Main takeaways:
*Understanding the basic UX design process
*Establishing shared mental models and processes for engagement
*Practical tips for PMs to craft great products collaboratively with UX designers
Lean Product Development using Design ThinkingAgedo GmbH
How to face uncertainty in the product development process using a lean design approach. Build products that matter, that your customers need and want and all of that in less time at lower costs. Substitute assumptions with facts and progress in fast iterations, without forgetting about the "joy of use" of your product.
Would you like to be able to increase the adoption rate of your product? In this session, we will introduce you to cutting edge concepts and techniques to shift your product development process from output to outcome driven. We will combine elements of Lean Startup, Product Discovery, and Experiment Driven Development to accelerate learning to quickly build products customer love.
When building a product roadmap, a number of strategic business and design concepts need to be considered in order to maintain a product that responds to both the user and business' objectives. This presentation outlines some of the key concepts and an example of a product planning process
Lean Product Development using Design ThinkingAgedo GmbH
How to face uncertainty in the product development process using a lean design approach. Build products that matter, that your customers need and want and all of that in less time at lower costs. Substitute assumptions with facts and progress in fast iterations, without forgetting about the "joy of use" of your product.
Would you like to be able to increase the adoption rate of your product? In this session, we will introduce you to cutting edge concepts and techniques to shift your product development process from output to outcome driven. We will combine elements of Lean Startup, Product Discovery, and Experiment Driven Development to accelerate learning to quickly build products customer love.
When building a product roadmap, a number of strategic business and design concepts need to be considered in order to maintain a product that responds to both the user and business' objectives. This presentation outlines some of the key concepts and an example of a product planning process
What the heck is a product owner?
What's this Product Owner role, what do teams expect of Product Owners, what do Execs expect, what defines success, and where do Product Owners fit within product management?
Presenter: Ron Lichty
Ron Lichty has been managing software development and product organizations for 30 years at companies of all sizes, the most recent 15 years as a VP Engineering and VP Product. He is the author of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. He advises and coaches business, product and engineering leaders how to make their software development "hum". http://www.ronlichty.com
7 Prioritization Techniques for Product ManagersProductPlan
As a product manager, how do you balance dozens of feature requests from countless teams in your organization? Without a mechanism in place to keep track of the noise, prioritization is nearly impossible. But fear not! Here are 7 time-tested prioritization techniques for product managers.
Product Management 101: #1 How To Create Products Customer Love.Jean-Yves SIMON
An introduction to Product Management, for people involved in technology or software companies. Mainly aimed at evangelizing the role and responsibilities across an organization.
This is the #1 presentation out of a serie of 10 sessions.
Special thanks to Marty Cagan @ SVPG for the title :)
So the purpose of product discovery is to make sure we have some evidence that when we ask the engineers to build production-quality software, it won’t be a wasted effort.
"Escaping the Build Trap" by Melissa PerriProductized
Many large companies that have been around for decades, or even newer startups that have found some stability, fall into a dangerous place called “The Build Trap”.
In this PRODUCTIZED keynote, Melissa Perri explains how businesses need to restructure their thinking to focus on finding value for the user through experimentation to achieve business goals: getting out of “The Build Trap”
Teresa Torres - An introduction to modern product discovery - Productized16Productized
The world of product management is changing quickly. In the past five years alone, we’ve seen the rise of The Lean Startup, design thinking, the Jobs-to-be-done framework, design sprints, OKRs, and much more. It can be hard for product teams to keep up. In this talk, you’ll learn a simple framework for how to make sense of all of these trends. You’ll learn how to mix and match methods in a way that leads to a coherent strategy that leads to better products.
Teresa is a product coach helping teams adopt user-centered, hypothesis-driven product development practices, and is the creator of Product Talk. She works with companies of all sizes on integrating user research, experimentation, and the right analytics into the product development process resulting in better product decisions.
"Jobs-To-Be-Done" is a marketing framework to help you better understand what is the real motivation for your buyer to choose your product.
Use this canvas to create a "Customer Journey" story which can lead to a better definition of your Value Proposition.
