Main takeaways:
- Framework of learning and improving your product sense
- Learn how to do your skill gap analysis and ideas to level up
- How to build it as a muscle and create successful products
A talk I gave at Google on Strategy and Product Discovery
We discussed:
Discovering Features and Products (Product Strategy)
Discovering Products and Product Lines (Product Line / Company Strategy)
Marty Cagan: Using High Fidelity Prototypes for Product Discovery
The product roadmap is a plan of action that outlines of tactical steps to execute the product strategy pushing the product ahead in the trajectory of planned direction in alignment with the product vision while accomplishing short-term and long-term product objectives
The Types of Product Management Roles by PayPal Sr Product ManagerProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Each Product management role is unique. What are the various types of product management roles and how to identify the right one for you.
- Overview of types of PM roles - growth, platform, data, mobile applications, product marketing, internal tools, API, etc.
- How to use your background to make your job search targeted and position yourself for success.
Intro to Data Analytics with Oscar's Director of ProductProduct School
The Director of Product at Oscar, Vasudev Vadlamudi, went over key types of quantitative analysis that B2C product managers use on the job including: funnels, cohorts, and a/b testing. For each one he looked into when and why they are used, and used examples.
A/B Testing for New Product Launches by Booking.com Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-There is no one right way of validating a product, A/B testing is just one of them
-Get your product 'qualitatively' validated before 'quantitatively' validating
-Use holdouts to measure the long term success of your new products, while running A/B test in parallel
A talk I gave at Google on Strategy and Product Discovery
We discussed:
Discovering Features and Products (Product Strategy)
Discovering Products and Product Lines (Product Line / Company Strategy)
Marty Cagan: Using High Fidelity Prototypes for Product Discovery
The product roadmap is a plan of action that outlines of tactical steps to execute the product strategy pushing the product ahead in the trajectory of planned direction in alignment with the product vision while accomplishing short-term and long-term product objectives
The Types of Product Management Roles by PayPal Sr Product ManagerProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Each Product management role is unique. What are the various types of product management roles and how to identify the right one for you.
- Overview of types of PM roles - growth, platform, data, mobile applications, product marketing, internal tools, API, etc.
- How to use your background to make your job search targeted and position yourself for success.
Intro to Data Analytics with Oscar's Director of ProductProduct School
The Director of Product at Oscar, Vasudev Vadlamudi, went over key types of quantitative analysis that B2C product managers use on the job including: funnels, cohorts, and a/b testing. For each one he looked into when and why they are used, and used examples.
A/B Testing for New Product Launches by Booking.com Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-There is no one right way of validating a product, A/B testing is just one of them
-Get your product 'qualitatively' validated before 'quantitatively' validating
-Use holdouts to measure the long term success of your new products, while running A/B test in parallel
How to Focus On the Problem, Not the Solution by Spotify PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-The five why’s - a tried-and-true method to effectively uncover user needs.
-Leveraging the JTBD framework - what are your customers trying to accomplish?
-How do you know you’ve solved the problem? Defining success metrics with your customers from the beginning.
How to Use Data to Drive Product Decisions by PayPal PMProduct School
Product Managers spend a lot of time thinking about our product metrics, determining which KPIs best describe our progress and what measures we can take to accelerate our success. As a new Product Manager, parsing through the ocean of data can be overwhelming and using this data to make product decisions can be a challenging task.
Deb talked about how you can incorporate data through out your product life cycle to drive product decisions, feature prioritization and long term roadmap strategy. She walked through simple use cases where data has helped Product Managers break down complex problems and arrive at simple product decisions that directly impacted their KPIs. The industry is increasingly hiring data driven Product Managers.
Product Roadmaps - Tips on how to create and manage roadmapsMarc Abraham
This presentation is focused on two areas with respect to product roadmaps. Firstly, a roadmap is a not a loose collection of timings and features. Secondly, it is key to define a product vision, goals and strategy before creating a roadmap.
