December, 2023

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The 12 Days of Product Management: A Festive Journey for Product Managers

280 Group

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and what better way to celebrate than with a holiday spin in the world of product management! Join us on a merry journey through “The 12 Days of Product,” a delightful adaptation of the classic holiday jingle that will resonate with product managers far and wide. In a world where user stories meet yuletide glory and product demos dance with holiday glee, we present a festive ode to the unsung heroes of the business world.

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“We Should All Be in Search of Impostor Syndrome.”

The Product Coalition

Impostor Syndrome is a myth — and businessman and “Diary of a CEO” podcast host Steven Bartlett alludes to reasons why. By Tremis Skeete for Product Coalition Something tells me that when it comes to pursuing success, Steven Bartlett has initiated a dialogue that’s worth real engagement. Steven seems to be someone whom after years of applying igenuity while overcoming adversity, and not shying away from experimentation, hard work and determination — he knows how to be successful in business and

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What does 2024 hold for product managers?

Mind the Product

If 2023 - broadly - has been a year of generative AI, layoffs and questions about the future of product management, what lies ahead in 2024? Read more » The post What does 2024 hold for product managers? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Last-Minute Gifts for The Product Manager That Has Everything

The Product Manager

Give the product manager in your life the holiday season of their dreams with the gifts they'd never admit they want. The post Last-Minute Gifts for The Product Manager That Has Everything appeared first on The Product Manager.

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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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Why Customer-Centric Product Analytics Are More Important Than Ever

Gainsight

Good data has never been more important to effectively interact with customers both in and outside your product. Knowing how deep (or shallow) customers’ product adoption may be is critical to driving them to achieve value, engaging at the right moment in the right channel, and improving overall customer and user experiences. And this data can only come from effectively capturing and acting on insights measured through product analytics.

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Feature Scoring in Product Development: When to Do It and Why

Gocious Blog

Choosing between two great options is a struggle for anyone. When faced with the decision, there can be a feeling of loss for the choices not selected. When it comes to ideas and group discussion, it can even feel personal. The more options thrown into the mix, the more challenging the decisions become.

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The Future of UX Research is Brighter with AI

UserInterviews

Our panel on artificial intelligence technology in UX highlights many reasons researchers should be cautiously optimistic about this technology. Here are five.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower - Product Management

In 2023, there were approximately 26.3 million software developers worldwide. This vast pool of talent showcases a wide range of experience and portfolios, quality of work, and inquisitiveness. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. In the 25 years that TechEmpower has been in business, we’ve seen thousands of companies come and go.

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GPT Needs UXR

dscout People Nerds

User research can help us understand and utilize GenAI both effectively and ethically. But GenAI can also provide opportunities for UXR at a pivotal time.

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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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Ask Teresa (and the Community): What Do You Do With Stakeholder Feature Requests?

Product Talk

Let’s say you’ve got a good thing going with continuous discovery. You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers , you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. Everything is going great right up until one of your stakeholders , like your CEO, approaches your team with a shiny new idea.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Aruna Thapa, Senior Director of Product Strategy at IQVIA

280 Group

For our next installment of our Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed Aruna Thapa , Senior Director of Product Strategy at IQVIA Technologies. Now with over 20 years of experience, I’ve internalized the lesson to never underestimate the significance of a framework and the iteration process by consistently applying it in various aspects of my work.

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What I Wish I Knew Before Writing a Book

Melissa Perri

Since publishing my second book, Product Operations, in October, I’ve been reflecting on what I learned writing two business books and wanted to share those insights that I wish someone had shared with me before I started. Escaping the Build Trap has sold over 75,000 copies in 5 years, and my second book Product Operations came out just a few months ago.

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The product manager’s playbook for AI/ML integration

Mind the Product

Uncover strategic insights on how product managers can seamlessly integrate AI/ML into their products to stay ahead. Read more » The post The product manager’s playbook for AI/ML integration appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Alchemer Adds Workday, PeopleSoft, Marketo, and Dynamics 365 Always-On Workflow Initiators 

Alchemer Mobile

Listen to events from HRIS, CRM, marketing, and e-Commerce software systems to trigger surveys within context of your employee’s or customer’s experience By Justin Falk, Alchemer Product Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing During December, we added to the library of Alchemer Workflow Initiators so that you can listen to events in even more systems your business runs on—such as CRMs, marketing automation, HRIS, and e-Commerce software—and automatically trigg

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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

“Purpose is not the sole pursuit of profits but the animating force for achieving them. Profits are in no way inconsistent with purpose — in fact, profits and purpose are inextricably linked.” — Larry Fink, CEO BlackRock Over my career, I’ve had many conversations about purpose and a similar number about value. Yet, those conversations rarely intersect despite being a perfect pair for a product.

