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"A research team without a strategy and prioritization quickly falls into busywork." - Nikki Anderson, MA 🔍 Discover how to align research goals with organizational objectives, prioritize effectively, and track impact over time. Check out the insightful guide by Nikki Anderson-Stanier on UX Collective: https://lnkd.in/dUNsR3RY? #UserResearch #UXStrategy #ImpactfulInsights

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Documenting product requirements isn't just a step in the process—it's a critical component of successful product development. If you're a product manager striving for excellence, this article is a must-read. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to effectively document product requirements, offering actionable insights and best practices that every product manager should master. Clear and thorough documentation will enhance team alignment and drive your product's success. 🚀 📖 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eRHDqtj6

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Going to INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in Cleveland today? Don't miss Irrational Labs' own Katie Dove on the main stage at 3:40pm ET! 🎊⏱️🎤 Katie will share behavioral science insights on 3 of the top mistakes in personalization that products make—and strategies for creating experiences that truly resonate with users. 📈 Can’t make it? Follow Katie and stay tuned for key takeaways and recaps. 📣 #INDUSTRYConf #ProductManagement #BehavioralScience #personalization #ProductDesign

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🎉 Join our free training: "How Design Sprints Solve the Biggest Product Manager Challenges" with John Vetan! 🚀 Come learn how #designsprints can help align your team, boost collaboration, and quickly bring your ideas to life. It's perfect for anyone in product management looking for practical methods to tackle challenges and create impactful solutions. Don't miss out—sign up now and take your skills to the next level! 🙌 https://lnkd.in/eiTtubuq #innovation #discovery #productmanagement

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NEW EPISODE 📢 Kevin Gentry chats with the amazing ✨Jason Fraser✨, a well-known author and advisor, about his journey from linguistics to product management. Grab your cup of ☕️ and listen now! #podcast #productmanager #productmanagement

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UX vs CX: Understanding the Role in Business Strategy In the latest episode of Pulse by Intuji, Julian Wallis and Cory Lebson, Principal of Lebsontech LLC, discuss how UX research integrates into business strategy and the differences between user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX). Cory explains that UX is often product-focused, with a qualitative approach that aims to understand how people interact with a company's products. On the other hand, CX encompasses the full scope of customer interactions, including service design and the overall journey with the brand. "UX is often more focused on the product... whereas CX includes service design and looks at the entirety of the experience," Cory shares. While both are vital, UX research tends to lean more towards qualitative insights, whereas CX can also involve quantitative methods. The episode highlights how businesses can align UX and CX strategies to create cohesive, customer-focused experiences that drive success. 🎧 Want to hear more insights from this episode? Catch it on Pulse by Intuji and other platforms: ➕ YouTube - https://buff.ly/4cB1E4N ➕ Spotify - https://buff.ly/3J3MQxV ➕ Apple Podcasts - https://buff.ly/4cCnRiZ ➕ Deezer - https://buff.ly/3J3MQOr Stay connected: 👉 LinkedIn - https://buff.ly/3R0fVik 👉 YouTube - https://buff.ly/4cB1E4N 👉 TikTok - https://buff.ly/4aIF3S9 👉 Instagram - https://buff.ly/4bWe85F 👉 X/Twitter - https://buff.ly/3J3MQ0T 👉 Website - https://buff.ly/4aIF3l7 #UX #CX #UserExperience #CustomerExperience #BusinessStrategy #PulseByIntuji

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Mastering Communication Skills as an aspiring Product Manager: A Path to Success By mastering the communication skills, aspiring product managers can build strong relationships, drive successful product launches, and advance their careers in product management. Consider these... 1. Active Listening: Actively listen to stakeholders, customers, and team members to understand their needs and concerns. Example: During meetings, focus on the speaker without interrupting, ask clarifying questions, and summarize key points to demonstrate understanding. 2. Clear and Concise Communication: Practice conveying complex ideas in simple, understandable terms. Example: When presenting project updates, use visual aids like charts or diagrams to clarify concepts and avoid jargon to ensure everyone is on the same page. 3. Effective Written Communication: Develop the ability to write clear and persuasive emails, reports, and product documentation. Example: Draft concise emails with a clear call to action, ensuring all necessary information is included and the message is easily understood by recipients. 4. Empathy and Emotional Intelligence: Cultivate empathy to understand different perspectives and emotional intelligence to navigate challenging situations. Example: When receiving feedback, acknowledge others' viewpoints and express gratitude for their input, even if it's critical. 5. Negotiation and Influencing Skills: Learn to negotiate with stakeholders and influence decision-making processes. Example: When discussing feature priorities with the development team, use data and user feedback to support your arguments and find win-win solutions. 6. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to drive product success. Example: Schedule regular meetings with team members from different departments to align goals and priorities, fostering a collaborative environment. 7. Feedback Loop Seek and provide constructive feedback to continuously improve communication skills. Example: Request feedback from mentors or supervisors on presentations or written communication, and actively incorporate suggestions for improvement. #ProductManagement #CommunicationSkills #CareerDevelopment

