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Feel Giving Back is Bad for Business? We Know We’re on the Right Track.

Bain Public

We’ve been able to bring the ideas of product leadership, product strategy, and product management to products developed by local startup entrepreneurs. Founder Fuel , FounderFuel works to develop both the skill sets and mindsets of the founders shaping our future through game-changing technology.

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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. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table

Intercom, Inc.

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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Co-Located vs. Remote/Distributed Teams: What Works and Why

The Product Coalition

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers.

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Building Invincible Companies | Alex Osterwalder| BoS 2019

Business of Software Conference

If people tell you something that’s some evidence but it’s usually pretty weak in particular opinions. Which seems like a trivial question not even my team can give me that information so I always have to push back and say you don’t know the customer, I don’t know the customer until we have that kind of information.