December, 2022

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What Is Product Experience & Why Does It Matter?

Product Management University

Product experience is a vital part of product design and development. Your product should be able to make customers measurably better at specific job tasks that are critical to their success, for sure, but does it do so easily and efficiently, and even more importantly, do those customers actually enjoy using it? Product experience takes into account how your product delivers ideal customer outcomes and the manner in which it eliminates obstacles.

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Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link]. The Need for Guidance and the Lack of Transactional Power. Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product.

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Defining Product Outcomes: The 8 Most Common Mistakes You Should Avoid

Product Talk

I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk coach and instructor Hope Gurion to discuss some of the common mistakes we see teams make when it comes to defining outcomes. You can watch the video of our conversation or check out a lightly edited version of the transcript below. Full Transcript. Teresa Torres: Hi, I’m Teresa Torres. Hope Gurion: And I’m Hope Gurion.

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How to Drive Mobile Customer Engagement and Increase Product Feedback

Alchemer Mobile

Have you ever been looking for a recipe online but have to scroll all the way through a long, drawn-out story about the author’s family to get to the actual recipe? We won’t do that to you today. Instead, let’s cut right to the chase: Retargeting the right customers at the right time and in the right place is the ultimate key to driving mobile customer engagement.

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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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Hypothesis-driven product management

Mind the Product

In this guest post, Saikiran Chandha, CEO and founder of SciSpace provides an overview of hypothesis-design testing and why it is quintessential to building new product features. [.] Read more » The post Hypothesis-driven product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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5 Tips for Getting Stakeholders on Board with Product

280 Group

As a Product Manager, your primary responsibility is driving sustainable business growth. That means determining whether there’s opportunity for market penetration and expansion with a given Product, then aligning various stakeholders throughout the organization to make it happen. Product Managers must rally support across multiple teams – engineering, marketing, customer support, fulfillment, and more – and that’s after getting buy-in from the C-suite.

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Stop Asking Asking Customers What They They Want, Instead Ask What They Do

The Product Coalition

Ask them what they do, when they do what they do, what challenges are they running to, and how are they solving those challenges today. One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do.

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Whose job is it anyway? The rise of Product Ops and why it deserves to be an independent function

Mind the Product

Lately it feels like no matter where you look, there’s always someone talking about Product Ops. But few people are asking: Does it actually need to exist? Antonia Landi, Product Operations Leader dives deep into this emerging role. [.] Read more » The post Whose job is it anyway? The rise of Product Ops and why it deserves to be an independent function appeared first on Mind the Product.

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When are Customers the Most and Least Happy? A Data Analysis of Customer Sentiment by Season

Alchemer Mobile

If you’re reading this in December, that means you’re already in the thick of it with holiday campaigns and chaos. But if you have a breather, we’re excited to share some data-backed mobile engagement findings, specifically surrounding how seasonality impacts customer sentiment! Bookmark this page for next year’s insanity (and to remind yourself not to get down when your app store ratings look a little less-than-happy in the winter months).

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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 do customers want to talk to businesses? Our new survey reveals what you need to know

Intercom, Inc.

We’re fast approaching a new year, with major changes in customer support trends and customer expectations. So what does “good customer support” look like for 2023? We conducted a major survey to find out what people want and expect from customer service, and made some fascinating discoveries. Our latest study contacted 1,000 US customers across generations, to learn more about what they want and expect from businesses as we enter 2023.

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4 Mental Traps That Kill Productivity

Nir Eyal

Productivity has many enemies: too many meetings, external triggers like interruptions from coworkers, whether virtual or in person, and multitasking the wrong way, to name a few. But more often than not, it’s mental traps that trip us up. The post 4 Mental Traps That Kill Productivity appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Heather Weeks, Vice President of Product Management at Marathon Health

280 Group

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Heather Weeks, Vice President of Product Management at Marathon Health. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. How did you get into Product Management? . It definitely has not been a straight line. I spent a decade in management consulting at Booz Allen which gave me many skills that translated into my current role–strategic thinking, analysis, a con

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Future Food Tech: How Modern Is Changing the Way We Eat

The Product Coalition

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. Explore the article below for more. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. It is altering the global operation of various industries, including the food industry.

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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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Dear product stakeholder, please show me some love

Mind the Product

In this adapted excerpt from his recent book Sweet Stakeholder Love: Powerful Insights and Tactics to Deal with Stakeholder Issues Better and Achieve More Success at Work Sigi Osagie discusses stakeholder management. [.] Read more » The post Dear product stakeholder, please show me some love appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mobile App KPIs: The Top Metrics to Measure App Performance

Alchemer Mobile

If you’re not tracking metrics, analyzing them, and tweaking your app accordingly, you’re missing out on potential optimizations that could dramatically improve customer experience. Setting mobile app KPIs (key performance indicators) for revenue, performance, and CX is an important first step toward accomplishing this. But there are tons of KPIs to choose from.

