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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

As an individual contributor, you’re focusing on your own projects and progress, but as a leader you are now responsible for the team (or teams) that report up to you. Trevor Acy, Balancing Time for Learning and Bias for Action Meet Trevor Acy, the Associate Director of Product Management at Ramsey Solutions. The metrics are moving.

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400: Product Mastery Now Community – with Chad McAllister

Product Innovation Educators

This is something I’ve been asked about many times since starting the podcast in 2015. Starting my career as an electrical engineer as employee #4 in a small systems engineering office, wearing many different hats, and solving problems. Frameworks and tools. You accumulate frameworks and tools by studying and learning.

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Saas Startups: An Upward Trend Booming in The Future

The Product Coalition

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, which operate on a subscription basis and are centralized and situated on a remote cloud network, are increasingly popular with businesses for a variety of factors, including flexibility and affordability. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model.

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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

He most recently ran Product Management, Marketing, and Partnerships across Square while reporting to the CEO. Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015. In real life, skip leads should of course talk with their skip reports on a regular basis.

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10 Excellent Open Source Bug Tracking Tools, by Usersnap

Usersnap

Or at least, technologies such as open source bug tracking enabled developers to do amazing things. And those bugs are the reason, why we need to use bug tracking systems in order to find, document, and solve these bugs. Open source solutions are a great and easy way to make yourself familiar with a new topic. Communication.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Im looking at you, in-house enterprise solutions. As a result, it often becomes easier to defend a solution whose benefits are visible in the short term but may prove less suitable in the longterm.

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or  (See this 2015 talk and supporting blog series. What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A