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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Shuba Swaminathan, Vice President of Product, Developer Experience & Design at Vonage

280 Group

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Shuba Swaminathan, Vice President of Product, Developer Experience & Design at Vonage. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter.

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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Listen to this article: [link].

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Product Development Process: A Breakdown for Aspiring Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Let’s take a look at what product development is and what are its stages. Product Development is the process of conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing and launching a new product or service. Five steps in the product development process 1.

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Developing team member skills

Lead on Purpose

The next step is to … Continue reading → Product Management Team Building decisions development influence Innovation Knowledge market market expert skillsAs you progress on the journey of building great teams, you create the vision, build a strong foundation of trust and motivate your team to reach beyond what they thought they were capable of doing.

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A DevOps Guide for Product Managers

Speaker: Suzie Prince, Head of DevOps, Atlassian

In an ever changing world Product Managers are being pushed now, more than ever, to keep up with business and customer demands. At the same time they, and their engineering teams, are struggling to adapt to work in new all remote ways. Luckily, the culture of DevOps and the practice of Continuous Delivery supports product managers and their teams as modern software development evolves at a rapid pace. Join Suzie Prince, Head of Product for DevOps at Atlassian, and make sure your software team never misses a beat during the pandemic.

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Product development: or how to turn factories into gardens

Mind the Product

In this article, product leader Assaph Mehr puts forward an alternative mental model for product development – think about building a garden not a factory So much has been written about feature factories, I won’t add to it.

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16 extremely useful Chrome extensions for developers

Usersnap

A couple of months ago, we reviewed the new Firefox browser designed for developers. Since then most of our developers kept Google Chrome as their primary browser. With the built-in developer tools, there seems to be no further need for more tools. Web Developer.

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The Power of PM Professional Development Planning [+Webinar]

280 Group

Product leaders understand that training and development are an effective means for empowering employees. Deciding which skills are most important to the team and the business, and how to develop them can be a challenge. Product Management

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Lean Product Development: A Breakdown for Aspiring Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Let’s take a look at what Lean product development is all about. Source: [link] Product development is the process of creating and improving products that meet the needs of consumers. This is where lean product development comes in. What is Lean Product Development?

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Developing Your Team Purpose

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by John Izzo, PhD and Jeff Vanderwielen PhD Today’s product managers wear many hats and are required to be motivators, counsellors, mentors, and enforcers. It’s difficult to balance competing job priorities and some leaders do a great job … Continue reading → Leadership Purpose mentor motivator teamwork

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Feedback: The Secret to Innovating Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Liz Love, Chief Commercial Officer at ProdPad

Join Liz Love, Chief Commercial Officer at ProdPad as she details how product feedback can improve your product development process while mitigating stakeholder conflict, constant feature requests, failed launches, unexpected outcomes, unhappy users, and complexity.

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Importance of Software Architecture in Product Development - Kovair Blog

Kovair

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Web Development vs App Development: Things You Must Consider For Projects

The Product Coalition

Explore-things-web-development-vs-app-development Are you confused about web development vs app development while creating a digital application? Explore more to define web vs mobile development further. Which is better web development or app development?

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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. With her background in product management and marketing, the lessons, stories and tips she has to convey will be very relevant to you.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Quisha Light, Manager, Product Development and Lifecycle Management at Portland General Electric

280 Group

For our next installment of the Trailblazing Women in Product Management series, I interviewed Quisha Light, Manager, Product Development and Lifecycle Management at Portland General Electric (PGE). How did you get into product management?

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

Product teams tend to get ahead of themselves by rushing from idea straight to building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). How can a product manager slow their team down and prevent them from wasting valuable resources? Join Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant, as he introduces a new way of understanding MVPs and explores how you can approach validation without wasting the resources of your development team.

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The Product Manager Development Framework I Never Had

The Product Coalition

My first foray into managing products started around 6 years ago. Now, I have the amazing responsibility of coaching other Product Managers. I’ve been on a journey when it comes to PM development frameworks.

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To Influence Product Development, Spend More Time in the Problem Space

280 Group

Product Managers are, by nature, problem solvers – and sometimes, they may jump into talking about solutions before fully understanding the problems that a product is attempting to solve. It’s very hard to influence developers from the solution space,” Ken said. “It Product Management

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Oversharing Information With Developers: Product Management Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Image by master1305 on Freepik Writing product requirements is the bread and butter of thousands of product managers or product owners worldwide. It’s how to communicate to developers what to build. The actual development required was miniscule. Development was over quickly.

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How to Cut Through Noise When Creating Product Development Strategy

Gocious Blog

As a product manager , you know that your product strategy is vital to both your department's and company's success. Let's dig into your basic necessities to establish and follow your product development strategy. Product Development

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Epic Alignment

How can you drive the thinking on what to develop, why and how to do it — leveraging the insights from both team and stakeholders — all the way from idea to deploy? "Epic alignment" describes four broad approaches that help Product Managers excel.

