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Advice for Early Career PMs – Bringing the Donuts 06/01/2016

Ken Norton

How do you launch a product management career? -. “Nothing early in your career is more important than achieving success — and nothing signals success more than working for a successful company.” – Andy Rachleff It’s June, and freshly-minted graduates are just beginning their careers in product management. In many ways, I consider them fortunate—when I was in college.

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Professional Services and Improving Your Product

Tyner Blain

How do you work with professional services, consulting, field engineers, etc. to make your product better? Do you just treat their inputs as yet another channel for feature requests , or do you engage them as an incredibly potent market-sensing capability? Conversation Starter. I received an excellent and insightful question from one of my former students in DIT’s product management degree program (enrollment for the next cohort closes in a month).

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8 product management mistakes–and other innovation insights for product managers June 3, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Are you avoiding all 8 of these product management mistakes? Rich Mironov shares mistakes he sees first-time product managers make, which are also mistakes I have seen some not-so-first-time product mangers make.

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Comparing Local vs. Global Resource Management

TSIA

I recall having a conversation many years back with a professional services (PS) leader based in the Netherlands about resource management. He held a strong belief that resource management, or staffing, was better and more efficient when controlled locally or within the geography (or GEO). He was very adamant that staffing managing consultants, contractors, and project managers on billable projects was more effectively accomplished if they were controlled by the professional service organization

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How To Manage Multiple Product Teams For Successful Development & Delivery

Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple

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Advice for Early Career PMs – Bring the Donuts 06/01/2016

Ken Norton

How do you launch a product management career? -. “Nothing early in your career is more important than achieving success — and nothing signals success more than working for a successful company.” – Andy Rachleff It’s June, and freshly-minted graduates are just beginning their careers in product management. In many ways, I consider them fortunate—when I was in college.

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People and Things

Surya Suravarapu

So true, thanks to Tim Ferriss for sharing —.

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TSIA Service Trends Webinar Roundup: Spring Edition

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At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping technology services organizations of all sizes stay on top of the latest best practices for growing and advancing their business. Our 30-minute TSIA Pulse webinars are a great way to hear directly from our research team about how emerging industry trends are affecting their respective service discipline, and what you can do to stay current.

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Advice for Early Career PMs – Bring the Donuts 06/01/2016

Ken Norton

How do you launch a product management career? -. “Nothing early in your career is more important than achieving success — and nothing signals success more than working for a successful company.” – Andy Rachleff It’s June, and freshly-minted graduates are just beginning their careers in product management. In many ways, I consider them fortunate—when I was in college.

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Canva uses UserTesting to optimize onboarding experience

UserTesting

The challenge. The idea for Canva came from watching non-designers trying to use traditional design tools. After years of development, the Canva team had built the first version of their product in late 2014. The inevitable challenge with launching a … The post Canva uses UserTesting to optimize onboarding experience appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Tribute to Bruce Williams

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This has been a tough year for the technology industry. In March we lost Andy Grove, and in April we lost Bill Campbell. Sadly, in May we lost Bruce Williams. Bruce had been fighting Pancreatic Cancer for the past year and a half. He had been in an experimental program at UCSF, which extended his life at least a year. While I learned much from Andy Grove and Bill Campbell, Bruce had an even bigger impact on me, both personally and professionally, probably more than any other single person.

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Welcome New TSIA Members! May Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping services organizations both large and small grow and advance in the technology industry. We'd like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional service disciplines TSIA has to offer.

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TEI 074: Content Marketing for Product Managers – with Jerod Morris - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

The topic for this episode is one I have wanted to explore for a long time – the connection between product management and content marketing. If you look at a recent marketing textbook, you’ll see sections that address product management and likely some coverage of content marketing as well. I have found similarities between the two and I went to the most authoritative source I know for content marketing – the folks at CopyBlogger, which is now Rainmaker Digital.

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If you’re only testing for usability, you’re missing the biggest pieces of the puzzle

UserTesting

When most people think of user testing, they think of testing a live product for usability. Can users figure out how to use the product? Where are they getting stuck or confused? What can be improved? But that’s not the … The post If you’re only testing for usability, you’re missing the biggest pieces of the puzzle appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Canva uses UserTesting to optimize onboarding experience

UserTesting

The challenge. The idea for Canva came from watching non-designers trying to use traditional design tools. After years of development, the Canva team had built the first version of their product in late 2014. The inevitable challenge with launching a … The post Canva uses UserTesting to optimize onboarding experience appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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