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How to Break Into Product Management

The Product Coalition

Breaking into Product Management is not easy. The competition is high, and most roles require you to have 2–3 years of experience before… Continue reading on Product Coalition ยป.

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Why Product Analytics is the New Standard for Digital Measurement

Amplitude

As a result of the pandemic, we’ve seen the entire world shift to digital everything. This has had a tremendous impact on business, from rethinking budgets to developing new strategies. And the leaders who are taking a digital-first approach to customer experience, starting with product analytics, are delivering exceptional products and innovating faster than the competition.

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Skyโ€™s Head of Product on up-leveling your product management process

ProductBoard

“Productboard forces us to do the right thing. It forces you down the route of good product management, because It’s making you define your drivers, identify your segments, and all that.” Chloe Gibert Head of Product at Sky When Chloe Gibert started her role as Head of Product in 2019 to focus on in-home connectivity, the company wasn’t using any targeted product management tools.

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How to โ€œsteal like a designerโ€ and boost creativity

Intercom, Inc.

Originality is the holy grail of creativity. But does true originality exist in design or is it always influenced by what came before? Letโ€™s be honest: creativity is a nebulous landscape. With the evolution of digital technologies, weโ€™re now exposed to other people’s opinions, ideas, and work on an almost minute-by-minute basis. So whether its originality of thought or artistic brilliance, the sheer scale of visual and conceptual input we experience on a daily basis can blur the lines betw

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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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What is the Voice of the Customer (VOC)?

Alchemer Mobile

When brands listen to and act on the voice of the customer (often referred to as simply โ€œVoCโ€), it can completely revolutionize the way their business operates. When you listen to your customers, you can make more informed product decisions, create a better mobile app experience, develop successful marketing campaigns, launch loyalty programs that actually retain customers, and much more.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making โ€˜agileโ€™?โ€”?including Scrum as a framework?โ€”?work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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The Art and Science of Removing Features from Your Product

ProductCraft

For many of us, the first couple months of the year pose an opportunity for a fresh start–a time to recalibrate whatโ€™s important to us and set our intentions for the next 365 days. So, why not think about our products in the same way? Just as people with the goal to be more organized. Read more » The post The Art and Science of Removing Features from Your Product appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Key Mobile Strategies for Travel Apps During the Reopening Process

Alchemer Mobile

While travel looks like it will remain relatively unpopular in the first half of 2021 due to COVID concerns, travel brands are gearing up for a surge of travelers in the second half of the year. We hesitate to say anything such as, โ€œThings will likely be back to normal,โ€ because things never will truly go back to โ€œnormal.โ€ The phrase โ€œnew normalโ€ is overused, but itโ€™s honest.

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How To Make Ethical Choices When Developing Software โ€“ Common Questions, Answered

Mind the Product

There are some questions about the practice of โ€œethical product developmentโ€ that Iโ€™m asked all the time from folks actively working on products. For example, how do you define an โ€œethicalโ€ product? Or who should lead ethical product development? And, can you really make a difference from inside an organisation? Below, I answer the eight [.]. Read More.

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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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Is the Calm App as Calming as it Claims to Be?

The Product Coalition

The health and wellness industry has surpassed the $5 trillion mark. The spending in the wellness category will continue to grow given the rising popularity of the trend among the millennials. Calm was featured as the #1 meditation app in the world and Appleโ€™s app of the year in 2017. The calm app promises to help users sleep better, boost confidence and reduce stress and anxiety.

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Leadership Tip #3: Use No As a Complete Sentence

Johanna Rothman

Have you ever noticed that other people want you to do “more” work? The work has risk—if you say yes to this work, you'll put every other deliverable at risk. What do you say? You can address this request with a simple sentence: No. That's it. No. It's a complete sentence. I bet you feel uncomfortable saying No. You have alternative words.

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Can Department Store Product Managers Use The Internet To Save Their Stores?

The Accidental Product Manager

Department stores are becoming where online products can be found Image Credit: m01229. In this wonderful modern age in which we are all living, just about anything can be purchased online. However, there is a downside to this. You can’t touch online products. You can’t hold them in your hands and feel them. You can’t try them on. What’s missing from this whole online shopping experience is the ability to get close to the items that we are thinking about buying.

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Making Hard Product Decisions for All the Right Reasons

Mind the Product

As product managers, it’s our job to think responsibly as we design and build products for our users. In this ProductTank Dublin talk, two speakers, Gibson Biddle and Kevin Devine, touch on this topic in different ways. Gibson Biddle talks us through some ‘wicked hard’ decisions and reveals the steps you should take to ensure [.]. Read More.