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Chapter 15/17 :?—?Managing Product Development

The Product Coalition

Managing Product Development [Prev : Chapter 14?—?How Product Management 101 ] There are several methodologies to develop a Software Product. Traditionally, Waterfall model was used as an SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Methodology. Chapter 15/17 :?—?Managing

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Timeline of 20 Common Product Development Activities

The Product Coalition

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. Why duration impacts success (and failures) The main reason why the timeline of activities can be a problem in product development is because of dependencies on other people.

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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. Product Managers often face a race to the finish, so to speak.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand that role to champion usability and customer delight? Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience.

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Developing high-performance product teams

Lead on Purpose

It’s difficult (if not impossible) to quantify what it takes to develop a productive and successful product team. From a distance it may seem that there’s no process or methodology … Continue reading → Leadership Product Management Team Building Trust action collaboration decisiveness influence methodology motivate product vision productivityEvery product is unique, and every company does things differently.

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Product Managers Guide to API Developer Portal UX

The Product Coalition

API Growth to 2109 | Wendell Santos Michael Endler outlines the core pillars of an API product offering in his article, How APIs Become API Products , and one of the paramount compliments to a stellar, well-documented, API is the API Developer Portal. API Developer Portal UX Codat.io

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A product manager’s guide to customer development

Mind the Product

The Customer Development framework was developed by Steve Blank as part of the Lean Startup methodology. In brief Customer development uses many [.] Read more » The post A product manager’s guide to customer development appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Optimal Product Process™ 3.0 Phase Three: Develop

280 Group

This post describes the third phase in the Optimal Product Process: Develop. Using a great plan (whether an Agile backlog with sprint priorities assigned or a more formal plan) the agreed upon product is then developed. Unlocking the secrets of the product development trade-off triangle. Product development features a well-known concept called the development trade-off triangle. Solidify any development plans that remain uncertain. Product Management

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The Future of Product Management

Speaker: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of The Product School

Whether you’re charting a career, seeking industry intel direct from the (crowd) source, or curious about the product-led trajectory, join the CEO of the Product School, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, for a close up on the future of product management.

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Tesla Agile Development: Product Management at its Best

280 Group

Tesla Agile Development: Version 8.0 Software and Product Management at its best. The post Tesla Agile Development: Product Management at its Best appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. Agile Product Management Agile Cool Products FeaturesLast week I received the version 8 update from Tesla.

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If I Were Building a Product Management Organization From Scratch, It Wouldn’t Have Product Managers

Product Management University

Don’t sweat it, product manager purists. Building a product management organization in this manner gets you into your dream job, the strategic product management role you’ve always wanted, and your new title reflects your actual responsibilities. Product Management

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Heather Wiederstein, VP of Solutions Development (Head of Product) at Learning Ally

280 Group

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management series, I interviewed Heather Wiederstein, VP of Solutions Development (Head of Product) at Learning Ally. How did you get into product management? What do you like most about product management?

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Building the perfect product manager: A model for professional development by Greg Prickril

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Heidelberg talk, Greg Prickril, product management lead at Qualified ONE, provides a five-step framework for thinking about career development. [.] Product Management Career Career Career Development ProductTank

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Join Christian Bonilla, VP of Product at UserTesting, as he reveals tips for taking ownership of the product vision to guide the development process. He will discuss how a strong product vision informs your strategy and roadmap, common traps to avoid, share real-life examples, and show ways to reinforce the product vision into your team’s day to day.

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How Can You Keep Your Developers Motivated in the Long Term? Here Are a Few Tips.

The Product Coalition

Motivating your developers is a crucial aspect of your role in ensuring the success of your product. After all, a motivated team leads to… Continue reading on Product Coalition » productivity developer product-management motivation developer-productivity

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The Five Most Important Phases of Product Development

The Product Coalition

How to develop successful software products Continue reading on Product Coalition ». product-management product-design technology software-development productivity

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Common Product Development Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Gocious Blog

Product managers are the leaders in product development in that they bring the necessary stakeholders together. They're also responsible for managing product roadmaps to ensure their product gains a competitive edge in consumer markets. Product Development PRM

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A Product Development Framework With a Focus on Problem Solving

Mind the Product

The post A Product Development Framework With a Focus on Problem Solving appeared first on Mind the Product. Guest Post Product Development Process Problem-Solving Product Development product development framework product management

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How to Reach Peak Performance With the Product Management Organizational Health Checklist

Speaker: Rina Vernovskaya, CEO, 280 Group; and Roger Snyder, VP of Marketing, 280 Group

The degree of maturity of your product management organization can directly drive your ability to satisfy customers and become more profitable. Our Product Management Organizational Health Checklist and on-demand webinar can help.