(c)2020 Davender Gupta. All rights reserved.
Permission to use with full attribution
rev 1 - 10-Mar-2020
davender@davender.com
http://thescaleupproject.com
Tips for Building a Compelling Product Vision by Amazon Sr PMProduct School
- The key elements of a compelling product vision, what’s important and what’s not
- How to come up with a compelling product vision without relying on luck or magic
- How to use a product vision as a mechanism to guide your team
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.
This is another game that I have had great fun playing and also thought me an my clients a great deal. I use it as staple for all my intros to Lean and agile.
The goal of the game is to move 20 coins through a series of process step (aka players). Each player flips the coins once before it can be passed over.
The game shows very effectively how limiting the work in process (WIP) increases the throughput and improves lead times, both for the first coin and the total time for all 20 coins.
If you move through the game slides quickly a nice little animation effect takes place. Watching that actually gave me a new understanding of what Flow means. Compare the first and last iterations and see the coins flow through the process, each step creating value.
If you like this presentation you will find more like this in Kanban In Action (http://bit.ly/theKanbanBook) where we have dedicated a whole chapter on agile games.
Discovering the right product is a vital part of a product development process. To do that effectively best product teams use a Product Discovery process. It answers the question of what product to build. Done right it helps you build products customers would love.
0 to 1- Taking a Concept & Launching an MVP by Wish Product Leader Product School
Key Takeaways:
-Real data from your own users beats any estimation - how to get that as fast as possible
-Getting a sense of scale and reach is very important.
-Experimentation & Iterations - trying lots of variations to test the boundaries
Smooth Collaboration With UX Designers by Zalando Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Understanding the basic UX design process
- Establishing shared mental models and processes for engagement
- Practical tips for PMs to craft great products collaboratively with UX designers
Smooth Collaboration With UX Designers by Zalando Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Understanding the basic UX design process
-Establishing shared mental models and processes for engagement
-Practical tips for PMs to craft great products collaboratively with UX designers
What the heck is a product owner?
What's this Product Owner role, what do teams expect of Product Owners, what do Execs expect, what defines success, and where do Product Owners fit within product management?
Presenter: Ron Lichty
Ron Lichty has been managing software development and product organizations for 30 years at companies of all sizes, the most recent 15 years as a VP Engineering and VP Product. He is the author of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. He advises and coaches business, product and engineering leaders how to make their software development "hum". http://www.ronlichty.com
7 Prioritization Techniques for Product ManagersProductPlan
As a product manager, how do you balance dozens of feature requests from countless teams in your organization? Without a mechanism in place to keep track of the noise, prioritization is nearly impossible. But fear not! Here are 7 time-tested prioritization techniques for product managers.
Product Management 101: #1 How To Create Products Customer Love.Jean-Yves SIMON
An introduction to Product Management, for people involved in technology or software companies. Mainly aimed at evangelizing the role and responsibilities across an organization.
This is the #1 presentation out of a serie of 10 sessions.
Special thanks to Marty Cagan @ SVPG for the title :)
So the purpose of product discovery is to make sure we have some evidence that when we ask the engineers to build production-quality software, it won’t be a wasted effort.
"Escaping the Build Trap" by Melissa PerriProductized
Many large companies that have been around for decades, or even newer startups that have found some stability, fall into a dangerous place called “The Build Trap”.
In this PRODUCTIZED keynote, Melissa Perri explains how businesses need to restructure their thinking to focus on finding value for the user through experimentation to achieve business goals: getting out of “The Build Trap”
Teresa Torres - An introduction to modern product discovery - Productized16Productized
The world of product management is changing quickly. In the past five years alone, we’ve seen the rise of The Lean Startup, design thinking, the Jobs-to-be-done framework, design sprints, OKRs, and much more. It can be hard for product teams to keep up. In this talk, you’ll learn a simple framework for how to make sense of all of these trends. You’ll learn how to mix and match methods in a way that leads to a coherent strategy that leads to better products.
