May, 2022

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Tech Product Leaders: Are We Spoiling Society?

The Product Coalition

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s time to have a serious discussion. We have a problem, and we’re holding it in our hands. Continue reading on Product Coalition ยป.

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Product Teams in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough. Scrum is a popular agile framework. Its strength is, at least partly, based on its roles with the Scrum team being the fundamental unit. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the productโ€”the product ownerโ€”with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solutionโ€”the develop

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3 Methodologies to Making Data the Heartbeat of Your Business

280 Group

The more your business leverages data, the better equipped you are to operate efficiently, make informed decisions, and develop products and services that meet the needs of your customers. But how do you best leverage various types of data to your greatest advantage? Letโ€™s discuss how a balanced approach to applying the various data methodologies enables optimal workflows and desired outcomes for Product Managers.

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Business Services Apps: 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

The following data and information on Business Services apps is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Brands in Business Services had varied experiences in 2021. Those focused on shipping still felt the sting of the pandemic as local and national supply chains continued to reel. Others (like expense management or work collaboration) felt the investments they made in mobile in 2020 begin to pay off as the investment in remote work continued to be a priority.

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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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How our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We’re serious about delivering the best customer experience with our Engagement OS. We have truly global ambitions to bring our mission of making internet business personal to the biggest enterprise customers across the world. This ambition is reflected in the way we design and build the infrastructure that supports the Intercom platform. We are building for the long term โ€“ that means ensuring reliability by default, and the ability to accommodate massive scale as we grow. .

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Innovating in Government โ€“ Rick Klau on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Experienced product manager and technology expert Rick Klau, currently California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer sat down with Lily and Randy on the podcast this week to discuss innovation in government throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. They also had time to share insights on OKRs and frameworks in product management. [.] Read more » The post Innovating in Government – Rick Klau on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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In-app Customer Needs Assessment 101: How to Collect and Act on Data

Userpilot

What is a customer needs assessment and why should you care? Here are the top reasons SaaS businesses need it and a guide on how to succeed.

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SaaS Onboarding KPIs: Measure & Improve Customer Effectiveness

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

SaaS Onboarding KPIs measure how fast your customers are getting value from your product & suggests steps to improve product quality.

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Personal Services Apps: 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

The following data and information on Shopping apps is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Subcategories for Personal Services Apps: Home and Family. Personal Services apps are separated into two subcategories: Home (real estate, property management, and connected devices) and Family (milestone tracking and family schedule management).

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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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14 tips to help you run a successful product design workshop

Intercom, Inc.

Design and collaboration go hand-in-hand. When we want to discuss problems, imagine new ideas, and brainstorm solutions, itโ€™s best to bring people together โ€“ whether in person or virtually. Collaboration comes in many flavors, from small informal working sessions and group critiques to full-blown workshops. But beware: just bringing people together doesnโ€™t automatically guarantee creative outputs and ideas.

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Tools of the Trade: A Look at Pendoโ€™s Discovery Tech Stack

Product Talk

The beauty of continuous discovery is that thereโ€™s no single right way to do it. This is why Teresa often talks about guiding principles and core concepts , but encourages everyone to find what works best for them. For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members.

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How to build machine learning-based products

Mind the Product

In this article, written for product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams we cover some growth areas and ideas on how to achieve more impact while working on building ML-based products. [.] Read more » The post How to build machine learning-based products appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Power of Amazon's Written Narratives

Sachin Rekhi

For years now I've been obsessed with understanding unique product cultures and how they enable companies to build world class products. One particular product culture that has always fascinated me is Amazon and their unique writing culture. I love talking to Amazon employees about how the writing culture is interwoven into their product development process and the pros and cons of it.

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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, youโ€™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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What the Post-Pandemic World Means for Mobile App Teams?

The Product Coalition

UXCam CEO, Kishan Gupta, reflects on how human behavior has evolved in the past two years and the implications it has on the mobile app world. Learn how you can prepare for societyโ€™s next big changes. Last week I ordered from a food delivery app. 50 minutes later, a rider hands me a plastic bag with my ramen swimming beneath a capsized paper bowl. Thereโ€™s a noodle place less than a block from my house.

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Utilities Apps: 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

The following data and information on Utilities apps is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Brands in the Utilities industry faced various hurdles throughout 2021. Some companies (like those focused on manufacturing) faced issues across the year due to supply chain disruption, while others (like energy and security) were less volatile as the consumer marketplace leveled.