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Intercom’s product principles: Creating personal products by design

Intercom, Inc.

Our mission – the change we want to create – is to make internet business personal. Whether we’re creating tools that improve personalization or strengthening our privacy and security, Intercom has always been committed to bringing a personal touch to every change we make to our product. This is the ninth post in a series exploring our product principles.

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Product vs. Policy

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Most people today know that when we refer to “product” we mean that in a very holistic sense. It’s not just the code. It’s not just the user interface. It’s not just the app. It is meant to reflect the full customer experience. Online and offline. Customer facing and customer enabling. That said, I don’t. The post Product vs. Policy appeared first on Silicon Valley 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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Are you applying biases to your product work? Here’s how to self-evaluate

Mixpanel

Data is complicated, and interpreting it correctly requires skill, an open mind, and—most importantly—a large amount of self-awareness. Why self-awareness? Because the only way to combat bias, a big enemy of data work, is to be consciously aware of the attachments and attitudes that lead to erroneous conclusions. Here are five questions you can ask yourself that will materially increase your ability to mitigate the effects of your own biases in data-informed product development.

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How To Handle High Pressure in Product Management: A Practical Guide

The Product Coalition

I’ve had some dark days as a Product Manager. Here are a few tricks I’ve learned to help with the toughest days. Simplify You can’t pull a rabbit out of your hat, work miracles and have the perfect information available out of nowhere. All you can ever do is make the best decision in light of available information. If you need new information, work out what you can and can’t reasonably acquire.

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The role of a product manager — Marty Cagan on The Product Experience – Part 2 of 2

Mind the Product

What does a product manager actually do? And what role do they have to play in tech ethics, delivery management, and coaching? This week we go straight back into our conversation with Marty Cagan to find all of the answers by the godfather of product. Okay enough chatting, let's dive straight back in. [.] Read more » The post The role of a product manager — Marty Cagan on The Product Experience – Part 2 of 2 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mobile App KPIs: The Top Metrics to Measure App Performance

Alchemer Mobile

If you’re not tracking metrics, analyzing them, and tweaking your app accordingly, you’re missing out on potential optimizations that could dramatically improve customer experience. Setting mobile app KPIs (key performance indicators) for revenue, performance, and CX is an important first step toward accomplishing this. But there are tons of KPIs to choose from.

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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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2022 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Well that was quite the year. We’ve made it to the end of 2022 – 12 months in which everything changed for the tech industry. After booming for the best part of two decades, a number of factors coincided to transform the SaaS landscape and tech more broadly. Like so many other companies in the space, Intercom was also affected by these difficult economic headwinds.

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Investing in Internal Documentation: A Brick-by-Brick Guide for Startups

First Round Review

David Nunez, an early hire at Stripe and Uber, shares his step-by-step playbook for establishing good internal documentation habits at your startup. He unpacks his tested tactics for creating a culture of documentation, setting the quality bar and keeping things organized.

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10 Best Practices to Creating Powerful Sign-up Forms

AB Tasty

Sign-up forms are where business happens, but even the smallest mistake in designing your forms can have huge consequences on your conversions. Here, we cover 10 best practices to designing powerful sign-up forms that convert.

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Web Development vs App Development: Things You Must Consider For Projects

The Product Coalition

Explore-things-web-development-vs-app-development Are you confused about web development vs app development while creating a digital application? Explore more to define web vs mobile development further. Web development vs app development: it is a software development option that business operators are deciding to choose. They might be confused about which method is the best for reaching out to, connecting with, and serving their customers.

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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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The cargo-cult in product management

Mind the Product

In this guest post, Product Manager, Arfan Ismail, explains why what has worked in one company—even if it worked spectacularly well—may not necessarily work in another one, and employs an example from World War II to help illustrate his point. [.] Read more » The post The cargo-cult in product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Drive Mobile Customer Engagement and Increase Product Feedback

Alchemer Mobile

Have you ever been looking for a recipe online but have to scroll all the way through a long, drawn-out story about the author’s family to get to the actual recipe? We won’t do that to you today. Instead, let’s cut right to the chase: Retargeting the right customers at the right time and in the right place is the ultimate key to driving mobile customer engagement.

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Intercom recognized with 101 badges and awards in G2’s Winter Reports 2023

Intercom, Inc.

We are delighted to announce that Intercom has once again been recognized as among the best solutions in a number of Customer Service categories in the newly released G2 Winter Reports 2023. This season, we were rewarded a whopping 101 badges and awards, a recognition of Intercom’s position as a leader in the field of Customer Service. #Humblebrags.