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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit.

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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. 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. We were testing our code. In fact, our tests regularly failed.

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The Evolution of Github: A Revolution in Code Collaboration

The Product Coalition

Source In the expansive universe of software development, few platforms have wielded as much influence and innovation as GitHub. From its inception as a code hosting service to its current status as the epicenter of collaborative coding, GitHub’s evolution has been a testament to the power of community, creativity, and continuous improvement.

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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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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. What Is Saas? — Brief

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Top Fintech Companies & Startups Revolutionizing Financial Services in 2021 and Beyond

The Product Coalition

These fintech companies and startups have earned a spot on this list due to their impressive technology and socially conscious approaches to finance. Born back in 2015 in New York, this fintech solution is still impressive, fast-evolving, and actual for a modern human.

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Why your IT Project is Doomed to Fail – David Kullmann (ProductTank NYC)

Mind the Product

David is a Partner and Development Manager at CitrusByte, working with both large corporations and startups to develop innovative software solutions to challenges they may be facing. In 2015, the worldwide spending in IT was 3.4 trillion dollars that was spent worldwide in 2015, about 2.4 IT Project Failures – The Statistics.