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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

He is frequently helping organizations succeed while also holding the role of Professor Emeritus at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Fellow at Penn State University. Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy.

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

Convincing potential users to sign up for your product isn’t easy. The latest batch of billion-dollar companies are built on high customer retention. They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. Most specifically, the industry came up with this beautiful idea of A/B testing.

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Mobile Second: When Desktop is the Right Platform to Focus on First

Mind the Product

In 2010 Google announced it would prioritize mobile ahead of desktop when developing new products. Conventional wisdom now tells us that it’s almost always best to start with mobile, because the success of your business ultimately depends on its ability to attract and retain users with an app. Step 1: Customer Discovery.

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Sean Ellis on charting a path toward sustainable growth

Intercom, Inc.

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. Because there are so many ways a user might come to Dropbox – a shared file, collaborative folder, homepage, etc. –

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

The Product Coalition

This put more focus on both the customers and the products themselves. Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. Sound familiar? What an era.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. From my experience, the problems that ML can help to solve usually fall into one of these buckets below: Could we make the user experience more tailored and personalised?