Teresa is a product coach helping teams adopt user-centered, hypothesis-driven product development practices, and is the creator of Product Talk. She works with companies of all sizes on integrating user research, experimentation, and the right analytics into the product development process resulting in better product decisions.
"Jobs-To-Be-Done" is a marketing framework to help you better understand what is the real motivation for your buyer to choose your product.
Use this canvas to create a "Customer Journey" story which can lead to a better definition of your Value Proposition.
(c)2020 Davender Gupta. All rights reserved.
Permission to use with full attribution
rev 1 - 10-Mar-2020
davender@davender.com
http://thescaleupproject.com
Tips for Building a Compelling Product Vision by Amazon Sr PMProduct School
- The key elements of a compelling product vision, what’s important and what’s not
- How to come up with a compelling product vision without relying on luck or magic
- How to use a product vision as a mechanism to guide your team
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.
This is another game that I have had great fun playing and also thought me an my clients a great deal. I use it as staple for all my intros to Lean and agile.
The goal of the game is to move 20 coins through a series of process step (aka players). Each player flips the coins once before it can be passed over.
The game shows very effectively how limiting the work in process (WIP) increases the throughput and improves lead times, both for the first coin and the total time for all 20 coins.
If you move through the game slides quickly a nice little animation effect takes place. Watching that actually gave me a new understanding of what Flow means. Compare the first and last iterations and see the coins flow through the process, each step creating value.
If you like this presentation you will find more like this in Kanban In Action (http://bit.ly/theKanbanBook) where we have dedicated a whole chapter on agile games.
Discovering the right product is a vital part of a product development process. To do that effectively best product teams use a Product Discovery process. It answers the question of what product to build. Done right it helps you build products customers would love.
0 to 1- Taking a Concept & Launching an MVP by Wish Product Leader Product School
Key Takeaways:
-Real data from your own users beats any estimation - how to get that as fast as possible
-Getting a sense of scale and reach is very important.
-Experimentation & Iterations - trying lots of variations to test the boundaries
Smooth Collaboration With UX Designers by Zalando Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Understanding the basic UX design process
- Establishing shared mental models and processes for engagement
- Practical tips for PMs to craft great products collaboratively with UX designers
Smooth Collaboration With UX Designers by Zalando Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Understanding the basic UX design process
-Establishing shared mental models and processes for engagement
-Practical tips for PMs to craft great products collaboratively with UX designers
Product Management 101: Techniques for SuccessMatterport
This is a snapshot from a living document. To see the current document, please go to https://goo.gl/yFFrml.
Topics covered include:
- Resources
- General Overview
- The Role of Product Management
- Characteristics of Great Project and Product Managers
- Problem Space and Solution Space
- Customer Personas
- User Stories
- Product Documentation
- Agile Product Development
- Succeeding with Agile from The Lean Playbook
- Analytics, Customer Engagement, & Monetization
- Pricing Strategies
- Overall Leadership and Organizational Development
- Final Guidelines and Recommendations
Topic: UI/UX DESIGN IN AGILE PROCESS
Why do we integrate design into our Agile process?
As we all know, the Agile Manifesto is well-received and successfully adopted as it is today thanks to the 12 underpinning principles. While “good design” is one main reason that “enhances agility”, “Agile processes promote sustainable development”.
At Axon Active, it’s important for us to do everything Agile and work with one another collaboratively in Collaboration Model. It gets people on the same page, makes everyone engage more with the product, encourages them to share more creative ideas, and gives them the flexibility they need to improve themselves.
Indeed, Designers and Developers can collaborate more closely and effectively, and subsequently integrating design into Agile process will yield numerous benefits.
For that reason, Scrum Breakfast Da Nang this October will be the very chance for you to learn:
• How to successfully integrate design into Agile process in practice
• How different Collaboration Model is from traditional model
• The benefits of Collaboration Model when done correctly
Scoping your next release defining and documenting mv psTristan Senycia
Developing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a good way to reduce risk and can help you launch your product quickly with a small budget.
This approach can also allow you to collect users’ feedback for the primary product and include it in the future iterations. The MVP can help you find the right audience, pull the ideas based on experience and save time.
