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Are You Missing the Window to Influence Your Stakeholders?

The Product Coalition

Consciously identifying decision windows to maximise your chances to influence decision makers.

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How to Find Product Market Fit and 8 Ways to Test It

Centercode

Achieving product market fit is crucial for business success. Discover a 4-step process to find and determine product market fit and explore 8 simple ways to test and validate it throughout the development life cycle. By understanding your target customers and validating your product or service, you can drive business growth and stay ahead of the competition.

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The Chocolate Cake Problem

Mironov Consulting

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer at a time , with current-quarter timelines.

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Building diverse product teams: Why it matters and how to achieve it

Mind the Product

within Read more » The post Building diverse product teams: Why it matters and how to achieve it appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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.

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Concept Series Part I: Strategy – A Warm Blanket or a Restrictive Straitjacket?

The People of Product Management

How do you feel about strategy? I am not referring here to any particular strategy, just the general concept of strategy. This may seem like an odd question, but the answer has an important impact on how successfully a strategy can be implemented. To some a strategy is a warm blanket protecting them, making them feel safe. To others strategy is a straitjacket, tight and confining.

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How to Effectively Prioritize Ideas for Your Products

Gocious Blog

When it comes to creating new products , it is vital to have a clear strategy in mind. You need to consider how the product will meet the needs of the consumer, not just the things they say they want. In other words, what are their pain points, and how will you go about resolving them?

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What B2B companies can learn from Duolingo’s growth strategy

Mind the Product

As B2B companies build their PLG strategies, they can take lessons from how B2C companies have succeeded. In Pendo’s PLG Teardown web series, the panel of experts take a deep dive into how the app Duolingo has scaled growth so well and why it continues to delight users. Here's what they learned. Read more » The post What B2B companies can learn from Duolingo’s growth strategy appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Five Ways You Can Apply Agile Design to the Creative Process

Emerge Insights

When you think of agile as a digital product workflow process, what is the first thing that comes to mind? If software development popped in your head instead of agile design, you wouldn’t be wrong. Until recently, agile has largely been relegated to the technical and developmental production of software. In the early 2000s, a […] The post Five Ways You Can Apply Agile Design to the Creative Process appeared first on EMERGE | Digital Product Agency.

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A Data Science Product Manager Skill Checklist

The Product Coalition

So you want to be a data science product manager?

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

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.

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432: Creating or improving the product-led organization – with Paul Ortchanian

Product Innovation Educators

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. Our guest is Paul Ortchanian , a problem-solver by nature and founder of Bain Public. He has a great deal of experience that has helped him be well-rounded in product management.

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How to build an MVP that matters

Mind the Product

A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a powerful tool, but is often misinterpreted as the lowest quality thing you can build. Robert Schlaff explains how he's built MVPs that matter. Read more » The post How to build an MVP that matters appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Customer Success Strategy: 15 Actionable Tactics to Drive SaaS Growth [+ Examples]

Userpilot

In SaaS, customer success is needed to ensure that your customers achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. But how do you create a customer success strategy that works? And what are some of the best practices and examples across the customer journey? In this article, we’ll show you how to build an effective customer success strategy that drives SaaS growth.

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Let’s Beat Imposter Syndrome Together: What Product People Need to Know

The Product Coalition

If there’s one common mosquito biting all product managers in tech, it’s the imposter syndrome that plagues all of us. If you ask any PM (product manager) in the tech industry — no matter what company or product, chances are that they’ll agree that imposter syndrome is real. We could honestly just dub it the “ PM Imposter Syndrome” : the condition of feeling anxious or internally unsuccessful due to any lack of “building the product” within a product team, even if the team itself is successful.

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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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The Amplitude Journey: How Engineering, Sales, and Persistence Built a Product Analytics Powerhouse

ProductBoard

Today, we’re excited to kick off a new interview series on the Productboard blog, delving into the lesser-known aspects of product strategies from top software companies. Our CEO, Hubert Palán, shares a few thoughts on the inspiration behind the series below. But if you’re eager to dive into our first interview featuring Amplitude CEO Spenser Skates, scroll down below.

