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What flavour Product Manager do you need?

The Product Coalition

As a Product Manager my background is officially very recent, with only my last two roles directly being related to a product function… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ยป.

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You X Horror: Designing the death drive with Junji Ito

TryMyUI

What if I told you about someone who is designing their user experience to actively prey on the worst compulsions of their users, leaving them terrified or disturbed, all while receiving universal praise and success for this masterful manipulation? The post You X Horror: Designing the death drive with Junji Ito appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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4 Product-Driven Steps to an Artificial Intelligence Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

by Daniel Shenfeld – Whatโ€™s so transformative about artificial intelligence (AI), anyway? Artificial intelligence (AI) is regularly breaking new ground, from DeepMindโ€™s AlphaGo Zero teaching itself to play Go and beating human champions to text-generating algorithms so powerful that their creators at OpenAI decided not to release them publicly for fear of malicious use.

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User Recordings: The Full Guide

UXCam Bluespace

Don't miss out: User Recordings have become one of the most important concepts in qualitative app analysis.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Sachin Rekhi onย what every product leader should know about collaboration

Miro

Sachin Rekhi on what every product leader should know about collaborationNo process for sharing knowledge. Difficulty getting buy-in from stakeholders. Lack of clarity on what success looks like. These are all common collaboration challenges reported by distributed teams โ€“ but theyโ€™re also hurdles faced by all teams, particularly as a company grows.

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Frameworks for making better decisions around product releases

ProductBoard

Written by Rachel Wolan, VP Product at LiveRamp, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. I used to run product at a call center software company. One Thursday in February, we rolled out a small but exciting change to fix a major data input problem that impacted agents. Before releasing it, we ran user tests and a month-long beta, thoroughly QAโ€™d the agent.

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How Continuous Development Turns Product Managers into Experimenters

AB Tasty

With Continuous Development platforms, the focus shifts from subjective ideas to customer feedback and data. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as How Continuous Development Turns Product Managers into Experimenters.

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Product Metrics Your Board Members Care About

Gainsight

Boards are evolvingโ€”and thank goodness for that! The pace of business has accelerated and industries are transforming. Boards are realizing they must change as well and will only be successful with diverse perspectives. In parallel, the board meeting agenda is shifting. Six years ago , people didnโ€™t present about customer success (CS) in the boardroom unless it was a major escalation.

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Drop the poker face: Why salespeople need to embrace authenticity

Intercom, Inc.

Iโ€™m a crappy poker player and always have been. Part of the reason for this is Iโ€™m easy to read. For a long time, I thought my inability to bluff would hamstring me in sales, but now I see it differently. Iโ€™ve come to view authenticity as a kind of sales superpower. Being transparent has helped me connect with customers on a deeper level than would have been possible otherwise.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where heโ€™ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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How To Create Kick-Ass Product Roadmaps (Spoiler Alert: There are 3 types of Roadmaps)

The Product Coalition

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap? A product roadmap is a tool used by PMโ€™s to communicate the what and the why of a product.

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Product Positioning Tip 7 of 7: Making Product Deficiencies No So Deficient

Product Management University

Remember the last time you bought a car? You bought the car that did the best overall job of meeting your needs. There were other cars that had a better GPS, a faster engine, a nicer interior, etc. But in the end, those deficiencies werenโ€™t enough to sway your decision because all the positives together far outweighed a few things that weren’t ideal.

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You Need A Product Strategy by Sam Odio

Mind the Product

Shipping product to 500 million users without knowing what strategy was? Sam Odio found himself in this position early in his career while working at Facebook Photos. In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Sam, now with that experience behind him and as Head of Product at Fivestars , outlines: What a good product strategy looks like. How to create a good strategy.

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A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success (Pragmatic Live Transcripts)

Pragmatic Marketing

Listen to or download the original podcast here. A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Lori Haakmeester of Cox Automotive joins Rebecca Kalogeris, Pragmatic Institute’s VP of Marketing and Sales to discuss her approach to creating a system of using her team’s learned skills so that it doesn’t feel like an

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

Itโ€™s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scaleโ€”but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules youโ€™ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Unconnected Dots of Product Tools

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. 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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How To Group Your Competitors?

