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Product Management 101: A/B Testing

ProductCraft

A data-driven product manager wants to ensure that each piece of his or her product is working as effectively as possible. That means regularly tweaking certain aspects of the product in order to improve their overall performance. One way to do this is through A/B testing. What is an A/B test? An A/B test (also. Read more » The post Product Management 101: A/B Testing appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Here’s how to run a virtual idea board with your team

nulab

Ideas are slippery things. The more you try to catch one, the harder they are to pin down. Then the whole process becomes something of a vicious cycle: Your lack of ideas stresses you out. That stress puts a damper on things even more, and before you know it, you’ve spent two hours staring at a blank page. Panic ensues. Tips, tools, and methods for developing ideas fast can be a real lifesaver when you’ve got to be creative on tap.

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Six Remote Mobile Product Manager Tips

Alchemer Mobile

This year has been interesting to say the least. With most companies transitioning to part-time (if not full-time) remote work, teams are being forced to be creative in the ways they communicate and work efficiently. For product managers , this has posed some unique challenges. We’re here to help! 1. Create a research hub. Take a page out of the Gap Inc. consumer insights team’s book and create a large research hub to share data across departments.

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280 Group Finalists in Product Management Today MVP Awards 2020!

280 Group

Celebrating the Nominations. We are thrilled to announce that several of our blog articles have made it to the finalist round of the 2020 Product Management Today MVP Awards ! We’d like to thank our readers who help drive our content initiatives to produce proven, practical, and actionable strategies. It is our mission to empower product professionals so they can gain the tools and knowledge needed to build better products.

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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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2021 Product Conferences

Product Talk

We are starting to pull together our 2021 conference list. A lot has changed in the world since we last published our 2020 conference list. Due to COVID-19, many of the events on our list had to shift to virtual events. We expect the same will happen in 2021. Nevertheless, we are finding that conference organizers are getting better at offering compelling online events.

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Gap Inc. Q&A: Leveraging Mobile Customer Feedback to Drive Business Decisions

Alchemer Mobile

In 2020, Gap Inc.’s Consumer Insights team strategically collaborated with many other departments such as marketing, online, and store operations to share data and inform decisions based on changing customer preferences and behaviors. For example, Gap Inc. quickly adopted curbside services during the coronavirus pandemic and launched in-app surveys to better understand the customer experience.

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Product People on Prioritisation

Mind the Product

We asked 55 people working in product management roles to share their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations on the process of prioritisation. Read on for an overview of their feedback, and if you’re a Mind the Product member, you can access an extended report (more on this below). Who We Spoke To The majority of people [.]. Read More. The post Product People on Prioritisation appeared first on Mind the Product.

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My Cruiser Bike and The Development Teams

The Product Coalition

Image Source: India Autos Blog This pandemic has created a lot of changes not only in my work-life but even in my personal life. One of the noteworthy changes in the usage of my cruiser bike. Mostly left untouched and idle these days with just basic care to keep it clean and check air levels in the tires. I still remember the level of argument I had with my mom and spouse convincing them of going ahead with my decision to buy a cruiser bike of my choice a few years ago.

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Announcing our new report – “The Future of Support Has Arrived: It’s Conversational”

Intercom, Inc.

Customer support is evolving. But how are support leaders staying ahead of rising conversation volumes and sky-high customer expectations? Our new report reveals that conversational, messenger-based support is key. Discover five trends transforming the support industry along with tips on how to capitalize on them. Today, modern customers expect both personal and efficient support.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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What type of innovation are you talking about?

Strategyzer

People often don't understand each other when they talk about innovation. The main reason for this confusion is that there are different types of innovation. To be understood, it is fundamental to specify what type of innovation you are talking about.

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Building a Bespoke Prioritisation Framework: A Case Study

Mind the Product

In this case study, Katerina Suchkova, Group Product Manager at 15Five, explains how she and her team devised a prioritisation formula to get them through the challenge of 2020. As a remote company, our team typically gets together twice a year, at the annual company R&D retreat. In September 2019 we went on our last R&D [.]. Read More. The post Building a Bespoke Prioritisation Framework: A Case Study appeared first on Mind the Product.

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(Do Not) Steal This Feature!

The Product Coalition

If copying your competition is your priority, please read this story. Have you ever been in a situation where you develop a feature because your competition was supporting it, and once you have launched it, your competitor withdrew it? It happened to me. But what also happened was something even funnier. Many times in my career, I have followed the urgency to develop a feature, reacting to the competition.

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TEI 308: How innovators lead transformation – with Tendayi Viki, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Tips on driving innovation within organizations for product managers and leaders. Our guest says that organizations need pirates. These are the people who make entrepreneurship a legitimate part of the business. They are the innovators and transformers. Pirates design value propositions and business models that scale. . Our guest’s name is Dr.

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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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Finding Startup Ideas and Building in Heavily-Regulated Spaces — Lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health

First Round Review

Ayo Omojola shares his lessons for going unreasonably deep when building products in heavily-regulated industries like healthcare and financial services with Carbon Health and Cash App.

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Startup Roadmaps and Prioritisation, by Ahmed El-Sharkasy

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Ahmed El-Sharkasy – CEO and Co-Founder at Knowledge Officer – offers exceptional insights on product roadmapping and prioritisation. If you’re a startup or want to found one, this talk is for you. Or you can read the key learnings below: Have a flexible plan Don’t fall into the buzzword trap: embracing an [.].

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How can we deliver faster with Scrum?

The Product Coalition

Scrum and ‘moving faster’ are treated synonyms in leadership discussions. Not sure from where did they get this idea of expecting everything to happen in a fast space by embracing Scrum? Let us discuss today in this blog what are the aspects an organization embracing Scrum has to focus on faster delivery. Borrowing this image from the internet where someone like me would have stumbled upon in the first place to understand the different roles in Scrum and the aspects they focus on.

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The Problem With Parity

ProductCraft

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: be wary of parity. I’m speaking specifically about feature parity—the often-misguided requirement product management pros face when rolling out a new solution. Whether you’re tackling a software rewrite, expanding a web app to another platform, or simply updating a product, the external pressure to offer features.

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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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BI vs. product analytics: Key differentiators

Mixpanel

In 2019, industry-leading Business Intelligence (BI) tools, Looker and Tableau, were acquired by Google and Salesforce for over $18 billion combined. More recently in 2020, cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake went public at an eye-popping market capitalization of $70 billion. These massive deals show that BI tools and data warehouses are a powerful combo that companies across the globe are incorporating into their tech stacks.

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Not Your Typical Product People – Marton Gaspar & Eli Montgomery on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Diversity at work comes in many forms, but neurodiversity is one that we don’t discuss as much in the workplace. This week, we’re joined on the podcast by Marton Gaspar and Eli Montgomery, to give us two different points of view on the topic. Marton’s recently been talking publicly about his experiences as an autistic [.]. Read More.

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Love through the Screen: 3 Innovations in Human-Centered Tech

The Product Coalition

Facilitating the human touch through pixels 2020 has been a year of many lessons. One in particular is that companies have a responsibility to protect their users and that they must be held accountable for their decisions. From the Social Dilemma Netflix documentary to seeing big tech companies testify before Congress , we have witnessed companies grapple with misinformation and attempt to define what a “neutral” stance in tech means (or whether neutrality even exists).

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When Is it Safe to Remove Functionality from Your Product? (Is it Ever?)

ProductPlan

When do you even want to remove product functionality? Think about your car’s interior or the interior of the last car you sat in. Picture the music player in the center control panel. We’ll assume the car has a screen displaying an app menu. The menu offers access to satellite radio, a music app, and the ability to play songs from your phone. Does it also have a CD player?

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A Comprehensive Checklist to Revamp Your Website & Increase Profitability

Unlock the power of a well-designed website with our eBook, 'Comprehensive Checklist: A Guide to Website Redesign.' Crafted by Brucira and ruttl founders, it's your ally in reshaping your digital presence. Welcome to a transformative journey!

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Channel And Ecosystem Leaders Are Demanding More From Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Solutions

Jay McBain

As brands increasingly use different types of partners to reach, influence, transact, and retain customers, partner relationship management (PRM) solutions are being asked to serve both traditional and nontraditional channels at a new level of scale and personalization. Managing these growing ecosystems in a consistent, predictable, and productive way is critical to the success of […].

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I want to be a Product Owner: The Hard Truths Revealed

Mind the Product

Before the pandemic, many organisations had already chosen to go agile. The pandemic has however stress tested our agility (or ‘wagility’) with deep embedded, organisational processes and roles being challenged. Similarly organisations who resisted agile in the past are realising they need to be agile to survive and thrive both during and after the pandemic. [.].

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Starting A Growth Team: Ten Key Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops. It all seemed so straightforward and I was so naïve!

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Introducing Document Signing—Automate getting NDA’s signed, no back and forth needed

UserInterviews

We’re taking another tedious research chore off your plate! Introducing Document Signing—our newest feature that makes it super easy to get your NDA or release form signed by participants so you can focus on the research itself. No more chasing down document signatures, or cancelling sessions with participants who didn’t sign your document.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Delivering Picture-Perfect Experiences in the Year of Streaming

Centercode

2020 has been aptly dubbed the “Year of Streaming.” Movie premieres, live concerts, conventions, and other normally in-person gatherings are joining the vast popularity of streaming media and games made possible by streaming services all over the world. Coronavirus solidified an already shifting focus toward entertainment and events that consumers can enjoy from home.

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What is product/market fit? By Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Janna Bastow – co-founder and CEO of ProPad – shares her view on how you can define and measure your product/market fit. Watch the video to see her talk in full, or have a quick read of her key insights below: How to define product/market fit What you should not think about product/market [.]. Read More. The post What is product/market fit?

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The Blind Game: a decision-making framework

The Product Coalition

A step by step decision making process to help you choose the best option Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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