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Keep my New Model 3 or Old Model S?

280 Group

Model 3 review: Model 3 Versus Model S I’ve owned a Model S p85d (autopilot 1 hardware) for a little over two years, so when I went to pick up my Model 3 yesterday I was curious if it was going to be a good replacement (lease is up on the Model S in a few months.) This article is a quick summary based on the first few hours of quality time with the new Model 3 – I’ll update.

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Subscriber Special: January

bpma ProductHub

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. January 1st-15th: Spend $28 or more on Structured Learning , get a free copy of the. Martin Luther King Day Bundle. Click to view slideshow. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 18 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Creating your best year ever

Lead on Purpose

“The future is in your hands, but only if you act today.” Today starts a new year with new opportunities ahead.

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User Experience: 5 Tips for Designing Products to Appeal to Millennials

Mind the Product

You may have a great idea and polished advertising to go with it, but, for some reason, millennials don’t seem to click with your product. Do you ever wonder why? What can you do about it? Millennials are one of the largest generations by number, and will soon make up 50% of the global workforce according to PWC. But when it comes to customer loyalty, millennials are different.

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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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Start Fast at a New Product Manager Job

280 Group

This video features Pamela Schure, the Director of Products and Services at 280 Group, and JF Oullette, a Product Management consultant and professor. They are discussing how to quickly transition in to a new Product Manager job. If you want to bolster your core Product Management skills, take our online or in-person training. So how do you get in to your new Product Manager job and become an expert with the organization you are working for as quickly as possible?

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What is web based inventory management and how is it going to benefit your business?

Good Product Manager

Web based inventory management is the monitoring and maintenance of a business’ inventory levels using online software. Moving away from the errors and issues that arise with traditional methods of measuring stock levels, web based inventory management seamlessly keeps track of inventory coming in and going out of your business.

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The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2017

First Round Review

The most insightful and transformative pieces of advice we published on the Review in 2017, curated for your perusal and continued excellence. Relevant to everyone working in tech, not just founders.

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Assessment of Individual Product Manager Skills

280 Group

In this special video, 280 Group Founder and CEO, Brian Lawley, talks with Consultant/Trainer, Bill Haines, about an invaluable system he invented. Bill is going to explain the basics of the Individual Skills Assessment for Product Managers. Often times at 280 Group we’ll have managers or director or VPs come to us and they’ll want to do an assessment of their team.

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Want to Design User Behavior? Pass the ‘Regret Test’ First

Nir Eyal

What are the ethical responsibilities of companies that are able to manipulate human behavior on a massive scale? It’s a question one hopes technologists and designers ask themselves when building world-changing products — but one that hasn’t been asked often enough. Operant conditioning, intermittent reinforcement, the search for self-actualization — the techniques used by 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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New Year, New Perspectives

Clever PM

So, another year is starting up, and we’re just now starting to unpack ourselves from the holiday break that so many of us take time to enjoy with our families and friends. The best thing about a new year is that the future really is a blank slate, 365 days to make of them what […].

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The Future of Product Management

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ladislav Bartos, lead a conversation around “The Future of Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better D

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria.

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Want to Design User Behavior? Pass the ‘Regret Test’ First

Nir Eyal

What are the ethical responsibilities of companies that are able to manipulate human behavior on a massive scale? It’s a question one hopes technologists and designers ask themselves when building world-changing products — but one that hasn’t been asked often enough. Operant conditioning, intermittent reinforcement, the search for self-actualization — the techniques used by product […] The post Want to Design User Behavior?

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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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TEI 157: Big topics product managers encounter – with Suzanne Abate

Product Innovation Educators

The right product begins with a validated user need and a market. In this episode you’ll learn about some of the big ideas in product management to help you make the move to product master, specifically: The difference between building the product right vs. building the right product, Challenges of working with development teams, How to assemble a roadmap, Release planning, and.

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Getting to S&OP Success

Good Product Manager

Our oldest child recently graduated from college with dual undergraduate degrees in Biology and Music Performance. He worked hard to accomplish this in 4 years with a high GPA and we look forward to celebrating his future successes. He was successful, in part, by establishing a reachable goal. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), first introduced more than 30 years ago, has many documented examples of success.

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Product manager’s best friend

The Product Coalition

Data is a product manager’s best friend. However, just like friends in real life, you need to know when to phone a friend and who to call upon. In search of a problem – going broad Finding the right problem to solve with a product is often the hardest problem in itself. This is when you are in the “unknown unknown” zone because you don’t live the customer’s life day in and day out.

