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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. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004.

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Checking in on Shopify Plus’ 11,000 checkouts per minute

Intercom, Inc.

As tech continues its path toward democratization, with better offerings available to more people, an odd contradiction has revealed itself: on the enterprise side of things, most software simply isn’t very good. I’m not trying to become an enterprise software company.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

The way business was done changed drastically in the 90s, and not just because of the rapidly-improving technology. This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM. It was the 90s that produced several lightweight software development methods. Tech Highlights of the 90s ??

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

The group of businesses works across industries from agri-tech to motor to SaaS, with the shared goal of finding environmentally positive solutions that deliver on both purpose and profit. I always loved software and developing software. And we have a bunch of technologies. Norman: Yeah.

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Top 10 Japanese Tech Companies

freshtrax

To give you a bigger picture of the Japanese technology industry, we dive deeper and introduce the top technology companies in Japan based on the following four criteria: capital value, sales, profit, and number of employees. ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation. ?391.6 Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Solutions Corporation. ?218.6

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What Is Your Product?

The Product Coalition

Many organizations erroneously define their products by taking a technology perspective. They consider the product’s underlying technologies, components, and tools and call a logical grouping of them a “product.” Alan Cooper’s prescient book, The Inmates are Running the Asylum , was a wake-up call back in 2004.

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Who is Eric Ries: Background, Books, Webinars, and More

Userpilot

After studying at Yale University, Eric began his career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. His most significant career milestone came when he co-founded IMVU, an online social networking and virtual world startup, in 2004. How did Eric Ries begin his career? How Userpilot can help you embrace the Lean Startup methodology?

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