The slides are for a course that is LIVE on Udemy.com (https://www.udemy.com/product-roadmap-101/)
The slides outline how to build an effective product by translating product strategy into product roadmap for enterprise products.
10 Metrics Every SaaS PM Should Use by fmr Facebook Product LeaderProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Understand what data is essential for your success
-How to work towards your metrics
-Key differences between necessary and unnecessary metrics
Practical Product Management for new Product ManagersAmarpreet Kalkat
This presentation provides tips and tools for a professional who is new to Product Management function (in software).
It does not cover the full lifecycle of a product and primarily focuses on the product development/product building phase. As such, it is more usable for professionals working on existing products than for those in the process of building new products from scratch.
Behind every great product is a great team doing work in a way that guarantees results. They are following a roadmap from the starting point to the end product. But a product roadmap can be elusive. This talk addresses why it is important and presents an approach to make one.
How to Master Product-Led Growth Strategy in B2B by Gainsight CTOProduct School
Main takeaways:
Main Takeaways:
- Gain visibility into the product journey
- Tie acquisition and retention KPIs with core metrics
- Design product experiences with an outcome mindset
- Create an iterative process to address usability friction
- Leverage user feedback to accelerate learning
Product Managers are the visionaries for both identifying solutions, and innovating for the next big thing. But how does one jump from “I have an idea” to “go live”? There’s lots in between.
By putting you in real-world scenarios, this deck was created for a Hearst-wide division workshop that helped various teams through how they can break down their idea into actionable next steps by borrowing agile methodologies.
The Product Owner and the Product Manager, are they a single role? a single person?
Find out what people like Dean Leffingwell, Henrik Kniberg, Craig Larman, Bas Vodde, Roman Pichler and Marty Cagan have to say about this
(Last change, July 2: Removed as beyond most teams' scope Eyetracking Study, Clickstream Analysis, Usability Benchmarking; Added Live-Data Prototypes, Demand Validation Test, Wizard of Oz Tests)
For our teams tasked with building products and features for The New York Times, we face a common challenge with many: how do we figure out what’s worth spending our time on?
The answer seems straightforward: test your ideas with real customers, leveraging the expertise of your product, UX, and engineering talent. Figure out the smallest test that you can come up with to test a specific hypothesis, gather data and insights, and keep iterating on it until you know whether the problem is real and your solution will prove valuable, usable, and feasible.
As part of our efforts to adopt such a data-driven, experimental approach to product development, we recently kicked off a product discovery pilot program. Small, cross-functional teams were paired with coaches and facilitators over a six week period to demonstrate how product discovery and Lean Startup techniques could work for real-world customer opportunities at The New York Times.
One of the first things that we learned about the process from our participants was that they wanted a "toolkit" - something to help them figure out what they should be doing, asking or making to get as quickly as possible towards the validated learning, prototypes and user tests that would have the most impact.
To help the facilitate the learning process for our dual-track Agile teams, the Product Architecture team here at The Times (Christine Yom, Jim Lamiell, Josh Turk, Priya Ollapally, and Al Ming) built a "Product Discovery Activity Guide" that rolled up activities, exercises, and testing techniques from all our favorite thought leaders.
This included brainstorming exercises from Gamestorming and Innovation Games, testing techniques from traditional user research, and rapid test-and-learn tactics from Google Ventures, Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), Jeff Gothelf (Lean UX), Steve Blank (Customer Development) and our spirit guide, Marty Cagan (Inspired), among others.
Our goal was to make it a tool not just for learning how to get started, but to be a living document for teams to share knowledge about the process itself. What techniques worked and didn't work? What tactics did they learn elsewhere that might be worth sharing with the rest of the company?
We hope you find it useful, and whether you’d like to share with us what you’re doing with it, or you have suggestions (big or small) to improve it for future product generations, please let us know! (nyt.tech.productarchitecture@nytimes.com)
Al Ming
July 2015
Product Sense (also called Product Intuition or Product Judgement) is the ability to understand what makes a product great. In other words, product sense is very important skill to all product managers. While the name sounds like you’re either born with it or you’re not, Product Sense is just a skill, and like any skill it can get better with practice. I will share my framework and learnings that has helped in improving my product sense in last two years.