In this session, we will run through how to Scope your Minimum Viable Product, covering
- How to properly document your Product Vision
- Why we need to document your Product Vision accurately
- What to take into account
- Who needs to be involved in the process
- What founders often overlook / mistakes that can be made
- Minimum Viable Process Definition
- Whether or not you are creating an MVP or an MVP candidate
- How your MVP relates to your overarching Go-To-Market Strategy
- Product Concept Testing
This workshop is for pre startups, startups and existing business owners who want to launch develop an idea and or launch new products.
Speaker Profile:
Tristan has had 9 years Product Ownership experience and 4 years of Product Management experience.
Tristan was on the original founding team of YouTeam, a successfully, [originally] London-Based tech startup, which was subsequently backed by Y-Combinator (AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe etc) and u.Ventures.
Prior to this Tristan went through and was funded by Australia’s most prominent accelerator programme, Accelerating Commercialisation, which invested $50k in his first SaaS startup.
Watch recordings of engaging talks, like my recent guest lecture at Vellore Institute of Technology, where I covered Interaction Design models, Interfaces, and the impact of AI on UX research and UI designing. Join me as we explore the fascinating world of design and technology, and discover how they intersect to create innovative and user-centric solutions.
Lecture recording YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdMV7Z-oAtk
I covered following topics-
* Interaction Design
Design Models - Cooper's Goal-Directed Design & Double Diamond model
Types of Interfaces - GUI, Voice, Gesture-Based Interfaces & Zero UI interfaces
How Ai is helping a UI/UX designer?
UX/UI & Ai -
Chat GPT - For user research, copywriting, user flow & persona creation
Mid Journey & Firefly for image creations
Musho.ai for quick landing page
Other tools - Font Joy & Font Pair, color.adobe.com, uizard.io
Video Ai - Text to video, Image to video & Video to video
"Ai will not replace you, but the person using AI will…"
Designing User-Centered Digital Experiences
Explore the process of designing intuitive and engaging digital experiences during this presentation. From conducting thorough research and analysis to understand user needs and business goals, to creating wireframes, prototypes, and final interfaces, this process is designed to create user-centered solutions. Learn how a focus on the user drives each step and leads to successful digital products.
Building & launching mobile & digital productsAnurag Jain
These slides are an introduction to Product Management for building & launching mobile & digital products for consumers. It covers the basics of Product Management as well as gives an overview of the Product Management process and a practical, iterative approach to building products.
The challenge of product managers at most times is to have an objective and mathematical way to decide which product ideas to bet upon and reject "good ideas" against the "better" ones. Such things can be driven by ego or emotions, more so if you have cross-functional teams and owners. You ought to be at the top of your game and follow a rigorous process to ensure that you decide based on data.
SUMMARY
“Our job, says Amazon CEO Bezos, is to invent new options that nobody’s ever thought of before and see if customers like them.”
The World’s Most Innovative Company - Fast Company March 2017
Deloitte and Touche found that customer-centric companies were 60% more profitable compared to companies that were not focused on the customer. Having a strong company wide customer focus is more important than being agile alone to create high-performance design. Learn how to keep the customers needs, emotions and behavioral actions at the center of every design to generate the most value. Harvesting insights from feedback and driving them back into the customer experience with speed at scale makes a company innovative and agile.
Understanding the mindset driving this way of working is the key to creating high-performance design. Embodying this mindset will give you the power to create a customer-centric culture where you are free to rapidly test and ship your most innovative ideas daily, ultimately delivering more value to your customers sooner.
AT THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Describe a customer-centric design process.
Outline and identify your customer feedback learning loop at every step of the design and product development process to drive continuous innovation, optimization and value.
Explain and embody the mindset that drives the culture, team, process, tools and technology choices required to build this customer-centric future.
Only 20% of innovation management suitable for digitalization. Find out what key success factors drive those disciplines and what tools are possible options.
The case dives deeper into digital idea management (the tool shown live is viima) and InnoSurvey, a 360 degree innovation assessment built on proven metrics.
