Wed.Mar 17, 2021

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Management Peer Cohort vs Team Pairing and Mobbing

Johanna Rothman

At a recent talk about the Career Ladder posts , someone asked this question: Can managers pair effectively? That's a great question. Some managers job-share. However, they don't work simultaneously on the work. One person works for a couple of days. That person then hands off work to the other person. The handoff might work in a couple of different ways.

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Success at scale: HubSpot’s Jean-Bernard Baptiste on unlocking business growth through great customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

Jean-Bernard Baptiste is a Senior Manager of Customer Support at HubSpot , a platform built to enable business growth across marketing, sales, and customer service. With a mission to “help millions of organizations to grow better,” as Jean-Bernard puts it, the team at HubSpot is focused on creating great customer experiences for the 100,000 businesses using the platform.

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Product Validation vs. Research?—?A Follow Up

The Product Coalition

Product Validation vs. Research?—?A Follow Up The discussions around product validation and research have provoked some excellent debate in the community and at Terem. Getting tight on the definition and use of validation in product is something that has emerged for me recently as the phrase has gained traction and popular use. Given the popularity of validation, having a common understanding becomes essential to success in teams.

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Defying the Trends: Women at Innovatemap

Innovatemap

While we at Innovatemap like to think there are plenty of things that make us unique — like our incomparable product knowledge, design prowess and commitment to grow — there’s one quality that sets us apart from the naked eye, and it’s one we’re incredibly proud of: our high percentage of women. Kristin and Katie (2019 Photo). When I think about the many things that drew me to Innovatemap, the presence of women in leadership roles comes to mind immediately.

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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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Top 7 Video on Demand Platform Providers to Stream Your Videos

The Product Coalition

What did you watch online today? Some of you might have prepared a list in mind by now. Engagement with online videos has only been increasing with time. 6 out of 10 people would rather watch online videos than Television, says Google. With the current state of the world and considerable increase in the number of people working from home across India and many other countries, the amount of time spent in watching videos online has increased significantly.

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Who is a Product Manager?—?A series?—?Part two

The Product Coalition

Who is a Product Manager?—?A series?—?Part two PM roles vary from industry to industry and from organization to organization. But various PM roles vary across mainly 4 dimensions. Business Facing and High Abstraction A growth PM?—?Persona identification The PM role that lies in this quadrant is called “ Growth PM ” role. Growth PM role is mainly business facing and involves high abstraction w.r.t. the details/technicalities involved in a product.

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Learn from Square: How to Launch your Product in Japan during the Pandemic

freshtrax

In btrax’s first virtual event of the 2021 series, Localizing for the Japanese Market, we invited leading industry experts to share their professional experience launching products in Japan. Eugene Oh provided an outstanding presentation sharing insights from his experience as the [International] Product Marketing Lead at Square. Eugene provided his thoughts and advice from the perspective of a US-based team responsible for “launching a product with little or no cultural relation to” in Japan.

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Who is a Product Manager??—?A series?—?Part one

The Product Coalition

Who is a Product Manager??—?A series?—?Part one Hustler A lot of amateur delineations of the term “Product Manager” are ubiquitous. Some say a Product Manager is a hustler, some say a PM is at the intersection of tech, business and design and so forth. But who is a PM? In the most simplest of terms, a PM is the owner of the product/feature right from its inception to its realization.

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What are your tips for building #BetterRoadmaps?

ProductBoard

Join our #BetterRoadmaps social contest and win two essential books for product managers: Empowered by Marty Cagan and Product Roadmaps Relaunched by C. Todd Lombardo. Product roadmaps should not be static documents of what features will be delivered when. Excellent product roadmaps are dynamic visualizations that help communicate the outcomes the product team is working towards and how they.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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How to tame and analyze massive data to improve your mobile app experience

The Product Coalition

Data is used regularly to drive decisions regarding marketing and business. When it comes to making decisions for a product, the amount of data that needs to be processed is significantly higher. How to tame and analyze massive data to improve your mobile app experience For instance, If you want to understand whether a user scrolling through the content is an interest to explore or his inability to find what he is looking for, you need to have the ability to interpret every tap, every scroll and

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Good vs. bad roadmaps (Infographic)

ProductBoard

“A good roadmap is a strategic communications tool, a statement of intent and direction, and, done well, a way of rallying the whole organization around the key problems that must be solved to achieve your product vision.” Bruce McCarthy Founder at Product Culture Almost everyone can agree on the importance of user insights and a well-defined strategy, but the role of the roadmap is much more.