Main takeaways:
- Framework of learning and improving your product sense
- Learn how to do your skill gap analysis and ideas to level up
- How to build it as a muscle and create successful products
How to be a Digital Products Ninja by ServiceNow Sr. PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Learn how to be an expert product Ninja in the continuously changing digital world
- Learn about top 7 productivity hacks for Product Managers
- Best practices and framework for the product manager’s toolbox
How to Focus On the Problem, Not the Solution by Spotify PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-The five why’s - a tried-and-true method to effectively uncover user needs.
-Leveraging the JTBD framework - what are your customers trying to accomplish?
-How do you know you’ve solved the problem? Defining success metrics with your customers from the beginning.
How to Use Data to Drive Product Decisions by PayPal PMProduct School
Product Managers spend a lot of time thinking about our product metrics, determining which KPIs best describe our progress and what measures we can take to accelerate our success. As a new Product Manager, parsing through the ocean of data can be overwhelming and using this data to make product decisions can be a challenging task.
Deb talked about how you can incorporate data through out your product life cycle to drive product decisions, feature prioritization and long term roadmap strategy. She walked through simple use cases where data has helped Product Managers break down complex problems and arrive at simple product decisions that directly impacted their KPIs. The industry is increasingly hiring data driven Product Managers.
Product Roadmaps - Tips on how to create and manage roadmapsMarc Abraham
This presentation is focused on two areas with respect to product roadmaps. Firstly, a roadmap is a not a loose collection of timings and features. Secondly, it is key to define a product vision, goals and strategy before creating a roadmap.
The slides are for a course that is LIVE on Udemy.com (https://www.udemy.com/product-roadmap-101/)
The slides outline how to build an effective product by translating product strategy into product roadmap for enterprise products.
10 Metrics Every SaaS PM Should Use by fmr Facebook Product LeaderProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Understand what data is essential for your success
-How to work towards your metrics
-Key differences between necessary and unnecessary metrics
Practical Product Management for new Product ManagersAmarpreet Kalkat
This presentation provides tips and tools for a professional who is new to Product Management function (in software).
It does not cover the full lifecycle of a product and primarily focuses on the product development/product building phase. As such, it is more usable for professionals working on existing products than for those in the process of building new products from scratch.
Behind every great product is a great team doing work in a way that guarantees results. They are following a roadmap from the starting point to the end product. But a product roadmap can be elusive. This talk addresses why it is important and presents an approach to make one.
How to Master Product-Led Growth Strategy in B2B by Gainsight CTOProduct School
Main takeaways:
Main Takeaways:
- Gain visibility into the product journey
- Tie acquisition and retention KPIs with core metrics
- Design product experiences with an outcome mindset
- Create an iterative process to address usability friction
- Leverage user feedback to accelerate learning
Product Managers are the visionaries for both identifying solutions, and innovating for the next big thing. But how does one jump from “I have an idea” to “go live”? There’s lots in between.
By putting you in real-world scenarios, this deck was created for a Hearst-wide division workshop that helped various teams through how they can break down their idea into actionable next steps by borrowing agile methodologies.
The Product Owner and the Product Manager, are they a single role? a single person?
Find out what people like Dean Leffingwell, Henrik Kniberg, Craig Larman, Bas Vodde, Roman Pichler and Marty Cagan have to say about this
(Last change, July 2: Removed as beyond most teams' scope Eyetracking Study, Clickstream Analysis, Usability Benchmarking; Added Live-Data Prototypes, Demand Validation Test, Wizard of Oz Tests)
For our teams tasked with building products and features for The New York Times, we face a common challenge with many: how do we figure out what’s worth spending our time on?
The answer seems straightforward: test your ideas with real customers, leveraging the expertise of your product, UX, and engineering talent. Figure out the smallest test that you can come up with to test a specific hypothesis, gather data and insights, and keep iterating on it until you know whether the problem is real and your solution will prove valuable, usable, and feasible.