Slides are from a lecture on Digital Industry (Certificate of Advanced Studies at FHNW).
The lecture is min. 1 hr plus practical parts provided as preparation or exercises. Get German language support and more material here: https://www.sensaco.com/digital-innovation-management/
The Art of Product Management by 23andMe Senior Product ManagerProduct School
Product management is a fascinating and broad area that encompasses vision, strategy, design and execution. This presentation provided an overview of various aspects of product management from understanding the market, the competition, the user, defining the MVP, designing and building the product leading up to successful launch.
Venkatesh Balan, Senior Product Manager at 23andMe, talked about how after the launch, the role of the Product Manager continues in evolving the product, monetizing, growing the users and revenue. Not to mention, the Product Manager also works with various cross-functional teams while using influence, inspiration and soft skills.
Presented 5/11/17 @LOCO_UX by @jkooda of @liminaUX
This talk covers the anatomy of a UX Eval, how to use it as a business development tool, and how to ensure you have a logical and most importantly beneficial return on your client's investment.
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.
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.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
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
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
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.
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6. JOURNEY SO FAR..
Voonik Technologies
Product Manager - Promotions
India
Kadence International
Customer Behavior Analyst
Middle East
Blibli.com
Director Marketplace Product
Indonesia
Zalando
Senior PM, - Category Exp.
Germany
7. A PM’s guide to
Smooth Collaboration with Product Designers
A WEBINAR BY : SUJEET JOSE
8. OUR TWIN PURPOSES
Ensure Organizational and
Product Objectives are achieved
Maintain Team Morale and
Motivation
Collaborative mindset
needed between the three
legs of process – Product,
Design, Tech
So, Why
is this webinar
necessary
again??
9. PM AND UX DESIGNER
UX designers are from
Product Managers are from
&
Metrics
Stakeholder Management
Business objectives
Process setting
Customer Experience
Remarkable overall user journey
Appealing visual design
Consistency
10. This webinar is to provide practical tips on:
How can we collaborate to create kick-ass products?
UX designers are from
Product Managers are from
PRODUCT
‘Technology is relatively easy, it’s people that are hard’
14. DESIGN
PRODUCT
Define a rough scope of
requirement
DISCOVER PHASE : ROLE DISTRIBUTION
Identify know information about the
business use case/Customer
problems/Business opportunity and
communicate clearly
Identify all relevant stakeholders.
Secure project buy-ins
Identify needed user related
knowledge areas
Create research brief
Identify correct competitors for evaluation
Create a basic game-plan of the project along with
engineering team
• Research briefs
• Research/Survey Report
• Workshop entries
Key Deliverables:
• Customer Journey maps
• Empathy Maps
• Competitor mapping
15. PROCESS
DISCOVER PHASE : TIPS FOR PMs
§ Keep an open mind about
requirements and do not
pre-judge or assume
customer needs/opinions
§ Ensure biases such as
Hippo, technology
limitations, industry
restrictions are kept away
from the initial discovery
process
§ Pay attention to the initial
framing of problem- not too
limited and not too open for
interpretation
§ Prioritize Discovery
research before validation
research
§ Set realistic expectations
about timelines, resources
etc. with management
§ Consider mechanisms such
as Guerilla research,
targeting selected (extreme)
personas for research etc. to
save time.
§ Understand that discovery
is a continuous process and
not all insights will be
generated in the first round
of research.
§ Use visual mediums like
story-maps, empathy-maps
or knowledge-maps force to
get more concrete, more
specific and aid in creating a
shared understanding.
ATTITUDE
16.
17. DESIGN
PRODUCT
Create and communicate vision of success
and relation to key KPIs
Identify all relevant tech, non-tech
stakeholders
Provide transparency about prioritization,
objectives, constraints, approvals needed
upfront
Define the scope and rough timelines of
the project along with project manager
based on the knowledge in hand
• Press Release
• Concept paper
• PRD
Key Deliverables:
Support to create vision
Clarify and reclarify the vision and scope
Involve and communicate to all relevant
teams such as Visual designers when
needed
DEFINE PHASE : ROLE DISTRIBUTION
18. PROCESS
DEFINE PHASE : TIPS FOR PMs
• Create a clear ( and slightly
unwavering) definition of
customer problem and how
it will affect our business
north-star
• Look at short term medium
term and long-term vision of
the product. Create a metric
to be optimized through the
feature and stick to it.
