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366: This is modified Agile for hardware development – with Dorian Simpson and Gary Hinkle

Product Innovation Educators

He has held R&D leadership roles and founded Auxilium in 2002 to help companies improve their R&D and leadership practices and transform their new product development using Agile practices. It starts with describing the customer experience through user stories. Engaging with customers. Rapid prototyping.

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500: Evolving trends in product management: What every PM and VP Needs to Know – with Tony Ulwick

Product Innovation Educators

ODI shifts focus from generating ideas to understanding and addressing customer needs, leading to more successful products and innovations. This failure led to a crucial question: What if we knew beforehand how customers would judge our product? ” This question led to valuable insights.

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CX pioneer Jeanne Bliss on building customer-centric businesses

Intercom, Inc.

This question has been shaping customer experience expert Jeanne Bliss ’s career for as long as she remembers. Jeanne is one of the leading voices on customer-centric leadership. In fact, she wrote her first book, Chief Customer Officer , long before that type of role was even widely known. What will your legacy be? The lesson?

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Feature prioritization in product management: the key to building products that sell

Product Management Unpacked

and it was clear the primary challenge on most product managers’ minds is setting roadmap priorities without real market feedback. The basics of customer segmentation and a clear value proposition have always been and remain essential to product feature prioritization. An Overview of Product Enhancement Requests.

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IS THE PRODUCT MANAGER ACTUALLY THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER OF THE COMPANY?

The Product Coalition

The year was around 2002. by simply changing the word enemy with users and competition, commander with product/CEO and course of action with road map. We use the data we gather to try and understand what our users want, need, do. what is the on boarding process which will add and retain more users Pricing?—?what

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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

Userpilot

Throughout his rich career, Marty has worn numerous hats within modern software product organizations, transitioning between roles involving product management, software development, product marketing , user experience design, and general management, among others. If you still want to explore his ideas, his blog posts are not to be missed.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Transitioning into an effective marketplace required keen attention to the evolving needs of their customers – who wanted to connect to third-party partners. Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that. When I started in 2002, I was the first product manager for the API.