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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s.

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Being Bold & Making Bets: Capabilities of a Bold Product Manager

BrainMates

The Biggest Bet of My Career In 2004, I left a stable product role at a subscription TV company to start Brainmates. I had no marketing or business development skills, and I was nervous each time I tried to sell my service. So, for my next client I signed a TV channel on the same Subscription TV platform. Embrace iteration.

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Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify)

Lenny Rachitsky

Starting as a snowboard shop in 2004, Shopify has become the leading commerce platform by consistently approaching problems differently. Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. e-commerce.

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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers

Intercom, Inc.

2018 is shaping up to be a massive year for the Intercom platform. Historically, we’ve spent proportionately way more on research and development than other software companies we track, and that won’t stop any time soon. This funding will go straight into building great new software at a pace you’ve yet to see from us.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). We conducted two more retrospective analyses covering 2004-2013 and 2014-2021.

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TEI 207: How product managers become change managers – with Amy Radin

Product Innovation Educators

The activities and processes that allow us to uncover a customer problem or invent a new technology, develop solutions, and ultimately launch products customers love are challenging, but they are not a mystery. The work we did on that project helped develop RFID technology that’s used today for mobile payments. [6:25]

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Scaling the Product Owner Role

Roman Pichler

Here is why: Young products tend to require a significant amount of experimentation and rework in order to get the product launched, adapt it to the feedback of the early market, and get it ready for product-market fit. At this stage, effective decision-making is paramount. The following picture illustrates this approach.