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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). We conducted two more retrospective analyses covering 2004-2013 and 2014-2021.

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How Minimum Viable Products & Features Helped Me Write My New Book

Roman Pichler

My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. This helped me better understand which strategy and roadmap-related challenges product managers commonly experience and which advice is helpful for them.

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What's It Take to Work at Google?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Those who are looking for a job in tech, whether it be in product management, software engineering, data science, or the like, have undoubtedly considered a career at Google. One of them was our co-founder Stephen Cognetta back in 2014-2015. Although, the company itself tries to internally differentiate between the two.

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Chapter 9/17 : How to design great UX? Fundamentals of design

The Product Coalition

How to run Design Sprint [Back to- Product Management 101 ] After you have conducted user research and developed artifacts, next step is to start building your product. The first step towards development is to come up with design and interactions for your product. UX can make or break your product. Usability?—?

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Continuous App Development : The Importance of Both Pre-Planning & Post-Launch

Amplitude

In 2014, data predicted that less than 0.01% of mobile apps would be considered a financial success by 2018. High-quality product development is becoming the norm. Be wary of any app development agency that promises your dream product with little to no prior discussion. Schedule out a development timeline.

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California’s GDPR: The Impact of New Privacy Regulations on Product Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

As a product manager or product leader, you must be aware of the requirements and the effects it will have on your organization. The infamous 2014 Target data hack affected an estimated five million Californians.). businesses collecting personal data, according to the International Association of Privacy Professionals.