Sat.Sep 17, 2016 - Fri.Sep 23, 2016

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Career Advice in Product Management

The Product Guy

More segments from our conversation with Adam Warburton — and shedding some light onto just exactly what makes Adam truly The Best Product Person of 2015. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Is Scrum Right for Your Product?

Roman Pichler

When is Scrum Most Helpful? A process like Scrum is a great fit for your product when it is brand-new or young, and when you extend its life cycle, as shown in the picture below. This means that not every product will benefit from Scrum: Products that are maturing or declining won’t benefit from Scrum—at least not to the same degree. The picture above shows the traditional, bell-shaped product life cycle curve with three key events: launch—the product first becomes available; achieving product-m

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Product Management And Fear – Three More Powerful Creative Blockbusters

The Secret PM Handbook

Several years ago I had an article about three powerful tips for getting through a creative block. Although focused toward product managers, the tips were general purpose ways to increase your creative output. Morning pages. Crappy first drafts. “Use Your Obvious” You can summarize the three tips pretty easily, despite their variety – “Just Write!

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Tactical. Operational. Strategic. The Three Rungs on the Product Management Career Ladder

UserVoice

Before your mind wanders too far, let’s set the record straight. In B2B product management, tactical, operational and strategic refer to layers in the customer organization – not your job responsibilities. Master each of these customer domains and the next rung on the product management career ladder awaits. When the product management/marketing profession was in its childhood, upward mobility.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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More of the Latest Career Opportunities in Product Management

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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The Science of Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

When Nathan Bashaw, CEO of Hardbound, reached out about doing a presentation around my book Hooked, I jumped at the chance to try a fun visual for sharing knowledge about habit-forming products. Let me know what you think of the format below and please share with others. </iframe. The post The Science of Habit-Forming Products appeared first on Nir and Far.

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First Things First: How Does A Product Manager Start?

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers need to know how to get things started Image Credit: Andre Chinn. So you are in the process of starting your brand new product manager job. Congratulations. Now what? What is the first thing that you are going to need to do? As we all know, there are a ton of things that you could do including creating a product development definition, but where to start?

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Product Management in 2017; Upcoming Events for Fall 2016

Good Product Manager

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year.

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Colorado ProductCamp–and other innovation insights for product managers Sep 23, 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 and innovators be heroes. Rocky Mountain ProductCamp returns to Denver – Friday, Nov 4. I love ProductCamp. It is a valuable time to learn from experienced product managers, on topics that the participants themselves choose. I’m glad to see it returning to Denver.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Creating Exceptional Product Teams

Product Management and Strategic Marketing

One of the challenges of building a great product management team is making sure you have the right combination of skills and experience. How do you make sure your team is the best and has the right set of skills ? Product teams are comprised of many product managers, all of whom have various levels of knowledge and abilities. One of the challenges product leaders face is having people who transferred internally from support or engineering into product management; they posses a good understandin

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New Book: What Product Managers Need To Know About World-Class Product Development

The Accidental Product Manager

What Product Managers Need To Know About World-Class Product Development. As product managers it is our responsibility to create products that our customers will want and that will end up being profitable for our companies. It turns out that this is no easy task. Identifying what a customer really wants and then turning that into a feature that can be delivered to a customer is hard work.

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Product Management in 2017; Upcoming Events for Fall 2016

Good Product Manager

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year.

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Products That Count Podcast

Mironov Consulting

Products That Count has a podcast as well as a monthly meetup. SC Moatti — product leader, author and now venture capitalist — hosts the postcast. She invited me on to talk about technology product management roles, tips on moving up the product career ladder, and the importance of cross-functional communication. We also touched on how incentive structures shape the behavior of non-product groups (such as Sales), and when a startup should hire its first full-time product manager.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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Troika: Putting the Camera into the Participants' Hands

dscout People Nerds

Susan Kresnicka reflects on the benefits of using dscout vs. traditional ethnography.

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Welcome New TSIA Members! September 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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UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform

UserTesting

At UserTesting, we believe customer insights should be part of every design and development process. So we’re excited to announce our partnership with InVision—to connect designers and developers with their users early in the development cycle! The traditional methods for … The post UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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3 Steps to Leverage Digital Disruption in Your Sales Efforts

TSIA

What do landlines, books, postage stamps, greeting cards, and taxis (and the companies that sell them) have in common? Obsolescence! Meanwhile, startup companies like Uber and Airbnb have reached unicorn status with with zero inventories, and Amazon has changed the face of retail forever.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform

UserTesting

At UserTesting, we believe customer insights should be part of every design and development process. So we’re excited to announce our partnership with InVision—to connect designers and developers with their users early in the development cycle! The traditional methods for … The post UserTesting partners with InVision to bring fast user feedback to leading design collaboration platform appeared first on UserTesting Blog.