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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

He explains that their approach to innovation deliberately avoided the common pitfall of creating a two-tiered system where only designated “innovators” were responsible for new ideas. Creating an Inclusive Innovation Environment The foundation of PayPal’s innovation success rested on a culture of trust and autonomy.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

This mostly worked, but it required a lot of administrative work to keep our systems in sync. There were dozens more that required that we make changes in all of our systems. At the heart of all of my administrative troubles was the need to move data in between disparate systems and to make sure that all of these systems were in sync.

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The Risks of Data Fragmentation + How to Fix Fragmented Data

Userpilot

This fragmentation occurs when critical business information becomes scattered across disconnected systems, creating dangerous blind spots for product managers trying to make informed decisions. Instead of feeling understood, they feel like just another name in the system. Create shared definitions and stick to them.

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. The SPACE framework of developer productivity offers a robust definition of developer productivity covering five dimensions: satisfaction and well-being, performance, activity, communication and collaboration, and efficiency and flow.

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The Rise of AI-Driven UX: Balancing Automation and Human-Centered Design in 2025

UX Planet

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). Natural Language Processing (NLP) is another game-changer, making it possible for systems to understand and respond to human language. No one can denythat.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Let’s establish some basic definitions before diving into the details of Strategy Blocks: 1.