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How Checklist PRDs Flipped My Product Management at Ketto
- The use of checklists for product requirements documents (PRDs) can significantly improve the product development process.
- Traditional PRD templates can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and complicated. They require meticulous attention to detail, and things can get outdated before any work begins causes more problems.
- Checklist PRDs are an innovative way of addressing this problem.
- A good instance of the use of checklist PRDs can be seen in the use of the Personalized Cause Recommendation Engine.
- The planning phase for the engine was done using a checklist, and this allowed for a more efficient collaboration between team members.
- Checklist PRDs improve flexibility in product development. They facilitate the quick adjustment to changes based on user feedback.
- The use of checklists in PRDs improves communication between teams, allowing marketing teams to participate in the product development process early and contribute ideas.
- The use of checklists in PRDs saves time and energy and results in more robust products.
- Checklist PRDs can make product development more agile and collaborative, leading to more significant impacts.
- Adopting a simple, checklist-based approach to PRDs can revolutionize the product development process.
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3 Missing Links that Are Holding You Back from the Income, Impact, and Influence You Desire
- If you’re feeling stuck in your business or life, it’s not what you are doing that is sabotaging your success, it’s what you’re not doing.
- No matter what you do, no matter how many motivational YouTube videos you watch, if you’re missing any one of the following three “links”, your success will be short lived.
- You cannot do it alone, you need another set of eyes on your business and life to help you identify opportunities you might be missing.
- The best way that I’ve found is simply by spending time with people who think BIG.
- Refuse to settle for anything less than your full potential.
- The ONLY way to permanently raise your standards and increase your level of impact, income, and influence is to create unbreakable accountability systems.
- By implementing these three simple strategies into your daily life I can promise you that you will begin to increase your impact, income, and influence faster than you ever believed possible.
- With outside eyes, higher standards, and unbreakable accountability on your side, it will feel like success is happening “automatically” because you’ve created a life that pulls you towards your dreams instead of a life where you must push yourself forward.
- If you’re tired of being stuck and struggling, want outside eyes, accountability, and a game plan for success, fill out a coaching application.
- You’ll never look back.
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Understanding Hiring Trends With Naukri JobSpeak Report- September 2024
- The Naukri JobSpeak report for September 2024 reveals a 6% YoY growth in hiring activity.
- IT sector shows impressive recovery with 18% YoY growth, driven by AI/ML roles.
- FMCG (+23%) and Oil & Gas (+13%) sectors also exhibit strong hiring growth.
- Emerging job hubs like Bhubaneswar and Udaipur witness significant YoY growth in white-collar hiring.
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35 Congratulation Messages for Achievements (Office Edition)
- Writing a congratulatory message might seem straightforward, but getting it just right can make a world of difference in how the recipient perceives your words.
- Be specific and personalized. Acknowledge the recipient's achievement and express why you're happy for them.
- Avoid using generic phrases. Use positive, enthusiastic language instead and keep your tone sincere.
- Acknowledge the effort, dedication, or challenges they overcame to reach their goal.
- The purpose of your message is to celebrate their moment, so focus on positivity and encouragement rather than guidance.
- Strive for authenticity. Avoid using overly casual language, emojis, or jokes that might not be appropriate in a work setting.
- Double-check the spelling of the recipient's name and make sure you correctly state their achievement. This shows that you truly care about their success.
- The best congratulatory message is one that's sincere, personalized and encourages the person.
- Timing is key when it comes to sending a congratulations message. Aim to send your congratulations as soon as possible after hearing about their success to show that you're genuinely invested in their joy.
- A well-crafted note of congratulations not only strengthens your bond with the individual but also leaves a lasting impression of your support and encouragement.
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THE RISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR JOB AND WORKFORCE DYNAMICS IN ORGANIZATIONS
- AI has a wide range of applications across various industries including robotics, e-commerce, retail, and several other domains.
- AI can lead to job creation, enhance productivity and decision-making, and provide personalized learning.
- However, AI also raises concerns about job displacement and the skills gap.
- Moreover, AI may lead to changes in organizational structure and bias and ethics concerns.
- Preparing for the implications and advancement of AI requires upskilling, fostering a culture of lifelong learning, emphasizing human skills that complement AI, implementing AI responsibly and transparently, and monitoring and addressing potential biases and negative impacts.
- To achieve responsible AI development, ethical frameworks and guidelines, diverse and inclusive teams, transparency and explainability, data quality and bias mitigation, human-centric design, continuous monitoring and evaluation, legal and regulatory frameworks, education and awareness, collaboration and partnerships, and long-term thinking are essential.
- Responsible AI development requires a holistic approach involving technical, ethical, legal, and societal considerations.
- By following these principles, we can create AI systems that benefit humanity while minimizing harm.
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Daniel Saks Predicts Agentic AI Will Empower Individuals and Boost Productivity
- Daniel Saks, CEO and co-founder of Landbase, aims to create a world where technology serves humanity.
- Landbase is a platform designed to help individuals and organizations streamline operations and maximize efficiency.
