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Product In the Time of Cholera*

Mironov Consulting

Implications for customers, markets and company economics that may change what we build. This is a time to demonstrate our humanity and empathy. Talk through synch vs. asynch work models and time assumptions. Or adjust assumptions about response times. Long lead-time partnerships with huge corporations can probably wait.

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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. MVP: Test an Idea Before Investing In It In 2010, businessman Joel Gascoigne came up with an idea to create an app that would allow social media users to plan the date and time of posting. Why should you invest in MVP development?

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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

Teresa wrote : “When tackling new problems, we each bring our own unique perspective to the situation, based on our past experience with those types of problems. Each person on your team represents a unique set of experiences and thus brings a fresh perspective to the situation. But she was coming up against a bit of a roadblock.

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Product Managers Deal With The Problem Of Too Much Sand

The Accidental Product Manager

A product management job in this industry has been one to have for a long time. However, customer needs are starting to change. To make things even worse, this is a time in which drilling activity has slowed down. Sand comes with a high cost of transport. Sand is transported by both rail and by truck.

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Crafting Success: How Understanding Context Transforms Product Development

The Product Coalition

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” — Peter Drucker I often go on walks as those are the times I do my best thinking. And why is McKinsey, the world’s premier management consulting firm, talking about it? That perplexing issue a user has. It is also good exercise when you live near a mountain.

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481: Lessons learned developing medical products – with Ron Richard

Product Innovation Educators

He has over 35 years of experience in the Medical Industry, has launched over 40 products, and has 17 patents under his belt. I started through my experience as a respiratory therapist. Through my experience at ResMed, we developed some of the most world-class, very comfortable masks you could ever imagine. I love this car.”

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What Can Amazon’s Product Managers Do About All Of Those Boxes?

The Accidental Product Manager

I get a little thrill each and every time I come to the front door and see an Amazon box sitting there waiting for me to bring it into the house and open it up. What they want to do is to find ways to ship things to their customers in fewer and smaller containers. There is even a term for how this makes customers feel: wrap rage.