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Technographics: Your Shortcut to Improving Interoperability

Centercode

Tapping into an aspect of growing importance within the realm of beta testing: technographics. Today we’re talking technographics — what they are, why they matter, who they benefit, and how using them improves your testing efficiency and product performance. The key to navigating that minefield without a performance blowup?

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Connecting Customers to Office Tech in the WFH Era

Centercode

In step with the rapid, unprecedented shift from the office to the home office, the demand for technology like routers, wireless printers, webcams, headsets, and portable hard drives has hit the makers of these products like a tidal wave. Testing your product for security vulnerabilities is a field of expertise in and of itself.

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TEI 314: How to make your ideas thrive instead of die – with Shankar Achanta

Product Innovation Educators

Insights for product managers from an R&D Engineering Director. He has had a number of engineering product roles at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, which designs and manufactures products for the power industry. 1:30] What are your responsibilities as an R&D Engineering Director?

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It’s Time to Bring Beta into the 21st Century

Centercode

Brainstorming product vision with your engineers and design team? And nestled in the center of all this was beta testing, a practice (usually without standardized processes) that loosely applied to any sort of pre-launch product testing. What many haven’t done is changed the way they beta test. Not really a thing.

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How Automatic Speech Recognition Drives Future Voice Technology

The Product Coalition

Sonos was building a connection between its wireless speakers and smart home assistants and sought speech data from three countries — the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany — divided by age group. They required specific wake word information, such as Amazon’s “Alexa” and Google’s “Hey Google.”

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The Evolution of the Tech Consumer

Centercode

Before smartphones, wireless internet, and connected products became the norm in American households, interest in buying and using these products was a lot more niche. Everyone uses it — from engineers and data scientists to kindergarten teachers and kindergarteners — and consequently, the span of demographics and technical know-how is vast.

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Product Management in Healthcare

ProductPlan

This is primarily due to the extremely lengthy timelines and massive budgets for medical research, as well as the regulatory hurdles and safety testing demands for this industry. This gives them more confidence when dealing with scientists and engineers while reducing any sense of imposter syndrome in such a complex setting.