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Product in Practice: Iterating on Outcomes with Limited Data

Product Talk

We often hear from people that building an opportunity solution tree is hard work. And perhaps one of the most challenging parts of building opportunity solution trees is defining the outcome that you put at the top. One of the most challenging parts of building opportunity solution trees is defining the outcome that you put at the top. – Tweet This As a quick reminder, your outcome should be something the product team is able to directly influence, but it also needs to connect to a business ou

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Navigating the Intersection of SAFe and Product Management: Finding Harmony in Complexity

280 Group

In the dynamic world of agile development, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Product Management stand as key players, each with its own set of principles and practices. While both are committed to delivering value to customers and responding to market needs, the intersection of these frameworks can be both a source of collaboration and a breeding ground for challenges.

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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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Congratulating the 2023 Amplitude Pioneer Award Winners

Amplitude

Check out the Amplitude Blog to learn about digital analytics, product strategy, and product-led growth from our experts. Read the latest tips and examples to bring power to your products.

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Heroes and villains in the product world by Randeep Sidhu

Mind the Product

In the closing keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Randeep Sidhu talks about the framing of heroes and villains for the product world and why creating an impact is so hard. Watch the video in full, or read on for highlights from his talk. Read more » The post Heroes and villains in the product world by Randeep Sidhu appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Ultimate Guide to Unstoppable Motivation

Nir Eyal

The Pacific Crest Trail is renowned as one of the most arduous—and sometimes dangerous—hiking trails in America. Every summer, thousands of intrepid walkers set off on the trail, beginning in spring and knowing they won’t arrive at the Canadian border until five months later. For most people, this sounds like a hellish feat of endurance. For University of Missouri professor Kennon Sheldon, it sounded like a perfect opportunity for a psychological experiment.

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Utility Eats Value for Breakfast: About Diminishing Marginal Utility

The Product Coalition

Let’s look at the distinctions between a utility and a novelty, and why the utility always wins the race for value in the hearts and minds of consumers. William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882). Source: [link] I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the writing of this article. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a trustworthy and collaborative product management education environment.

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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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We Have To Support Every Line of Production Code Forever

Mironov Consulting

In the heat of an enterprise deal moment, it’s easy to think very short-term about the long-term costs of specials and “small requirements.”  There’s tremendous pressure to minimize the importance of a feature tweak to close this quarter’s big deal, and similar pressure to minimize both the initial effort to make that tweak and the ongoing effort to keep it working.

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Merry Value Delivery: What I Learned About Flow as a Blue Santa Volunteer

Agile Velocity

So how does Santa deliver millions of toys to everyone around the world? As a parent, my children have asked this question a couple of times and I’ve always resorted to the vague answer of “Christmas magic”. As someone who hangs out with a lot of Agile coaches, I can’t help but look at international, magical toy drop-off as a value delivery challenge.

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467: Strategic product planning – with Yaroslav Lazor

Product Innovation Educators

Unpacking the BRIDGeS framework for product managers Today we are talking about strategic product planning, which involves decision-making, problem-solving, feature prioritization, and product vision creation. Our guest is Yaroslav Lazor, Founder and CEO of Railsware. He created the strategic product planning tools and frameworks that Railsware continues to apply on projects for customers as well as their own products.

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Deep dive: Engineering artificial intelligence for trust

Mind the Product

Explore the intricate challenges of building AI-native products that prioritize user trust. Read more » The post Deep dive: Engineering artificial intelligence for trust appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Microcopy UX: Tips and Examples for Great UX Writing

Userpilot

How do you write a UX microcopy that helps users accomplish their objectives and drives conversions? That’s what our guide to microcopy in UX design covers, so if you’re after the answer, you’re in the right place! Let’s get right to it! TL;DR UX microcopy is the small snippets of text in the UI that help users interact effectively with the app or website.

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Product Poetry: The Product Manager Island

The Product Coalition

For those who have been the sole product person at your company (or felt like it), experienced limited collaboration in favor of competition, felt the occasional (or frequent) tinge of imposter syndrome, or had limited support or mentorship, this is for you. Product is one of the most compelling and rewarding spaces to be in. At times, it is also one of the most challenging.

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The Essence of Design: Its 4 Key Roles in Our Lives

freshtrax

“What is design?” This is a never-ending question for designers and others alike. Different people have different concepts of “design,” and this is often the cause of miscommunication and even minor disputes. The roles of today’s “designers” are incredibly diverse, making it quite difficult to sum them up in just a few words.