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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

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." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer? I need them yesterday."

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A Decade of Unofficial Learning

The Product Coalition

Embracing a Lifelong Learner Mindset The year was 2014, and a quiet yet profound revolution was stirring in the world of education. From Videotapes to Virtual Classrooms: When I earned my engineering stripes in 2009, the quintessential lecture hall experience was still the norm, with the occasional videotape filling in the gaps.

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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

Jay Forrester, an MIT engineer, applied these ideas to understand social and management systems. Systems Thinker, 2014. 91–128, 2014. Systems Thinking is an interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1950s from the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy. JONES, Peter H. Systemic design principles for complex social systems.

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Product Management Tools; Three Questions to Improve Product Management; Happy Holidays 2014

Good Product Manager

general business use, product development / engineering), and satisfaction with those options for product management purposes is generally low. Have a great rest of 2014 and see you again soon in 2015! Few product managers are using tools designed specifically for product management.

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A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

Lenny Rachitsky

Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014. Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018.

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The most expensive game cost over $1B, and how AI will transform it

Andrew Chen

Rather than “move fast and break things” instead this game: took $1-2B to build, as we said started dev in 2014, so it’ll be 11 years from start to release 1000s of developers, designers, etc crunching to finish But as most of us in tech have been following, the tools and approach to games is rapidly changing.

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The Best Product Management Quotes from Top Industry Leaders and Influencers

Alchemer Mobile

Great products are engineered when product managers truly understand the desired outcomes by actively listening to people, not users.” – Michael Fountain , Head of Product at Apptentive / @mfount. Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) April 2, 2014. “If We hope these quotes leave you feeling inspired and energized.