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A Breakup Letter to Staging

Split

Dear Staging – It’s not working out anymore. I would say it’s not you, it’s me, but actually – it is you. You have several flaws that make working with you impossible. Staging – You’re Expensive. First, you’re very expensive to maintain. Even if you just have the basic architecture, with web servers and application servers that query a database, and a memory-based cache, you still cost me over $100k per year!

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How Can Product Managers Reduce Cognitive Load To Increase Feature Adoption?

Mind the Product

How do friction costs and Hick’s Law affect the adoption rates of product features, and how can product managers reduce a user’s cognitive load? A number of different elements compete for an online audience’s attention. Visitors immediately have to process the navigation, layout, forms, text and images all while learning how to use a digital product.

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4 Reasons Why Every Data-Driven Product Leader Should Attend Pulse Everywhere

Gainsight

If you haven’t already heard, Gainsight is hosting Pulse Everywhere coming up on May 13th and 14th, which will be one of the largest virtual gatherings of Product leaders currently happening. If you’re not yet registered, check out the agenda and sign up. And, if you need more convincing, here are four reasons why you should attend: . 1. Hear the latest on product-led growth from Product leaders at Adobe, Seismic, RingDNA, and more We have a great lineup of data-driven Product leaders who will s

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Women in Product Management: Gaining Recognition – You Asked, We Answered.

280 Group

This month, we presented a webinar from our Product Management Leadership series – No Bragging Required: How Women in PM Can Get the Recognition They Deserve. You can view the accompanying blog post here. We received so many great questions on the topic and have included answers to the top questions down below.

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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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Learnings from One Year into Product Management

The Product Coalition

The First 30 Days You realize this is nothing like what is written in most of the product management books The first few days as a product manager can be really hard because you don’t know what exactly are you supposed to do, and the only reference you have is other PMs in your team. Likely, you won’t get to work on a product in the first 30 days. So what should you do in these 30 days?

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Checklists for Hiring Remote People

Johanna Rothman

As we move to more remote work, especially in these pandemic times, how do we integrate people so they can succeed? See Hiring Geeks That Fit for all the new employee checklists and how to use them. (Want to preview the checklists and templates? Download the HiringGeeksThatFitTemplates for yourself.). I updated the checklists with a middle column, contrasting the actions for remote employees.

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Measuring the Success of Your Product Ops Team

ProductCraft

You’ve read a few articles and blog posts about how product ops is on the rise and the value it can provide to your organization. So, you began building out your own product ops team. You determined the biggest areas of need and opportunity, then you hired the best people for the job. Now, the. Read more » The post Measuring the Success of Your Product Ops Team appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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21 Best Practices for Migrating to React JS

Modus Create

Adopting a modern tech stack is essential for any organization embracing the digital transformation journey. The modernization of web applications is a core requirement as customers demand high performing and well-designed user interfaces. These tips are directed to teams migrating to React but can be applied to other modernization processes as well.

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Why do dancers make great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Why Do Dancers Make Great Product Managers Image from Pexels For as long as I can remember, I’ve been passionate about dancing and product management. I started dancing in my bedroom when I was little, then I took classes and then I took more and harder classes. After a while, I started giving classes and occasionally performing dance shows. I did it for almost 15 years now and during this time my passion kept growing both for dancing and for product management.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Hey, partner! Introducing new programs for app and service partners

Intercom, Inc.

In times like these, we could all use friends, supporters, collaborators. And as businesses, we could all use partners to forge stronger relationships with our customers. So today we’re excited to announce two new programs for Intercom app builders and service providers: the App Partner Program and the Service Partner Program. Partnerships have always been key to the way we work at Intercom.

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Creating Solutions for COVID-19 Frontliners – a Case Study

Mind the Product

In Part 2 of our Coping Through COVID series , we learn how the team at Springer Nature Experiments quickly created an interface, packed with vital information on Coronavirus detection protocols for the scientific research community. Overview. COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has brought everyday life to a halt all around the world. In mid-March, when COVID-19 reached 270,000+ cases globally, most of us started to work from home and to follow social distancing rules.

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How to be a great product manager during a recession

Product Management Unpacked

We are in an economic crisis. They happen every so often. In business, sometimes we call them recessions. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee, the group entrusted to call the start and end dates of a recession, defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months.” There have been as many as 47 recessions in the history of the United States. n my career alone, I have

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Watch: Diving into 2020 Mobile App Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

Watch our latest webinar where Robi Ganguly, Apptentive CEO and Co-founder, and Christy Culp, Apptentive VP of Customer Success, share exclusive data and key insights from our 2020 Mobile App Engagement Benchmark Report. Since the report is an extensive resource, this webinar serves as a valuable synopsis where we walk through the data and highlight key takeaways for our research.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Measuring proactive communication in COVID-19 conversations

Intercom, Inc.

During this time, businesses are not just waiting for customers to check in – they’re leaning on automation to proactively communicate with their customers at scale. As the current crisis has unfolded, we’ve seen those trends emerge among our own customers as well. In early March, the analytics team and I saw a spike in overall conversations between businesses and their customers.