As part of our efforts to adopt such a data-driven, experimental approach to product development, we recently kicked off a product discovery pilot program. Small, cross-functional teams were paired with coaches and facilitators over a six week period to demonstrate how product discovery and Lean Startup techniques could work for real-world customer opportunities at The New York Times.
One of the first things that we learned about the process from our participants was that they wanted a "toolkit" - something to help them figure out what they should be doing, asking or making to get as quickly as possible towards the validated learning, prototypes and user tests that would have the most impact.
To help the facilitate the learning process for our dual-track Agile teams, the Product Architecture team here at The Times (Christine Yom, Jim Lamiell, Josh Turk, Priya Ollapally, and Al Ming) built a "Product Discovery Activity Guide" that rolled up activities, exercises, and testing techniques from all our favorite thought leaders.
This included brainstorming exercises from Gamestorming and Innovation Games, testing techniques from traditional user research, and rapid test-and-learn tactics from Google Ventures, Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), Jeff Gothelf (Lean UX), Steve Blank (Customer Development) and our spirit guide, Marty Cagan (Inspired), among others.
Our goal was to make it a tool not just for learning how to get started, but to be a living document for teams to share knowledge about the process itself. What techniques worked and didn't work? What tactics did they learn elsewhere that might be worth sharing with the rest of the company?
We hope you find it useful, and whether you’d like to share with us what you’re doing with it, or you have suggestions (big or small) to improve it for future product generations, please let us know! (nyt.tech.productarchitecture@nytimes.com)
Al Ming
July 2015
Product Sense (also called Product Intuition or Product Judgement) is the ability to understand what makes a product great. In other words, product sense is very important skill to all product managers. While the name sounds like you’re either born with it or you’re not, Product Sense is just a skill, and like any skill it can get better with practice. I will share my framework and learnings that has helped in improving my product sense in last two years.
Main takeaways:
- Framework of learning and improving your product sense
- Learn how to do your skill gap analysis and ideas to level up
- How to build it as a muscle and create successful products
How to be a Digital Products Ninja by ServiceNow Sr. PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Learn how to be an expert product Ninja in the continuously changing digital world
- Learn about top 7 productivity hacks for Product Managers
- Best practices and framework for the product manager’s toolbox
How to Master Product Management Case Studies by fmr Groupon PMProduct School
Main takeaways
- How does one proceed in an interview when given a product case study to solve
- What are some of the most common case questions to practice
- What hiring managers are looking for when asking candidates to solve a product case
- The importance of a good hypothesis
- Best frameworks that can come in handy
Breaking Into Product and Tech by Microsoft Product LeaderProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Leveraging your existing experience, or acquiring new experience, through a product lens
-Treating your resume like a product - effective story & resume building to stand out from the crowd
-Interview strategy, step-by-step question walkthroughs, and problem-solving frameworks
Why And How to Transition into Product Management by Google PMProduct School
Nabil Shahid walks through their journey to Product Management in the world of tech, talking about how to market your skills and how to get into the industry. He also touches on balancing knowledge and personal experience with what's best for a wider user group.
Key Tactics for a Successful Product Launch by Kespry Senior PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Learn how to create a solid foundation for the successful release of a product by applying structured frameworks and user
- Center design processes from discovery to roadmap definition phases of the product lifecycle
- Learn how to methodically translate empathy for the customer to data for driving prioritization, decision -making, and clear communication for your teams
- This will be an interactive session for the audience based on a real-life example from the speaker's work
Intro to Product Management by Trunk Club Product ManagerProduct School
Ever wondered what it’s like to work as a Product Manager? What about as a Product Manager at Trunk Club?
Matt Holihan, Product Manager at Trunk Club, discussed what it’s like to work in this dynamic role and what it takes to get your foot in the door. He also gave the inside scoop on the day-to-day work as a Product Manager, the challenges of the job and personal insight.
Practical Tips for Building PM Skills by Reddit Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- The best way to start developing your product sense is to think intentionally about your everyday product usage.
