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We Have To Support Every Line of Production Code Forever

Mironov Consulting

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Closing this $480k/year license deal is highly visible to the exec team and Board.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped.    Far away.    Hard to see. 

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The many paths of a product manager

The Product Coalition

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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OpenAI’s GPT-3 Will Change How We Build, With or Without It

Product Solving

GPT-3 is an AI model developed by OpenAI. It is the third generation of the Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) models. GPT models are a type of machine learning trained with a large, diverse corpus of text. Changing the upstream design has large downstream consequences, both good and bad.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Build Iron Man Suits, Not Terminators | Carl Ryden, PrecisionLender | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

April Dunford UK Book Launch Tour BoS USA 2019. We had made a bad hire. But then you develop written language and developed mapping tools and they would develop maps and pictorial maps with language on it. So what have we learned. machine learning whatever it is basically an idiot savant.

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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

And now what happens out of something like this is you’ll do a thing that your security professional thinks is bad. They’re pretty bad at it. So, I started with this concept that we think people make bad decisions. A product manager doesn’t bear a cost for a bad decision. They developed the wolf pre cortex.

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How QA Testing is Moving Up in Today’s Agile Value Chain

Usersnap

Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. This trend is bound to increase with iterative development, continuous integration, and rapid deployment becoming the norm. Agile development also involves working with cross-functional teams.