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What is the customer journey?

Intercom, Inc.

A customer journey can be defined as the interactions a customer has with your brand from the very first time they engage with you to the point of purchase. Itโ€™s another way of saying the customer lifecycle, or the steps your customers take from the time they first become aware of your brand to the point at which they become your brandโ€™s biggest advocate. .

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Fanimal Builds A Group Friendly Marketplace

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

What if he could build software which would aggregate the purchase information for those people who wanted to go to and event as a group?

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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. Itโ€™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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The balanced scorecard: a framework that drives impact

Mind the Product

In this article, we'll dig deep into one specific framework that I fancy a lot for its genericity and its simplicity to apply. In the end, you will master the key principles and be able to come up with clear priorities based on their estimated business impact. [.] Read more » The post The balanced scorecard: a framework that drives impact appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Transformation Defined

svpg

By Jon Moore and Marty Cagan There are so many anti-patterns when it comes to transformation. Many of us have witnessed failed transformations, but few have witnessed true successes. Which makes the lessons learned from successful transformations unusually valuable. We intend to write much more about both the anti-patterns, and the lessons from the successes.

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How Blockchain is Disrupting the Future for the Consumer

The Product Coalition

Thoughts on the evolution of blockchain according to yesterday, today, and the future Blockchain is no longer limited to bitcoin trading, and investors are aware of it. Blockchain is responsible for facilitating tasks in regular lives, investing protocols that can bring passive returns compared to the savings arenas and conventional banking. Blockchain also offers banking services.

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How to Use Feedback to Improve Mobile Customer Experience in 4 Steps

Alchemer Mobile

From adding features to modifying the user interface, the directions you can take your mobile app are endless. The bandwidth of your development team, not so much. With infinite choices and limited bandwidth, how do you decide what to prioritize when it comes to improving your mobile customer experience? Learning more about your customers is the best place to start.

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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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What is first contact resolution (FCR)?

Intercom, Inc.

First contact resolution (FCR) is a metric that measures how often your customersโ€™ queries are resolved after their first call, email, text, or chat session with your companyโ€™s support team(s). It provides a view on how efficient your company is at responding to your customersโ€™ challenges. . Unlike โ€œfirst call resolutionโ€, a similar metric, first contact resolution examines your success across all channels, not just phone.

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Product Waste and The ROI of Discovery

Mironov Consulting

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet somehow we don’t see this waste, or mis-attribute it to engineering process problems. I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.

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Fireside chat with Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Zurich talk, Marty Cagan, Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group sits down for a Fireside chat to answer questions about his career and advise other product managers. [.] Read more » The post Fireside chat with Marty Cagan appeared first on Mind the Product.

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A Managerโ€™s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism

First Round Review

Uncertainty, burnout and perfectionism are holding teams back โ€” Liz Fosslien is here to share tactical advice (and her signature witty illustrations) on how managers can help.

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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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How to Find Your Strategic Anchors

The Product Coalition

Strategic thinking is hard by definition. It deals with many unknowns, as well as multiple dimensions and variables at any given time. The only way to move forward is to identify the real anchors and build around them. Hereโ€™s how to do that. Photo by Surendran MP on Unsplash Do you play Wordle? I absolutely love it! I play it every day with my daughters (or, if Iโ€™m completely honest, I let them join me when Iโ€™m playing).

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Five Steps to Create a Holistic Mobile Customer Feedback Solution

Alchemer Mobile

As investment in digital transformation continues, mobile apps have become a primary channel of communication with customers. The customers themselves are driving this change. In 2022, mobile eCommerce sales are expected to hit $437 billion, a 21.5 percent increase from 2021. With customers spending more time and money on mobile apps, it is important that companies continue to adapt and prioritize mobile in their customer feedback solution.

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Letโ€™s talk principles: Exploring how we build product at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Principles are a way of encoding successes, allowing teams to repeat behaviors that lead to positive outcomes and avoid behaviors that lead to mistakes. Over the last ten years, weโ€™ve developed, refined, and iterated on our principles to ensure they each represent an important part of the way we work, collaborate, and build product. Weโ€™ve recently kicked off a blog series exploring these principles, written by the people that know them best โ€“ our R&D team.