• Remember to get upper
management buy-in at this
stage of the process
§ Consider the end-to-end
journey and drawing parallels
with physical worlds really help
here
§ Utilize customer language to
communicate vision to UX
designers*
§ Mention obvious constraints
on our side while defining the
problem – money, expected
scale, technological risk,
security risks etc.
§ Prioritize if there are more
than two objectives for the
same project
ATTITUDE
19. DESIGN
PRODUCT
DESIGN PHASE : ROLE DISTRIBUTION
Provide helpful inputs in meetings such as
ideation workshops, design reviews etc.
Assist in evaluating between competing
designs based on input from customer
experience knowledge or business
knowledge
Help to obtain alignment from relevant
stakeholders when needed
• Low Fidelity designs
• High Fidelity designs
• Design review sign-offs
Key Deliverables:
Design and coordinate the process of
design including organizing and facilitating
necessary meetings such as alignment
sessions, workshops etc.
Create Conceptual design, information
architecture, interaction design, visual
design and copy ( including translations)
Keep the product ( and management)
informed about the key decisions being
made – Preferably displaying progress from
low fidelity to high fidelity prototyping
• Prototypes
• Concept testing research results
22. PROCESS
DESIGN PHASE : TIPS FOR PMs
§ Be a part of providing the safe
space for creativity to foster
§ Avoid limiting ideas in the
initial phase of the design
process as initial exploration
would be wild and move in
different directions
§ Gate scope gently at the later
stages while selecting the
right ideas, if needed. Use
objective criteria such as
metrics, principles, key
objectives for doing so
§ Know and use the key
terminologies used by
designers to be involved in
the process as much as
possible.
§ Accommodate for processes like
Design testing, Visual Design,
copywriting, translations while
deciding on timelines
§ Engage in discussions with UX
designers and engineers to
effectively phase out the
remarkable experiences
envisioned by UX designers as per
technical capacities.
§ Understand the stage of design
review currently on-going
(early/mid/late) and provide
feedback accordingly.
§ Obtain stakeholder buy-ins on
the vision & features by hosting
workshops or product seminars
ATTITUDE
25. CASE STUDY
User Persona
Company & Product
is a European fashion ecommerce players with over 4000 brands
and 42 million active customers in 17 markets.
Outfits program is a program to recommend useful outfits/combination of outfits
based on an AI powered recommendation tool
“It’s frustrating to
combine different outfits
into a coherent style that
I can pull off, look fitting
to an occasion, and have
a good price.”
“I don’t shop so much but
whenever I shop, I feel
confused on what to buy.
Would be great if Zalando could
make outfit suggestions based
on my previous orders and my
wish-list.”
Confused Sally
Our customers struggle to combine
clothes that they already own or like with
new items, into meaningful outfits.
Problem statement
26. Information Architecture
Conceptual model An easy journey for the customer to discover
and keep engaging with new styles. The styles
should create trust and be relevant to the
customer. Need to allow customers to wish-
list soon to give relevant recommendations.
Business Objective : High Basket value & High CVR
Entity Attributes
Designer
Followers, Description, Photo Visits,
count, buys , designs etc.
