Tue.Mar 26, 2019

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Skilled Product Leaders Can Manage Business Disruptions

Product Management Unpacked

A constant in business today is the speed and scope of change. Businesses encounter disruption more frequently than ever. In some cases, disruption can be attributed to innovation. But disruption also arises from specific external forces: market-defining technology changes, regulatory changes, new competitors with different business models and more.

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How to Get Budget for Product Management Tools

ProductPlan

You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a chef, you don’t require any specialized equipment to do your job, aside from a computer with a decent Internet connection. Heck, thanks to companies like Google, you don’t even need to buy Microsoft Office anymore! But while you can certainly muddle through and survive with a spreadsheet to manage your backlog and a Post-It note roadmap, there are plenty of tools ou

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Growth Hacking for Product Managers by Chris Long

Mind the Product

Chris Long , Product and Growth Leader and part of the new product development team at Booking.com, introduced the ProductTank community of Karlsruhe to processes and models to drive product growth. Growth and Product Management. Chris says that product managers often are unaware of their responsibility in the growth process. Although many areas in a business affect growth (product, marketing, engineering, data, design), the product manager is first and foremost responsible for the success of th

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Be a Better Marketer with AI

Pragmatic Marketing

“Is artificial intelligence going to take over marketers’ jobs?” is the new “Is email marketing dead?” in online marketing. Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting a lot of attention, but the reality is we’re just starting to tap into AI to augment our work. That’s right. AI is going to augment, not replace, what marketers do.

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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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How to Run Great Cross-Functional Team Meetings

The Product Coalition

Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash And no, I’m not just going to tell you to have an agenda and start on time Because Product Managers are optional in the land of technology (more on that here ), your success depends on the success of others. Your job could be summarized as consisting solely of making others more effective. One outstanding way to do that is to run great team meetings.

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The Difference Between Startup PMs & Big Corporation PMs

The Product Coalition

While all Product Managers are tasked with providing delightful solutions for customers, there are distinct differences between the work of PMs in startups compared to PMs in larger, more established businesses. The two main differentiating factors within these roles fall under the challenges faced, and the decision making process. The distinctions between these categories affect how you as a PM must approach your duties within the company you work for.

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How Dell is promoting collaboration and project visibility

Miro

Reading time — 7 minDesign thinking transformation: how Dell is promoting collaboration and project visibilityAs companies are trying to become more customer centric in a competitive market, their leadership becomes more open to change. Many leading companies are abandoning traditional modes of work for a more collaborative and design-centric culture.

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3 Tips for Adopting a Product Management Framework

The Product Coalition

Product Management frameworks are exciting to learn and frustrating to implement. As a product manager myself and a framework teacher, I totally understand the appeal. Being a product manager is a messy job. You’re constantly trying to explain to your peers what you do. You didn’t go to school for it. And every day you have to motivate really smart people who don’t report to you to align with your vision and decisions.

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How Dell is promoting collaboration and project visibility

Miro

Reading time — 7 minDesign thinking transformation: how Dell is promoting collaboration and project visibilityAs companies are trying to become more customer centric in a competitive market, their leadership becomes more open to change. Many leading companies are abandoning traditional modes of work for a more collaborative and design-centric culture.

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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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Free Course! Learn Qualitative App Analytics [2019 edition]

The Product Coalition

Have you heard the buzz about ‘qualitative app analytics’? It’s taking the mobile analytics industry by storm and for good reason. Even Gartner has noted its significance for the mobile world. Instead of relying solely on numerical data, like traditional app analytics platforms, qualitative app analytics provides mobile professionals with powerful, qualitative information on their app(s).

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Dungeons and Dragons slays Agile

BrainMates

I had so much fun when I was a kid in my first years of high school discovering Dungeons and Dragons. I was playing the first release of the basic set in the early ‘80s and I’d spend hours creating heroic persona, sending them on dangerous quests and then leveling up with experience points and treasure. The game was a contest of points, dice rolls, probability and imagination.

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Close calls. Or not.

The Product Coalition

Close calls. Or not. was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Why Product Management Is Not The Same As Oprah’s Favorite Things

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Esley Svanas (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andrew Hsu]. Before every quarterly meeting with the various departments in the company, I would try to imagine I was Oprah and it was one of her “Oprah’s Favorite Things” episodes. Most often these episodes were around the beginning of the winter holiday season, Oprah would choose things that she liked and gift them to the audience in the studio.

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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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Why your customers’ second invoice is so important

Intercom, Inc.

In the SaaS industry, we have all come to realize that retention is just as important as acquisition. There is no point exerting lots of energy attracting new customers if you struggle to keep your existing customers happy and subscribing to your service. Indeed, we have gone so far as to say that “ customer retention is the new conversion ,” and the data backs that claim up.

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Why building for enterprises may seem like feeding an elephant?

The Product Coalition

Understanding how B2B product management is a different ball game altogether Product folks who have worked on the early stage enterprise products may relate with the title. Building an enterprise product is a whole lot different from building a consumer product. Much of this difference can be attributed to the buying behavior of the enterprises and the complexities arising out of the vastness of the enterprise process you are trying to fix.

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Leading remote teams: Learnings from SXSW 2019

Miro

Leading remote teams: Learnings from SXSW 2019At work, do you sit near everyone on your team? How about in the same office? Same city? Same country? Every single day? Remote work is a growing trend, rising by more than 115% over the past decade. At SXSW 2019, the Future Workplace track included some sessions specifically […]. The post Leading remote teams: Learnings from SXSW 2019 appeared first on MiroBlog | A blog by Miro.

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How to document like a pro being a product manager?

The Product Coalition

Tools & tips that will help you with a good system and methods for documentation. When you work as a product manager, soon enough you realize that most of your time is consumed by meetings, communicating with analytics, developers, stakeholders, designers, business analyst etc, etc. When you find some time sitting by your desk you spend it documenting all the actions, decisions, design etc.

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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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Leading remote teams: Learnings from SXSW 2019

Miro

Leading remote teams: Learnings from SXSW 2019At work, do you sit near everyone on your team? How about in the same office? Same city? Same country? Every single day? Remote work is a growing trend, rising by more than 115% over the past decade. At SXSW 2019, the Future Workplace track included some sessions specifically […]. The post Leading remote teams: Learnings from SXSW 2019 appeared first on MiroBlog | A blog by Miro.

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