Sat.Sep 22, 2018 - Fri.Sep 28, 2018

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Design as Connective Tissue

ProductCraft

Last week news broke that Adobe was buying Marketo in a deal that’s going to reverberate through the martech world for a while. For a while, I’ve been thinking about writing this piece about the place of design in companies, and this news presented an interesting case study. How do these giants treat their design. The post Design as Connective Tissue appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Why product roadmaps are so important

The Product Coalition

And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier. However, product development is not about the sum of each individual’s work, but it is all about how those people can work together in a sense of collective work.

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Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence

Johanna Rothman

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. You might have to round-robin projects for various products because you don’t have enough people to do all the projects at the same time. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future.

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How to Become a Great Product Leader

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Do you know what it takes to be a great Product Leader? In this post, you’ll learn about the 4 Pillars of Product Leadership and discover key skills that can take your career from good to great. People often refer to Product Management as the “everything profession.” In a way, that’s true. We are the […]. The post How to Become a Great Product Leader appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Scope Creep

The Product Bistro

In my more than two decades of product management experience, with many different engineering and development organizations. Regardless of how great the teams are/were, there are always slips in schedule. I am puzzled by this. Even when with a great team, populated with hugely talented, and highly productive engineers, programs take longer than planned.

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Product Process Approaches and Insights

The Product Guy

It’s time you took your product management processes to the next level. Join us as we learn how from product management expert, Jordan Bergtraum.

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How to Set Metrics for Design

Amplitude

The hardest part of a designer’s job is evangelizing the impact of your design. Often times, it’s a matter of debate and something I like to call committee-jira-ticket-creation. Ultimately, these conversations are rooted in opinion and even you, the designer, will never truly be able to fully predict whether or not a design is “good/successful”. It is not my job to become a data scientist, but it is my job to uphold experience quality.

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Plan Your Build, Don’t Build Your Plan: Get the Most From Your Retrospective

Mind the Product

It was a Friday afternoon and I was feeling nervous. I was about to meet our biggest customer, an established enterprise owning some of the world’s most valuable brands. As our product helped companies, well, build their brand, it was a big deal. The meeting was planned to take only 25 minutes, so we got straight to the point. There had been a serious legal incident with celebrity images published outside of the license agreement, and the customer was now facing catastrophic claims.

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Get ready for The Next Chapter

Intercom, Inc.

Messaging has fundamentally changed how businesses and customers communicate. Now we believe we’re on the cusp of another change which will drive faster growth for businesses who embrace it. On October 11th, we’ll share our vision for this next chapter in business growth and what we’re building so you can benefit from it. Seven years ago, we made a huge bet on what was then an unheard of thing: business messaging.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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How to Shape Remarkable Products in the Messy Middle of Building Startups

First Round Review

Behance founder and Adobe's Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky believes the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture is the middle stretch of company building. Here he zeroes in on what startups must do to iterate and improve products mid-flight.

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Certifications — Are They Worth It?

Clever PM

I’ll be attending my second formal training this year, getting my Certified Scrum Master certification to match the Certified Product Manager certification that I picked up earlier this year. After 15 years in the business, you might wonder why I’m just now getting around to being “certified”, and I hate to say it but the […].

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What is MTP Engage Manchester, and why Should I Attend?

Mind the Product

Incredible speakers. Epic venue. Great coffee. A community, united. This is MTP Engage Manchester. On February 7th and 8th 2019 we’re bringing MTP Engage to Manchester for two days of product learning, including inspiring product talks, deep-dive training workshops, and the chance to engage with your product peers. ProductTank Manchester started six years ago, when 23 product people got together at the BBC to talk about the BBC London Olympics app (yes, it was that long ago!).

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Revenue reporting: fresh insights for your sales and marketing teams

Intercom, Inc.

The number of tools used by sales and marketing teams only continues to grow, and with that expansion of options, it is more crucial than ever that you ensure your budget and time is being spent on the right tools. At Intercom, we want to make it easy for our customers to see the value of building real relationships with leads and customers. That’s why we recently released our new revenue and sales team performance reports , which gives marketing and sales teams instant visibility into how using

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Maximize Supply Chain Spend & Asset Utilization with Innovative Test Automation

Connected devices are emerging at an explosive rate exerting pressure on larger operators; however, some organizations cannot continue to purchase the latest & greatest devices without ramifications. The introduction of automated test technology drives the optimization of supply chain expenditures leveraging forward & reverse logistics paths. Adopting innovative test automation tools addresses these challenges by providing robust solutions for testing the interoperability, performance, & securit

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Growth at All Costs is Perilous — This is How to Scale Sales Sustainably

First Round Review

Many founders feel the pressure to spin up sales quickly to hit growth targets, but seasoned sales leader Karen Rhorer knows that this unsustainable strategy can lead to painful layoffs down the road. Here, she shares the four levers and key calculations startups need to understand in order to scale sales hiring the right way.

