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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

A product or feature might have been successful at the time of release, but technical capabilities improve and user expectations evolve. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. For Odeo, pivoting was a defensive move due to competitors taking market share, but not every pivot is a do-or-die situation. and let it go.

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How to Promote Team Diversity in Your Organization and Beyond

ProductPlan

The problem plagues nearly every aspect of the corporate world—technology companies included. Much of this is due to increased churn for female product professionals, who tend to leave technology within the first ten years of their career far more often than their male counterparts. Our world contains multitudes.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Ben Horowitz touched passively on “micro-managing” in Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , reminding us that Product Managers should be more vision-focused than execution-focused : “Good product managers crisply define the target, the “what” (as opposed to the how) and manage the delivery of the “what.”

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Rapid Prototyping for Product Managers

The Product Guy

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book “ Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant” by professors W. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?