Sat.Nov 21, 2020 - Fri.Nov 27, 2020

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Q&A with Digital Transformation Experts: Lauren Chan Lee, Product Management Leader, Formerly Care.com

Alchemer Mobile

Welcome to the third installation of our digital transformation interview series, where successful product and marketing leaders share what’s top-of-mind, how to overcome obstacles, where the marketplace is going, and tips for success. If you missed our last interview with Josh Fischer from Spotify , we recommend giving it a read. __. As a business concept, we’ve talked about digital transformation for the better part of a decade.

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Just the ticket: The power of customer support ticketing workflows in Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We recently released more than 20 new features that make Intercom better at handling complex queries and therefore a better tool for offering world-class support at scale. The features combine to allow for sophisticated ticketing workflows behind the scenes, but with all the advantages that make our Messenger so popular with customers. For a long time, online customer support has revolved around issuing tickets, with help desk software primarily designed to keep track of long, multi-digit refere

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Building Successful Product Development Teams, by Simon Colmer

Mind the Product

Simon Colmer (at the time of this talk, the Head of Development at Access NFP Websites) spoke to ProductTank London about a developer’s perspective on what it takes to build a successful product development team. As product people, team alignment is table-stakes, and it’s crucial that we factor in multiple perspectives to create diverse, empowered teams, so [.].

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How to find your flow in a working from home reality?

The Product Coalition

With all the distractions surrounding us, efficiency and productivity are becoming essentials. You have the power to control your flow! Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Trust vs Commitments

Ask Benny

Consider getting rid of time estimations The never-ending battle. Time estimations are one of the major points of conflict between product management and development teams. It takes a lot of time to make good estimations and even then they are usually wrong. I have not encountered many people who could make really good estimations. There is a reason for that.

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3 common product ops pitfalls, and questions you should be asking

Mind the Product

Product operations (Product Ops), the product management discipline’s latest way to track and understand the inputs that drive product strategy, is important. Far too long companies have had it “easy” in product development accounting, as projects were often “done” when they were shipped, and the numbers were rarely investigated more than superficially after that point. [.].

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Simplifying Internationalization: An Interview with Lang Co-founders

The Product Coalition

Eric Yu and Peter Zhou are the co-founders of Lang , a YCombinator startup focused on simplifying internationalization. With combined experience from Facebook, Instagram, and Atrium, Eric and Peter’s developer-focused approach aims to make internationalization possible for businesses of all sizes. Our discussion explored the major pain points that Eric and Peter experienced in their previous internationalization work, before diving into the technology that Lang is building to achieve their missi

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The Case for Adding DesignOps to Your Org Chart — Lessons From InVision

First Round Review

Drawing on her experience in design operations at InVision, Automattic and Hot Studio, Alison Rand explains what DesignOps can achieve for your startup, and how to get a successful team up and running.

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Quality and consistency: Best practices for building a strong, scalable support experience

Intercom, Inc.

Chris Jewitt is a Customer Success Manager at Klaus , the conversation review tool designed to help modern support teams measure and maintain the quality and consistency of their customer conversations. This is the third in a recurring series of articles looking at how modern support leaders are navigating the support landscape as it continues to evolve.

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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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Bottom-Up Product Strategy – The State of Product, by Susana Lopes

Mind the Product

In this talk from ProductTank London, Susana Lopes (Director of Product at Onfido), talks about how Onfido moved from prioritising at the sprint & quarterly level to setting strategic direction and prioritise at a much larger scale. She starts by outlining several top-down methods for defining strategy, before diving into the bottom-up method called The State of [.].

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Here’s My Review of The Social Dilemma: No, Social Media Is Not “Hijacking” Your Brain

Nir Eyal

The post Here’s My Review of The Social Dilemma: No, Social Media Is Not “Hijacking” Your Brain appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Trust vs Commitments

The Product Coalition

Consider getting rid of time estimations The never-ending battle Time estimations are one of the major points of conflict between product management and development teams. It takes a lot of time to make good estimations and even then they are usually wrong. I have not encountered many people who could make really good estimations. There is a reason for that.

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Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more

NextBigWhat

Top mistakes engineers make when they become founders. (Can’t say I haven’t been guilty of these myself ). A thread. 1. Spend too much time building the product instead of talking to users. In the early days, the most important goal is to de-risk the market need for your product. You don’t want to invest a ton of effort in your product before you are confident it’s something people will want. 2.Solution in search of a problem.

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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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Scaling Product Teams: In Defense of Process by Spectra (Adaora) Asala

Mind the Product

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Spectra (Adaora) Asala, GM and VP Product, Soapbox at Wistia looks at how you can use process to translate ambiguous challenges into accessible playbooks as your organisation scales. Watch the video to see the talk in full. Or read on for an overview of Spectra’s key points: Process is [.]. Read More.

