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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Through this, I learned a key lesson — don’t build a product solely based on a problem or motivated by profit. Products need purpose because purpose gives the product meaning and a reason for being.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. That’s simply a byproduct.

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

Mind the Product

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. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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Why Product Features Matter

Department of Product

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

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Is Product Management Certification Right For You?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

PMs come in all shapes and sizes, but ultimately they’re responsible for managing the product through its lifecycle. From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities. To ship a great product. And ultimately.

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STICKY POST: All Talks From Business of Software Conferences in One Place

Business of Software Conference

Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Alison Coward: Designing High-Performing Teams. Wade Foster: Building Operating Cadence With Remote Teams. Bruce McCarthy: Product Culture Eats Execution Culture.