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A 5 Step Framework for Building Better Personas

dscout People Nerds

User personas get a bad rap—and sometimes for good reason. Here’s a great system for making ones you’ll love. .

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Release Planning Advice

Roman Pichler

What Release Planning Entails and Why It Matters. While release and release planning are common terms, I find that different individuals attribute different meanings to them. I regard a release as a version of a product , for example, Mac OS X Catalina and Windows 10. Releases come in two flavours: major releases, like iOS 13, and minor releases, such as iOS 13.3.

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6 Crucial Conversations to Have Before You Start Your Roadmap

ProductPlan

A carefully constructed roadmap can be a powerful tool that can align stakeholders and motivate coworkers. It can even jumpstart sales and growth. But a neglected roadmap can prove problematic and breed internal dissent. It can also mislead customers, misallocate resources, and erode a product manager’s credibility. Making sure a roadmap falls into the first category doesn’t happen by accident.

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How to use growth accounting to measure product-market fit

ProductBoard

Consider a consumer mobile app that sells a monthly subscription to its service. Over the last 12 months, it’s shown stellar revenue growth of ~16% month-over-month for a 12-month period. On the surface, the app looks like it has a healthy degree of product-market fit. However, going one level deeper to understand the nature of its growth tells a different story.

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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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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. We've come a long way but we still have far to go. These are a few of my observations and personal experiences. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?

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What I’m Saying Yes to in 2020 (With 2 Big Announcements)

Product Talk

For many of us, the beginning of the year is a fresh start. It’s an opportunity to recommit to the things that matter most to us. Last year, I wrote “ What I’m Saying No to This Year—And Why ” to clearly outline what I wanted to focus on in 2019. Over the course of the year, I reread that post at least a dozen times to help me stay focused on my priorities.

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Ground Rules for Applying AI to Product Management

Mind the Product

The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has led to lots of jargon, so that this very powerful technique has become more difficult to understand. The tips below have all helped me, so I hope this article will help product managers to cut through the noise and better understand how AI can fit into their daily work. Machine learning being employed to recognize vehicles (Image: Shutterstock).

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Creating a Culture of Experimentation

The Product Guy

Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Creating a Culture of Experimentation, with Guest Expert, Nis Frome, Head of Product @ Alpha and debated Featured Product, IPsoft… And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…

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7 UI trends you should be watching in 2020

Imaginary Cloud - Design

New year resolutions are everyone’s favorite thing I’m sure. But researching and knowing where to take a product’s creative direction should be on a to-do list before just going ahead and doing solely what has been done so far. Trends take new turns often enough that a product can be rendered outdated pretty soon, and this is why we, at Imaginary Cloud, decided to go ahead and make a list.

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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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7 Product Roadmap Tools to Kickstart 2020

Userpilot

Roadmapping is a crucial part of every product manager’s role, but it’s safe to say a lot of PMs don’t particularly enjoy it. Luckily, there are some excellent product roadmap tools out there to help make it more bearable. In this article, we’re going to look at the most popular product roadmap tools. All have their own strengths and weaknesses, and some will suit your needs more than others.

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Where Do Good Ideas Come From? – Gal Josefsberg on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

One of the hardest skills for product people to acquire is that of saying no. After all, when everyone comes at you with ideas, prioritisation can be a massive challenge. So it’s refreshing when we get a chance to come at it from the opposite direction in order to generate good ideas. Gal Josefsberg, VP Product Management at Guidewire and a guest lecturer at General Assembly, has spent a lot of time thinking about how to create, manage and recognise a good idea.

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How to Drive User Behavior Change to Unlock Your Product’s Full Value

The Product Guy

Some of the most promising and optimal use cases for any product require buyers and consumers to first change their behaviors. Product teams must understand key aspects of psychology, incentives, and habit-formation in order to achieve success. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation on this topic.

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The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2019

First Round Review

We've rounded up 30 standout, must-share insights from the profiles we published over the last year. Read on for the most impactful pieces of advice we heard in 2019 — presented with hopes that you can apply them to make your next decade even brighter.

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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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How Mindfulness Can Help a Researcher: A Simple Breathing Exercise to Improve Focus Before Interviews

Generation Focus

As researchers, we are used to hectic schedules and back-to-back interviews on the agenda. With this intensity, it’s easy to feel stressed or distracted. I’ve often experienced that the way I spend the minutes right before beginning a qualitative interview session can greatly influence how focused I am during the session which can impact the quality of the interview.

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Janice Fraser: Knitting at the Edge of new

Mind the Product

Not many product people can claim to have coached staff at the White House. “It’s my most proud achievement,” says Silicon Valley veteran Janice Fraser, “It was such an honour to be invited to support our public service… it was a peak life experience for me. For four years, every six months during Obama’s second term, I brought a team to the White House to teach startup-type thinking to Obama’s administration.”.

