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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

I articulated Customer Development methodology, which says: There are no facts inside your building, so you need to get outside. My student Eric Ries became the first adopter of Customer Development and recognized that in the 21st century, people were starting to adopt Agile Engineering, where you build products incrementally and iteratively.

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406: Why you should join a professional organization as a product manager – with Susan Penta

Product Innovation Educators

What product managers need to know about the Product Development and Management Association. The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) has been curating the body of knowledge for product managers, leaders, and innovators and helping them improve since 1976—the longest-running product management professional group.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our second book, Corporate Explorer Handbook , says that as management consultants and academics we don’t know all the answers. It’s only done with structure or process, not with leadership or culture. Most of the answers are in the field with the people doing this. You need that fire of an individual.

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Artificial Intelligence Requires Real Intelligence

Business Acumen Institute

With this in mind, here are a couple of the key skills that leaders need to hone their real (business and leadership) intelligence: Strategic Thinking. The more you do this, the more you’ll develop the ability to see patterns and connect the dots. With all of this, it comes down to developing business acumen.

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Product Managers are Not Required to Design, But Learning Design is Part of The Job

The Product Coalition

Understanding design can help PMs effectively communicate the company’s goals to designers and support the development of a high-quality user experience. The leadership of product teams is a shared responsibility between product managers, engineering leads, and UX designers.

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Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes

Agile Velocity

DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and the first anniversary of Inter-Amigos

Intercom, Inc.

“We each had our own goals for what we wanted our ERG to accomplish, ranging from creating a safe space and building community, to facilitating professional development”. We each had our own goals for what we wanted our ERG to accomplish, ranging from creating a safe space and building community, to facilitating professional development.

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