Designs
Wishlists , Visits, source, Partial
buys, Buys
Items
Part of many designs, wishlist ,Size
, Tags, Sale notif, Buys,Visits
Source of visits, Reviews ratings
Size
Stock, Price, Notify Me’s
Pages
Designer page
Design page, Category
page, brand page, Listing
page, Tag page
Recommendations page
Product Detail page
CASE STUDY
27. A TO Z : KEY DRIVERS OF DESIGN
A:
Atomic Design Theory
Accessibility
Affordances
B:
Balance
C:
Consistency
Customer consent
Cognitive Load
Constraints
D:
Discoverability
Design Aesthetic
E:
Ethnographic User study
Empathy maps
Error Prevention & Recovery
F:
Familiarity
Functional Minimalism
Feedback
Fitts’ Law
G:
Gutenberg Diagram
Gestalt Principle
H:
Human Centred design
Heuristic audit
Hierarchy of information
Hook Canvas
I:
Interaction Design
Inductive reasoning
J:
Journey mapping
K: L:
Localization
Learnability and Patterns
M:
Micro interactions
Mood Boards
Mappings
N:
Navigation elements
O: P:
Persona & Archetypes
Prototyping
Platform architecture
Q: R:
Readability
Remote user testing
Recognition Rather than Recall
Rule of thirds
S:
Story Boards/Experience maps
Signifiers
T:
Trust and control
U:
User acceptance testing ( UAT )
V:
Visual Clarity
Visual Design
W:
Wireframing
Widows & orphans
X:
Xplorability
Y:
Yardstick mapping ( competitor
benchmarking)
Z:
Z- and F-Pattern Layouts
28. DESIGN
PRODUCT
DELIVER PHASE : ROLE DISTRIBUTION
Ensure precise communication of
requirements to tech is done
Verify all edge cases of design and copy is
ready for the tech to proceed for
development
Confirm sufficient and effective channels
of communication exist between tech and
design teams for clarifying doubts
• Finalized working solution/prototype
• Demo results
• Launch strategy
Key Deliverables:
Communicate and clarify design
requirements accurately when needed
Testing the final developed design and
comparing it with the Figma or sketch
design provided
Notify the updated design system
components to the UX tool promptly
• Marketing materials
29. PROCESS
ATTITUDE
DELIVER PHASE : TIPS FOR PMs
§ Appreciate and give credit to
the UX designers for their hard
work
§ Protect UX designers from
unnecessary criticism if the
feature does not work as
planned
§ Involve interested tech team
members along with tech lead in
the ideation sessions
§ Ensure that the opinion of front-end
tech team is voiced in a free space
with the designers
§ Provide access to staging
environment to design team and
create a phased testing plan
including designers.
§ Align expectations with difficult
stakeholders before the demo
§ Share marketing materials with
design team as there might be
inconsistency between some of the
design and the materials.
31. CULTURE
§ Assist in propagating the belief that good UX is
everybody’s baby and not only UX designer’s
responsibility.
§ Question. Test. But have a basic trust on designer gut.
§ In case of disagreements, dig for root assumptions & re-
look at the basic product principles . Discuss with
mutual respect on any topic citing relevant data.
§ Foster the attitude of learning from each other,
understanding different points of view, and reaching
solutions together – both on a strategic and on a tactic
level
§ Design is multi-disciplinary and ambiguous field but has
impact on the entire organizations. Ensure your key
business stakeholders understand the role, dynamics
and mechanics of UX to obtain sharp feedback.
32. STRUCTURE & PROCESSES
§ Involve designers ( and engineering
lead) early in process including for
creating product strategy, prioritization
and early business discussions. Keep
the association and role -based
differentiation blurry.
§ Allocate time for your design debts
§ Empower team to decide fast, keeping
the fundamental principles of the
product intact
§ In case of disagreements, dig for root
assumptions & re-look at the basic
product principles . Discuss with mutual
respect on any topic citing relevant
data.
§ Communicate that the process of
development is reasonably flexible.
Evolve the process based on feedback,
best practices, type of project etc.
33. PEOPLE
§ Nurture young designers in team and encourage them
with positive validations. (Designers have imposter
syndrome and confidence crisis sometimes also. )
§ Understand that different designers have different
strengths, seniority and preference of work. Assist in
matching the right strengths to right problems.
§ Present the optimum amount of data to generate interest
and underline decision making depending on the bent of
mind of the designer you are dealing with.
§ Allow for disagreements, but don't let them get personal
since We are not defined only by our work
§ Don’t compete: complement
§ Have Fun - Together!