Growth Mindset in Product Management

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Embrace a Growth Mindset

Learning something new requires the right mindset or attitude. If you believe that you lack talent or are not smart enough, then you make it hard — if not impossible — for yourself to acquire new knowledge, skills, and behaviors. For example, I never used to think of myself as somebody who is good at writing, and I wasn’t particularly good at it at school. But with effort, resilience, and patience, as well as the guidance from others, I have managed to become a reasonably skilled writer.

The same is true for my product management expertise: acquiring it has taken me many years, making plenty of mistakes, learning from other product people, and reading more books and articles than I can remember. I certainly don’t feel that I am done yet. I continue to learn new things and deepen my understanding.

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Why Record and Replay Isn’t Enough for Automated API Testing

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A couple of weeks ago, we released a new capability in Parasoft SOAtest called the Smart API Test Generator. I was geeked. This technology is legitimately groundbreaking — it uses artificial intelligence to convert manual UI tests into automated API tests so you don’t need expertise in API testing or even the ability to write any code at all to get started. It’s all script-less, and it’s activated through a simple plugin for Chrome, so you don’t have to install a large toolset in order to use it.

However, at the STAREAST testing conference back in May, where I gave a long talk about how awesome this technology is, I kept encountering people ask me how this was different from record and replay technologies that already exist on the market. Of course artificial intelligence is the answer, but AI for AI’s sake is meaningless — why do we even care?


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A Not-So-Entertaining Battle: What’s Going On Between Developers And Players?

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As a developer, how difficult is it to choose between innovating in an untested market vs. going with a safe rehash in a tried-and-true market?

This is the question of the hour these days, with so many players up in a frenzy over lack of industry innovation in the AAA market. So many developers are honestly just trying to put something out there that can generate income while simultaneously entertaining the masses.

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Machine Learning on Graphs: 5-Minute Interview With Ajinkya Kale

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"Most people are not yet looking at graph databases from a machine-learning point of view. All the inherent knowledge we as humans use to make decisions can be encoded in a graph structure," said Ajinkya Kale, Senior Applied Researcher at eBay’s New Product Development Group.

For Ajinkya, it’s all about the synergy between graphs and machine learning. As a Senior Applied Researcher at eBay’s New Product Development Group, Ajinkya and his team use Natural Language Understanding to bake machine learning into the graph database that drives eBay’s virtual shopping assistant, eBay ShopBot.


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Best Practices Considered Harmful

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I’ve long worried about "Best Practices." Sure, I usually play along at the time, but lurking in the back of my mind, waiting for a suitable opportunity are two questions:

I was once told by someone from the oil industry that it was common for contracts to specify "best practice" should be used. But seldom was the actual practice specified. Instead, each party to the contract would interpret best practice as they wished, until something went wrong. At that point, after an accident, after money was lost, they would go to court and a judge would decide what was best practice.

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Short-Term Memory In Natural Language Processing

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In this article, I’ll talk about short-term memory (STM) and how it is used to maintain conversational context in NLP/NLU pipelines.

Conversation Context

It is surprising how non-trivial it is to train a machine to understand and maintain the context of a conversation. As humans, this comes absolutely naturally to us; we do it instinctively, without thinking about rules or algorithms.


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Avoid These 5 Mistakes for an Amazing Kick-off Meeting

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We’ve all been there: the kick-off meeting that was nothing more than 60 minutes of your life that you’ll never get back. So now that it’s your turn to run one, you’re determined not to go down the same path.

But where did those kick-off-meetings-gone-wrong actually go wrong? What were their fatal flaws? And how can you make your meeting a good use of everyone’s time?

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Xamarin.Forms — Computer Vision API Using Cognitive Service

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Xamarin.Forms code runs on multiple platforms, each of which has its own filesystem. This means that reading and writing files are the most easily done tasks using native file APIs on each platform. Alternatively, embedded resources are also a simpler solution to distribute the data files with an app.


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Future of UI/UX Design

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Every year, new trends evolve in the design industry and it’s important to keep up with the latest trends and transitions in the design industry. Let’s have a look what will be a big hit in future.

Minimalist Design

Minimalistic design is a process of keeping spotlight on the invaluable content and getting away with the valueless clutter. Here the focus is more on the content rather than the end look and to achieve this goal designers follow some visual design principles.

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Can You Take Financial Advice From a Robot?

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According to Business Insider, "Robo-advisors (with some element of automation) will manage investment products worth $1 trillion by 2020, which will go up to $4.6 trillion by 2022."

The wealth management industry is in the midst of significant changes, the most engaging of them being the advent of Robo Advisors. Sounding like the love child of Fintech and Robotics, Robo Advisors are exactly what their name describes them to be — Artificial intelligence that helps manage financial decisions or offer streamlined financial advice.


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