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Prioritizing User Research at an Early Stage Startup

UserInterviews

Erik Zahnlecker, Co-founder and COO at Allocate, on finding participants, prioritizing the effort, and more on managing user research at an early stage startup.

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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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Two-day Shipping Has Helped Double Warehouse Land Prices

Userzoom

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Our increasing demand to buy gadgets, groceries and other goods online is actually driving up the price of land on which to store those items, U.S. private employers added 250,000 jobs in December, marking the biggest monthly increase since March, traditional grocers are preparing to harness technology in new ways, ready to unleash a new, more likely to succeed, tech re

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TPMS Podcast: Best Prioritization Approach?

Mironov Consulting

Allan Neill’s Product Management Show podcast ( TPMS episode 43 ) has md humorously debating Steve Johnson , with Neeha Tummala as referee and Saeed Khan as guest host. Steve represents the algorithmic approach to prioritization, and I stump for stakeholder consensus. We don’t take ourselves serious, but do reach for some colorful analogies.

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Happy New Year! (I’m Still On Vacation…)

The Accidental Product Manager

Happy New Year! It’s still the holiday season and I’m still on vacation! This is the time of the year that we all make plans for what we want to accomplish in the upcoming year. This time around, take your time and give some thought to what you can do to make this your best year ever…! Here’s hoping that you’ll have peace, love, happiness, and success in the upcoming year.

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Product Management vs Project Management (updated)

Sequent Learning

For the past few years, the business world has suffered from “growing pains” and the corporate community is certainly enduring its share of turbulence and disorder. Among the many causative issues, mergers and downsizing are creating conflicts over strategies, roles and responsibilities, and corporate culture clashes. Recently, a product manager lamented that he was stuck […].

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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 think like a product manager–and other innovation observations for product managers Jan 5, 2018

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 12 observations after 10 years as a product manager. This is a good list providing perspective on the role of a product manager. And it’s a quick read at [link]. The way we build products has fundamentally changed.

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Case study: How Alpha enables Aetna to make smarter business decisions and innovate faster

DISQO

The company revolutionizing the American healthcare industry uses Alpha to gain empathy for consumers and bring desperately-needed products to market. Background. Amidst skyrocketing healthcare costs, one of the nation’s oldest and largest insurers decided to take bold action. In 2016, Aetna announced its commitment to transparency. With the mission to enable employers to help their employees make more informed decisions, Aetna set out to provide access to information about benefits, estimate c

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6 UX New Year’s resolutions

TryMyUI

Happy New Year! As we roll into 2018, many of us are refreshing and reevaluating some of the personal goals that we set and perhaps struggled to keep last year. What kind of resolutions can we make as User Experience practitioners? The post 6 UX New Year’s resolutions appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Sydney, 1 March 2018 Meetup: Building & Scaling Product Teams

Mironov Consulting

Topic: Building & Scaling Product Teams. How Do We Make Them Work? Where: Sydney , AU (location TBD). When: Thursday, 1 March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Registration page. Hosted by Product Talks Sydney and Brainmates. Building and scaling a product team is a challenge that every successful product company faces. We’ll tackle it in a few steps, time permitting, with lots of audience participation: When and how does a startup hire its first product manager?

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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 B2B Can Learn from B2C Companies About Customer Satisfaction

TSIA

For Services organizations, capturing crucial Voice of the Customer (VoC) data can be a challenge. They must strike the right balance between avoiding “survey fatigue” and not asking too much of their customers, while at the same time gathering the most detailed information that can be used to improve processes and the customer experience.

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Case study: How Alpha enables Aetna to make smarter business decisions and innovate faster

DISQO

The company revolutionizing the American healthcare industry uses Alpha to gain empathy for consumers and bring desperately-needed products to market. Background. Amidst skyrocketing healthcare costs, one of the nation’s oldest and largest insurers decided to take bold action. In 2016, Aetna announced its commitment to transparency. With the mission to enable employers to help their employees make more informed decisions, Aetna set out to provide access to information about benefits, estimate c

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Prioritizing User Research at an Early Stage Startup

UserInterviews

Erik Zahnlecker, Co-founder and COO at Allocate, on finding participants, prioritizing the effort, and more on managing user research at an early stage startup.