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Feature-less Roadmap: The Balance Between Delivering Concrete Features vs. Planning with High-level Themes

Amplitude

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Technical Product Leadership from Head to Toe

The Product Coalition

By Robert Elves, Senior Director of Product, Tasktop Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ยป.

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Is Customer Feedback Really Making It to Your Product Roadmap?

Gainsight

As a customer success professional, you talk to your customers every day and gather a ton of feedback straight from the frontlines. This is real-time, super-rich data. It comes directly from the people who use your productโ€”itโ€™s gold! But … what happens to it? What’s really happening to product feedback? I dug into this burning question with customer success (CS) leaders at Pulse 2019.

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How To Apply Design Thinking To Product Management

ProductCraft

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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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How to Spot a Partial Product Manager

Mind the Product

Whatโ€™s a partial product manager? Weโ€™ve all met one, and many of us have been one – a partial product manager is someone who holds the product manager title, but isnโ€™t doing the full job. It can happen really easily, because great product management encompasses a great deal and is constantly evolving. Iโ€™ve categorized some common types of partial product managers to make it easier to identify and fix gaps.

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SaaS Product Roadmaps: Achieving Your Product Vision

bpma ProductHub

by Paul Ressler – Everything is progressing well with your SaaS product; you have your product vision and you have product market fit. What are the next steps to achieve success for your SaaS product? One important next step is a product roadmap.

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Announcing โ€˜Intercom on Salesโ€™ โ€“ our playbook for scaling a billion dollar business

Intercom, Inc.

Today weโ€™re releasing a brand new book, Intercom on Sales. If you work at a high-growth company, youโ€™ve likely heard the saying, โ€œWhat gets you to $50 million wonโ€™t get you to $100 million.โ€ You could swap in any numbers youโ€™d like, and the sentiment would still hold true: scaling sales is incredibly hard. I joined Intercom three years ago to do just that, to take our nascent sales team to the next level.

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How to use the 5 Whys to Manage Stakeholders

Mind the Product

A few years ago, I worked with a client in a very hierarchical organization. Position and title were very important at the organization, and everything was done in strict accordance with operating procedures. My team had been brought in to teach a new way of working, and to show how itโ€™s possible to move quickly. We quickly discovered what we were up against when we attempted our first small task: scheduling user interviews.

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Ask the Right Product Questions

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Gregory Rakovsky (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome ]. Finding the right product management job can be tough, as product management is a multi-faceted discipline that doesnโ€™t lend itself well to classification. Regardless of title, be it Product Owner, Product Manager, or some other fanciful title, what a product person does in one organization may not be the same thing he or she does in another.

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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 youโ€™ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingโ€™s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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10 must-read books for developing and shipping better products

Miro

10 must-read books for developing and shipping better productsProduct development is a highly cross-functional, collaborative process. As a result, knowing how to best navigate people and product obstacles is crucial to shipping faster, delivering the right products for users, and working better as a product team.We were curious what the core strategies are for tackling […].

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6 Tips for App Developers to Maximize Mobile App Data Security

The Product Coalition

pyramidions.com If you think that the emergence of cutting edge security technologies and tools helped reduce security concerns, you are wrong. Actually, the same techniques are available to the hackers and all those behind the curtain malware producers as well. So, the latest security technologies actually work more like double-edged swords. This is why following best data security practices are so important for the mobile app developers and strategists.

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The Next era of Technology by Marie Louise Gรธrvild

Mind the Product

Every year, for MTP Engage Hamburg, we invite speakers from outside the mainstream product scene and ask them to contribute an additional perspective to stimulate discussion among our audience. This year we were very pleased to welcome Marie Louise Gรธrvild , Director of Techfestival Copenhagen, to present her view on the profound influence of product managers and other people who make decisions in tech, and the responsibility that comes with it.

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System-wide Thinking

The Product Guy

Managing upper management requires a special, broader, more inclusive way of thinking and communicating. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonโ€™t cut it in todayโ€™s data-driven applications โ€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatโ€™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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TEI 244: 44 ways product managers can test ideas โ€“ with David Bland

Product Innovation Educators

Know how to test a product by measuring risk through desirability, viability, and feasibility. I’m someone who enjoys learning from books. I often find great tips I can apply from a good book, and that is just what I have for you. We are discussing a valuable new book titled Testing Business Ideas. It is full of practical experiments we can do as product managers to help us with problem-solution fit.