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How do you enable everyone who wants to do product discovery to effectively run their own research? 🤔 Allison Hall shared during our External Panel Launch Party that Rally’s email and study templates help unlock research for folks outside the Research org: product managers, designers, product marketing, and more. 🔐 Templates help to streamline and speed up the study building process so that anyone can run their own research while maintaining the consistency that your participants expect. Share our recruitment best practices guide with your non-researchers to make study building even easier, linked below. 👇 #productdiscovery #research #researchops #reops #researcher #userresearch #uxr #ux #researchoperations #uxresearch #researchrecruitment

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🌟 Master Ethical Product Management! 🌟 Explore essential practices for integrating ethics in product development in our latest article, "Ethics in Product Management: Best Practices." Learn how to uphold integrity while driving success. 📖 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/erWkX4Wq #ProductManagement #Ethics #DataSecurity #UserPrivacy

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Four principles for effective solutions to reduce research waste in product development: There’s a wide variety of experiments that you might run to get more value from customer insights. Everything from a new type of workshop to consolidate research, to a new metadata standard, to a new type of recurring reporting – and anywhere in between. Any effective solution for activating research wealth will represent one or more of these common principles: 1️⃣ Durability 2️⃣ Adaptability  3️⃣ Connectivity 4️⃣ Visibility … A bit more on each: 1️⃣ Durability is about your research knowledge having saying power. Customer insights are wasted when people believe that any and all research learning becomes obsolete quickly. > Following this principle, your researchers can take a longer view on the shelf life of insights, creating enduring mechanisms to manage what’s still relevant. You can shape your collected research knowledge with a long-term, legacy mindset. 2️⃣ Adaptability is about the ways that research can be tailored to fit the particulars of your organization’s structure and ways of working. A one-size-fits-all approach won't be as effective at reducing research waste. There are many ways to break apart and pull together research learning in order to match your planning environment. > Following this principle, you can tailor your waste-reduction efforts to your organization's unique culture and the types of impacts that your community wants to see. 3️⃣ Connectivity is about building useful networks within and between your community’s research outputs. Isolated insights become waste. Qualitative and quantitative, generative and evaluative, one-time and continuous sources – different stripes of research inquiry are at their best when they’re united. Connected research knowledge can then be traced forward into your colleagues' work to envision, define, design, and implement what’s next. > Following this principle, you can forge meaningful links among your collective research knowledge, learners, and product development practices. 4️⃣ Visibility is about ensuring that your community’s research remains an ongoing part of internal conversations. Research is wasted when it's not seen. Exposure can be narrowly focused dialogs, wider broadcasts, or anything in between. It can be a series of one time touch points, but often benefits from becoming a repeated stream of planned messaging. > Following this principle, you can push mindshare and presence of essential insights, the research community that generated them, and the launched wins they enabled. … Much more to come in forthcoming ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media. Email update link below… #research #researchops #productops #designops #UX #marketresearch #datascience #productmanagement

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Networking's an invaluable skill whether or not you're a product manager. Check out our latest blog at: https://lnkd.in/gdy3n4-M #productmanagement #productmanagementlife #productmanagement101 #productmanagementtips #productmanagementcoach #productmanager #productmanagers #productmanagerlife #productmanagerproblems #productmanagerjobs #productmanagerslife #networking #networkingopportunity #expandyournetwork

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When teaching product managers to newcomers and novices, where do you start? This topic is one of my favorites because I've been training product managers for a decade now. I love applying my discovery skills to the educational experience itself. And I recently got a chance to do so, as Product Science Group is just wrapping up a 10-week private course on Product Management Fundamentals for an enterprise client. Shout out to Greg Fraser, Alex Vaughn, and Dina Levitan for their contributions to the course! So in honor of that, this newsletter is all about the foundations. We've got articles from Saeed K., Adam Thomas, Marty Cagan, and Shreyas Doshi, and a brief reflection on Agile 2024. Link is in the comments. Feel free to DM me to be added to the newsletter list!

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