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The Product Pragmatist

The Product Coalition

Even the best ideas are useless without proper execution How often have you spent time in multi-day planning sessions, created a huge set of goals for the upcoming year, only to circle back a year later to find that most of the goals were not achieved? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Recent studies have shown that reaching goals is a common problem: 75% of venture-backed startups fail ?

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Legibility: 7 Typographic Tools To Create Readable Screens

UX Studio

Do you consider legibility important? Your users do as well. What makes a text readable? Do ugly fonts provide more legibility? Find out in this blog post. We at UX studio consider legibility, the readability of texts, a significant factor to keep in mind when designing screens. Good typographic choices play a huge role in the design process. It can also cause a painful struggle for both designers and product owners to make a final decision about which typeface to use for a product.

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A #ProdMgmt Opportunity that Needs to Translation

The Product Guy

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. . Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Growth at All Costs is Perilous — This is How to Scale Sales Sustainably

First Round Review

Many founders feel the pressure to spin up sales quickly to hit growth targets, but seasoned sales leader Karen Rhorer knows that this unsustainable strategy can lead to painful layoffs down the road. Here, she shares the four levers and key calculations startups need to understand in order to scale sales hiring the right way.

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How to organize a local meetup remotely

Miro

Even if you like your job, it’s great to have some space for professional exploration, inspiration and education without the pressure of daily work tasks. Conferences cost money and require a day or more of your time. Meetups, on the other hand, are a perfect social and professional activity: monthly or weekly events with a […]. The post How to organize a local meetup remotely appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.

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The Benefits of Product Usage Analytics in Protecting Software Intellectual Property

Revulytics

The US Patent and Trademark Office recently held its 2018 Trademark Exposition in Washington, D.C., at which the keynote speaker was someone you probably wouldn’t immediately associate with that particular space: Kareem Abdul-Jabar. But as an intellectual property owner himself (among his trademarked properties is his name) he offered unique and relevant insights about the role of IP in his career – and how that role changed from his playing days to post-professional basketball, saying in this c

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Can Product Managers Find A Way To Make A Better Burger?

The Accidental Product Manager

Shake Shack burgers are good, but could they be even better? Image Credit: Lucas Richarz. I’m pretty sure that we’ve all had that feeling: it’s the “I want a burger” feeling. I’m not sure if I can really describe what it is, but there is a sudden need that we have to be filling our mouths with the rich satisfying feeling of consuming a big burger.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise

Andrew Chen

The consumerization and developerization of B2B. Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to $1B in revenue run rate with 600+ million users. This is just an example showing that companies are adopting software in a completely different way in recent years – we have individual users/developers picking out products that they want to use, and then it eventually spreads inside the organization.

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Engineer for a Summer: 3 Learnings From My Internship with Amplitude

Amplitude

If you’d told me a year ago that product analytics were required for building great products, I probably would have laughed it off. Until I watched a talk given by Spenser Skates, co-founder and CEO of Amplitude, my view on product development was focused solely on the engineering side. But Spenser’s presentation opened my eyes to the fact that great products need more than great engineering — they need product analytics, too.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. See Your Current Organization. Many organizations use functions to organize people. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often.

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Founders and Product Managers: Here is How to Detect Your ‘Confirmation Bias’

NextBigWhat

Paras Chopra, the Chairman & Founder of Wingify, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 about ‘cognitive traps’ and how they affect the judgement of Product Managers, and what they can do to avoid them. In this part of the talk, Paras speaks about the ‘Confirmation Bias’ cognitive trap that affects Product Managers in their decision […].

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Constraints are cool

The Product Coalition

Change your approach to decisions by starting with what you can’t *really* decide Cable (Photo by Jeroen den Otter on Unsplash ) Can a Product Manager solve all the problems within the reach of the product they manage, or implement all the features so badly want? Certainly not. Complications will always arise. Competing priorities, development team size, dependencies on third-parties, tech debt, compliance issues, all of these limit what a product team can deliver in a certain time interval.

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The key to overcoming imposter syndrome is to find a community

ProductBoard

Jeremy Saenz, Kajabi’s Vice President of Product knows only too well how stressful the transition from a technical role like engineering to product management can be, and how that stress can manifest as a kind of impostor syndrome. “For me what triggered those thoughts was the career shift,” says Saenz. “The career I was shifting from, I was really comfortable in.

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TEI 195: The Henry Ford for Product Managers – with Kristen Gallerneaux, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Looking to the past to drive future innovation. I am on a road trip through the northeast of the U.S., talking with innovators and product managers. At the encouragement of a friend, I took my two kids to visit The Henry Ford, a museum of innovation near Detroit. It was created by Henry Ford as a tribute to his friend Thomas Edison. It’s an amazing place to learn about things I love — inventions and innovations.