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Grounding Your Product Roadmap With Themes and a North Star

ProductPlan

We are excited to welcome guest writer John Cutler to the ProductPlan blog. John is a product coach with Amplitude, where he collaborates with internal teams, customers, prospects, and the broader product public. Product teams are no stranger to the ever-changing and continuous demands of consumers and executives alike. When you create and update a particular product, itโ€™s important to make sure the product does โ€œthingsโ€ that people need it to do.

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Donโ€™t Worry About Being Cool with Petra Wille [Rebroadcast]

Mind the Product

We’re taking a short break from releasing new episodes for the month of August. We’ll be back with new interviews in September. But don’t despair! We’ve asked a few friends to pick some of their favorite episodes to re-broadcast in the meantime. This week’s pick comes from Mind the Product co-founder, Martin Eriksson. Martin Eriksson’s Pick.

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Creating Creative Product Environments

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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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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Alignment through OKRโ€™s and Hypotheses

The Product Coalition

Credit Henrik Kniberg & Crisp When you start to scale and have multiple products and/or teams, alignment becomes paramount. The general trap is to try and control things to stop misalignment form every happening by adding many layers of bureaucracy?โ€”?or as I like to call โ€œforced-alignmentโ€. This stifles creativity, does very little to keep your people motivated and usually degrades team velocity.

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7 Best Practices for Closing the Customer Feedback Loop

UserVoice

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Diary Studies: A Complete Start-to-Finish Guide

dscout People Nerds

If you want see your participants up close and in-contextโ€”diary studies should be a part of your methodological toolkit. Here’s how to run one with fewer hiccups and more impact. .

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User Experience Research and Usability Testing: When and How to Test Your Product

UserInterviews

Whether youโ€™ve run a study before or are a complete beginner, this post is a great refresher on UX research supplemented by advice from our own learnings over the years.

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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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10 Weekly Habits of Product Managers That Make a Big Difference

The Product Coalition

Everyday, product managers all over the world open their laptops and prepare to take on the challenges of product development with their teams. There will be setbacks, there will be leaps ahead, and there will be moments of flowing innovation. In this hectic, yet intensely rewarding career, there are also many habits you can adopt that will help you in each hurdle, support each sprint and keep development moving forward.

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How product managers can identify what customers really need

ProductBoard

Working as a product manager at a young company without a support team, I spend a lot of time answering questions and collecting feedback from customers on Intercom. Doing so has given me far greater familiarity with the needs, and the mindsets, of our prospects and customers alike. (And of course, since weโ€™re building a system of record for product management, all of these customers are also.

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Symptom Checker: Common Product Development Challenges

ProductCraft

Over my years in this industry, Iโ€™ve guided a wide variety of teams to software success. And along that journey, I have found that many product teams struggle with the same issues. How do you know if your team is suffering from a particular product development problem? Most likely, you’ll notice some signs. Below, I’ll. Read more » The post Symptom Checker: Common Product Development Challenges appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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5 Ways To Analyze Your Website Traffic

AB Tasty

Your website traffic is the source of a wealth of information that will help you increase engagement and conversions. Analyze it well! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as 5 Ways To Analyze Your Website Traffic.

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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 โ€“ your data โ€“ to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Letting Curiosity Guide You From "First Answer" to "Final Answer"

dscout People Nerds

TED’s Thaniya Keereepart on the right way to ask โ€œwhy” and the moments that reframe the way we think about our impact.

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John Cutler explains why you should answer tough questions with your product story

ProductBoard

Written by John Cutler, Product Evangelist at Amplitude, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. First, a short assignment Do this. Go to your ticket system, whether its JIRA, Trello, Asana, or even a physical board. Pick a random in-progress ticket (or card, story, task, etc.) that has no parent. Now, try to connect that ticket to a big company goal.

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Customer Interview learnings from โ€œThe Mom Testโ€

The Product Coalition

Photo by Hans Vivek on Unsplash The Mom Test by is one of the best books I have read about customer interviews. If you are a Product Manager or a UX designer or researcher, and you havenโ€™t read itโ€ฆ.please just go and read it. I just hope some of the nuggets I share here (with my own commentary) help convince you. Seriously its a short read, costs 10 bucks on Kindle and just so worth it.