March, 2024

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Alchemer CTO, Brandi Vandegriff, Receives CIO of the Year Award from Colorado Technology Association

Alchemer Mobile

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award. This award recognizes senior technology leaders who are driving innovation both within their organizations and across the broader technology community.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feat

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How Customer Success Can Grow User Adoption on New Releases

Product Management University

If you’re looking to grow user adoption on your products, a few more tools in your arsenal beyond traditional release announcements and in-product reminders will help your cause. Put yourself in the shoes of your users. They’re short-handed, carrying heavier workloads, and they’re overwhelmed with the amount of information coming at them from every direction, both internally and externally.

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Common misconceptions about product management

Mind the Product

What do product managers do really well, and what do other people think they do? We asked around and here's what you told us. Read more » The post Common misconceptions about product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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‘Niching’ Down

The Product Coalition

“No niche is too small if it’s yours”  — Seth Godin We’ve all heard the saying, “if you try to please everyone, you please no one.” This is especially true for startups and new products. Focus and being able to find a niche can be a huge unlock for products. Square started as a POS (Point of Sale) device, Lululemon started as yoga clothing for women, and Amazon started as an online book store.

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480: Putting Design Thinking into practical action – with Tom Granzow

Product Innovation Educators

The Discover, Analyze, Create, Develop Design Thinking Framework for product managers You’ve heard about Design Thinking or even tried it. It is a simple-to-understand tool for solving problems, developing strategy, and most commonly for us product professionals, for developing a new product or service. And while it is simple to understand, that doesn’t mean it is easy to apply.

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In-Depth Guide to GA4 Path Exploration (+Better Alternative)

Userpilot

Are you wondering what the GA4 path exploration report is? If so, you’re in the right place, as this is the main question we explore in the article! To be more specific, we: Cover its most common use cases. Show how to create the report. Explain its different settings. Compare it to Userpilot Paths. Let’s dive in, shall we? TL;DR The GA4 path exploration report provides a visualization of successive or previous actions that users take at a particular stage of the user journey.

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What Makes An Effective Product Management Process

Product Management University

A great 30-minute conversation with Paul Heller , Chief Evangelist at Sopheon. But we didn’t discuss the process itself. We talked about value-driven product management, what it takes to get the rest of the organization on board and how to help other disciplines see the benefit to them. 30 minutes never went so fast. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Humility and personal resilience in product

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a look back to two talks from our 2022 Hamburg conference, MTP Engage, in which product leaders share two different perspectives on the mental qualities you need as a product manager. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Humility and personal resilience in product appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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How Can CRM Marketing Help Predict A Customer’s Needs?

The Product Coalition

Let’s explore how CRM marketing helps to better anticipate customer behavior. Understanding your customers is key, but simply understanding their demographics isn’t enough. Predicting their future behavior allows you to anticipate their needs, personalize their experiences, and ultimately, drive conversions and loyalty. So, how can CRM marketing help you achieve this elusive power of prediction?

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A Product Leader’s Top 3 Learnings from ProductWorld 2024

ProductPlan

As the Head of Product at ProductPlan, I spend a lot of time talking to product teams and learning about their experiences throughout the product development process. I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. Sometimes, it’s helpful to get out of the day-to-day and see things from a different lens.

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479: Beyond the pint glass–Learnings from creating the new Molson Coors Non-Alcohol portfolio – with Marlon Hernandez

Product Innovation Educators

Product management insights from Molson Coors’s non-alcohol portfolio transformation I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This discussion is with Marlon Hernandez, whose session is titled “Beyond the pint glass: Learnings from creating the new Molson Coors Non-Alcohol portfolio.” After over 233 years of brewing beer, Molson Coors announced its name change to Molson Coors Beverage Company to ref

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9 Customer Analytics Use Cases For SaaS

Userpilot

Looking for customer analytics use cases that can significantly improve your SaaS? You’re at the right place. This article lists key use cases for SaaS and explains how to implement them to unlock customer satisfaction and product growth. We also cover: Customer analytics categories. The three types of customer analytics and their significance. Key metrics you should be measuring.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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The Definition of Product Management Is Shrinking. It’s Not Good!

Product Management University

The definition of product management has been changing and evolving over the past 10 years and I’m not sure it’s for the better. I make it a regular habit to have conversations with product management directors and VPs. Most of them are not our customers. It keeps me current on the landscape of the product management profession without any slant or bias to what we do.

