Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Guest post by Frank Song Many working professionals are stuck in underpaid, intellectually unstimulating jobs, and at companies with no career growth potential. Do you know anyone in this position? Does this describe your situation?
280 Group
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Here at the 280 Group we have been maintaining a Product Management blog for over a decade Every year we produce articles that we hope our readers find interesting and useful. We felt that 2016 was likely the best year yet for our Product Management Blog so we would like to share with all of you the top 10 most visited posts of the year. Let us know in the comments which was your favorite, we appreciate the feedback. 10.
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UserVoice
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
There are plenty of fantastic ways to keep your product management skills sharp and keep up with evolving industry trends and new technologies. There’s no shortage of product management blogs, podcasts, and reading lists out there to keep you in the know. However, real, in-person events such as meetups and conferences are by far the best way to keep up with industry trends while simultaneously.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
When developing products, customer insight is vital to understanding the critical question: where are we going? Insights can help us better to understand our product and how it fits into the everyday lives of users — users who live in an age of abundance, where every product competes for a minute of attention. But insights too fall into our cultural condition of excess.
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.
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
DJ Khaled, the one-man internet meme, is known for warning his tens of millions of social media followers about a group of villains he calls “they.” “They don’t want you motivated. They don’t want you inspired,” he blares on camera. “They don’t want you to win,” he warns. On Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show, Khaled urged the host, “Please, Ellen, stay away from them!
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The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
We buy from Amazon online, right? Image Credit: Luke Dorny. You would think that being a product manager who works for Amazon would be a pretty cushy job right? The company operates one of the largest online stores and they don’t seem to have to generate a profit and investors still seem to love their stock. However, all of this success may hid a key product management fact – Amazon product managers always have to be looking for ways to update their product development definition and grow
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
When it comes to capturing the public’s imagination, few works of fiction have ever done it as well as the movie Jurassic Park did almost 25 years ago – I couldn’t believe it’s been that long either. The special effects were insane for the time, but even more amazing was how the way they resurrected dinosaurs seemed so scientifically plausible.
Brian Balfour
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. The service now boasts over 150 million registered users, and monthly actives in the high tens of millions. I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full in
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
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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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.
Rahul Abhyankar
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
On any road, there are the usual sign markers showing useful information, locations for services, and sometimes, checkpoints set up by law enforcement authorities. These checkpoints are intended to ensure compliance, e.g., sobriety, seat belts, or in other situations to reroute traffic due to hazardous conditions ahead, e.g.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Joe Leech is a UX consultant and author of the book Psychology for Designers , and he splits his time between doing huge amounts of research, advising companies on design strategy, and rolling his sleeves up and actually doing design work himself. In this energetic talk at ProductTank London, Joe gives some real-world examples from his own work of some useful ways to think about “thinking fast” (i.e. emotive or instinctive mental processes) and “thinking slow” (consciousl
TSIA
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
With subscription-based XaaS business models on the rise, more technology companies are realizing just how important it is to maintain good relationships with their customers if they're to secure a solid recurring revenue stream. To do this, they are shifting their primary focus away from their products and onto the customer by helping them achieve their desired business outcomes with their products and services in an initiative known as " customer success." In this post, I'm goi
Alty
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Money is no funny. Especially when you don’t have any extra dollars to spare on your Big App Project. The controversy, however, is that some say good apps cost a good heap of money, while a cheap app is bound for failure. Yet, bootstrapping appreneurs are not so rare these days either. So is it possible to develop a mobile app with a small budget? Our answer is absolutely as long as you know when it’s worth to act frugal, and when to spend more lavishly.
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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.
SidsAvenue
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
A cocktail of ignorance and greediness is what you need to become a telephonic fraud victim. I saved myself from being one a few days back. What follows in this blog post is the short transcript of the fraudulent call and what is the solution to prevent people from being telephonic fraud victims. The trap formation I received a call from a mobile number saying it was from Citibank.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
What does technology do to society? When technology and human ingenuity gets together, everybody in society profits. If you look at graphs of GDP / capita over long time periods (850 years+), the trend is always upwards. The only things that drag this progress down are severe periods of sickness (like the black death) and widespread war (such as WW2).
TSIA
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
This article was originally published on the Verint blog on 2/1/2017. Today's customer is smart, engaged, connected and informed. To keep pace with this new breed of customer, organizations must also become smarter and more connected. Your employees are the gateway to your customers, and the best way to help ensure they stay satisfied and loyal is to empower your employees with the tools and tactics to provide superior service.
dscout People Nerds
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
A People Nerds interview with Natalie Hanson.
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.
Product Talk
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. We no longer take months or years to release value to our customers. Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Rahel Bailie (Chief Knowledge Officer at Scroll LLP) describes content as the “new front door” to your business. From the home page to the error message on your checkout- content enables customers to understand your product and connect with your brand. The process of localisation adapts your content to make it understandable and recognisable by different local markets.
Pragmatic Marketing
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Sure McD’s has always had small, medium, and large fries, and small, medium and large drinks. These are classic good, better, best pricing and portfolio techniques. However, they recently went to good, better, best for the most classic of all McDonald’s sandwiches : the Big Mac. They are introducing the Mac Jr, a Big Mac with only one beef patty. (In case you didn’t know, a Big Mac is two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun.
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Product Bookshelf
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
42 rules to live by for product managers. Great insights and product principles for being a great product manager and making better products. 42 Rules of Product Management edited by Brian Lawley. This book is packed with great advice, product patterns, and anti-patterns. The rules are brief and written by different authors. Each encapsulates a key principle of effective product management.
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