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What is Good Product Strategy?

Melissa Perri

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. “What is your Product Strategy? YOU NEED A STRATEGY.” He was on edge. BUT we still had to test our ideas.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress in early 2018. No, I think the real reason is evident in this quote: OH (a former CTO of Autodesk): “I can walk through most buildings and tell you which version of AutoCad was used to design it. “. — Robert Stephens (@rstephens) August 9, 2018.

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How Executives can Empower Great Design

Modus Create

In 2018, McKinsey published their Business Value of Design report summarizing how organizations with higher Design Index scores saw a correlation with higher revenue growth and, for the top quartile, higher returns to shareholders. About 90% of companies in their 2018 research aren’t fully realizing the full potential of their design teams.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. How do I prioritize the roadmap? How about we stop until the end of 2018 I do no more quarterlies.

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All About The Users—Todd Olson, CEO of Pendo

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. Back in 2000, product management was much less popular than it was in 2018. Some people want to be a product manager because they want to "own the roadmap," but I think it's a lot less glamorous than that. Tell us about how you broke into product management.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Tom is the co-founder of Thington, a concierge for your smart home or office, which was recently acquired by Eero. Tom Coates, Co-Founder of Thington.

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The most critical relationship for product managers to build

The Product Coalition

link] As a product manager, you often find yourself switching between contexts as well, often between short-term project management and long term roadmap and product planning. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. At mid to later stage, this is more likely a Senior Engineer.