Sat.Apr 08, 2017 - Fri.Apr 14, 2017

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From FOMO to NPS & AllTheRooms!

The Product Guy

Nominate a great product manager you know today @ [link] ! Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel @ [link]. Thank you to everyone who made it to our latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group at Digital Ocean , as well as to our other sponsors, Yext , BKLYN and many more. Over the course of the night a few of the highlights were… Featured Product: AllTheRooms exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from FOMO to NPS.

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The Value Inequality – The Real Meaning Of “Customer Value”

The Secret PM Handbook

Cost Plus Pricing = No Good. You must balance value versus (multiple) costs to determine price. (By Hans Splinter, Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0)). People sometimes ask me “how should I price my product?” so I Googled it. I found a LOT of blog posts about pricing. A surprising number recommend “cost plus” pricing. How much does it cost to make your product?

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When was the Last Time you Talked to Your Customers?

Mind the Product

. I love asking people this question. It is quite a shocker that most people can’t really answer it. Everyone talks and writes about the importance of customer development, but companies still don’t spend enough time really talking to their customers. It’s a bit like data: you won’t find a single founder who doesn’t say: “Yeah! Analytics, metrics, definitely!

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2017 Product Conferences

Product Talk

I often get and see on social media questions about upcoming product conferences. So we compiled a list. I say we because my assistant, Karen did most of the heavy-lifting. This list is by no means exhaustive. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The Strange Way Being “Good” Hurts Your Willpower

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Paulette Perhach. Paulette writes about finances, psychology, technology, travel, and better living for the likes of The New York Times, Elle, and Slate. I learned how to respect authority from my father. At the top of a huge water slide at a theme park, he put me, my […]. The post The Strange Way Being “Good” Hurts Your Willpower appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Third-Party Software Integration: Best Practice, Perils and Pitfalls

Mind the Product

Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. The thinking is that you should integrate with products such as Salesforce and Slack, because you never would want to try to build those sorts of products by yourselves. Because of this, look through product management job descriptions and you’ll find many that mention third-party software integration, APIs, strategic partnerships, and so on.

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Go Agile With Market-Driven User Stories

Pragmatic Marketing

Getting a product to the market is hard. You might think that the hardest part is building the product itself, but I think the most challenging part is deciding what to build in the first place. Specifically, articulating what to build and why it’s important. For some product people, agile makes articulating requirements even harder. However, responding to change and breaking big things down into small things is exactly what we must do to deliver products the market will love as early as p

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How do design sprints lead to better product decisions?

DISQO

When we looked back on the 2,000+ experiments that product teams have run on Alpha, we noted some of the challenges that they first had to overcome. Conceptually, most teams already buy into the value of experimentation and user insights, so that part was relatively easy. For corporate product teams in particular, the primary difficulty was in setting aside the time to make experimentation a continuous process.

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Test. Rinse. Repeat.

dscout People Nerds

How to bring an iterative approach to your qualitative research projects.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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The Six Essential Books that Every Product Manager Should Read

Mind the Product

I always tell the participants of my workshops that as a Product Manager you should be voraciously curious about what’s happening in the field. Read books, keep tabs on blogs, follow people on Twitter, listen to podcasts, be a massive consumer of ideas and then see what resonates most with you. Here are some of the first books I read after getting into product management.

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3 Ways Video Collaboration Empowers Your Service Operation

TSIA

Empowering service operations with video comes in many different forms. To some, video enables online chat with customers, while to others, video brings remote experts into the field virtually to help troubleshoot assets.

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How do design sprints lead to better product decisions?

DISQO

When we looked back on the 2,000+ experiments that product teams have run on Alpha, we noted some of the challenges that they first had to overcome. Conceptually, most teams already buy into the value of experimentation and user insights, so that part was relatively easy. For corporate product teams in particular, the primary difficulty was in setting aside the time to make experimentation a continuous process.

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Travails with Strategy Execution

Surya Suravarapu

Page 1 of 2. Harvard Business Review has an excellent article on ‘Why strategy execution fails?—?and what to do about it?”. A two-year old piece but relevant every bit of it. An elaborate study of wide audience across several industries (emphasis below is mine) — Nine years ago one of us (Don) began a large-scale project to understand how complex organizations can execute their strategies more effectively.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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Even More Amazing Speakers for #mtpcon London 2017

Mind the Product

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. But most importantly #mtpcon will, as usual, bring you the best minds in product from around the world for a day full of thought-provoking insight, inspiration, and learning. We’re delighted to announce our first six speakers, who will share their unique insights with us in September: Tickets are on sale now!

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What makes IBM Watson tick? Q&A with Sr. Design Manager Carol Smith

UserTesting

IBM Watson is at the forefront of computer learning and our evolving relationship with technology. And when it comes to UX and design challenges, there’s a lot to consider. We recently chatted with Carol Smith, Senior Design Manager at IBM … The post What makes IBM Watson tick? Q&A with Sr. Design Manager Carol Smith appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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How do design sprints lead to better product decisions?

DISQO

When we looked back on the 2,000+ experiments that product teams have run on Alpha, we noted some of the challenges that they first had to overcome. Conceptually, most teams already buy into the value of experimentation and user insights, so that part was relatively easy. For corporate product teams in particular, the primary difficulty was in setting aside the time to make experimentation a continuous process.

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Q&A with Slack Design Lead, Tina Chen

UserTesting

In a recent webinar, Tina Chen, Design Lead at Slack, takes us behind the scenes to share the design processes at Slack. She talks about what it’s like to design at a company that’s growing rapidly and walks us through … The post Q&A with Slack Design Lead, Tina Chen appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Q&A with Slack Design Lead, Tina Chen

UserTesting

In a recent webinar, Tina Chen, Design Lead at Slack, takes us behind the scenes to share the design processes at Slack. She talks about what it’s like to design at a company that’s growing rapidly and walks us through … The post Q&A with Slack Design Lead, Tina Chen appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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What makes IBM Watson tick? Q&A with Sr. Design Manager Carol Smith

UserTesting

IBM Watson is at the forefront of computer learning and our evolving relationship with technology. And when it comes to UX and design challenges, there’s a lot to consider. We recently chatted with Carol Smith, Senior Design Manager at IBM … The post What makes IBM Watson tick? Q&A with Sr. Design Manager Carol Smith appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup

Mind the Product

As technology professionals, we have been stuck at metaphorical basecamp for years. We’ve looked at the summit, attempted the various routes other teams have created, and worked hard on dialling in the basics of making sure we have food, water, and shelter. We have gone from wilderness survival to wilderness living. We learned the ways of the land. I would even say some have perfected this way of living.

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