- The platform utilizes agentic AI to empower users and enhance productivity.
- Saks predicts that agentic AI will be a major market wave, allowing individuals to reclaim their time and do more of what they love.
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Medium’s 50 Most Popular Tags you should be using in your Stories
- When writing on Medium, it is important to find a middle ground between writing about your passions and what is popular.
- Although most of the Top 50 tags on Medium are related to technology, you can still incorporate tech elements into your writing even if it is not your primary niche.
- For example, if you mostly write about psychology, self-improvement, and spirituality, you can write about the future of psychology and incorporate topics such as AI-powered diagnostics, therapies, or augmented and virtual reality.
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8 Web Directories That SaaS Builders and Indie Hackers Need To Check Out 🤑🚀
- Launching a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) product can be daunting, but this article guides you throughout the product lifecycle from generating innovative ideas to mastering marketing strategies. Eight resources are curated to help overcome common challenges in product development.
- Startup Ideas AI lists innovative startup ideas based on current market trends, offering indie hackers fresh ideas and new perspectives to review and decide upon, which saves them from getting stuck in the ideation phase.
- The Hive Index is a directory of online communities that helps founders find relevant groups to share and learn from as they validate their SaaS product idea through communities with people thinking similarly.
- SaaSPO provides curated design inspiration specifically for SaaS products, showcasing creative and modern design templates for landing pages, pricing and contact categories.
- Indie Hacker Stacks offers real-world examples of tech stacks used by successful indie hackers, helping founders streamline their development process by offering proven and tested tech stack combinations.
- BuildKits provides ready-made code boilerplates to accelerate development, allowing indie hackers to save time, focus on business logic and create unique features that differentiate their product in the market.
- AI Directories lists curated launch sites specifically focused on AI and tech products to increase your startup traffic, helping indie hackers gain visibility and attract early adopters.
- Marketing Examples provides real-world marketing examples to help indie hackers craft successful campaigns based on proven real-life strategies, enabling founders to learn how to market their SaaS effectively and stand out from the competition.
- Copywriting Examples offers a collection of high-performing copywriting examples from successful SaaS products and campaigns that help indie hackers refine their own copy to improve conversion rates and engage users more effectively.
- These resources can help create a standout product that resonates with your target audience, whether you're starting a new project or refining an existing one with innovative ideas, supportive communities, modern designs, effective marketing strategies, and improved user engagement.
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Proprietary Excellence
- Proprietary technologies have become one of the most powerful ways tech companies can defend themselves against competition and assert their position as market leader. The technology started life as an internal tool called ABBA which included experimentation capabilities and feature flagging. Confidence helps to assess proposed product decisions and limit the number of incorrect product decisions. Success metrics, guardrail metrics, deterioration metrics, and quality metrics are four types of metrics used by Confidence. Spotify is using this technology to run thousands of concurrent experiments across virtually all parts of its business.
- Pinterest’s Canvas is a text-to-image foundation model for enhancing existing images and products on the platform. The model can transform 2D product images into immersive 3D representations, change the background of product photos without altering the product itself, and integrate products into various digital backgrounds while maintaining the product’s integrity. This new technology opens up a bunch of different new opportunities. The Canvas model can be used to take two interior design styles (Japandi and Maximalism) and apply them to a single object, such as a dining chair.
- Another proprietary technology is Uber’s design component management system. It goes beyond simply tracking component usage and includes design strategy mapping, integrating measurement and performance metrics, and identifying redundancies. The system is also intended to streamline design processes and reduce dissimilarity in design decision making across the organization. It enables Uber designers to stay organized and speed up the design process while also giving designers the flexibility to work on a product in a modular format.
- The rise in generative AI models capable of creating images that don’t exist is the newest wave of proprietary technology in the industry. Pinterest is one of the market leaders using generative AI models in their technology stack. Pinterest engineers have built generative AI models that don’t create images from scratch but can alter or improve existing ones, such as with their Canvas model.
- The Netflix tech stack includes a set of multiple proprietary technologies, one of which includes a server-driven UI system that simplifies design changes across multiple devices at once. This helps Netflix programmers make visually appealing and cohesive changes to the UI across different platforms. Netflix is also able to gather data on specific devices to improve those platforms as a whole.
- Businesses create proprietary technology in order to generate additional revenues or boost conversion and retention in unique ways. Proprietary technology doesn’t necessarily mean a company owns a patent for it. It can mean they have built something that is difficult to copy and has the potential to generate revenue. Often, when a company builds an internal piece of technology that adds significant value to their business, they’ll often productize it into something external companies can potentially use.
- In conclusion, proprietary technology is what sets the most successful tech companies apart from their rivals. It allows companies to work more efficiently and generate additional revenue. It also can give them that edge in the market by introducing proprietary capabilities that are difficult for their competitors to replicate.
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Recruitment Scheduling Best Practices: Ensuring a Smooth Interview Process
- A smooth and efficient interview process is important for attracting skilled candidates and creating a positive experience for both the applicants and the hiring team.
