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What’s the difference between formative and summative usability testing?

Userzoom

When it comes to usability testing, many are unaware that there are two types of evaluations that can be conducted during the product design and development lifecycle. These are formative and summative usability tests. The main reason why usability tests are important is to find out the effectiveness of the design and to evaluate the ease-of-use of a product.

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Without Justifying Opportunity Costs, You Might Prioritize the Wrong Features

ProductPlan

Windows of opportunity are fleeting. Sometimes there’s only a short amount of time to do something before its benefits diminish. Think of the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Launching a satellite, sending a dog into space, putting a man into orbit, setting foot on the moon. Each achievement was only extraordinary and demonstrated technological achievement if the country did it first.

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User Stories: Shaping a Masterpiece

ProductCraft

The mark of a great user story? Its evolution. A user story is something that takes clearer shape with each iteration. The prerequisite for the iterative creation of a user story is a clear understanding of your users and their motivations. This is non-negotiable — how else will you know that what you’re about to. Read more » The post User Stories: Shaping a Masterpiece appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Why we are now in the “Golden Age of Product Management”

ProductBoard

Just a few years ago, product management was a function that did not have a clear definition. For many companies, product managers were confused for user experience designers, senior technology leads, or, more controversially, project managers. At best, teams acknowledged that PMs were product owners in the Agile sense, and as such their main deliverable was the product backlog.

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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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4 Reasons You Should Definitely Build A Minimum Viable Product

The Product Coalition

Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash A minimum viable product is a method for cultivating a product in a basic form and managing it so that its release onto the market will gather information about the market’s response and the potential in whatever industry it may be. It’s essentially a testing protocol, to see what works and what doesn’t ahead of a fully-fledged product launch.

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Book Review: The Team that Managed Itself

The Product Bistro

Christina Wodtke’s latest is a gripping read, combining a compelling story line, with some novel, and useful ideas to help team dynamics and how to lead. Without giving too much of the story away (trust me, this is a page turner) the main protagonist is Allie, a product manager of a studio at a game […].

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Demystifying account-based marketing: How to make it actually work for your business

Intercom, Inc.

Over the last two decades, account-based marketing (ABM) has been both hailed as a surefire win for B2B businesses and written off as little more than an industry buzzword. ABM’s mixed reputation reflects the challenges that companies have faced implementing an account-based approach. Just two years ago, only 29% of marketers reported ABM to be an effective strategy.

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The 10th Annual Product Management Awards Winners

The Product Guy

The Product Management Awards (#TPMAS) are the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TPMAS are awarded annually and saw hundreds of nominations across our 7 categories. Join me in congratulating this year’s winners! The Best Product Person & The Best Product Leader. Jenna Gaudio. ?Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams.

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How we Developed a Talent Growth Plan at Almundo

Mind the Product

At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. This is how we did it. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my te

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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 he’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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Differences Between American and Japanese User Experience Design

freshtrax

User Experience (UX) Design is a design process used to make products, services, or systems easy for people to use. An important part of the UX design of a website is the user interface (UI) design, which helps the user interact with the site. UI is the look and feel of the product, service, or system. As the realm of digital experiences continues to grow, aesthetically pleasing user interfaces (UI) are becoming a secondary element to draw users.

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How to get stakeholder buy-in for user research: 31 expert tips

Userzoom

Getting stakeholder buy-in for user research can be like talking to a brick wall, except the brick wall isn’t just ignoring you, it’s telling your colleagues you don’t know what you’re talking about, sends texts from their phone while you’re trying to explain something, accuses you of inventing the term “UX” and is somehow in charge of how much money you have on a daily basis.

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User Research is a Surprise

The Product Guy

When talking with people (aka ‘users’) about our products what should we be ‘discovering?’ Through this talk, we discuss the methods by which we do great user research, synthesis, and decision making with what we learn. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation on this topic.

