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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. So without further adieu, here are some proactive tips to maintain excellent roadmap health — no flossing required: Continuously sync to the vision and strategy.

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination. Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Fust prevailed.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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Meet the Ampliteer Leading Our Global Solutions Consulting Team: Todd Vancil

Amplitude

I was impressed with the vision our CRO, Matt Heinz, and executive leadership outlined to assemble a world-class sales organization. The Solutions Consulting (SC) team is a vital part of that vision, and I’m thrilled to have a hand in making it come to pass. This is a team full of outstanding sales and technical sales athletes.

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Treat Your Career Like you Treat Your Products by Adam Warburton

Mind the Product

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. Just as with a product, you should start with a vision. It’s our job to make good decisions. Find a Mentor. The Roadmap.

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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. Training a computer vision model is very hard and usually requires an AI research team, but we wanted to make that problem accessible to anyone.