- Recruitment scheduling helps the company present itself in a professional way and is a key aspect of the recruitment process.
- Best practices for recruitment scheduling are: using a recruitment scheduling tool, providing flexibility for candidates, planning interviews in advance, coordinating with internal team members, sending clear and timely communication, considering time zones for remote interviews, avoiding back-to-back scheduling, preparing for unforeseen circumstances, using automated reminders, and offering virtual interview options.
- Using a recruitment scheduling tool ensures everyone is on the same page, avoiding any confusion about the interview time and date and helps to reduce back-and-forth communication.
- Providing flexibility when scheduling interviews such as offering multiple time slots for interviews and allowing candidates to choose their preferred interview time can make the process more convenient and professional.
- Planning interviews well in advance is one of the most effective ways to ensure the interview process runs smoothly.
- Before scheduling the interview with a candidate, check everyone’s availability and confirm that there are no conflicts by coordinating with internal team members to ensure they are available for the interview.
- Clear communication is essential when scheduling interviews and automated reminders can reduce the chances of missed interviews.
- Virtual interviews have become quite common and offering candidates the option to interview virtually can help save time and resources.
- By adopting best practices in recruitment scheduling, companies can enjoy several benefits that contribute to a smoother and more efficient interview process, a positive candidate experience, increased efficiency, better decision-making, and reduced stress for HR teams.
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Leveraging Opinionated Defaults to Power Growth
- Opinionated defaults are predefined choices made for the user and a way to guide user behaviour by providing a starting point that the user is more likely to adopt.
- Opinionated defaults have been used across different industries like Location, Payment Methods, Pricing, Templates and Login to provide guidance to users.
- Choice architects can use opinionated defaults to make the consumption of healthy foods more likely or more immediate by rearranging cafeteria's or offerings.
- Patreon changed the grayed out text of a tier to $0 to provide recommendations via tooltips. This may be an optimization based on a new default.
- Opinionated defaults can transform site experiences, shape behavior, and drastically improve metrics to lead to engaged, retained users.
- Identifying critical decisions that users have to make in a product can guide the use of opinionated defaults.
- Leveraging data is important in defining defaults that maximize earnings, patron retention, user engagement or any other established objective.
- An Opinionated default should balance flexibility to maintain functionality and reduce the number of choices provided to users.
- Iterating with user feedback and data review on user behaviour can optimize default use.
- Opinionated defaults may provide value in reducing friction for first-time users to make the experience intuitive and help first-time users adopt product features.
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Why cash is king
- When evaluating a job offer, the most common priority for tech and other professionals is clear: salary.
- Salary offers the reliability needed, particularly in an uncertain economic environment, where equity may be less likely to materialize into tangible benefits.
- The need to cover daily expenses often outweighs the potential future gains of equity.
- Equity, once considered the golden ticket to long-term wealth in tech, is now viewed more cautiously.
- Respondents noted that they have had experiences where equity did not yield the expected returns.
- Gender has the strongest statistically significant impact on the likelihood of selecting equity over salary, with men 2.3 times as likely to prefer equity compared with women.
- Beyond salary and equity, some respondents prioritized work-life balance and workplace culture.
- Respondents also showed a preference for benefits like health insurance and retirement savings plans.
- For those living in high-cost-of-living areas, the importance of salary becomes even more pronounced.
- The immediate cash flow provided by a solid salary is crucial for professionals as they navigate the high costs associated with tech hubs.
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Ad Inserter Pro V2.7.35 Plugin Free Download For WordPress
- The Ad Inserter Pro plugin is available for free download.
- It is a smart solution for WordPress users looking to improve their ad management.
- The plugin allows you to manage various types of ads, including Google AdSense, Amazon Local Shopping Promotions, and more.
- You can optimize ad revenue by controlling ad visibility, defining ad rotation, and using advanced insertion options.
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Too Busy to Make Time For Yourself? Try This 60-Second Self Improvement Solution
- Self-improvement in terms of becoming better in different aspects of life can be overwhelming.
- The curse of a 24-hour limit in every day has led to a lack of time to pursue them all.
- The 60-second solution breaks down complex goals into micro-exercises to be achieved during the day.
- The author uses yoga as an example of the capability of micro-exercises to achieve goals.
- Physically and mentally, some is better than none in all areas of self-improvement.
- Micro-meditation, workout, and yoga sessions are efficient and take little time from daily schedules.
- Positive results come from doing micro-exercises that break down self-improvement goals.
- These exercises accomplish improvement in areas such as singing and language learning.
- The author creates routines of micro-exercises that feel less overwhelming.
- Implementing micro-exercises can boost productivity and accomplish more in shorter periods of time.
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10 NPM Packages for Productivity
- Here are 10 NPM packages that will give your productivity a serious boost.
- 1. nodemon: Automatically restarts Node.js application on file changes.
- 2. concurrently: Runs multiple npm scripts simultaneously.
- 3. eslint: Helps catch syntax errors and enforces coding standards.
- 4. prettier: Helps format code consistently.
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