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The tools of a successful product manager

The Product Coalition

If you’re in the role of product manager, then you need to keep track of lots of different things from day-to-day. From ideas and feedback… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’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 scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Helping Teams to be Successful by Ezinne Udezue

Mind the Product

In this keynote from #mtpcon London , VP Product Management at Procore Technologies Ezinne Udezue explains that it’s vital for product managers to create the right conditions for their teams to be successful. She examines the ways in which this can be achieved. Key Points. Product managers must create the conditions for their teams to be successful.

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Nir Eyal on becoming indistractable: How to get the best from technology without letting it get the best of you

ProductBoard

Last week, we co-hosted a Product Management Speaking Series event at productboard’s San Francisco office. Nir Eyal, technology thought leader and author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, joined us to give a talk on psychology-backed strategies for overcoming distraction in the digital age. The topic is the premise of his new book, Indistractable: Source.

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Finding Excitement in Product

The Product Guy

Working with the team, having huge impact on the end users – that is just one way to drive excitement about your product. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Moves to Modern Research: A New Maturity Model for User-Centric Organizations

dscout People Nerds

After years of conversations with leading researchers, we we’ve nailed down tangible stages orgs take as they adopt, expand, and grow user-centric practices.

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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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How To Rock Your Workshops – Jonathan Courtney on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Taking a break from the always entertaining/sometimes informative podcast Jake & Jonathan (formerly known as The Product Breakfast club, which he co-hosts with Jake Knapp), AJ&Smart CEO Jonathan Courtney joined us to chat about Design Sprints, workshops, and how to get groups of people collaborating. Quote of the Episode. One of the best things about an excellent process is [that] you know that it’s good when you don’t have to think about the process – all you’re

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The Code and Fix Model

The Product Coalition

Inspired from Beanstalk. When one learns to code, the initial steps involve a great deal of experimentation with code writing and debugging. Note that debugging is the routine practice of finding and removing program errors. The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges.

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Tailoring the Lean Startup Theory for Your Product Development Process: A Step-by-Step Breakdown 

UserInterviews

Read on for details on how Openroad’s Rafi Finegold uses Facebook ads and landing page conversions to drive user research on new products in development.

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Conversion Rate Experts Worth a Follow on Social Media

AB Tasty

We listed our top picks for conversion rate optimization experts to follow on social media, to help you up your game as we move into 2020! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Conversion Rate Experts Worth a Follow on Social Media.

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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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Managing Products at Scale by Lindsay Rothman

Mind the Product

What’s next after you find product-market fit? In this ProductTank Toronto talk, Lindsay Rothman – Lead Product Manager at FreshBooks at the time, helps us to answer that question. She provides us with a guide on what to do in this situation by: Staying innovative. Creating a framework for success. Watch the video to see Lindsay’s talk in full (view her slides here.

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Customer experience management: segment and conquer

The Product Coalition

Content: What is customer experience What factors is customer experience formed from? Why customer experience management is important Customer experience management?—?whose area of responsibility is that? Three metrics of customer experience management Customer experience management: course of action How to develop a customer experience management strategy: the best practices Dividing your customers and conquering their emotions may sound like a sinister plan for world domination, but it isn’t.

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5 Things Product Managers Secretly Wish They Could Tell Their CEOs

ProductCraft

Regardless of the industry you work in or the size of your company, becoming a CEO is a pinnacle of success in the business world. You’ve proven your leadership, you’ve done things right, and you’ve been successful. Once you take that seat in the corner office, the way you choose to lead varies. Perhaps you’re. Read more » The post 5 Things Product Managers Secretly Wish They Could Tell Their CEOs appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Sprout Social , which develops social media management, advocacy and analytics software for businesses, has mushroomed to 500 employees in its short, nine-year history. Patrick Cuttica , the public-held company's director of product marketing, discussed scaling and positioning a product market team , especially in a growing organization, during an AMA that originally appeared on Sharebird —the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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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 it’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