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Keep Your Website Usability Testing Focused and Results-Driven: Best Practices and Common Mistakes

UserInterviews

Here, we highlight best practices we use in website usability testing (from high-fidelity prototyping to how we select participants) and some mistakes you’ll want to avoid.

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A CPO on scaling product management by focusing only on what matters (and how to define what matters)

ProductBoard

Claire Milligan, Co-Chief Product Officer of Certify Inc./Chrome River, recently joined us at the productboard San Francisco office for a Product Management Speaking Series. In an engaging presentation, she walked the audience through a four-component iterative process that she uses to scale the product management function at her company. Claire started by sharing the product management challenges.

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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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How Mindfulness Can Help a Researcher: A Simple Breathing Exercise to Improve Focus Before Interview

Generation Focus

As researchers, we are used to hectic schedules and back-to-back interviews on the agenda. With this intensity, it’s easy to feel stressed or distracted. I’ve often experienced that the way I spend the minutes right before beginning a qualitative interview session can greatly influence how focused I am during the session which can impact the quality of the interview.

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Product Growth Engine by Dave Martin

Mind the Product

In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Dave Martin, Chief Product Officer at TES Global provides us with a way to get over the product adoption curve and build more successful products. His key points include: Product adoption life cycle. Product growth chasm. The path up the adoption curve. Watch the video to see Dave’s talk in full. Or read on for an overview of his key points.

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Fighting the nope: How do you overcome users’ resistance to changes in your UI?

Userzoom

Can a change management process help your company survive users’ negativity towards necessary changes to your digital product? Every year, without fail, Facebook and Twitter make minor changes to their UI. Far from a major overhaul, they’re usually just a reduction in clutter or an extra little bit of functionality. Without fail, everyone despises it.

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Product Managers Want To Know What’s Gone Wrong At UPS

The Accidental Product Manager

UPS is trying to play catch-up with both Amazon and FedEx Image Credit: Indiana Public Media. When it comes time to ship a product to a customer, product managers in the U.S. know that they have three different options: the Postal Service, FedEx, and UPS. FedEx and UPS generally cost more, but they are fiercely competitive and if you hand your package off to them, you know that it will reach where it is supposed to go.

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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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User research without interviews?

The Product Coalition

A guide on non-traditional approaches to user research. Prelude: User research WITH interviews When we think about user research we immediately picture a customer development interview. Nonetheless, like any other type of research, interviews have their limitations: They require significant skill and knowledge to conduct (consider reading The Mom Test and JTBD to level up on the topic); It’s easy to misinterpret what your customers are saying; They take a lot of time to schedule, coordinate, doc

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Making the Unspoken Spoken

Mind the Product

In this excerpt from her recent book, The Team That Managed Itself , Christina Wodtke looks at how teams can deal with the office housework jobs that no one wants to take on. Within teams, there are the spoken roles, as in designer, marketer, engineer, etc. There’s also a host of additional unspoken roles. There will be a facilitator, a person who takes notes at the meeting, a person who organizes the office party or the retreat, and a hundred other small tasks and roles that won’t be on anyone’

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[CASE STUDY] Aha! Moment Before Signup as a Marketing Tool

Userpilot

We’ve always said that the key to successful onboarding is to guide your users to your product’s Aha! Moment as soon as possible. It’s something we encourage all of our customers to do. Why? Because that Aha! Moment is when everything clicks into place. It’s when your users realize how much value they can get from your product.

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Ten Product Conferences to Attend in 2020

ProductCraft

With the explosion in popularity of the PM role, more and more product conferences are popping up, giving attendees the opportunity to hone their craft, meet like-minded product pros, and hear from some of the top minds in the field. Here are ten product conferences we’re excited about in 2020. ProductCon When and where: London. Read more » The post Ten Product Conferences to Attend in 2020 appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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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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The Product Development Process in Seven Steps

The Product Coalition

When you go through the process of developing and then launching a product, it can actually often be a deciding factor in your business making it or failing completely, especially for small start-ups. Some businesses are centered around only one product, and others have many, but in either case, the development process is similar. The specifics of the steps will depend on the style of management for each business and the nature of the business, but the following seven steps should be applicable

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What’s the Worst That Could Happen? By Roisi Proven

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Roisi Proven, Product Manager at Gower Street Analytics, considers the worst that could happen to digital products if we only ever think about the good and never the bad. She answers the question: ‘What’s the worst that could happen to digital products today?’ by suggesting: Imagine the worst. Running a Black Mirror test on a product.

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How to Become a Product Manager with No Experience

Userpilot

Product management has grown from strength to strength in recent years, fast becoming a vital area of any SaaS company. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at how you can become a product manager, even if you have no previous experience. If you’re looking for a change in career in 2020, then product management might be the perfect role for you.