The Product Coalition

We need to start with the basics. You identified a list of competitors. They can be brands or specific products. But what to do with them… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ยป.

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How To Say No โ€“ Gabrielle Bufrem on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

A manager of product management at Pivotal Software, Brazilian native Gabrielle Bufrem has worked on three continents (North America, Europe and Asia) and hails from a fourth. She’s delivered great talks at our #MTPEngage conferences in Hamburg and Manchester, but we caught up with her after a talk about “saying no” at Edinburgh’s Turing Festival.

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A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success (Pragmatic Live Transcripts)

Pragmatic Marketing

Listen or download to the original podcast here. A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Lori Haakmeester of Cox Automotive joins Rebecca Kalogeris, Pragmatic Institute’s VP of Marketing and Sales to discuss her approach to creating a system of using her team’s learned skills so that it doesn’t feel like an

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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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The Most Important Skill of the Future is Being โ€˜Indistractableโ€™

Nir Eyal

The post The Most Important Skill of the Future is Being โ€˜Indistractableโ€™ appeared first on Nir and Far.

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6 Secrets Every Product Manager Should Know about Strategy

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Sharon Allpress (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman ]. As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on. One of the most important skills for a product manager, and for the product itself, is developing a product vision and strategy.

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The State of Product Management โ€“ Have Your Say

Mind the Product

Anyone who knows the Mind the Product team knows that we just love to learn about our community and product management in general. This means that from time to time we ask you to help us out, by sharing what you know via a quick and easy survey. From surveys, we can learn so much about product management. From team sizes and organisation structure to career paths and academic backgrounds, and now’s the time to gather fresh data to see how product management is evolving as a craft and a pr

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Podcast: How to Get Actionable User Feedback for Your Product

Sachin Rekhi

Listen: Lean B2B Blog | YouTube | Transcript. I joined Etienne Garbugli on his Lean B2B Podcast a few weeks back to share my best practices on getting actionable user feedback for your product. We covered a wide-range of customer feedback topics, including: developing and validating your product's initial product/market fit hypotheses, assessing whether you are building a vitamin or a painkiller, the benefits of conducting waves of customer discovery interviews, the 3 top dashboards you need for

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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The โ€œAccidentalโ€ Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The โ€œAccidentalโ€ Product Manager?โ€”?what skills are required to be a great PM PM Meowalot Product Managers can come from various paths?โ€”?from Engineering to UX to Marketing to Project Management, Sales, Business Analysts, Entrepreneurs, Customer Service, and sometimes Marketing. The โ€œAccidentalโ€ Product Manager can come from career paths As diverse as they are, one thing in common is that most of us just stumbled into the role and ended up being the โ€˜accidental product managerโ€™.

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Moving Applications to the Cloud and Adopting Cloud-Like Business Models

Revulytics

On-premise software vendors are incorporating subscription-based pricing models that make them more competitive and best meet the needs of their customers. Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft have all adopted hybrid (on-premise and SaaS) deployment models to adapt, compete, and succeed. And while the cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.3 percent between 2018 and 2023 and cloud computing revenues are predicted to see revenues soon exceed $250 bill

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How we Moved From Idea to Live Product in Eight Days

Mind the Product

Digital consultancy Red Badger designed and built ShareThyme, a platform to connect generations through cooking, at speed. Here’s a look at how they did it and the open question, ‘what’s next’? At Red Badger we’re forever speaking to people, clients or otherwise, who have brilliant ideas. Not small ones – weโ€™re talking market-changing, behaviour-altering, competitor-leapfrogging ideas.

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Amazon Product Managers Have Grocery Store Dreams

The Accidental Product Manager

Amazon product managers are increasing their offline presence using grocery stores Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. The product managers at Amazon have a big problem on their hands. The company, which is already huge, wants to keep on growing. What this means for the product managers is that they always have to be looking for new businesses that Amazon can expand into.

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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 itโ€™s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr