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392: How uncovering customer pains and unmet needs led to launching a rapidly growing product – with Matt Danna

Product Innovation Educators

His professional career has entirely involved product roles, most often as Product VP or Head of Product. During his experience he became aware of an opportunity to better serve small businesses that needed to frequently make and manage client appointments. 2:35] What early experiences caused you to be interested in creating products?

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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Remote Work: Ways to Think About “Fair” Compensation and Benefits

Johanna Rothman

Before the pandemic, Jenny, the VP of Engineering, insisted that the engineering staff needed to work in the Boston area. And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Focus On Releasing Products Customers Want to Buy. Reduced cycle time. And a good customer experience.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

Hint: this is how engineers would approach prioritization and roadmapping in an unemotional world of perfect information and fully aligned organizational goals. “Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” Instead, I emphasize picking improvements that large numbers of customers have requested.

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Insider Secrets for High Impact Growth with Sean Ellis

Bryce York

But came back for the first time in 30 years to speak at SydStart 2015? Growth may be simple to see but; how do you engineer growth? The biggest cost of an out of sync team – wasted effort. That time and energy was wasted because everyone wasn’t on the same page. Goal : Improve new user activation.

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Who’s Speaking at Amplify 2019?

Amplitude

And Amplify has something for more than just PMs—our speakers come from a host of backgrounds including growth marketing, engineering, and customer experience. In her time at Slack, she took the company from 500K daily active users to 5M daily active users. Merci Grace. And, in 2011, he founded Zoom.

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What is the Role of a Technical Program Manager?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

They must be able to make prudent decisions when it comes to how to best apply an organization's time, resources, and personnel to achieve some end. Previous experience managing people may be very helpful in this regard. Primarily, TPMs work extensively with the engineering teams in their organization.