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Data as a product – Omar Sallam on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Data has been the talk of the town for product managers over the past few years. To provide some insights on data as a product, how to manage data products, and conclude whether it's pronounced 'Dayta' or 'Daata', we spoke to data expert, Omar Sallam, Senior Product Manager at Booking.com. Read more » The post Data as a product – Omar Sallam on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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25+ Good Survey Questions to Ask Your Customers to Collect Valuable Insights

Userpilot

We can all recognize good survey questions when we see them. They’re well crafted to help you gather valuable user feedback. But crafting one can be a real head-scratcher. Where do you begin? What should you (or shouldn’t you) ask? Which question(s) will draw better responses? In this article, we discuss different types of questions, and how to write good surveys.

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Generative AI Solutions: Revolutionizing the Content Industry

The Product Coalition

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has greatly evolved in many areas, including speech and picture recognition, autonomous driving, and natural language processing. However, generative AI, a relatively new area, has become a game-changer in data generation and content creation. Generative AI develops new data that resembles existing data while adding distinctiveness to it using machine learning techniques.

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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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Scaling Your Market Research for Business Growth: Tips and Resources

Spice Catalyst

Market research is a critical aspect of any business operation and essential for product success management. It provides valuable insights into what the customer wants to do, the target audience (target persona(s)), industry trends, competition, and emerging opportunities and technologies.

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Deep dive: Why is outcome-led so tricky? by Dave Martin

Mind the Product

Why is it so difficult for organisations to become outcome led and what is the role of product leaders in making an outcome-led approach work? Read more » The post Deep dive: Why is outcome-led so tricky? by Dave Martin appeared first on Mind the Product.

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25+ Customer Satisfaction Survey Questions to Ask Users for Insightful Feedback

Userpilot

What are the right questions to ask your customers to understand user sentiment ? It’s crucial to listen to the voice of the customer and let their feedback guide your company’s growth and sustainability. And to do that, you must ask the right customer satisfaction survey questions. Thus in this article, we will go over 25+ customer satisfaction survey questions that you can ask users to get valuable feedback and use the insights to make data-driven decisions.

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Product Development in East Asia vs America: Four Key Differences

The Product Coalition

Between cultures, languages, processes, and fundamentals, here are fourdifferences between building products in Asian and Western society.

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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.

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Yourself and Your Product

The Product Guy

Find something you are passionate about OUTSIDE of work. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Don Ross.

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6 ways for product managers to drive GTM outcomes in B2B companies

Mind the Product

Regardless of whether a B2B company adopts a ‘sales led’, ‘product led’ or ‘hybrid product led, sales assisted model, product managers play a pivotal role in providing an x-functional linkage between customers, sales and marketing org and engineers. In this post, Ankur Goel lists 6 critical ways that the best product managers provide the necessary linkage and add value in his guest post.

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Product Adoption Guide: How Can PMs Measure and Improve It?

Userpilot

Improving product adoption is a pivotal part of any product manager’s job. To help with this, we’re going to unpack exactly what adoption is, break down the product adoption process, and show you techniques for boosting the adoption rate. Let’s go! TL;DR Product adoption encompasses the entire journey from awareness to full product usage.

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Unlocking the Secret Weapon of Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lessons to Supercharge Your Product…

The Product Coalition

Unlocking the Secret Weapon of Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lessons to Supercharge Your Product Teams “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” — Henry Ford Imagine your favorite sports team is about to play the most important match of the year. And all of a sudden, instead of playing as a cohesive unit focused on winning, they play to boost their individual stats.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Home Depot Product Managers Did Well During The Pandemic

The Accidental Product Manager

Can the Home Depot product managers keep the customers that they got? Image Credit: Mike Mozart I think that we can all agree that the Covid-19 pandemic was a huge disruption for pretty much the entire world. However, over at the Home Depot their product managers were able to make the most of the opportunity presented by having everyone stay at home with nothing else to do.

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Sunday Rewind: Can AI create a fairer world? by Kriti Sharma

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a look at Kriti Sharma’s 2019 #mtpcon London talk on whether AI can create a fairer world. Kriti, a Google Scholar and UN Advisor, looks at the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on decision making and at what product people should do to ensure it is ethical and fair. The algorithms Read more » The post Sunday Rewind: Can AI create a fairer world?

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In-App Messaging

ProductPlan

In-app messaging is a way of communicating with users within the context of your product, often taking the form of tooltips, banners, or in-app chat. For software products, in-app messaging includes all of the native messages sent to a user while they are using your product. In-app messaging has the added benefit of context. Because users are logged in and using a piece of software when they see the message, the message is more likely to be read or acted on, particularly compared to other media