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507: Navigating the second product problem – with Greg Coticchia

Product Innovation Educators

Employees who have been with the company for a long time may find it difficult to adapt to new directions, especially if they’ve been successful with the original product. Additionally, he was named a Distinguished Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business in 2006 and the Swanson School of Engineering in 2023.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Which would you prefer: one where a barista knows your name and your favourite drink and your favourite music is playing, or one where everything is made for an average customer? Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop. Moreover, it’s not only changes in these components that might affect you.

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

I see product management reduced to a gopher for development and a clean-up function. Product management under sales. When I joined a company in 2006 to run product management (as a CMO), the VP of sales would meet with the product managers every Monday morning to make new feature requests per what sales had sold the week before.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

He abandoned plans for a PhD and instead worked as an engineer and product manager at Applied Materials before getting his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with an MBA. He then joined Google in 2004, and 11 years later found himself named CEO as part of the Alphabet reorganization of the firm.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

Scrum’s Achilles Heel: Product Discovery In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint?—?just just to name a few. you name it.

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The Ultimate List of Product Leaders You Must Follow (UPDATED)

The Product Coalition

For sure, joining a group of product professionals in your town can help you start building your community. Can you find your name? 29 Product Leaders You Must Follow Julie Zhuo is Product Design VP at Facebook. She studied Computer Science at Stanford and joined the company in its early stages, way back in 2006.

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

A number of people have asked me why I have a Portuguese name [Contextual Note: This event was in Lisbon, Portugal and Teresa Torres is a common Portuguese name.] My father is both of Spanish descent and Mexican descent, hence I say my name as /’ter-REE-suh tor-ress/, which is maybe the most American way to pronounce this name.