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An Agile Project to Enable Social Distancing: a Case Study

Mind the Product

COVID-19 has brought a crisis to many industries and many companies. Transport, especially home delivery providers, faces big challenges. How can they ensure social distancing and thorough hygiene practices in everyday deliveries? Here’s how one transport company solved this challenge. While food and smaller packages can be left at the door without any personal contact, what do they do with larger deliveries like furniture?

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Alignment of Strategy, Roadmap & Backlog

The Product Guy

All product managers need to link the high-level challenge they are solving with the day-to-day. How do you keep them connected and in sync when there are different disciplines and stakeholders involved on each level? During this talk, we will review the process and method by which you align the three key components of product planning. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation on this topic.

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How to Write Compelling User Research Insights in 6 Steps

dscout People Nerds

We’re often reminded of the importance of “sharing insights.” But advice for how define an insight, and how we should be writing them, is vague at best. .

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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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Reading list: Thinking about design

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom is a proudly product-first company , with a focus on delivering great product that helps our customers build relationships with their users. Being product-first or product-led has shaped our culture and ethos in very palpable ways, and one of the characteristics of that culture is the degree to which we think deeply about how design. Above all, we have fostered a culture that encourages strong opinions – our opinions can change with time and circumstance, of course, but what remains con

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How to Grow and Scale a High-Functioning Team by Richard Cadman

Mind the Product

In this talk, Richard Cadman, Principal Product Manager at Monzo , helps us think through practical steps we need to take to grow and scale a high-functioning team. Using examples from his experience at Monzo, where he built his team up from 10 to 40 people, he covered: How to get teams engaged. How to set teams up for success. What to do when you get it wrong (which you will).

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On the Important Arc of Product Process

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with 2019’s TPMAS winner of The Best Product Consultant, Drew Falkman. Watch now and see why they are counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. Thank you to everyone who participated, nominated, interviewed, AND passed on the word! The nomination period for The Product Management Awards 2020 has begun!

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TEI 280: Learn how product managers should set product price – with Ben Malakoff

Product Innovation Educators

Three phases of pricing for product managers. This episode is about pricing. A lot of product managers are not very involved in pricing decisions. If you are one of them, you should change that. Our guest, Ben Malakoff, learned how to price products and in this interview he shares what you’ll need to know to be part of pricing decisions, increasing your influence.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Using Miro to run seamless remote meetings & workshops

Miro

Using Miro to run seamless remote meetings & workshopsWhether you’re running a professional workshop, holding an impromptu brainstorming session, or transitioning your Agile ceremonies online, managing and facilitating online sessions can be challenging. From introducing new technology to keeping everyone on track, there is a lot to consider.Over the last weeks and months we’ve seen […].

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Building Communities That Work – Emily Webber on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

It can be tough, even at the best of times, to remain engaged at work – to find a community of people to share with and learn from. Emily Webber’s seen this in action and has started (and nurtured) successful communities both at work and at home. She joined us to continue where her 2018 Mind the Product talk left off and to go deeper into how to build great communities with remote teams.

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Product Challenges to Watch Out For

The Product Guy

It can be hard to stay engaged with people inside and outside the product organization. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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Lessons from Hilti on What it Takes to Shift from a Product to a Service Business Model

Strategyzer

In a previous post, we explained how business model patterns can help executives shift from outdated to a more competitive business model. Today we illustrate one of the patterns, the shift from product to service, with Hilti. And we go behind-the-scenes with Dr. Christoph Loos, CEO of Hilti, to understand what it takes to lead such a business transformation.

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The Data Metaverse: Unpacking the Roles, Use Cases, and Tech Trends in Data and AI

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Sr. Staff Product Manager of Data & AI at BILL (Previously PM Lead at Twitter/X)

Embark on a transformation journey into the heart of the data ecosystem! This webinar is your gateway to a deeper comprehension of the foundations that drive the data industry and will equip you with the knowledge needed to navigate the evolving landscape. Delve into the diverse use cases where data analytics plays a pivotal role. We’ll explore how these applications are transforming with the introduction of Gen AI, and discuss the anticipated use cases for 2024 and beyond.

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Effectively Leveraging In-Home Testing, Especially During Turbulent Times

Pragmatic Marketing

As people around the world shelter in place under the threat of COVID-19, demand for consumer-packaged goods (CPG) is booming. In the United States, supermarkets are struggling struggle to keep shelves stocked. CPGs top the list of in-demand products because they tend to be safe (they don’t transmit infectious diseases), are reasonably long-lasting and are affordable in most instances.

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Summarizing the Neural network course in 6 points

SidsAvenue

I completed the Neural network and Deep learning course by Andrew ng on Coursera. My Goal : My aim to do the course was to understand what is neutral networks, what is deep learning and get hands on experience in building a neural network. I wrote this blog post to concretize my understanding of the concepts I learnt about neural network and share some insights with people like you who are planning to learn neural networks.

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Why You Should Exchange Your Epics for Initiatives

ProductCraft

So, it’s four weeks into a project, and you’re running into a few problems. First, your teams aren’t sure what resources they need to bring to bear. One engineer, for example, is now half-time after you’d have sworn you had her for a full six weeks. Second, no one is really sure about what this. Read more » The post Why You Should Exchange Your Epics for Initiatives appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.