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

Product Innovation Educators

James describes working with one organization that had five different sales leaders in 18 months due to these pressures. Remember that successful launches depend on more than just the product itself—they require careful attention to organizational dynamics, market conditions, and emerging technologies.

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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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Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

Build from the Ground Up —  Using these principles, construct your roadmap. Instead of accepting the limitations of battery technology and electric powertrain systems, Tesla rethought the components focusing on physics — looking at things like the specific energy density of batteries and efficiency of electric motors.

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

Product Talk

To adequately cover this topic, we are going to get into the nitty-gritty of the technical underpinnings of APIs. If you need help getting up to speed on these technical details, be sure to read last weeks article. If that language is not well documented, then engineers wont know how to construct requests or interpret responses.

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

UX Planet

And these adjustments occurred beyond Design related situations (there were many technical/technological issues to be resolved as well), though much time had been devoted to usability testing, localization, omni-channel experiences, partnerships, content creation, onboarding experiences, gamification scenarios, and the list goes on.

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How to level up your confidence game?

UX Planet

Previously, I worked in construction for three years. Here’s what I’ve done after the meeting: I’ve created an alternative design, Squeezed in a testing session Worked with the Tech lead to make sure the new design wouldn’t delay the project timeline. Confidence level Hi, I’m Hazel. I’m a product designer. And that’s it! Quite boring.

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Behind the Scenes: Building the Product Talk Interview Coach

Product Talk

I’m a big advocate for this new technology. A few months ago, I started asking, “What does this new technology make just now possible in the context of teaching?” This technology is too new to say those things will never work. And I thought this was a little better, but how do I construct this data set?