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How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software

Mironov Consulting

When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. Think about automotive assembly line infrastructure. Or elevators for high-rise office buildings.

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In Scope for My Role?

Mironov Consulting

Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.    Some are top-down command-and-control, others are freewheeling or consensus-driven or chaotically leaderless or run by a CEO who had a bad childhood. 

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12 KPIs to Measure and Improve Your Fintech App Onboarding

The Product Coalition

If you’re a financial services product manager, you’ll know that crafting an effective fintech app onboarding process is no small feat. There are challenges unique to financial services that become magnified when dealing with mobile devices. Some ways to do that include: Using validations to prevent users from entering bad data.

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Data-Informed Retrospectives

The Product Coalition

The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

The group of businesses works across industries from agri-tech to motor to SaaS, with the shared goal of finding environmentally positive solutions that deliver on both purpose and profit. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software.

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What is Self-Awareness and why Should you Care?

Mind the Product

Ford’s glory days as one of America’s top automotive companies were a distant past, and the company was staring at $17 billion losses. In just over five years, Ford was reporting $20 billion in profits and was the only automotive company in the US to avoid a government bail-out. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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

Business of Software Conference

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? And there’s dangerous things where you will kill the people with this like chat system we just built. And we just keep adding to this list it’s hundreds of items long for systems that no longer exist.