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Roadmap Poison: What’s Getting in Your Way?

ProductCraft

Your product roadmap is one of the most important artifacts for keeping your team aligned with regard to deadlines and priorities. Unfortunately, a number of problems can plague even the most well-organized and maintained roadmap. And these issues tend to sneak up on you and your team, meaning you need to be diligent in keeping. Read more » The post Roadmap Poison: What’s Getting in Your Way?

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When is Your Product Ready to Remove the “Beta” Tag?

ProductPlan

Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product managers leverage beta testing. It’s such an incredibly important and useful tool in the product development process. Internal tests can’t replicate what happens in the real world. A well-run beta program will net a slew of bug reports, suggestions, and additional requests from beta testers.

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How to Build a Product That is Value-Focused Over Growth-Focused

Innovatemap

We’ve all heard the startup stories filled with staggering growth and impressive exits. But despite the stories you hear, “faster” isn’t always the right answer.

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Upgrade Your Team

The Product Coalition

A short story about how my team got better and what it taught me Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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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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Priming and the Science behind Onboarding

Mind the Product

Priming is a powerful psychological tool in influencing consumer decisions and something product managers can use, to great effect, when onboarding new users. In this article, discover how and see examples of effective priming in play. What is it that makes us think about the SKY when we see the word BLUE? Why is it that when I say APPLE, you think of the PHONE, and someone else thinks FRUIT?

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Fuel Your Product Management Goals with These 3 Testing Tactics

Centercode

When it comes to making decisions about your product, data is your best ammunition. Between analytics, surveys, support tickets, and customer testing, there are plenty of opportunities for your product management team to collect information about your customers’ experiences. While data is both accessible and abundant, knowing how to use it to drive continuous product recommendations isn’t necessarily intuitive.

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How to Retain Users Better with User Experience Journey Mapping

Userpilot

With no-code user onboarding tools , it’s easy to start building onboarding journeys that don’t reflect reality—all in a vain attempt to get new users to activate faster so they don’t churn. User experience journey mapping makes us ask this question: How do users move through their own goals, not our hoops? UX journey maps are the antidote to product-led marketing , onboarding, and product development that happens for its own sake.

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The Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite

First Round Review

Poor planning can spell disaster for companies and sow distrust among teams. Drawing from their careers at Eventbrite and Airbnb, Lenny Rachitsky and Nels Gilbreth break down their "W Framework" to help startup leaders develop plans, earn alignment and execute effective planning cycles every time.

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Funnel Analysis: Ultimate Guide for Product Managers

UXCam Bluespace

An optimized conversion funnel analysis is critical for your product’s success.

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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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How I Overcame Imposter Syndrome as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

No matter how far into your career you might be, you’re never too old for imposter syndrome to make an appearance. Imposter syndrome is a feeling of inadequacy that persists despite evident success, according to Harvard Business Review. ‘Imposters’ suffer from chronic self-doubt and a sense of intellectual fraud that override their feelings of success or external proof of their competence.

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Product Management for Solutions Instead of Products

Product Management University

If you want to do product management for solutions instead of products, here are five best practices to employ. The moral of the story is that you do everything from the customer’s perspective first if you’re doing product management for solutions. The Playbook: Markets – Instead of analyzing only the horizontal markets for each product, first analyze the vertical markets across all products in your portfolio.

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Four Product Phases

The Product Coalition

To manage a product you have to understand what his lifecycle looks like Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Excellent Product Management – How to Transform Your Team [Infographic]

280 Group

The Product Management Skills – Benchmark Report identifies 15 skill sets that individual Product Managers and entire Product Management teams need to be excellent. We evaluated how training and a formal product process helps improve those skill sets and ultimately advances a Product Manager’s career. Turns out, training helps. The Highlights.

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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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On the Increasing Sophistication of Product Management

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Product Positioning: Overcoming Seven Obstacles to a Great Value Story

Product Management University

Here’s an example of product positioning at its finest. If you’re a car enthusiast, go read the marketing copy for your dream car. The product marketers do a masterful job of getting you to envision exactly how awesome you’d look and feel behind the wheel of that car. Apply the same concept to your products and solutions and watch what happens to your marketing and sales efforts.

