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When a product doesn’t fit: Skype’s decline inside Microsoft

Mind the Product

The service had 36 million users in 2023, when Microsoft last reported user numbers, compared with 300 million users at its peak. Microsoft is shutting down its Skype service in May, 14 years after it paid $8.5 billion for the once pioneering video calling company. Skype users will be migrated to Teams.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

Recent Breakthroughs (2023) In 2023, AMS and MIT researchers tackled a more ambitious question: Could AI now effectively craft unmet customer needs statements that would be just as good as those created by experienced human analysts? The process wasn’t yet efficient enough to deliver the time-saving benefits they hoped for.

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Sunday Rewind: 7 things I’ve learned in my first 6 months as a product manager

Mind the Product

In this post from 2023, Issac Vargas, Product Manager at Microsoft Graph Developer Experience team, shares the key lessons hes learned from his first few months in the job. Your customer defines everything else Choose your customers wisely and explore their entire ecosystem of needs. Your job is to bring clarity Ask, listen, and investigate.

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Tools of the Trade: Building Opportunity Solution Trees in Vistaly

Product Talk

Tweet This Back in September 2023, we explored a few of the common tools product teams are using for opportunity solution trees , including Figma and FigJam , Miro , and Vistaly. If youre committed to adopting continuous discovery habits, opportunity solution trees are one of the most important ways to track your learnings and progress.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

December 13, 2023 at 9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, 5:30pm GMT Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Engineering leaders are provided with methods and practices supported by established organizational behavior principles they can apply.

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Sunday Rewind: How to find out what your customers want by Janet Bumpas

Mind the Product

This weeks Sunday Rewind is a 2023 ProductTank Oslo talk, in which product consultant and coach Janet Bumpas explains the key aspect of a product hero: building a product that customers love. Janey says customers dont want more features.

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Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify)

Lenny Rachitsky

Shopify powers over 10% of e-commerce in the United States, with $235 billion in GMV in 2023 (roughly the size of Finland’s economy). He previously led Consumer product and growth at Lyft and was at Udemy for 8 years as SVP of Product having joined the company when it was 10 people.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

June 21, 2023 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT Master the art of communication for team success, informed leadership, and nurturing strong customer relationships Don't miss out and register now!

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

December 7, 2023 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Come learn how to turn product management into more of a science than an art to improve your odds of success.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

Learn strategies for managing stakeholder expectations and fostering a collaborative environment Navigate the competitive landscape: Gain insights into the competitive landscape and learn how to differentiate the product while meeting current user demands, ensuring the product remains relevant in the market August 23, 2023 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, (..)

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

January 18th, 2023 at 9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, 5:30pm GMT

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

May 9, 2023 at 12:30 pm PT, 3:30 pm ET, 8:30 pm GMT