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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers. You build it, ship it, run it: DevOps, Probably a micro-service architecture, Test automation (TDD, BDD), Continuous integration, Probably continuous delivery, You need to keep technical debt at bay. gain a say in designing your application.

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Product Management for Non-Software Products

Sequent Learning

Product Management for Non-Software Products. Prior to joining Sequent Learning Networks as Vice President, JJ spent 18 years in various leadership roles in the financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare industries for companies such as First Data, T-Mobile and American Hospital Association. Episode 67. With host JJ Rorie.

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Our ultimate goal at Human API is to have a B2C play where we create a marketplace for the consumer to do even more with their health data,” says Lisa. Tweet This.

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Product Development Health Check Playbook

The Product Coalition

To ensure you take a holistic approach, review these five key elements of your product development practice: Mindsets Organisation Practices Tools and Technologies Financials 1. David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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449: The secret advice tech companies use to excel in product – with Ben Foster

Product Innovation Educators

Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy. When I see that type of thing happening, I tell the senior leadership team to ask their CEO, “What’s your strategy?” 12:41] How can leaders better communicate strategy?

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How to Become a B2B Product Manager

The Product HQ

Business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) product managers (PMs) have mastered various hard skills. Product managers also have essential soft skills such as communication, leadership, empathy, collaboration, understanding customers, and strategic thinking. There is no shortcut to becoming a B2B product manager.

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