- The only way to develop execution skills is by building, shipping, and iterating. And you don't have to know how to write code to build something!
- Always try to tie the impact of a proposed feature or idea back to a top-line metric that the company cares about, whether it's active users, revenue, or something else that impacts the business.
Using Amazon's PRFAQ Methodology! by Amazon Product LeaderProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Working backwards and structuring your thinking
- The PRFAQ process and adapting to your needs
- Planning to consensus building to execution
How to be a Digital Products Ninja by ServiceNow Sr. PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Learn how to be an expert product Ninja in the continuously changing digital world
- Learn about top 7 productivity hacks for Product Managers
- Best practices and framework for the product manager’s toolbox
How to Get a PM Role w/ Non-Tech Background by Salesforce PMProduct School
In this presentation, Tanvi Dali discusses how to position yourself so that your dots will connect to land you a PM opportunity in the future. For those who are already in PM, she also discusses a few tips on how to make a good first impression (within the first 90-days as a new PM) and what a typical day or week looks like as a PM at Salesforce.
How to Make Your Resume Product Friendly by Ticketmaster PMProduct School
How to transform your resume to apply for a Product Management position?
Are you trying to break into Product Management and having a hard time getting called in for an interview? Thinking your resume may be affecting your chances? In this session, Haydee gave tips on how to transform your resume so that it highlights the experience and skills to get you in the door. This session is ideally suited for User Experience professionals, Business Analysts, or Developers seeking to transition into Product Management.
Webinar How PMs Use AI to 10X Their Productivity by Product School EiR.pdfProduct School
Explore AI tools hands-on and smoothly integrate them into your work routine. This practical experience is here to empower you, offering insights into the mindset of successful Product Managers. Learn the skills to become a more effective Product Manager.
Main Takeaways:
Hands-On AI Integration:
Learn practical strategies for integrating AI tools into your workflow effectively.
Mindset Insights for Success:
Gain valuable insights into the mindset of successful Product Managers, unlocking the secrets to their achievements.
Skill Empowerment for Growth:
Acquire essential skills that empower your evolution toward becoming a more effective and impactful Product Manager.
Webinar: Using GenAI for Increasing Productivity in PM by Amazon PM LeaderProduct School
In this webinar, you will learn how AI can take work off your plate, allowing you to focus on deep thinking or critical work. Cut out the drudge work in Product Management and get more out of your day.
Learnings:
Improve workflows that are high frequency - "manual tasks"
Increase the quality of output that has high importance - "brainy tasks"
Put GenAI to work today
Unlocking High-Performance Product Teams by former Meta Global PMMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- High-Performing Team Dynamics: You’ll gain insights into fostering high-performance teamwork.
- Unveiling Team Personas: You’ll learn about different personas in the team and how to foster these differences.
- Decoding the Team Needs x Productivity Equation: You’ll learn about different team needs and how they correlate with engagement and productivity.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
11. How to improve
your Product
Sense?
Manjeet Singh - The Ninja PM
@CoachManjeet
12. What will you learn from this
presentation?
1. Deconstruct product sense
2. Framework to improve
3. Useful exercises to level up
4. Identify gaps to align with continuous improvement plan
5. Lesson learned and key takeaways
13. ● Group PM @ ServiceNow
● Product Manager @HP
● Founder of Agile Fitness
● Various roles@ Startup
Me
16. What is
product
sense?
● Empathy: having good self awareness and
empathy about the user.
● Domain Knowledge: ability to understand what
makes a product great.
● Creativity: ability to find novel solutions to a
situation/problem.
● Business Value: ability to build for value
17. Product sense = The
ability to build for value
● 3 ways to create value
● Think about product value from
the user perspective.
● Sharp product sense + drive to
deliver = ship delightful products.
18. Example questions to test product sense
1. Build a new product to solve for X?
2. How would you build an X [type of product] for Y [user]?
3. How to improve an existing product?
4. What is your favorite product/app and why?
5. Product design, identify KPIs, or user journey mapping exercise
20. Building expertise in any skill involves deliberate
practice, consistent routine, and a daily willingness to
progress beyond physical and mental pain.
21. 1 2 3 4
Framework: correct sequence + right input
Identify
customers
Understand
their problem
and needs
Help create
winning solution
Tell the story
and manage the
product
22. Understand
what makes a
product great
● Utility
● Ease of use
● Delighter/Wow factor
● Strategic alignment
● Overall potential
23. Frame and reframe the problem
● Good problem statements articulate
three elements:
○ Audience- who are you building for?
○ Problem - what is the specific
need/problem?
○ Value - what is the value of solving the
problem?
● A good problem statement aligned with
strategy brings excitement.
Example from Amazon:
25. Exercises:
Identify
user and
product
goals
● Take a popular product that you use
○ Write down who uses the product
○ Write down all of the goals
○ Look at the PR & Marketing material
● Do design teardown exercise
○ wow moments, questions, doubts, broader observation
● Come up with problems not solved in the
product . Then suggest possible solutions to it.
● Consider technical and non-technical products
28. Learn to
identify
good
insights
● Review product highlights:
○ Go to product hunt or app store and read lots of
product reviews by many people.
○ They point out what someone loved and what they wish
was better.
○ Write up where you disagree and discuss with friends.
● Write down your own summary of famous
keynote conferences.
○ Focus on what they think about the product and how
the demo was structured.
○ Read https://stratechery.com/
29. Exercises to
come up
with new
use cases
● Use SCAMPER brainstorming framework.
○ For example, what happens when you combine Dropbox
and Airbnb?
○ Or integrate Facebook for work and Outlook
● Think of adjacent areas beyond a particular
feature.
● Think about how a similar problem is solved in a
different industry.
● Think about how you can leverage it in your
situation.
30. Example: How would you design a bookshelf for children?
● Word association
○ Write all personas
○ Features
● SCAMPER:
○ Substitute
○ Combine
○ Adapt
○ Modify
○ Put to another use
○ Eliminate
○ Reverse
31. Ask experts in your org/network
● It is not your job to have good
ideas. It is your job to champion
them.
● Map out the value curve of your
product space.
● Let team play with your POC and
ask them to think “as user”
32. Strategy: find alignment and
intersection
Bottom up from Customer
● Enterprise use Saas platform to
improve business value gain.
● In ITSM, these consumers are doing
through digitizing and optimizing their
service/process workflows.
Top down from Company
● Enable regular people to route work
effectively through the enterprise.
● Digitize your workflows
● Make work, work better
33. 4 common
ways you can
create new
products
● Solve a problem for people
● Change the experience of an existing product
● Target a fear/insecurity in people
● Make rich people stuff available to commoners
35. Product sense: the ability to make
correct product decisions even when
there is significant ambiguity.
Execution sense: the ability to align
people towards an objective and build
complex projects.
Analytical sense: the ability to frame the
right questions, evaluate a problem from
multiple facets, simulate outcomes, be
able to use data.
10-30-50 framework for growth in the PM Role
Credit: Shreyas Doshicredit : Shreyas Doshi
36. Are you the PM you really want to be?
● Identify your skills and strength
○ What comes easy
○ What you enjoy doing and keep
doing without getting paid
○ What makes you grow
● Not all PM positions are equal
○ Find alignment between your
current responsibilities and the
work that you really want to do.
37. Manage your career like a project
Assess your Skills
today
Gap: Additional Skills
Goal: Become the best
PM leader
39. Become a
student of
useful
frameworks
● AARRR: How to define KPIs
● HEART: How to choose right UX metrics
● 5 W's & H: How to get requirements right
● Hooked: How to build habit forming product
● Cost/benefits/risk: How to prioritize
● 4P’s: Marketing mix
● 5 C’s: Product Pricing
40. Mistakes to
avoid
● Selling yourself on your own idea: "this will work."
● Build products without fully understanding the
customer problems.
● Trying to solve product-market fit by adding loads
of new features.
● Not talking to customer/dev/design teams
frequently
● Believing that releasing a product is the end
goal.
41. Interview
preparation
tips
1. Do targeted preparation based on company/role.
2. Think about persona, solution and mistake you made
from previous similar product (your stories)
3. Be curious to new product insight that are not easy to
find using a quick search.
4. Talk about KPIs- what is one unique KPI to capture value
5. Show your technical abilities. AI/ML/Coding, problem
solving.
6. Talk about creative solutions - baseline plus something
new.
42. 1 2 3 4
Recap: Key Takeaways
Identify gaps in your
strengths, lay out a
plan to improve, and
start deliberate
practice. Everyday.
Become a student of
frameworks and the
continual
improvement
mindset.
Focus on learning,
test your idea quickly.
Strive to become
customer champion
asap.
Be intentional about
who you work with
and what product you
work on.
43. Do not forget to build your ‘Health Sense’
(because when you are sick in bed - all other strong PM senses are
of no use)
-Coach Manjeet
"As you checked in we sent you an email to join our online communities, events, and to apply for product management jobs. As members of the Product School community we'd like to provide you with these resources at your disposal."
Quick overview of my last 10 years and progress in to product management.
GPM at ServiceNow, Working on core revenue generating products.
Before that I was at HP as PM and engineer as startup.
There are many diagrams to explain what Product sense is.
If you search you will find 100K responses.
This is one good way to look at it.
Why health sense - because this is the most commonly ignored sense.
-Also known as Product Intuition, Spidey-sense or Product Judgement
-Ability to make correct decisions even when faced with considerable ambiguity
Empathy. This is the ability to simulate the mental processes of multiple different types of personas that are nothing like you. To be able to say well, in this situation, this type of user is going to react in this manner. Or to say our partners are going to react in that manner, or even our competitors are going to perceive this move in that way. To be able to really do that well is one key element of product sense.
Value = benefit to others.
ServiceNow example
Problem finding or problem definition: problem statements, hypotheses, and riskiest assumption tests.
Stay Hyper focused on Creating, Delivering and Maximizing the value from your product.
To understand and solve a real customer problem, To reduce uncertainty that the product will succeed, To drive sustainable business growth
Exercises: Google Docs, Slack, Airbnb
Problem finding, thus, isn't just a valuable product management skill - it is an incredibly valuable career and life skill.
To understand and solve a real customer problem, To reduce uncertainty that the product will succeed, To drive sustainable business growth
By routinely analyzing other apps, you’ll develop your product thinking and get better at designing apps yourself.
What did we like and enjoy about this product? What “wowed” us?
What questions and doubts do we have?
What other, broader observations did we make?
What can we take away from this experience for Yammer?
The placeholder text in the search bar could have just said “Search here” but instead they mention a specific city. Though I have no intention of going to London, seeing the possibility of it is exciting.
I wonder how many iterations they tried with Dates and Guests only being visible at a later point in the flow. I’m sure many designs have gone through explorations where the Dates aren’t presented until you select a location. This makes me curious about how people search and when they introduce filters to their searches.
Form your own opinion on how their design helps or hinders them in achieving their goals.
Don’t take their reviews as the truth though, remember that they might have bad product sense and might be asking for bad features or misunderstanding the goals.
Use a lot of products and pay attention to how they work. What they’re doing that’s new or common or unique.
https://medium.com/we-are-yammer/product-teardowns-at-yammer-e2c4d5f0e2ff
Write a bunch of products from lots of different categories on separate cards
Pull out 2 cards at a time and brainstorm ways that ideas from one of those products could be applied to the other. For example, Yelp has an active map where you can zoom in and redo a search… Maybe WebMD could make a zoomable map of the human body to search for symptoms.
When you don’t have product-market fit — don’t polish”
🚦 Acting from your gut instead of research.
🏃 Jumping right in to building what you think is right.
It’s really easy to waste a ton of time building out the wrong features
Spend less time on the feed, more time on the search box.
It’s easy to blame the digital world for our distractions, but in part it’s up to us to learn not only when to tune it out, but also how to use it wisely.