A/B Testing?—?A Blessing or a Curse?
The Product Coalition
JUNE 12, 2019
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Stuck in the Middle With Product Managers
Mind the Product
JUNE 10, 2019
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you. Stealers Wheel, 1973. Martin Eriksson made famous the diagram below, showing how product managers are at the cross-section of business, tech, and UX (by the way, I’m not implying any of these groups are clowns or jokers). The first time I saw this diagram I thought: “That’s awesome, it shows product right at the heart of everything, the lynchpin of the whole organisation.
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Why Working Backwards Benefits Product Teams
ProductCraft
JUNE 13, 2019
When I worked as a news reporter, the most common questions I received about my job revolved around the press release. Is it necessary? Is it relevant? Do you even read it? And my answers were always a resounding yes. But not for the reasons you might think. I certainly didn’t need a press release. Read more » The post Why Working Backwards Benefits Product Teams appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
Engaging Stakeholders with Opportunity Solution Trees: 3 Tactics to Try
Product Talk
JUNE 12, 2019
Two and a half years ago, I introduced the opportunity solution tree. It’s been a blast seeing product people put it into practice. Today, I’m excited to share Hope Gurion’s thoughts on using opportunity solution trees. Like a true Agilist, she hasn’t just adopted the tool, but has iterated on it to better suit her needs. I first met Hope in 2014 when she asked me to coach her product teams at CareerBuilder.
Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Four Challenges Finance Apps Face and How to Conquer Them
Alchemer Mobile
JUNE 12, 2019
Convenient access to our finances is key in our global economy, and the mobile channel has quickly become the epicenter of customer experience. However, having convenient access to our finances at our fingertips doesn’t come without unique challenges. For example, privacy rules restrict the ways financial institutions can interact with customers through their mobile apps.
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What Google’s and SalesForce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for…
Piyanka Jain
JUNE 10, 2019
What Google’s and Salesforce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for CIO’s The BI analytics tool space is consolidating to compete against Microsoft’s ensemble of Business Analytics(BA) products which promises to solve for the entire workflow?—?data generation, data capture, data storage, data access stratified by persona and data visualization.
How to Succeed at Product Management in the Face of Uncertainty
The Product Guy
JUNE 13, 2019
Guest Post by: Ben Chamberlain (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. I was frustrated when I started The Product Guy mentorship program. I felt by executing primarily on well-defined projects, my role was closer to project manager than a product manager. Serendipitously, the company changed direction and I was tasked to build a product with few concrete details and a great deal of uncertainty.
How a Well-designed Mobile App can Eliminate the Stress of Travel
Alchemer Mobile
JUNE 11, 2019
Picture this: You’re sprinting through the maze-like airport as the airline calls your name over the intercom. You have exactly three minutes until they close the gate doors. You finally get there with 30 seconds to spare and try to quickly scan your boarding pass. You had downloaded it while waiting in the hour-long security line, thankful there was a convenient way to quickly access your info.
Make the best first impression with your user onboarding
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JUNE 12, 2019
As the saying goes, “You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.” So the obligation to make first impressions positive and memorable is immense. This is especially true for onboarding. Great onboarding is multifaceted. Like the early stages of a burgeoning relationship, multiple steps shape the outcome and determine whether the relationship between you and the user will be a wild success, an unremarkable encounter or a dismal failure.
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
How to Establish Product Culture (With a Little Help From World Product Day)
Mind the Product
JUNE 13, 2019
Parkinson’s UK is a pioneering and driven organisation; we’re transforming our organisation to ensure we are fit for a digital society. Establishing agile and product culture is critical to us becoming a modern organisation that continuously improves. Cultural change is about changing behaviour and attitude, which is hard and takes time. We have around 500 employees all over the UK.
3 Important Tips for All Product Managers
The Product Guy
JUNE 11, 2019
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.
The Marketer’s Guide to Product Led Growth Marketing
Userpilot
JUNE 10, 2019
Product led growth marketing is like the business equivalent of really great storytelling. And that is ? Show don’t tell. That’s why we wouldn’t dare tell you what product-led growth marketing is or how to do it. Instead, we’re going to show you how to drive it in your role as head of growth or product marketer. What is product led growth marketing.
B2B Product Manager Magazine June 2019
Product Management University
JUNE 11, 2019
The B2B Product Manager Magazine June 2019 is now available. Every product company wants successful products. This month we contrast the differences between structuring your product management function for product success vs. customer success. Determine which approach is most conducive to successful products over the long haul in your organization. We’re also celebrating graduation month here at Product Management University.
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Treat Your Career Like you Treat Your Products by Adam Warburton
Mind the Product
JUNE 14, 2019
We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. It’s our job to make good decisions. In this talk from MTP Engage Hamburg, I look at why we seemingly treat our careers so differently and what we can do to change this.