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Navigating economic uncertainty with OKRs

Mind the Product

Malte Scholz outlines the benefits of implementing OKRs during economic uncertainty, the challenges that come with them and how to overcome these with the right tool. Read more » The post Navigating economic uncertainty with OKRs appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Freemium to Premium: How Companies Nudge You To Upgrade

The Product Coalition

Duolingo , the gamified language learning app, has revolutionized accessibility in education. Boasting over 500 million users , it offers a freemium model: free basic language courses with an option to upgrade to Duolingo Plus for an ad-free experience, offline lessons, and streak repair. But there is a secret weapon in Duolingo’s arsenal — gentle nudges that persistently push users toward the premium experience.

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Conquering Product-Led Transformation: Strategies for Scaling in Large Enterprises

Dragonboat

A rapid scaling journey for a product organization is no small feat. The larger the company, the more significant the challenges become: team cohesion, strategic direction, and maintaining alignment throughout the organization. Recently, the CPO Series had the pleasure of hosting Rob Seidman, Chief Product Officer for the POS and lending division at U.S.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Purposeful Leadership in Product Management

Ronke PM

In March, we celebrate women's accomplishments, reflecting on their monumental role in product management. We owe our progress to those women who trailblazed our path and laid our foundations, mentoring us to be exceptional and formidable. From their experiences, we meet our moments with integrity and grace. They are a testament to breaking barriers and shattering the glass ceiling.

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How to Use Userpilot Paths to Understand User Behavior? A Guide

Userpilot

Userpilot has been improving its analytics capabilities consistently to enable product teams to make data-driven decisions. Following Retention, Funnels, Trends, and Flow analytics, we’ve just launched Userpilot Paths. In this article, we explain what Paths is, how to create the report, its use cases, and compare it to similar features in other tools.

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How Square Used Amplitude to Enhance the Seller Experience and Power Growth

Amplitude

Read how adopting Amplitude Analytics and Amplitude Audiences allowed Square to facilitate projects like multi-product onboarding and homepage redesign, leading to double-digit improvements.

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Mastering continuous discovery with B2B products with Katie Marcus (Product Lead, Progression, Depop)

Mind the Product

In our latest episode on The Product Experience, we delve into a great discussion with Katie Marcus, Product Lead at Progression. Katie gives us a deep insight into the trials and tribulations of fostering continuous discovery within a B2B environment and the start-up space. We cover: 0:00 Continuous discovery in product management 4:43 Implementing continuous Read more » The post Mastering continuous discovery with B2B products with Katie Marcus (Product Lead, Progression, Depop) appeared

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Beyond the Book: Navigating the Real-World Challenges of Managing a Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

“The value is in what gets used, not what gets built”. — Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Fires sparked to life left and right, yet there were no firefighters in sight, and I had no tools to fight them. Every hour, a new fire seemed to materialize from an unknown direction with no warning. I was on a path, a journey, to a new and wonderful destination.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

You’re an unemployed agilist. And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job.

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Best AI Research Tools: Insights & Recommendations

UX Studio

In today’s AI-driven world, the excitement about artificial intelligence is widespread, with numerous tools available to shape our lives and the world. But with so many options flooding the market, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Our blog post guides you through the maze of AI research tools. We’ll uncover the hurdles of current AI-powered research tools and spotlight the most promising ones to keep an eye on.

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User Behavior Patterns: 8 Examples & How to Analyze Them

Userpilot

Are you on the verge of launching a new product? Or maybe you’ve been monitoring product analytics for a while and are looking for ways to boost growth. In either case, monitoring and analyzing user behavior patterns can help drive more user engagement and minimize churn. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at different examples of behavioral patterns.

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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India’s BrainDrain 2.0 begins

NextBigWhat

Once upon a time, a decision was made to construct a road, envisioning the birth of a great city that would rival the best in the world. As the roads began to be built and streetlights were installed, entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals alike eagerly anticipated the myriad opportunities the new city would offer. Then, one […] The post India’s BrainDrain 2.0 begins appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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From engineering to product: Felix Watson Jr, Lead Product Manager at Google

Mind the Product

We speak to Felix Watson Jr. Lead Product Manager at Google. In our conversation we discuss Felix's experiences in transitioning from engineering to product, and converse on the state of diversity in product management. Read more » The post From engineering to product: Felix Watson Jr, Lead Product Manager at Google appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

Transforming communication with instant messaging. Photo by Dima Solomin on Unsplash In the vast realm of digital communication, few platforms have left as indelible a mark as WhatsApp. Its journey from a modest messaging app to a global giant in instant messaging has been nothing short of remarkable. Join me as I traverse the fascinating evolution of WhatsApp, exploring its pivotal milestones, strategic adaptations, acquisition, and the transformative impact it has had on modern communication.