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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

The award started in 1988, and in 2004 the OCI committee was asked to write a chapter for the PDMA Handbook of New Product Development about the OCI award. We conducted two more retrospective analyses covering 2004-2013 and 2014-2021. Winners come up with tools to evaluate projects based on critical criteria.

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Agile Movers & Shakers (6)

The Product Coalition

“ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. He sold solutions, I developed them. It resonated strongly with my beliefs about personal autonomy and all my prior training as a psychologist.” “ Barry : Failed software development projects. I was responsible for managing software development projects.

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How Lemonade flipped the insurance model and became a unicorn through a data-informed culture

Mixpanel

MAU, or Mobile Apps Unlocked, is a gathering of 2,500+ leaders from top mobile brands around the world that takes place every spring in Las Vegas. Mixpanel was one of the first tools the team purchased in their very early days, and has been a required training during new hire onboarding ever since.

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When is Your Product Ready to Remove the “Beta” Tag?

ProductPlan

It’s such an incredibly important and useful tool in the product development process. While some nuggets of wisdom might continue to pop up, it’s generally a game of diminishing feedback returns. It also indicates that feedback that can shape the final product is actively sought out and appreciated.

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Lemonade at MAU: One Unicorn’s Take on Building a Data Informed Culture

Mixpanel

MAU, or Mobile Apps Unlocked, is a gathering of 2,500+ leaders from top mobile brands around the world that takes place every spring in Las Vegas. Mixpanel was one of the first tools the team purchased in their very early days, and has been a required training during new hire onboarding ever since.

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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Consider a Thai software engineer who got offended by a Russian-American engineer’s comment on his pull request and then refused to work with him ever again. 2: Abandon Leadership Colonialism.