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Top Product Design Companies to Work With in 2021

UX Studio: Product Management

As a leading product design company with over 10 years of field experience, we share our list of top product design companies to look at in 2021. It contains everything you need to know to evaluate, compare, and pick the most suitable product design partner for your business. Apart from analyzing the top product design agencies, we will help you to understand better who a product designer is, how product design is different from web design, what product design agencies do, and how to find the

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How to Test Business Ideas with David Bland

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

I have a fantastic conversation for you on how to test your business ideas! I am joined by David Bland, an experienced Product Consultant and best-selling author of the book, Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation. Subscribe on iTunes | Android | Stitcher | Spotify Episode Details: How to Test Business Ideas […].

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Why collaborative leadership is replacing top-down management

Nulab

The way we work is constantly evolving: from the cubicle farms of the ‘60s to open-plan offices, coworking spaces, and remote teams… Work will always reflect the values of the majority, and Millennials (24- to 38-year olds), who make up 50% of the workforce , want greater flexibility, collaboration, and transparency. Reflecting these values, workplaces are becoming more collaborative and dynamic.

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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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How Successful Product People Develop by Shaun Russell

Mind the Product

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital talk, Product Coach Shaun Russell uses real-life examples to illustrate how product people learn and reveals why it is that some product managers develop faster than others. Watch the 37-minute session in full, or read on for the highlights. Shaun starts his session by describing his experience of learning [.]. Read More.

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Just Another “What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager” Story

The Product Coalition

I want to defend and represent the idea that you can define the way you want and what it is you want to be Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The 5 Top Trends in Product Management to Watch in 2021

ProductPlan

The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize. It catapulted some industries into dominance (video conferencing, food delivery) while decimating others (hospitality, tourism). In fact, 2020 brought us so many shocks and surprises that it made identifying top trends in product management more challenging than ever.

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3 Key Elements to Drive your Service Design to Success

freshtrax

What drives globally popularized brands like Airbnb, Starbucks, or Apple to success? When consumers purchase a product like the latest iPhone, they make choices not only based on hardware improvements like CPU speed or amount of memory, but also the experience they will receive from it. We call this service design. The key to successful service design derives from consistent and constant R&D to improve the user experience based on streamlined purpose, desirability, and deliverability for the

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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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Using Retros to Create Continuous Improvement – Matt Walton on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Matt Walton was one of the founders of FutureLearn, where he scaled the product team and organisation from nothing to the significant player in online education that it is today. Along the way, he learned a lot about continuous improvement of both the product and the processes for building it – including the use of [.]. Read More. The post Using Retros to Create Continuous Improvement – Matt Walton on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Innovation Inception: 3 ideas to unlock the minds of leaders

Strategyzer

Over the past 50 years, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 has been cut in half. It is more critical than ever to help leaders increase the resilience in their organization. Many leaders understand building up your organisation's innovation capabilities is the key to resilience but few know how to start. For anything sustainable to be built we believe three fundamental ideas must first be accepted by leaders and widely disseminated in the organization.

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How Virtuous Acts Bring Our Team Together

Centercode

The enormous stress of 2020 has made it all too easy to focus on what we don’t have: parties with friends and family, the ability to travel, some of our favorite holiday traditions…I’ll stop there before I start crying. But one tradition the COVID pandemic can’t disrupt is expressing gratitude — ’tis the season, after all.

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No-code development platforms to create your own mobile apps: A Collection.

NextBigWhat

Always wanted to create your own apps, but struggled with coding? Worry not. We have compiled a collection of NoCode platforms that help you create your own apps. A no-code app development platform that uses a visual development environment to allow anyone to create their apps without the need to learn any programming language. It allows you to use methods such as drag-and-drop and adding application components to build a complete application for different platforms.

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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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Hardest Product Lesson Learned

The Product Guy

Relying too much on data — yes you may be doing that in your product right now. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Trust vs Commitments

Ask Benny

Consider getting rid of time estimations The never-ending battle. Time estimations are one of the major points of conflict between product management and development teams. It takes a lot of time to make good estimations and even then they are usually wrong. I have not encountered many people who could make really good estimations. There is a reason for that.

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2 Important Ways Your Testers Increase AI Performance

Centercode

Why does AI that performs so well in a lab underperform when it’s out in the real world? Earlier this month, a team of 40 Google researchers published a study about just that — and their investigation returned some vital insights into the challenges of developing machine learning. Research points to a phenomenon known as underspecification , where seemingly similar models in a lab ripple out to massive variations in practice.