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Impact Mapping: Does it Make a Difference in Building Better Products?

Userpilot

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. The tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. What is impact mapping in agile?

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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How to Build Products That Transform People?s Lives by Chris Hay

Mind the Product

This project took the Kenyan market by storm when it launched in November 2012, with 100,000 new accounts signed up on the first day of operation. Be Faithful to Agile Principles. Its customer base grew to over 10 million within a couple of years. It’s OK to improvise without knowing where this will take you.

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Transformational Leadership – 4 Real-World Examples

Modus Create

Transformational leadership is a leadership theory where a leader uses a vision or a goal to energize, inspire, and develop their team. Such leaders don’t treat vision as a tool to pacify stakeholders but as an essential value to power their routine. . Around 2012, Hasbro’s CEO Brian Goldner realized that it was time for a change. .

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How to Develop Your Product Career, Using the Product Quadrants

The Product Coalition

Based on my most recent role as a Product Lead, my primary quadrant is the Strategic Product Manager, because the main responsibilities of my role were to conduct research, determine the vision and strategy, set up a product function and create, and support, a realistic roadmap.

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Ten Years of How To Be a Good Product Manager

Good Product Manager

Looking back over the past ten years, I’m gratified to see that I’ve been able to follow through on that early vision (and quite frankly pretty surprised at how accurately, too). 1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions.

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Ten Years of How To Be a Good Product Manager

Good Product Manager

Looking back over the past ten years, I’m gratified to see that I’ve been able to follow through on that early vision (and quite frankly pretty surprised at how accurately, too). 1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions.