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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

Userpilot

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), a consultancy firm that helps companies build successful products.

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

More than anything, I wanted to maintain the team’s motivation. So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. What does the product mean to you?” Problem solved, or so I thought.

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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. They believe so strongly in their vision that they assume it’s universally appealing. You and your team may lack the knowledge or resources to execute it properly, leading to avoidance or superficial efforts.

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Inspiring Strong Product Leaders: A Conversation with Petra Wille

Product Talk

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Innovation isn’t hard, conflict is

The Product Coalition

How to generate more innovation every day As I consider starting my own business doing what I would call “software innovation management consulting” I can’t help but notice that I’m far from alone. So why so much activity in the innovation management consulting space? There are a bunch of ways teams deal with this point in time.

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407: What product managers can learn from reimagining a customer problem – with Andrew Wolgemuth

Product Innovation Educators

Andrew and his co-founder and team have created a way for their customers to design engagement rings, experience their design in their home with a mock-up ring, tweak what they want, and then receive their one-of-a-kind custom ring. We do a 30-minute video design consultation and then send them a technical sketch of the ring.

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Prioritization: How to get rid of Those Pesky Bugs?

Mind the Product

As a product consultant and trainer, I hear a lot of similar questions over and over. If something is not working properly while you are developing functionality, or something you just built has now broken something else, it’s not a bug. Sometimes I’ll get into discussions with teams about whether or not you should estimate bugs.