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Why Product Managers Must Learn to say “I Don’t Know”

Mind the Product

As product people one of our most important skills should be the ability to say no. We may have to use it when the stakeholders want to implement certain features or when the developers at our startup try to refactor the MVP code. But there is an additional power that you should master when developing [.]. Read More. The post Why Product Managers Must Learn to say “I Don’t Know” appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Surprising Benefits of Unconditional Positive Regard

Nir Eyal

The post The Surprising Benefits of Unconditional Positive Regard appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Top 6 Translation Management Tools for Software Builders

Usersnap

As a business, we’re regularly trying new products and tools to help us with our software development. Especially when building customer-centric products, the software text matters. Providing software in our customer’s native language impacts the user experience a lot. Therefore, we evaluated different platforms for software localization and wanted to share some of our findings.

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Three Practical Tips for Designing in an Era of Digital Fatigue

ProductCraft

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the Connected blog. Remember the time when you were first connected to the internet? One of the first things I did was to do a search on Yahoo just to see what comes up. I can still remember how ecstatic I felt gaining access to an infinite amount. Read more » The post Three Practical Tips for Designing in an Era of Digital Fatigue appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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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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COVID-19 Resources for Product Managers

ProductCraft

There’s a lot of information out there about the COVID-19 crisis, from news and health reports to think pieces and risk assessments. If you’re looking for how this pandemic might impact your role and responsibilities as a PM, you’ll have to sort through a lot of noise. That’s why we’ve created this list of nine. Read more » The post COVID-19 Resources for Product Managers appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Learnings from SaaStr: 7 Things CS Can Learn From Founder Pitch Strategies

Gainsight

For many of us, we are now well past five months in various states of quarantine. Relationships are such a crucial part of sales, and it has become even more difficult without in-person contact. Body language, eye contact, energy, and other ways to gauge connectedness have now been replaced with less impactful digital cues. The pandemic has forced Sales teams to get back to basics to close deals during a tough time for most. .

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Product Managers Start To Deal With The Virtual Assistant Problem

The Accidental Product Manager

Voice controlled devices can’t do a lot of things Image Credit: Photo by Jan Antonin Kolar on Unsplash. So when you walk into the space that you live in, what’s the first thing that you do? For many of us, the first thing that we do is to shout out “Hey, Alexa turn on my music” or “Hey Google, turn on the lights in the kitchen.” These virtual assistants who are always there waiting for our next command to them have become a part of our lives.

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Better (everything) Everyday

The Product Coalition

The One Objective to Establish a Winning Startup and Product Culture Photo by Fab Lentz on Unsplash Last week I had a conversation with a couple of friends about the issues they’ve been facing at their startup. These friends, like many others, have been affected by CoViD-19 related business impact, as well as the Work From Home situation. As you can guess, the biggest issues have been around communication, specially when it involves some sort of negotiation about what product features to priori

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How do you Help a Business to see the Value of Product?

Mind the Product

In Mind the Product’s state of product management survey last year we noticed a strong theme – umpteen respondents said that their biggest challenge was to get the business to see the value of product. With this in mind we’ve asked some product leaders about how they do this, the problems and sticking points they’ve [.]. Read More. The post How do you Help a Business to see the Value of Product?

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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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Can Machine Learning Help Supercharge Your Products? [+Webinar]

280 Group

As Product Managers, we’re always looking for new ways to better fulfill our customer’s needs. Various waves of technology have promised to bring new capabilities to our products. Some, like cloud services, and mobile technologies have indeed revolutionized many of our products. Others, like 3-D displays, have only disappointed our customers and led to product failures.

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Q&A with Dunkin’: Digital Transformation through Coronavirus

Alchemer Mobile

From the very beginning of COVID-19, Dunkin’ has been a fantastic case study of how a large enterprise brand can quickly adapt to external variables and changing customer behavior. In our recent 20-minute Q&A session with Senior Product Manager, Andy Ades, we discussed how Dunkin’ has embraced digital transformation during the coronavirus pandemic. ?

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The top books every Customer Success Manager should read

Intercom, Inc.

Customer success – every business wants to invest in it but only a few know what it actually entails or how to do it well. There are a lot of words that get thrown around with customer success: problems to be solved, implementation, product experts, expansion, strategic partners, technical advisors, proactive versus reactive. But what does all this really mean, and how will it help us help our customers be more successful?

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Celebrating the Birth of Product Management With the Industry Leaders of 2020

Product Management Unpacked

Just a few months ago, CMU MS in Product Management Program celebrated a very special day – 05/13/31. It was on this day, 89 years ago that Procter & Gamble promotions executive Neil H. McElroy wrote a memorandum that gave birth to the field of Product Management. MSPM, the first degree program to focus exclusively on building better product managers, struck ten “51331” commemorative coins and sent them to industry leaders who represent the best of what’s happening in our f

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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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Can Machine Learning Help Supercharge Your Products? [+Webinar]

280 Group

As Product Managers, we’re always looking for new ways to better fulfill our customer’s needs. Various waves of technology have promised to bring new capabilities to our products. Some, like cloud services, and mobile technologies have indeed revolutionized many of our products. Others, like 3-D displays, have only disappointed our customers and led to product failures.