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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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3 Things Missing From Your Product Requirements

The Product Coalition

Product requirements are there to help the team understand what you want to build. Whether you write them in detailed documents or share them briefly and verbally with the team, itโ€™s easy to go directly to the bottom line and give clear instructions. However, there are many more important things to include if you want the team to succeed. Here are three things that if you include in your product requirements would make your life easier and help your developers deliver on what you really intended

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Growth Hacking with Customer Journey Mapping and AAARRR Funnel

Userpilot

The term “growth hacking” was coined by Sean Ellis in 2010 after he used this strategy to ignite unstoppable growth for Dropbox, LogMeIn, and other successful startups. In essence, growth hacking boils down to finding small yet effective actions you can undertake with resources and tools you already have to drive business growth. One such tool that growth hackers actively use is the AAARRR framework.

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Managing an Innovation Portfolio: Northumbrian Water

Strategyzer

Part of our work with leaders, is to evaluate whether their innovation portfolio is balanced. We focus on the innovation projects that are taking place within the company and examine whether they cover the three types of innovation (i.e. efficiency, sustaining and transformative). Our aspiration is to ensure that companies are not just focused on optimizing their current business model, but they are also investing in their future.

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The Ethical Challenges of Building Dating Apps

Mind the Product

Dating apps occupy a strange place in our world. We operate within people’s intimate lives and as a product team, we build exceptional expertise on attitudes towards dating, sex and connection. This means we carry great responsibility and are always aware of the decisions we make. To us at Feeld, ethics have been something so [.]. Read More. The post The Ethical Challenges of Building Dating Apps appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Itโ€™s time to challenge your data! How To Overcome Survivorship Bias?

The Product Coalition

In this post, we study the Survivorship bias — the danger to concentrate your data analysis solely on existing power users Continue reading on Product Coalition ยป.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Service Design

freshtrax

Inspired by Brandon K. Hill. According to Catholic theology, the seven deadly sins are negative character qualities that, if left unchecked, will eventually kill a personโ€™s soul and plague humanity. . Well โ€ฆ dang! Behind this thought is deep psychological reasoning. The 7 deadly sins are the basic, often addicting, intense emotions. . Wrath. Greed. Pride/Ego.

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From Exec Roles to Board Seats โ€” Lessons for the Startup C-Suite from Zendesk, Guru, eBay, & More

First Round Review

Anne Raimondi has led teams at SurveyMonkey, Zendesk, Guru, and eBay, in addition to sitting on the board for Asana, Patreon and Gusto. Here, she shares her most critical leadership lessons for scaling up as an executive, while also diving into her playbook for building impactful boards.

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Responsible Thinking for Product Managers โ€“ Expert Advice and Steps for Success

Mind the Product

So many missed that a profanity filter would prevent the residents of Scunthorpe from creating an AOL account, that the use of sat navs could ruin previously quiet streets for their residents, or that a social network for university students would end up interfering with democracy. Building responsibly isnโ€™t a headline topic for every product manager.

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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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Donโ€™t Confuse Product Validation With Product Research

The Product Coalition

In product, I see validation used all too often to describe what is actually research. This misuse misleads thinking about whether a product or feature is likely to succeed. Iโ€™m going to unpack the difference between product validation versus research and share what each is best for in this article. The misuse has come about through the rise of the Lean Startup movement.

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Key Product People

The Product Guy

Nuts and bolts of product management, from understanding and articulating the problems to very much more. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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Video screen recording eliminates user feedback confusions

Usersnap

I wish I can just send a video screen recording. Please delete this sentence from your vocabulary. Because weโ€™ve heard your wish loud and clear, and weโ€™re excited to announce Usersnap is your wholesome video screen recording feedback tool. You can now see the entire flow of your usersโ€™ issue and save time in clarifying the steps of troubleshooting. Plus, your customers also save time in explaining what their screenshot means.

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How To Prioritise Ethical Practice as a Product Manager

Mind the Product

In this Product Ethics panel for Mind the Product members, Martin Eriksson is joined by Cennydd Bowles, Kathy Pham, and Pavani Reddy to discuss ethical product practice. Watch the panel in full! About our Panellists Cennydd Bowles โ€“ Author, Future Ethics Cennydd Bowles is a designer and futurist with nearly two decades of experience advising [.]. Read More.

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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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Product Leaders! Your Product is Your Team.

The Product Coalition

“Without a team, the role of the product leader would not exist. The successful leader is reflected in the success of their team; and… Continue reading on Product Coalition ยป.

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No IKEA, itโ€™s not my big day tomorrow. Personalization for SaaS โ€“ How To Do it Right

Userpilot

Personalization in SaaS is such a minefield. There’s a thin line between being personal and being creepy. Done right, personalization can be absolutely critical for new user activation, engagement and retention. But doing personalization in SaaS *right* is a rare skill that very few businesses seem to have mastered. I’ve recently noticed several big B2C and B2B brands have jumped on the personalization bandwagon.

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Q2 2021 Writing Workshop to Free Your Inner Writer Open for Registration

Johanna Rothman

Do you want to develop a habit of writing? Or make writing easier? Or write to find and connect with your audience? I teach these principles in Q2 20201: Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer. It took me a while to figure out how to organize the workshop so everyone (including me) could succeed. This workshop is for you if you want to: Make writing easier.