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Sleeping Giants – Nandini Jammi on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, learn how to apply this ethos to your products, where they go, and your whole way of working.

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The Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite

First Round Review

Poor planning can spell disaster for companies and sow distrust among teams. Drawing from their careers at Eventbrite and Airbnb, Lenny Rachitsky and Nels Gilbreth break down their "W Framework" to help startup leaders develop plans, earn alignment and execute effective planning cycles every time.

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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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Your Thinking Shoes

The Product Guy

When it’s time whose product manager shoes should you try on? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Finding Your UX Niche: How to Define Your Research Role and Philosophy

dscout People Nerds

The UX field is changing, and we’re changing with it. Take a second to check in on your career direction—and to find a research specialty that inspires you and inspires growth. .

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Scaling Matters by Beata Kovacs

Mind the Product

How do we take a product or team to the next stage? In her ProductTank London talk, Beata Kovacs, Product Director at GSK , takes us through her framework for scaling a startup and the strategic areas that need to be addressed, including: Goals and priorities. Skills and people. Culture and process. Watch the video to see Beata’s talk in full. Or read on for an overview of her key points.

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Bridging the Gap: 7 Traits of Excellent Product Managers

ProductCraft

Achieving alignment across teams and projects is the key to becoming an innovation engine. And it is not an easy thing to do. Engineers, designers, and business stakeholders must all understand how their work serves a two-fold goal: providing users with a delightful alternative to existing products, and in doing so, generating a financial return. Read more » The post Bridging the Gap: 7 Traits of Excellent Product Managers appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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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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[INFOGRAPHIC] 2019 Revulytics Software Piracy Statistics

Revulytics

Commercial Value of Unlicensed Software in North America and Western Europe. Data from the BSA Global Software Survey 2018 shows significant revenue generation opportunities in regions with strong intellectual property (IP) laws. Revulytics Compliance Intelligence customers are collecting forensic evidence of unlicensed software use from 194 of 195 countries.

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Why Don’t Amazon’s Product Managers Understand Europe?

The Accidental Product Manager

Amazon’s product managers seem to be out of fashion when it comes to Europe Image Credit: Sangudo. Let’s face it: Amazon is a very big company and they have done a lot of different things very well. However, it turns out that they may not yet be able to do everything perfectly. One area where the Amazon product managers are still struggling is in Europe.

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Sleeping Giants – Nandini Jammi on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, learn how to apply this ethos to your products, where they go, and your whole way of working.

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TEI 248: Do these things to make your presentations more effective – with Nils Davis

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can combine influence and storytelling to achieve success. The author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook , Nils Davis, joins us to discuss his tips for better presentations. He knows a lot about product management and communication, leveraging his experience as a tech writer before becoming a product manager. I expect you’ll enjoy the discussion and find tips you can put into immediate use to better influence through presentations.

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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 many trees do you save with an online whiteboard?

Miro

How many trees do you save with an online whiteboard?A career that’s exciting and motivating is a dream, and I’m grateful that my job is so dope. I get to build a program to help folks who use Miro visualize their own interesting ideas. I’m fulfilled speaking with customers and understanding how we might serve […]. The post How many trees do you save with an online whiteboard?

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How Strava builds excellent products to help athletes find their personal best.

ProductBoard

Welcome to our Age of Product Excellence series — a deep exploration of the Product Excellence Methodology, the product leaders who practice it, and the excellent products that result. Join us as we shine light on the strategies and thought processes behind an excellent product that customers use and love. Not too long ago, Strava shifted its mission to focus on motivating athletes to find.

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Priming and the Science behind Onboarding

Mind the Product

Priming is a powerful psychological tool in influencing consumer decisions and something product managers can use, to great effect, when onboarding new users. In this article, discover how and see examples of effective priming in play. What is it that makes us think about the SKY when we see the word BLUE? Why is it that when I say APPLE, you think of the PHONE, and someone else thinks FRUIT?