Project Manager in disguise? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Scrum and Kanban: The Infinity War

The Product Coalition

This war drags on, the factions continue to let blood and form new strange alliances (Scrumban?), but which is better? Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Placing product bets on your roadmap by Indicative

Mind the Product

In this digital breakout session sponsored by Indicative at #mtpcon London 2022, Esmeralda Martinez, Head of Product at Indicative by mParticle discussed placing bets and taking smart calculated risks on your product roadmap. [.] Read more » The post Placing product bets on your roadmap by Indicative appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Build a UX Research Team from Scratch

UserInterviews

Just hired as a UX research leader? Here's a checklist and tips for what to do in your first 90 days to build and manage an effective user research team.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Collect’s founder Alex Delivet on automating data collection

Intercom, Inc.

?. Manual document collection is not exactly what you would call a seamless process. Whether it’s customer onboarding or just gathering information for an event, we’re often trapped in endless follow-ups and back-and-forth emails until we finally get the assets and can move on with other, more meaningful tasks. Alex Delivet , one of the protagonists of the Paris startup scene, has experienced this predicament first-hand.

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What is your stickiness metric really saying?

Mixpanel

Stickiness is an extremely popular engagement metric. It’s used by product managers to make roadmap decisions, and it’s cherished by investors for its help in determining investment worthiness. It’s also one of the most misleading metrics there is if you don’t know exactly how it works. In this article, we’ll dive into concrete examples of how stickiness is calculated and compare the results so you can go beyond “good vs bad” numbers and make decisions that are truly meaningful for your pr

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Observability vs. Monitoring: What is the Difference?

eG Innovations

Introduction. For several decades, IT monitoring has been deployed in different forms. The focus of IT monitoring has been to gather metrics about the operations of an IT infrastructure’s hardware and software assets to ensure that all the key functions are being performed as expected to support applications and IT services. In the recent past, the term Observability has been used as a synonym for “modern monitoring”.

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How to Prioritize Features to Make Better Product Decisions

ProductPlan

All product leaders want their products to do well in the market. In addition, they want to provide a real-world solution to a customer’s problem. Yet, how do they effectively prioritize the right features when stakeholders demand different things from your product team? As a product professional, you must silence the outside noise and focus on what matters most—your customer.

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How to Hire First-Time UX Researchers at Your Startup

dscout People Nerds

Don’t overlook talent in a different field. Here’s how to screen for applicable skills for a candidate breaking into the industry.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Pulse Europe to Spotlight Durable Growth Strategies

Gainsight

Learn how customer, community, and product-led strategies can build long-term, efficient growth. It’s our favorite time of the year—again! If you’re still nursing a case of Pulse San Francisco FOMO, then you’re in luck. Pulse Europe is just around the corner on November 9–10 in—drumroll, please—London! . Take some time off from back-to-back Zoom meetings and join us live on the rooftop of Tobacco Dock to make meaningful connections with peers in Customer Success (CS), Product, and Community.

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Effective 1:1 Personalization Starts with Concrete Data

AB Tasty

It’s no secret that today’s digital marketplace is highly competitive. Consumers are exposed to an increasingly high number of messages each day. How can you make your message relevant to your consumers and break through the noise? To capture consumers’ attention, brands need to focus their attention on crafting unique user experiences to deliver 1:1 […].

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5 ways Productboard can help you conduct better product discovery

ProductBoard

There’s a lot of uncertainty and risk when it comes to building products. We like to think we know our customers and their needs, but it’s easy to go astray unless we take the time to regularly check in with them and validate our ideas as we go. This is why product discovery is just as important — if not more so — than delivery.

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A Blind Man Invented Cruise Control: What That Teaches Us About Product Sense

The Product Coalition

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash Inventor Ralph Teetor suffered a childhood accident that left him blind in both eyes, yet Teetor went on to invent “cruise control” for automobiles. If you asked me what problem cruise control was solving?—?I would say someone’s foot became sore on long road trips and they got tired of repositioning the foot. A secondary pain point is probably something around fuel efficiency and the cost of gasoline.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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How Does Iterative Testing Help Build Better Products [+Test Examples]

Userpilot

What is iterative testing? What are its benefits? How can it help product managers build products that drive value for their customers? If you’re looking for answers to these questions, you're in the right place, as that's exactly what we're exploring in the article! Ready to jump in? Let's get to it! TL;DR. Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.

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Best tools for customer feedback

Userpilot

Looking for the best customer feedback tool for your SaaS company? There are plenty of solutions for customer feedback on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. The crux of the issue is – to make the right choice, you need to account for your priorities: your different jobs to be done, your budget, and the size of the company.

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Best tools for customer experience management

Userpilot

Looking for the best customer experience management tool for your SaaS company? There are plenty of solutions for customer experience management on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. The crux of the issue is – to make the right choice, you need to account for your priorities: your different jobs to be done, your budget, and the size of the company.