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How Collaboration Leads to Product Innovation

Izenda

Product managers – while not the sole provider of innovative ideas – must orchestrate and foster a workplace that cultivates innovation. As team leaders, successful product managers have a pulse on their customer base and deep understanding of their market. But innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It comes from collaboration. Product managers bring invaluable expertise on both buyer personas and market movements which can often lead to breakthrough ideas.

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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

Let’s talk about that trickiest of subjects: Product Judgment. Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. Here, I will tackle some of the common questions around it: Does it exist?

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3 Questions To Ask In Your Next Product Manager Job Interview

Product Management University

There are plenty of product manager job interview questions out there for hiring managers. Here are three that the product manager (or product marketing) candidate can ask the hiring managers. Approach your next product manager job interview (or product marketing) with these two rules of thumb and three go-to questions. You’ll improve the odds of landing a job that aligns with your career aspirations.

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Product management & retention: Closing the divide between customers and the product team

ProductBoard

This post is an excerpt from our ebook, “Building excellent products in the age of remote work,” written to help you overcome today’s unique challenges and focus on what really matters—building excellent products that customers truly need. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed many businesses under severe financial stress, forcing them to scrutinize every expense and trim the fat where necessary.

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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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Doing Discovery Well: How to Measure and Guide Your Team

Product Talk

How do you know that you are doing discovery well? If you want to improve your discovery process, what outcomes help you track your progress? I get asked these questions often. I like that teams are trying to take an outcome-focused mindset to their discovery practice. The good news is setting discovery outcomes is no different from setting any other outcome.

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Bringing Product and Marketing Teams Together By Kathryn Corrick and Frank Wales

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Kathryn Corrick and Frank Wales, Founding Partners at Corrick, Wales & Partners, tell us how product and marketing teams can both use data protection to solve problems. Watch the video to see their talk in full. Or read on for an overview of their key points: What do they really want [.]. Read More. The post Bringing Product and Marketing Teams Together By Kathryn Corrick and Frank Wales appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Why Nobody Is Happy With Your Roadmap

ProductCraft

Feature prioritization and updating roadmaps are two common bugbears for product managers – experienced and new alike! I talk to a lot of product managers and they always exclaim that the sales team does not understand the roadmap or that engineering is complaining that they don’t know what to build. Product managers often hide behind. Read more » The post Why Nobody Is Happy With Your Roadmap appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Introducing Milestone Analysis: Uncover the Moments That Create High-value Customers

Amplitude

There are moments when a user falls in love with a product. Perhaps it’s the first time they completed an order. Or the second time they received a mobile delivery. Or the third time they finished a workout with a fitness app. Regardless of the action, these critical points are milestones that propel users on their journey to becoming a high-value customer.

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How to test business ideas

BrainMates

While every business is always looking for great ideas and new products, it’s rarely a matter of ‘build it and they will come’. Product Managers know how important it is to test business ideas and new products before proceeding with a full scale launch. However, what is more difficult is knowing how to test, how long to test for and what to look out for when you test your business ideas.

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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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Inside Intercom X Black Tech Unplugged

Intercom, Inc.

As we touched on in last week’s episode, the unjust killing of George Floyd has prompted many of us to look at our own relationship with perpetuating racial injustice and to look for ways we can participate in and reinforce racial equity. At Intercom, we have a lot of work to do in that regard but we feel that a small and organic way for us to start is by connecting the audience we’ve built for this podcast with voices that need to be heard but traditionally aren’t, particularly in t

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: How to Blaze Your Own Trail [Video]

280 Group

In honor of International Women’s Day 2020, 280 Group hosted a virtual panel discussion on how trailblazing women paved their way into Product Management. The panel, stemming from 280 Group’s new Empowering Epic Product Management series, Trailblazing Women in PM: How to Blaze Your Own Trail was held virtually. We heard from PM veterans their take on essential skills and strategies , success stories, lessons from past failures, candid feedback on how to tackle gender parity in PM, and acti

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Bias in Interviews and why Hiring in Product is Broken

Mind the Product

Hiring in product is broken, and those hypothetical product questions you get asked in interviews are just the tip of the iceberg. “Describe a coffee cup.” No, you’re not in the middle of a therapy session, you’re in a product manager interview, and a bad one at that. If you can, you should get up [.]. Read More. The post Bias in Interviews and why Hiring in Product is Broken appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Your Mobile Feedback Funnel is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It

Alchemer Mobile

Coronavirus didn’t break your mobile feedback funnel; it revealed it was broken all along. In this presentation originally delivered at Mobile Growth Summit, Apptentive’s CEO and Co-founder, Robi Ganguly, dives into exactly how companies can use feedback to predict churn and extend customer lifetime value. He reveals where your funnel has failed in the past and key strategies to improve it for the future.

