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Time To Say Goodbye – 4 Lessons The BoS Community Taught Me

Business of Software Conference

It’s strange to think that in a few short hours I’ll press ‘End Meeting For All’ for the final time, and that’ll be it. Lesson #1 – Make Your Users Awesome. The first BoS video I watched was Kathy Sierra’s seminal talk from BoS USA 2012, ‘ Building The Minimum Badass User ’. Lesson #2 – You Are Not An Impostor.

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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. It is also about the same time that working with R&D becomes more intense , so a lot of project management is needed. considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself.

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Venture Funds Arrive in the Mastodon Space

Crafty CTO

Gruber had just written a short piece about Medium launching their own Mastodon server – with the fun, short domain name of me.dm. Fighting Words What Gruber said next, though, bothered me: I am very uncomfortable with the fact that nearly all Mastodon servers are free-to-use volunteer efforts, funded by voluntary donations.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Short on time? Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. It also led to winning a Microsoft internal prize, and it was really the first time I could call myself a leader instead of a manager. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom was created out of an epiphany in a small Dublin coffee shop because we realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing business online just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. Paul Adams: Let’s not do this again and then have a retro to learn the same thing we’ve already learned five times.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for Its clients include Nestle, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, AOL, Time Warner, American Red Cross, and many other prominent businesses. Since then it has grown into a company of 450 employees across 10 offices.

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What are the best product management conferences and events?

DISQO

<code/media> – on February 13-14th, 2017 in CA, Recode senior editor Peter Kafka, in conjunction with Kara Swisher, host this exclusive conference which features candid, unscripted onstage interviews with the best-known names in the business. customer development, product design) and Scale (e.g., Mind the Product.

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