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Dark UX Patterns, and Why They Suck

The Product Coalition

Most of us know how frustrating it can be when we’re ‘forced’ to sign up for services we don’t need or want. We’re frequently met with confusing and sometimes even misleading instructions when we attempt to cancel or change recurring payments. Twelve months ago, I signed up for a $40 Norton antivirus. The process was easy, and it didn’t present any issue.

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Mixpanel partners with Census to bring product analytics to the modern data stack

Mixpanel

We’re thrilled to release an integration with Census that makes any major cloud warehouse the data source for Mixpanel. Whether you use Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Postgress, or Databricks to store your event data, you can sync that same data to Mixpanel. No separate SDK or pipelines required; just a couple lines of SQL in Census. This gives product teams the ability to quickly learn about their users within Mixpanel’s interactive reports.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Why It Is Essential to Put Customers First with a Customer-Led Product Strategy

ProductPlan

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. Sounds pretty obvious, right? But creating a truly customer-centric business model means balancing a lot of different factors, not just customer service. All too often, customers are losing out to more influential stakeholder groups and other priorities.

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13-15 April: Mind The Product APAC/ Managing Misaligned Stakeholders

Mironov Consulting

How do we navigate when our internal stakeholders are misaligned (and they usually are)? It's important to understand what drives this, see the pattern rather than get angry, and find some tools to keep our products/business moving forward.

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How Leadership Can Foster an Authentic Virtual Event for Your Employees

ProductPlan

When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. There’s the holiday party where coworkers schmooze over food and drinks, be it in the office kitchen or at a fancy hotel with significant others in tow. There are fun activities where silos are temporarily broken down, giving way to bowling matches or scavenger hunts. And there is, of course, the company all-hands meeting where leadership shares future direction and celebrates past achievements.

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ONE THING on More MadLibs

Product Culture

A few weeks ago, I ran a contest on Product Vision MadLibs. The idea was to create your vision statement using this MadLibs template: We help [ type of customer ] [ achieve a benefit ] by [ what we do best ]. The winner (drum roll, please. ) is Debbie Kite, Product Lead at WeatherAsset. Here is her tight vision statement: We help suppliers of fresh produce reduce their exposure to weather risk by handling and tailoring large amount of weather data for them.

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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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Why It Is Essential to Put Customers First with a Customer-Led Product Strategy

ProductPlan

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. Sounds pretty obvious, right? But creating a truly customer-centric business model means balancing a lot of different factors, not just customer service. All too often, customers are losing out to more influential stakeholder groups and other priorities.

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Road to 2030 – Picturing the Future of Work

Modus Create

2020 made even the traditional organizations that had steered clear of digitization realize that the nature of work is evolving. More businesses are pondering the future of work than ever before. While each decade brings its own macro trends that shape the future of work, the scale and potential impact of changes that we are going to witness in the coming decade would be at a different level.

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How Leadership Can Foster an Authentic Virtual Event for Your Employees

ProductPlan

When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. There’s the holiday party where coworkers schmooze over food and drinks, be it in the office kitchen or at a fancy hotel with significant others in tow. There are fun activities where silos are temporarily broken down, giving way to bowling matches or scavenger hunts. And there is, of course, the company all-hands meeting where leadership shares future direction and celebrates past achievements.

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Top Analytics Solutions for Digital Teams Converge

Amplitude

G2–the top independent software review site–recently released their rankings of top software products for 2021 , informed by thousands of customer reviews. Across multiple categories, Amplitude was listed as a top choice for digital business, including a top choice for marketers and the #1 product analytics solution overall. How G2 Ranks Amplitude: Best Software Products: #22.

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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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Get Stakeholder Buy-in With Bruce McCarthy

Business of Software Conference

Coming up at BoS Conf Online.Spring: Bruce McCarthy teaches stakeholder negotiation. Bruce literally wrote the book on roadmapping: Product Roadmapping Relaunched. He’s also led great talks, masterclasses, workshops, and Q&A sessions with BoS over the years. This year, at BoS Conf Online.Spring, Bruce is back as a Breakout Leader helping you with your product problems and helping you negotiate and communicate your roadmap for stakeholder buy-in.