May, 2022

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Tech Product Leaders: Are We Spoiling Society?

The Product Coalition

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s time to have a serious discussion. We have a problem, and we’re holding it in our hands. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Teams in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough. Scrum is a popular agile framework. Its strength is, at least partly, based on its roles with the Scrum team being the fundamental unit. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the develop

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3 Methodologies to Making Data the Heartbeat of Your Business

280 Group

The more your business leverages data, the better equipped you are to operate efficiently, make informed decisions, and develop products and services that meet the needs of your customers. But how do you best leverage various types of data to your greatest advantage? Let’s discuss how a balanced approach to applying the various data methodologies enables optimal workflows and desired outcomes for Product Managers.

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Business Services Apps: 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

The following data and information on Business Services apps is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Brands in Business Services had varied experiences in 2021. Those focused on shipping still felt the sting of the pandemic as local and national supply chains continued to reel. Others (like expense management or work collaboration) felt the investments they made in mobile in 2020 begin to pay off as the investment in remote work continued to be a priority.

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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 our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We’re serious about delivering the best customer experience with our Engagement OS. We have truly global ambitions to bring our mission of making internet business personal to the biggest enterprise customers across the world. This ambition is reflected in the way we design and build the infrastructure that supports the Intercom platform. We are building for the long term – that means ensuring reliability by default, and the ability to accommodate massive scale as we grow. .

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In-app Customer Needs Assessment 101: How to Collect and Act on Data

Userpilot

What is a customer needs assessment and why should you care? Here are the top reasons SaaS businesses need it and a guide on how to succeed.

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SaaS Onboarding KPIs: Measure & Improve Customer Effectiveness

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

SaaS Onboarding KPIs measure how fast your customers are getting value from your product & suggests steps to improve product quality.

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How to Find Your Strategic Anchors

The Product Coalition

Strategic thinking is hard by definition. It deals with many unknowns, as well as multiple dimensions and variables at any given time. The only way to move forward is to identify the real anchors and build around them. Here’s how to do that. Photo by Surendran MP on Unsplash Do you play Wordle? I absolutely love it! I play it every day with my daughters (or, if I’m completely honest, I let them join me when I’m playing).

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Personal Services Apps: 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

The following data and information on Shopping apps is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Subcategories for Personal Services Apps: Home and Family. Personal Services apps are separated into two subcategories: Home (real estate, property management, and connected devices) and Family (milestone tracking and family schedule management).

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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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14 tips to help you run a successful product design workshop

Intercom, Inc.

Design and collaboration go hand-in-hand. When we want to discuss problems, imagine new ideas, and brainstorm solutions, it’s best to bring people together – whether in person or virtually. Collaboration comes in many flavors, from small informal working sessions and group critiques to full-blown workshops. But beware: just bringing people together doesn’t automatically guarantee creative outputs and ideas.

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How to build machine learning-based products

Mind the Product

In this article, written for product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams we cover some growth areas and ideas on how to achieve more impact while working on building ML-based products. [.] Read more » The post How to build machine learning-based products appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Transformation Defined

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By Jon Moore and Marty Cagan There are so many anti-patterns when it comes to transformation. Many of us have witnessed failed transformations, but few have witnessed true successes. Which makes the lessons learned from successful transformations unusually valuable. We intend to write much more about both the anti-patterns, and the lessons from the successes.

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Fanimal Builds A Group Friendly Marketplace

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

What if he could build software which would aggregate the purchase information for those people who wanted to go to and event as a group?

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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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Growth Product Management: What You Need to Know

The Product Coalition

Growth product managers are now a mainstay of Silicon Valley, but what do they do, how do they work, and what value do they bring? Find… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Utilities Apps: 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

The following data and information on Utilities apps is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Brands in the Utilities industry faced various hurdles throughout 2021. Some companies (like those focused on manufacturing) faced issues across the year due to supply chain disruption, while others (like energy and security) were less volatile as the consumer marketplace leveled.

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What is the customer journey?

Intercom, Inc.

A customer journey can be defined as the interactions a customer has with your brand from the very first time they engage with you to the point of purchase. It’s another way of saying the customer lifecycle, or the steps your customers take from the time they first become aware of your brand to the point at which they become your brand’s biggest advocate. .

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The balanced scorecard: a framework that drives impact

Mind the Product

In this article, we'll dig deep into one specific framework that I fancy a lot for its genericity and its simplicity to apply. In the end, you will master the key principles and be able to come up with clear priorities based on their estimated business impact. [.] Read more » The post The balanced scorecard: a framework that drives impact appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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A Manager’s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism

First Round Review

Uncertainty, burnout and perfectionism are holding teams back — Liz Fosslien is here to share tactical advice (and her signature witty illustrations) on how managers can help.

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A Product Manager’s Journey

The Product Guy

From engineering to product management leadership is a familiar product management career path that interests many. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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Rising Uber Cancellations?—?What do you do as a Product Manager?

The Product Coalition

Rising Uber Cancellations?—?What do you do as a Product Manager? How do you figure out what the problem is. Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash Product Managers often deal with situations where they have to figure out what is causing an issue and figure out the possible steps to deal with the problem. This process, in general, takes a lot of collaboration with different individuals such as Data Scientists and Product Analysts to collect data and test our hypothesis.

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How to Use Feedback to Improve Mobile Customer Experience in 4 Steps

Alchemer Mobile

From adding features to modifying the user interface, the directions you can take your mobile app are endless. The bandwidth of your development team, not so much. With infinite choices and limited bandwidth, how do you decide what to prioritize when it comes to improving your mobile customer experience? Learning more about your customers is the best place to start.

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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 is first contact resolution (FCR)?

Intercom, Inc.

First contact resolution (FCR) is a metric that measures how often your customers’ queries are resolved after their first call, email, text, or chat session with your company’s support team(s). It provides a view on how efficient your company is at responding to your customers’ challenges. . Unlike “first call resolution”, a similar metric, first contact resolution examines your success across all channels, not just phone.

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Fireside chat with Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Zurich talk, Marty Cagan, Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group sits down for a Fireside chat to answer questions about his career and advise other product managers. [.] Read more » The post Fireside chat with Marty Cagan appeared first on Mind the Product.

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35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly

First Round Review

We asked top startup leaders to share the questions they ask themselves to become better managers and assembled their answers into a can't-miss checklist.

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Product Managers Don’t Rush

The Product Guy

In the first week of your product management job, meet as many people as you can. Then, after that is even more important. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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Healthcare App Development: The Importance of UI/UX Design

The Product Coalition

The COVID-19 pandemic provoked a drastic increase in healthcare software development and use. More and more people are downloading health apps for different purposes. This ever-growing demand encourages healthcare software solutions companies to seek new efficient solutions. Given the number of users who need intuitively understandable apps, developers pay attention to each aspect, including UI/UX design.

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Five Steps to Create a Holistic Mobile Customer Feedback Solution

Alchemer Mobile

As investment in digital transformation continues, mobile apps have become a primary channel of communication with customers. The customers themselves are driving this change. In 2022, mobile eCommerce sales are expected to hit $437 billion, a 21.5 percent increase from 2021. With customers spending more time and money on mobile apps, it is important that companies continue to adapt and prioritize mobile in their customer feedback solution.

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Let’s talk principles: Exploring how we build product at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Principles are a way of encoding successes, allowing teams to repeat behaviors that lead to positive outcomes and avoid behaviors that lead to mistakes. Over the last ten years, we’ve developed, refined, and iterated on our principles to ensure they each represent an important part of the way we work, collaborate, and build product. We’ve recently kicked off a blog series exploring these principles, written by the people that know them best – our R&D team.