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

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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

Product Innovation Educators

Jack brings 20 years of experience managing innovation projects at companies like Sony Ericsson and Logitech. He explains how the company handled three distinct product lines: Smartphones High-end feature phones Low-end feature phones This experience taught him important lessons about resource allocation.

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Why Your User Stories Are Killing Product Usability

Product Management University

Your user stories are killing product usability because they’re missing two critical components. 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. Here’s your new and improved user story format.

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The Hardest Lesson—Fail Fast and Validate Early

The Product Guy

Drew explains how, early in his career, he spent too much time making assumptions and building features before validating them with users. He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway.

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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. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. This sequential, waterfall-based approach used to work when there was little change and innovation, when product managers could correctly predict what the users needed and describe the detailed product functionality upfront. The Brave New Agile World.

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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. It’s often more common to see project-based user research rather than an ongoing, iterative discovery process.” I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management.

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Product Strategy Agility: How to Use Experiments and Options to Create Products Your Customers Love

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

But these predictions often do not create products your customers will love. While customers aren’t fickle, they often do not know what they want until you give them something to try. That means product leaders need to integrate experiments and options into their roadmaps.

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

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

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. 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. Review customer feedback surveys. Revitalize QA as champions.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

Companies have accomplished this through usability testing and real-time qualitative feedback from customers. However, most businesses struggle with formidable user testing and feedback processes. They will reveal trade secrets on: Turning customer feedback into actionable insights. Increasing profitability.

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How Product Teams Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Product teams can use feature flags to continuously deliver a higher-quality product to their end users, all while saving time and speeding up development cycles. Using feature flags with experimentation to accelerate time-to-value. How Flagship customers leverage feature flags to create more agile and autonomous processes.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

By tapping into the wealth of customer and application data, product professionals can identify underutilized features, prioritize improvements, and streamline development efforts in partnership with the development team.

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Before Transforming The Experience, You Need to Disrupt Yourself

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Product Expert and Keynote Speaker

In both established organizations and “small” startups, leaders need to strike a balance between the speed and agility and scale and relationships that go into successful digital transformations. How to remain (or become) customer-obsessed. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Why you need to transform to survive in the digital age.

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Using Continuous Customer Testing for Pandemic-Proof Product Success

Speaker: Luke Freiler, CEO and co-founder of Centercode

After weathering recessions with a wide range of iconic customers, CEO and Product Manager Luke Freiler has seen first hand the impact the Voice of the Customer has had in making or breaking tech companies during hard times.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes. And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. How data-driven performance reviews do that.