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This is how AWS was born.out of a crisis

NextBigWhat

Amazon’s CTO was Rick Dalzell – ex-Walmart, hard-charging operator. Product development ground to a halt during the transition, we froze all new features for over a year. Amzn could have negotiated a better deal with Sun, but Jeff chose a more radical approach. And without that shift, AWS may never have happened.

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Open innovation 2.0–and other innovation insights for product managers May 20, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Chesbrough wrote his Open Innovation book in 2003. 6 steps to being customer-centric and developing products customers want. 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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Behind Every Great Product

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When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. This is a B2B product. And we made it low friction because our customers were developers, ones that might want to get their hands on the data, start working with that building analytical products. Developers! Developers might be doing anything.