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Amazon’s Product Managers Take On Health Data With Alexa

The Accidental Product Manager

The Amazon product managers partnered with five companies including insurance company Cigna, diabetes-management company Livongo Health, and a major hospital system. The number of homes that have an Alexa or similar speaker system in them has been expanding over the past few years. What All Of This Means For You.

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

The Product Coalition

Let’s consider the benefits of MVP development : MVPs Allow Businesses to Test Ideas In Markets In 2014, Hailo mobile app for calling a taxi failed. The platform that worked well in London could not survive in the competitive New York market. Development is built on the “create?—?evaluate?—?improve” evaluate?—?improve”

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. I went from most of my day being watching other people do things, being in meetings and reviews and so on, to all of a sudden writing specs, doing designs and trying to figure out what the product was.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. What started then became a multi-billion dollar win for both Apple and Microsoft.

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10 Scaling Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

While this probably sounds like common sense, I’ve seen more than one organisation trying to get more done by throwing people at a product. No wonder that the individuals struggled and the product suffered. This led to a bloated, over-complicated code base and a product that was difficult to adapt and expensive to maintain.

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Seeing Around Corners | Rita McGrath | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

She is also one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. So, as a business begins to discover its business model, its product market fit it begins to enjoy the recipe for success or, more specifically, its leaders do. There’s no slack in the system. Do you empower small, agile teams?