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4 Ways to Measure Customer Emotion

Alchemer Mobile

As consumers, emotions drive us to make many of our decisions. When we experience emotion, chemicals are released in our brains that make us feel positively or negatively about what’s happening in front of us. Whether customers complete a purchase, leave a review, or mention your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action.

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Balancing support efficiency with a great customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. In a recent study with over 600 support leaders, we found that smaller support teams (fewer than 100 agents) are less likely than larger teams (more than 100 agents) to say they can continue meeting accelerating customer expectations.

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Watch the #mtpcon Digital 2020 Keynotes

Mind the Product

If you missed an #mtpcon Digital keynote or simply fancy watching one – or all – of them again, feel free! You’ll find them all below: Well Prepared and Empty Handed by Matt LeMay Every Problem is a People Problem by Christian Idiodi Your Product Career by Gibson Biddle Inclusive Design: Dreams and Disasters by [.]. Read More. The post Watch the #mtpcon Digital 2020 Keynotes appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Phenomenal Product Leaders Must Earn Authority—Build a Plan to Earn Yours [Template]

280 Group

No Formal Authority? Product management is a challenging role, and one key challenge is the need for others outside of your direct authority to help you achieve success with your product. One product management complaint that I’ve often heard (and felt was an excuse for not owning the success of a product) was “All of the responsibility, but no authority.

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Human Factor Product Creation

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Fabiola Borquez (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Scott Stokke]. During these previous months, I have been fortunate to be able to discuss the challenges that arise in work with my mentor. And in those conversations, I have been able to realize that no matter how much we implement processes that we consider correct, things will not happen if we do not work the most important thing: The human factor.

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B2B Product Manager Magazine July 2020

Product Management University

The B2B Product Manager July 2020. We hope you’re enjoying your summer. This month we take a closer look at the practices of product management and product marketing and the extent to which our profession is keeping pace with the demands of our markets. We’re also serving up helpful tips on delivering more valuable product integration, a simple recipe for business requirements, positioning and product demos.

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#mtpcon Digital: Day 1 Highlights

Mind the Product

Day one of #mtpcon Digital got off to a flying start today with two incredible keynotes, a selection of awesome breakout sessions, fast-paced networking, a cocktails masterclass, yoga and more! Here’s what went down. First things first, like good product people we needed coffee (water, tea and other beverages were, of course, allowed!) and thankfully, [.].

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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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How To Turn Customer Needs Into A Product

The Product Coalition

So you’ve spent the past few weeks talking to customers, doing market research and you’ve touched down on a product that solves a real… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Inspiration from the Extreme

The Product Guy

Extreme panic when encountering a new customer problem can be a great source of product inspiration for you. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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Celebrate Failures as Much as The Successes

Strategyzer

In most companies, incentives are tied to success (e.g. sales targets, revenue). But this approach does not work for innovation. In order to succeed at innovation, companies need to build a portfolio with a pipeline of projects and accept that most of these will fail before you find one that works. As such, in order to succeed you can't just incentives and reward the successful projects.

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Using Data to Build a Brand, by Abba Newberry

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Abba Newberry, CMO at Habito, talks us through how to use data to build a brand. As part of her introduction, she tongue-in-cheek acknowledges that part of the reason why product and marketing sometimes clash is that product teams tend to be very data driven, while marketing teams argue that data [.]. Read More. The post Using Data to Build a Brand, by Abba Newberry appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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How To Have (And Not Have!) Hard Conversations About Product

The Product Coalition

Nine crucial product conversations that I’ve won and lost and the lessons learned from them. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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PM While Black: Making product management accessible to the Black community

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In this post, we talk to Kayiita Johnson, product manager at Google Nest and the founder of PM While Black , a site making PM accessible to the Black community. In this Path to PM post, Kayiita and I discuss the challenges the Black community faces in getting into PM and how he is addressing them. What’s the story behind PM While Black? In the past five years, I have conducted over a hundred informational interviews, mock interviews and intro calls with people that were interested in product man

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Introducing Miro Live Embed and new collaborations with Microsoft, Atlassian, Airtable, Coda, and Procore

Miro

Introducing Miro Live Embed and new collaborations with Microsoft, Atlassian, Airtable, Coda, and ProcoreJuly 14, 2020In the new normal of remote work, we rely heavily on technology to collaborate more effectively and re-create the connection of being together. Each of the apps we use is like a virtual conference room, providing a digital space to […].