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Lessons learned from a 6-month journey to land my next product job

Mind the Product

Essential lessons learned for landing a product manager role, from enhancing your CV strategy to maintaining resilience and networking effectively. Read more » The post Lessons learned from a 6-month journey to land my next product job appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Unleashing Antifragility: Lessons from “Silicon Valley” for Product Leaders

The Product Coalition

Let’s discover integrating antifragility into product development through the “Silicon Valley” TV show lens for practical insights.

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The unlikely product management wisdom of Helen DeWitt’s “Lightning Rods”

Mind the Product

Jennifer Glen, a product leader at Autodesk, shares a light-hearted take on the unlikely product management wisdom in Helen DeWitt's comic novel, "Lightning Rods." Read more » The post The unlikely product management wisdom of Helen DeWitt’s “Lightning Rods” appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Management Outcomes – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Product Management University

It’s refreshing to see so many discussions and articles themed around product management outcomes. After all, it’s the reason we product managers do what we do, right? But not all outcomes are created equal. Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. THE GOOD When it comes to getting your product management and product development teams focused, nothing beats well-defined outcomes that are clear, concise and measurable.

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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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From Uncertainty to Inspiration: Volunteering at ProductCon

The Product Coalition

ProductCon Team New York 2024 / Product School Hey there! I wanted to share a bit about my recent experience at ProductCon in New York, hosted by Product School. Throughout this post, I’ll explain how my experiences at the event relate to real-world product management and how these skills are highly transferable. Even though this was on a smaller scale, the lessons learned scale up when working on big projects within an organization.

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How far do people trust AI? – A Research project from UX Studio

UX Studio

Our company specialises in digital products, so it’s crucial for us to get a better understanding of people’s thoughts and attitudes towards AI and existing AI tools. One of our main interests was to see how much people trust them. Thus we decided to do research on the topic. We designed quantitative research to get an overview. In this post, we will introduce our research process, and give a sneak peek at our top 3 findings.

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12 Best Customer Retention Software for SaaS Companies in 2024

Userpilot

Are you on the lookout for tools that can help you improve customer retention ? There are quite a few solutions around, so it might be difficult to find, especially as we’re not talking about one specific set of tools but rather a whole range of different solutions covering a range of use cases. This article shows what you should look for when choosing customer retention software and showcases 12 tools worth considering.

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Product Roadmap Software & Essential Tools for Agile Manufacturers

Gocious Blog

In the digital age, investing in software tools is necessary to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and maintain a competitive edge in the market. These software solutions offer various functionalities to benefit manufacturing businesses , from managing production processes to optimizing supply chains and analyzing product portfolios.

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Transform Your Brand Perception with a Professional Media Kit

Spice Catalyst

By Gwen Payne In today’s competitive market, standing out is not just an advantage; it’s a necessity. A media kit is not merely a collection of documents—it’s a testament to your business’s professionalism, transparency, and readiness.

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Harnessing Mobile-Led Growth: The Case for Mobile App Performance

In an increasingly mobile-first world, successful mobile apps have become a key driver for business growth. However, many companies still struggle to find success in the highly competitive mobile market. While many factors determine the success of a mobile app, one of the most important and often overlooked is app performance and its effect on the user experience.

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How to enable product managers to be successful

Mind the Product

This article is a guide for product managers and organizations to create better products. It serves as a diagnostic tool, highlighting why it's not enough to just hire top-tier talent and explaining what else is needed for success. Read more » The post How to enable product managers to be successful appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Top 12 Interaction Design Principles To Follow

Userpilot

The right interaction design principles can help you create intuitive, user-friendly product experiences that drive long-term retention. Today’s article shows you some of these principles and how to apply them in your UX design. Let’s get started! TL;DR Interaction design is the practice of designing digital products and interactive systems with a focus on user behavior.

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Business Analysts Can Use Generative AI to Analyze Code

The Product Coalition

Code analysis is a crucial part of requirements elicitation, especially for projects involving the redesign of a digital product.

