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515: Case studies of organizational growth through successful product launches – with James Whitman

Product Innovation Educators

A framework for product launch success Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I interview James Whitman, author of LAUNCH Code and founder of Growth Guidepost. His LAUNCH Code framework offers a practical approach to product launch management that any organization can implement.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

A PM who creates unnecessary friction or fails to collaborate constructively isn’t fulfilling their responsibilities and shouldn’t remain in the role—just as with any other position. Writing off the entire profession due to isolated failures is as illogical as declaring “engineers are unnecessary” because of poorly written code.

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Common Usability Issues with Web APIs: And How Discovery Can Help

Product Talk

Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service. If that language is not well documented, then engineers wont know how to construct requests or interpret responses. Sometimes its due to documentation simply not being a priority. Watch as the customer reviews the documentation.

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Is the Design Process slow, and is it held to a different standard in terms of efficiency?

UX Planet

For the sake of this article and for the sake of being succinct, here’s what I’ve observed and learnt from all my years in working in software design and releasing multiple products to market. The first substantial software project I was involved in, was a multi-year endeavor that was already in motion when I joined the team.

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Behind the Scenes: Building the Product Talk Interview Coach

Product Talk

The other thing I want to note is: I will highlight the first time I wrote code. I got pretty darn far without having to write a single line of code. It was just through an embed code right in my LMS. Maybe if you don’t code at all, JSON feels like code. Should it be product managers? Should it be engineers?

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How aligning product and marketing teams improves customer experience

Mind the Product

As long ago as 2014, the Harvard Business Review was talking about how marketing can no longer rely on the funnel. Installed code snippet on their website. I personally experienced this kind of friction on a product where there was a clear disconnect between the marketing and product teams’ definitions of an engaged user: Marketing.

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People leave managers, not companies – 4 ways to better support your team

Intercom, Inc.

As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . You should always be asking for peer review on a people management problem before you take action, whether that’s from your own manager or your HR team. Always ask for advice.