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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. Founding a startup is a lot like this. In the very early days of Intercom the marketing hat fell on my head, but I’d be doing marketing a disservice (and 2011 Des a disservice) if I said that’s what I thought I was doing.

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Lean Product Development: A Breakdown for Aspiring Product Managers

The Product Coalition

It is a continuous process that involves identifying customer needs, designing and developing products, and testing and refining them until they meet the desired outcome. According to Eric Ries, the author of “The Lean Startup,” “Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.”

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I’m done talking about MVP, let’s talk about real products

UX Planet

Regardless of the different interpretations, the core of the problem lies in the confusion it creates in conversations around product design. The Lean Startup messed everything up In the old days, the open-source community talked about RERO ( Release Early, Release Often ). So, why is the MVP concept so divisive?

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The 20th Anniversary of the Minimum Viable Product: What Happened?

DevelopmentCorporate

The Minimal Viable Product (MVP) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021. In 2011 Eric Reis popularized the MVP concept in his book The Lean Startup. The concept was introduced by Frank Robinson in 2001. Steve Blank expanded on it in 2005 with the Customer Development Methodology.

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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group.