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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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Strategies for building a resilient business

Intercom, Inc.

The past few weeks have shown us how important it is for all of us to deeply empathize with those around us. With that comes the need for clear communication and open dialogue with customers and employees alike. These are all key components of a business resilience strategy, one that bolsters up a business that’s faced with challenges and sets it up for growth long-term.

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Finding Time To Do Deep Work as a PM

The Product Guy

As product managers, we sometimes tend to do what is easy to do in the moment, rather than what really matters. But most of our high value work is concentrated in a few areas: thinking about product vision and strategy, piecing together various forms of input to figure out priorities, looking at product from different angles, preparing for major meetings to make sure they are productive.

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Making Better Predictions – Margaret Heffernan on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that predicting the future is hard and in this episode, sponsored by Amplitude, we turn to Margaret Heffernan to learn how to do it better. She’s a captivating speaker with more than 12 million views of her TED talks and a prolific writer who recently published Uncharted: How To [.]. Read More. The post Making Better Predictions – Margaret Heffernan on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Create Better Mobile Surveys

Alchemer Mobile

Surveys enable companies to collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative feedback. Mobile surveys are powerful in understanding sentiment, but only if they’re used correctly. When it comes to mobile, short surveys with specific asks (like feedback on a new feature) are effective and efficient. In addition to content, timing of surveys is critical.

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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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Translation and localization platforms. Tips for agile teams

The Product Coalition

Localization is not an easy task, especially if the content is regularly updated. Here’s how TMSs help streamline the localization process. Continue reading on Product Coalition ». localization translation agile localization-service platform

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Data-Backed Productivity Tips for the Gaming Industry

Indicative

The gaming industry is known to attract some of the most passionate, intelligent professionals in the world. That’s why workdays never seem long enough. According to a 2020 survey from the Game Developers Conference (GDC), 62 percent of respondents said that they spend more than 46 hours per week on the job. . This work ethic comes from a love for the craft, according to the GDC.

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Helping a Machine to Distinguish Toilet Flush From Kitchen tap: a Case Study

Mind the Product

In this case study, Dmytro Prosyanko, Product Manager at McKinsey & Company, Dr. Andrew Pike, Data Scientist, and Danylo Pavliuk, Product Designer at Temper, discuss why effective collaboration between product, data science, and design is crucial for successfully developing next-gen smart tech products. Overview The focus of this case study, co-authored by all three of [.].

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Bringing It All Together AGAIN!

The Product Guy

Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel @ [link]. Thank you to everyone who made it to our latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group. Over the course of the night a few of the highlights were… Featured Product: Coda exploring the product, its challenges and successes. The Product Group meet-ups are an opportunity for Product People (managers, strategists, marketers, etc.) to come together to meet, interact, and network in a roundtable setting.

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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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The role of UX research now and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Userzoom

There has never been a challenge like COVID-19. Not just for businesses, but for every individual. Some organisations have had revenues decimated, traffic come to a halt, markets practically vanish, supply chains cut off, conversion rates fluctuate like never before, and of course mass furloughing. I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a U

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Building or re-building your MVP? Focus on one thing; delivering an outcome to the customer

The Product Coalition

The talk around MVPs has got very complicated. Most of it misses the key reason they exist in the first place. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Organizational Alignment Through Vision and Principles By Elena Luneva

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, then Head of Product at Nuna, Elena Luneva explains the importance of making sure your company has a product vision to help make better product decisions and ensure organizational buy-in. The key points of her talk include: Establishing a product vision Aligning your team with the vision Using product [.]. Read More.

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Why Distributed Product Teams are Here to Stay

ProductPlan

There is no going back to “normal” for product teams. The idea of simply translating what we did in the office can’t be matched in our distributed world. At a minimum, I believe we need to start thinking remote-first. While we will eventually head back to our offices, we want to prepare ourselves to do it better next time. Even better is to embrace it going forward, perhaps with office/remote hybrids that take advantage of the benefits of both worlds.

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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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What’s the Best Way of Recruiting User Research Participants by Email?

UserInterviews

While the content of each email you send to recruit potential participants matters, the actual series of emails you send is as (if not more) important.

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Prioritization is about Confidence, not Value

The Product Coalition

“Defining value: the most ambiguous word in product development” was the title of a post by Jeff Gothelf at the beginning of last year. If… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How to Disappoint People by Neil Vass

Mind the Product

In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Neil Vass, Principle Delivery Manager at the Co-op shares some of the recurring ways that we, as product people, disappoint. He includes the lessons he’s learned, and some useful tools to tackle the issue. Every project has a fixed amount of disappointment, and it’s up to you to decide [.]. Read More. The post How to Disappoint People by Neil Vass appeared first on Mind the Product.