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API as Product: Prioritizing Developer Experience from Concept to Delivery

APIs have become pivotal products in the digital economy.
API providers must prioritize the Developer Experience (Dev-X) as a core pillar of their strategy.
To succeed, API providers must focus on technical support, exceptional documentation, and client-focused project support.
Treating APIs as products requires a holistic approach that spans the entire lifecycle, from design to maintenance.

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A product manager’s 24 reflections on 2024

2024 felt like another transformative year for product management.
AI continues to operate in the emotional space between pure excitement and existential dread.
There is a responsibility to act morally and humanely with advanced technology.
Reasoning models struggle to navigate unreasonable scenarios.

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The Proof of Psychological Stunt

Ecommerce websites often use social proof techniques, such as displaying 'bestseller' or 'only 1 left' to entice buyers.
Media plays a significant role in implementing social proof by creating a fear of missing out (FOMO) and peer pressure.
User testimonials, such as Amazon, Google, or Facebook reviews, can influence consumers to try a product.
Brands showcase their success through milestones like app downloads, social media followers, and anniversaries to build trust.

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Four essentials of design system and product success

A successful product is often driven by an organization's structure and culture that determines its success.
The product operating model plays a vital role in successful organizations in the modern tech space.
A product model is more of an idea based on a collection of principles like experimentation, prioritizing innovation over predictability, etc.
Product vision is the context of the design system; without it, design system is a guess on how it serves a purpose.
Planning for a future you hope will exist is not the same as planning for the reality of how the product is being used.
A principle of a product model is creating teams that stay together and work better for understanding their workflow.
Being vulnerable and real with each other is part of what strengthens interpersonal bonds and team performance.
The vulnerability needed for innovation is the kind that allows us to fail and then try again with new lessons in hand.
Product failure can be an existential threat to your organization. Hence, every company should maintain a culture of competition for better innovation and quality.
Accepting the reality and being vulnerable enough to ask 'what if' can help build a design system and product that people love.

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Combining Lean Coffee with Timeline Mapping: A Hybrid Approach to Sprint Retrospectives in Scrum In…

Combining Lean Coffee and Timeline Mapping offers Scrum teams a structured yet adaptable approach to retrospectives.
It allows them to reflect on their sprint progress within the context of their timeline while ensuring discussions are focused, efficient, and actionable.
Scrum teams benefit from enhanced context for discussions, alignment with Scrum's purposefully incomplete structure, better focus and efficiency, clear, actionable outcomes, increased collaboration, and visual transparency.
However, there are challenges such as the time and effort required to set up the timeline, overcomplicating the discussion, potential slowdown in pace, and decision fatigue.

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The Journey

Before starting to code, it is important to validate your idea.
Founders can build initial prototypes to gain insights into the viability of the idea.
Prototypes should focus on areas with the most ambiguity to test the value of the product.
Involving specialists in a second prototype can further elaborate on the idea.

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Automated OTC trading now available on Kraken Custody

Kraken Custody now offers automated OTC trading for institutional clients.
Institutional clients can store, manage, transfer, and trade directly within Kraken Custody.
Kraken Custody's integrated experience allows institutions to execute quickly and scale strategies.
Clients can access secure digital asset storage and automated OTC trading in a single interface.

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TALKING KIDS BOOKS On 100s of Children’s Niches, Styles & Languages in Just 60 Seconds!

Creating a personalized kids' book has never been easier or faster.
The AI app allows users to generate talking books in just 60 seconds.
Users can choose from hundreds of children’s niches, pick a visual style, and select the language.
The app offers interactive experiences, narration and audio, multilingual support, personalization, and quick creation.

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Applying the Product Operating Model in Practice: A Professional Product Management Approach.

The Product Operating Model is often referred to as Professional Product Management.
A profession is a type of work with a shared mission, specialized skills, knowledge, experiences, and values.
Professional Product Management aims to achieve product success by delivering valuable, viable, usable, desirable, and feasible products.
The Professional Product Management Skills Framework has been developed to enable the practice of professional product management.
Product management is often treated as project management, in which managing the team, project, budget, timelines, and delivery of outputs seem to be the core job.
To drive meaningful change, product professionals need to focus on problems and opportunities, not delivery.
Professional product management aims to establish visions, strategies, outcome-oriented roadmaps, value dashboards, and product analytics.
Despite the growth of the product management community, many practitioners and organizations still operate without the professionalism that this field deserves.
Implementing Professional Product Management can enable product managers to focus on outcomes and results rather than actions and outputs.
Embracing Professional Product Management is key to driving meaningful change and elevating the profession of product management.

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The Professional Product Management™ Process Framework

The Professional Product Management™ Process Framework covers the core product management processes.
Product management is a continuous effort, moving back and forth through the various core processes.
Product professionals work with different stakeholders and collaborate to achieve success.
The core product management processes include Product Discovery, Product Development, Product Launch, and Product Maintenance.

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A Guide to Identifying Products and Services in Your Organization

Understanding what constitutes a product is crucial for various stakeholders within an organization.
To assist with this, I recommend using the ‘5 P’s of Product’ framework.
A product should solve a valuable customer, user, and/or societal problem in a usable and desirable way that is viable and feasible for the organization.
Defining and identifying products within your organization is a critical step for any product manager or professional in the field.

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A guide to integrated product teams

Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) bring together experts from various fields to collaborate on product development from conception to launch.
IPTs break down communication barriers favoring open communication and accelerate innovation through collaboration that leads to cohesive and successful products.
IPTs include roles like product manager, developer, UX and UI designers, business analysts, quality assurance analysts amongst others.
The product managers act as a team anchor shaping the product by greenlighting and issuing all the work that needs to happen to make the full release.
UX and UI designers enhance customer satisfaction, user experience, and adoption rates by ensuring the product is user-friendly and coherent.
Data analysts help uncover areas where products could improve and serve better for their customers.
QA analysts increase the overall quality of the product by conducting rigorous testing to identify bugs and issues before and after launch.
An effective IPT includes diverse skills and perspectives and promotes collaboration among teams.
The best practices for Product managers working with IPTs include transparency, equality, letting the team grow, helping everyone work easier, giving credit to the team, and valuing people over short-term gains.
IPTs create a situation where everyone eventually wins by caring about the mental health of team members and working towards a common goal.

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What’s happened to Spotify Wrapped?

This year marks ten years of Spotify Wrapped.
Since it began, Wrapped has paved the way for end-of-year summaries in top products like Duolingo, Strava, Monzo, Twitch, Apple Music, Depop, and Reddit.
The campaign drove 60 million shares of their graphics in 2021 and saw 120 million users engaging with the feature in 2022.
Wrapped used to be fun, creative, and cool with unique features like Genre Burger, Listening Personality, and Audio Auras.

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Airbnb’s Expansion into Experiences: Market Research Case Study

Airbnb recognized the trend of modern travelers seeking immersion and cultural connection, leading to the launch of 'Experiences' in 2016.
The platform allows locals to offer unique activities, broadening Airbnb's market beyond accommodation.
Airbnb utilized market research techniques like SWOT analysis, Porter's Five Forces, and Voice of the Customer to drive their strategy.
'Experiences' became a successful addition, diversifying Airbnb's offerings and establishing the brand as a holistic travel service provider.

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The Curse of the Blockbuster

The Curse of the Blockbuster
The Curse of the Blockbuster makes everything else seem inferior.
Blockbusters have set high expectations for consumers.
Smaller businesses can focus on their unique offerings and create a memorable experience.

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