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How Much Time Should You Spend in Product Discovery?

Product Talk

” Writing code is a perfectly valid way to learn, if it’s the fastest way to learn. Writing code is a perfectly valid way to learn, if it’s the fastest way to learn. The key with discovery is speed of learning, not speed of writing code. If writing code helps us learn faster, by all means do it. Tweet This.

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

Mind the Product

From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. And to test it, we ran user testing almost every week to get rapid feedback on mocked-up and coded prototypes, and reported back to the business every Friday on our progress and what we’d learned. 2015 – Launch as JustGiving Crowdfunding.

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Lessons from LTP Digital 2022: Adopting a Product-Led Company Culture

ProductPlan

The Harvard Business Review concluded that it takes at least 5 to 10 years for change to manifest itself throughout an organization entirely. She focused on how Adobe realized that it needed to pivot and become a product-led organization when the market for its software changed. Start Roadmapping!

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Don’t Miss These Amazing Speakers at #mtpcon Singapore

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond. He started his career as a software developer, founded a digital media agency in the mid 90’s and has held various roles in marketing, eCommerce, business management and sales.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. Each participant had their own cursor and could type, edit, scroll, click, or code. O bsolescence.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code.

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Upcoming SiriusDecisions Product Management Webcasts

Good Product Manager

You can learn more and sign up for the SiriusDecisions Product Management Webcast Series and choose which webcasts you’d like to attend — here’s an overview of the topics: Wednesday, November 11, 2015: Pricing and Packaging Best Practices. Tuesday, November 17, 2015: Adapting B-to-B Product Management to Agile.