Product Managing Up & Grailed
The Product Guy
JUNE 10, 2019
Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Product Managing Up and debated Featured Product, Grailed … And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…
Boeing Product Managers Struggle To Come Back From The 737 MAX Disaster
The Accidental Product Manager
JUNE 10, 2019
Boeing’s product managers need to find ways to rebuild trust Image Credit: Ferry Octavian. Every product manager job is different. Some are easy and some are hard. Right now, being the product manager at Boeing who is responsible for the 737 MAX jet would defiantly fall into the difficult category. The reason that this would be such a hard job to have right now is because this airplane has experiences a set of disastrous crashes.
The UX of UserZoom: Part one – How we set up our research process
Userzoom
JUNE 13, 2019
Welcome to ‘ The UX of UserZoom ’ – a new regular series where we reveal how we’re using our very own research product to improve the UX of UserZoom itself! If things were more meta, we’d be sending the Inception team into Jakob Nielsen’s dreams to find Deadpool talking to Don Norman about how much they love The Princess Bride while failing to open a door.
Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)
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The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.
Negotiate Like a Pro(duct Manager) by Garry Prior
Mind the Product
JUNE 14, 2019
In this talk from #mtpengage Manchester, Garry Prior, Director of Product at THG Ingenuity, explores how negotiation is central to being a product manager, and looks into key areas to focus on during negotiations. As product people we spend our working lives negotiating internally with colleagues and externally with customers and partners. Given this, you would expect us to be well versed in the art of negotiation, and for product management training to include this as a core module, but you’d b
Our 6 Must Reads for Onboarding Tactics That Help New Hires Succeed (and Stay)
First Round Review
JUNE 10, 2019
Onboarding is so much more than the standard-issue IT set-up: It's the foundation for how new hires settle into their roles and their future at the company. We gathered perspectives on how to prime your newest employees for success.
Auditing Web Performance Continuously with Gimbal
Modus Create
JUNE 12, 2019
Enterprises of all sizes have been witnessing a strong correlation of latency to the loss in revenue and productivity. Strong web performance is a Definition of Done for the best web development teams, but also a top priority for high-achieving product owners. And, at Modus, we’ve increasingly seen it become a requirement for our clients’ applications.
Competitive Benchmarking 101: A User Researcher’s Guide
Userzoom
JUNE 12, 2019
So much more than carving your name onto a bench (also, don’t make marks on benches). As part of our UX 101 education series , where we discuss the different types of studies and research methodologies you can use with the UserZoom platform, we’d like to introduce our readers to the exciting world of competitive benchmarking! What is competitive benchmarking?
How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
How we Learned to Build Users’ Trust in a new Product Category
Mind the Product
JUNE 11, 2019
I’m really proud to have been part of the team who launched Echo’s new website – our digital pharmacy users can now manage their medication from whichever device they like, without downloading our app. When we started building our web product, our plan was pretty simple: “Just build the same features as our mobile app but make it work on bigger screens.” .
Our 6 Must Reads for Onboarding Tactics That Help New Hires Succeed (and Stay)
First Round Review
JUNE 11, 2019
Onboarding is so much more than the standard-issue IT set-up: It's the foundation for how new hires settle into their roles and their future at the company. We gathered perspectives on how to prime your newest employees for success.
Top 10 Japanese Tech Companies
freshtrax
JUNE 11, 2019
According to an article by Tech :: Note , the Japanese tech industry has grown as a whole with continual increases in the total revenue of the industry, from 14,380 billion yen (approx. 133 billion USD) in 2013 to 14,899 billion yen (approx. 137 billion USD) in 2014 to 17,268 billion yen (approx. 159 billion USD) in 2015. To give you a bigger picture of the Japanese technology industry, we dive deeper and introduce the top technology companies in Japan based on the following four criteria: capit
The 5 W’s Of Customer Feedback
Gainsight
JUNE 13, 2019
You want growth? Your customers’ health is more important than your top of funnel. It sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s true. Over half of customers believe their experience is more important than price when making a purchasing decision ( Gartner ). And according to Harvard Business Review, it’s 25 times more cost-effective for you to retain existing customers than to invest in new ones.
Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Beyond the Hype on AI – Ashwini Asokan on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
JUNE 11, 2019
Ashwini Asokan, CEO and co-founder of intelligent retail automation platform VUE.ai, is working to evolve the world of retail, making shopping more of an entertainment experience. She’s spent a lot of time thinking about artificial intelligence and she sat down with us to go beyond the hype – and give us some practical advice about how to make use of it as a product person.
How graph visualization helps us understand collaboration
Miro
JUNE 13, 2019
How graph visualization helps us understand collaborationHow do you measure the value of a product that’s redefining teamwork? The first step is understanding how users are naturally leveraging the platform to get their work done. At Miro, our product is a visual collaboration platform which allows users to interact with each other on a virtual whiteboard, doing everything from brainstorming new ideas to tracking projects to completion.We set out to examine […].
Dungeons & Dragons made me a better Product Manager
The Product Coalition
JUNE 10, 2019
Dungeons & Dragons might be the most fun way to exercise some of the most important muscles that Product Managers need Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
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