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Driving Change: How Product Leaders Can Evangelize Product Management Best Practices

The Product Guy

As a product management veteran with over 20 years of leadership experience, I’ve worked with numerous organizations looking to transform their approach to building and delivering products. One of the most critical factors in the success of these transformations is the presence of strong product leaders who actively evangelize and promote product management best practices within their companies.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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492: Mastering Market Research: Sixth of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Mastering Market Research Techniques for Successful Product Management Watch on YouTube TBD TLDR Market research is essential for product managers to make informed business decisions and to create products customers love. Common market research methods include focus groups, interviews, ethnographic research, customer site visits, and social media. Each has advantages and disadvantages.

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Highlights from May’s ProductTank meetups

Mind the Product

With over 200 cities hosting ProductTanks globally, we're excited to start a monthly series highlighting some of these fantastic meetups. Read more » The post Highlights from May’s ProductTank meetups appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Post-event Survey Questions for SaaS and How to Deliver Them

Userpilot

Triggering post-event survey questions can significantly boost your response rates and the quality of your user feedback. But how do you know when to trigger a survey or not? Let’s explore some post-event survey examples and then explain how you can do it as well! TL;DR Post-event surveys are relevant to the experience that your users are having at the moment.

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“You Will Get A Job In Your Field”: Opportunities Are Here at Hire BVI

The Product Coalition

At the Multipurpose Sports Complex there were job seekers, students, and professionals gathered for the 5th Annual Hire BVI Career Expo.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for June 7, 2024

Johanna Rothman

My podcast this week is from the speaking book. Which now has a title and blurb! I always prefer to write a title and a blurb before I start writing a nonfiction book. When I do, I can create the user journey. (See How to Start a Nonfiction Book to Educate, Inspire, or Influence Your Ideal Reader to Act.) While I tried, I couldn't do that with this book, so I started to write chapters instead.

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How to Become an Indistractable Reader

Nir Eyal

When I was growing up, you couldn’t pay me to read a book about self-help or business. Now, I read between 60 to 80 books every year. A good non-fiction book is the distilled knowledge of years of research and insight and costs just a few bucks. Why wouldn’t you take advantage of such a cheap, efficient way to learn lessons that could change your life without having to do the work or live the experiences the author had to bear?

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Addressing your team’s discovery gaps to build valuable, viable solutions

Mind the Product

Discover how to identify and address discovery gaps in your product development process. Learn strategic interventions to mitigate risks, align with customer needs, and ensure successful outcomes with thorough assumption testing and Opportunity Solution Trees. Read more » The post Addressing your team’s discovery gaps to build valuable, viable solutions appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Analyze Open-Ended Questions in SaaS

Userpilot

Wondering how to analyze open-ended survey questions and extract the actionable insights contained in them? Collecting user feedback is pointless if you have no idea how to analyze it. However, analyzing qualitative data is tricky and goes beyond throwing up frequency graphs. This article explores the dos and don’ts of qualitative feedback analysis.

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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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How The Best Customer Communities Align with Customer Support

Gainsight

The needs of our customers are always evolving. As Customer Success professionals, it’s up to us to meet them where they are and where they are going. A thriving customer community is a perfect way to keep up with evolving customer needs and ensure we support our customers along their journey. Our Community Unplugged event hosted a panel discussion where Helena Li , Product Education Lead at Front , and Jillian Bejtlich , Sr.

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How to Choose Your Management Role for Most Effective and Efficient Work

Johanna Rothman

I've seen a number of posts recently saying that micromanagement isn't as bad as we might think it is. Instead, micromanagement might actually help the person who's the subject of that micromanagement. Sorry, no. Well, not sorry at all. Still No. Heck, NO. NO to all micromanagement. If any manager has micromanaged you, you know exactly how you felt.

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The Idea Generation Machine: Strategies for Transforming Your Ideation Sessions

The Product Manager

Great ideas are hard to come by—especially under pressure. Use these tactics to light up your product team's ideation sessions. The post The Idea Generation Machine: Strategies for Transforming Your Ideation Sessions appeared first on The Product Manager.

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Data-driven decision making in Healthcare: Insights from Dan Shirely (Product Manager, Analytics, Baxter)

Mind the Product

We spoke with Daniel Shirley, Product Manager, Analytics at Baxter International, to understand how product teams can prioritise roadmaps through visibility into feature adoption. At work, they call me “DataDan” since I lead Product Management for a segment of the Analytics products at Baxter Healthcare. My degree is in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the Read more » The post Data-driven decision making in Healthcare: Insights from Dan Shirely (Product Manager, Analyti

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.