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Great leaders engage and communicate

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Annabelle Smyth Learning how to communicate with your employees is vital to being a great manager. A leader that knows how to communicate and understands an employee’s situation is one that employee’s want to work for.

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Applying Systems Thinking to Your Product Development Process

280 Group

Product Managers Are Outsiders in the Product Development Process There are two underlying problems for Product Managers when considering any product development process, whether it is Agile, Waterfall, or a hybrid process. The product development process is a subset of a larger product process (from product conception, to detailed business planning, all the way through end-of-life).

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Product Management is More Important Than Ever

Mind the Product

Product Management as a role has moved on in leaps and bounds during my career. As the number of people gathered at Mind the Product London 2016 prove – it’s a skill and a job that more and more companies understand, appreciate, and seek out. And the job itself has evolved – from traffic managing releases, through a dark period of just writing agile stories, to a more enlightened and collaborative role that brings together the best of user experience, business, and technology.

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Podcast: How to Use the IoT Decision Framework

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

I’m very excited to be featured in the IoT Inc Business Show! I had a great conversation with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, on how to use my IoT Decision Framework. Listen to the podcast Here’s a summary from Bruce Sinclair: “In this episode of the IoT Business Show I speak with Daniel Elizalde about his […]. The post Podcast: How to Use the IoT Decision Framework appeared first on Tech Product Management.

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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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Great leaders engage and communicate

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Annabelle Smyth Learning how to communicate with your employees is vital to being a great manager. A leader that knows how to communicate and understands an employee’s situation is one that employee’s want to work for.

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Tactics for Redesigning and Relaunching Legacy Products

Mind the Product

In this talk at ProductTank NYC I recounted five tactics I learned while helping relaunch dozens of digital products over the last decade, and then used to successfully relaunch ICv2.com. ICv2 is a popular trade website for the comic, graphic novel, board game and toy industries. The goal for the relaunch was a complete design and code overhaul under three constraints: Time: Neither the designer nor the developer were full-time and Adam, as a board member but not employee of ICv2, also wasn’t fu

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Podcast: How to Use the IoT Decision Framework

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Listen to the podcast Here’s a summary from Bruce Sinclair: “In this episode of the IoT Business Show I speak with Daniel Elizalde about his IoT Decision Framework and how to use it to tame even the most complex of Internet products.” The post Podcast: How to Use the IoT Decision Framework first appeared on Daniel Elizalde. The post Podcast: How to Use the IoT Decision Framework appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.

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Customer Journey Mapping

Haines-Group

Land maps exist to record the actual terrain. not an idealized view of the terrain- the REAL terrain that you will have to traverse- like it or not. With this real-world understanding of the terrain you can plot the most effective path through it. [Of course, if you fail to identify a cliff or a river on the map, the path you plot may lead to tragedy.

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Is Going Direct To Your Customer The Next Step For Product Managers?

The Accidental Product Manager

Perhaps its time to cut the middleman out of selling your products Image Credit: TruckPR. How does a customer get their hands on your product? If it is like most products, your product development definition called for a middleman to be involved. You create your product and then provide it to some sort of a middleman who runs a store or a catalog. The customer determines that they would like to buy your product and so they get in contact with the middleman and they purchase it.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Fintech and Shotguns

Mind the Product

In this talk from ProductTank London, Scott Eblen (previously Chief Product Officer at Nutmeg ) shares some key lessons about product development in Fintech, and uses an interesting analogy to reframe the experience of product development in the Fintech world: manufacturing lead shot. Be Ready To Ignore Tradition. In this case, there are actually two traditions that Scot highlights.

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TEI 093: Identifying the ideal customer – with Tom Schwab - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

According to my guest, “Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer.” Of course, then my first question is how do we find the ideal customer for a product or service. Thankfully, my guest, Tom Schwab, had some ideas. Tom is the founder of Interview Valet and his previous background is in medical device products.

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[Free Ebook] Why Services is the Big IoT Opportunity for Hardware Manufacturers

TSIA

As our world becomes more connected, the resulting technological climate has had a growing impact on the way traditional hardware manufacturers run their businesses. “Why Services is the Big IoT Opportunity for Hardware Manufacturers," a free ebook by TSIA's Vele Galovski and Harald Kopp , is a roadmap hardware manufacturers can use to navigate the path to digitization and unlock the new business opportunities presented by smart services and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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What is a Product Manager? A different perspective

Product Club

What is a Product Manager? A different perspective. For as long as I have been a product manager the role of ‘product manager’ has been the subject of much debate?—?specifically, what is a product manager? It’s important for a role to have definition otherwise it’s unclear how you do great in that role. It’s also difficult to understand how and where you fit in the organisation and for others to understand how they interface with you in the absence of a clear definition.

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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. It’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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The Language of Things

Product Bookshelf

Design is both a way to understand the world and a way to increase consumption. Although design was initially understood as a way to solve problems, it creates value and identity and moves between the poles of functionalism and emotion. Art and design have an intertwined relationship that evolves in the marketplace and the museum. The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic.

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Resolving conflict–and other innovation insights for product managers Oct 14, 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. How product managers can end team conflicts quickly. These 7 steps resolve team conflicts. (1) Get straight to the source – and fast. (2) Talk it out. (3) Remind everyone of their common goals. (4) Suggest a compromise. (5) Take it outside. (6) Limit face time. (7) When all else fails, change the team chemistry.

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Intelligently Optimizing Digital Support Channels

TSIA

Many businesses aren't clear as to what good digital support entails, with only vague notions about lowering costs and improving customer experience. Their focus is instead on implementing a platform that gives them the best return on investment, which is measured in money (and time) saved.

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The (Really) Big Picture of Online Lead Generation Marketing

bpma ProductHub

Contributed by Brad Shorr. There’s more to generating online sales leads than meets the eye — even the eye of an experienced marketing professional. The Internet Marketing Lead Generation Ecosystem infographic was created by Straight North to help online marketers visualize all of the potential elements of an online campaign, and perhaps more important, how these elements must be connected to achieve results and facilitate rapid and dynamic continuous improvement.

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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.