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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs. B2C, Agile vs. Waterfall). The discussion reveals how product management has evolved since 1931 and highlights the importance of clear role definition to prevent job frustration.

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Why Your User Stories Are Killing Product Usability

Product Management University

Here are two things you won’t find in any agile book or agile training course that’ll complete your user stories, simplify design and improve product usability. What’s Missing From the Textbook Agile User Story? Here’s the most common format for agile user stories, depending on which methodology you use.

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513: What product leaders need to know about making new product development work – with Jack Hsieh

Product Innovation Educators

Jack explains several approaches: Integrated Product Development (IPD) Works well for complex products Requires strong cross-functional coordination Popular in companies like Huawei Agile Development Suited for rapid market feedback Enables quick product iterations Best for software and digital products Waterfall Method Effective for well-defined requirements (..)

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Dual Track Agile with Ant Murphy: How to Balance Discovery and Delivery Without Losing Your Mind

Usersnap

If you’re sprinting with delivery while discovery is stuck in the parking lot, you’re not agile. Most product teams talk about dual-track agile, but few actually do it well. How to Set Up Dual-Track Agile (Not Just Talk About It) “Discovery isn’t something you squeeze in between shipping. Discovery gets sidelined.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

Product Talk

“I soon noticed that while many companies have embraced agile execution, fewer have adopted a truly continuous approach to product discovery. While many companies have embraced agile execution, fewer have adopted a truly continuous approach to product discovery. I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management.

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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

This outcome-focused approach helps teams stay aligned on what truly matters while maintaining the agility to adjust their approach based on real results. For product managers, this means shifting conversations from feature lists and deadlines to measurable impacts and customer value. I asked Ben what reasons he has seen for this.

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A Guide to Designing Delightful Dashboards

Speaker: Daniel O'Sullivan, Product Designer, nCino and Jeff Hudock, Senior Product Manager, nCino

Importance of agility and iterative processes. All of these activities play a vital role in providing the superior experience your customers demand. In this session, we will discuss how to design, develop, and implement successful dashboards. Dashboard design do’s and don’ts. Where to start the journey.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. The role of a product manager has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. Numerical literacy is a key skill for effective product managers.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value.

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How To Build Data-Informed Products

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Director, iridion

Tim Herbig will share his hands-on approach to working with analytics in agile product management. Do you just do it anyway, because your company's product culture requires that you have those numbers? Tim will discuss the line between being data-informed versus data-driven.

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From Project to Product: Don't You Dare Mess With Planning

Speaker: Anne Steiner, Vice President of Product and Technology at Cprime

Some in the agile community have resisted the need for planning, while others have simply encouraged planning in shorter cycles. We dislike it because to get it right, we need to accurately predict the future, a largely impossible task.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Paul Heller, Innovation Evangelist and podcast host of Innovation Talks , will provide insight on the following: Learn how to ensure that innovation projects are directly tied to broader business transformation goals Discover methods for improving cross-functional collaboration between innovation, product, and leadership teams for enhanced supply chain (..)

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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

We all strive to be effective Agile leaders. Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Adapt your implementation of Agile to your industry context. But how do you know if you're succeeding?