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A Conversation with Petra Wille: My Approach to the Continuous Discovery Habits Community

Product Talk

Product leadership coach Petra Wille became fascinated with the idea of Communities of Practice because in her experience, they were the differentiating factor between companies that had successful product orgs and those that didn’t. We started with her sending a message like, “Hey, it looks like you haven’t come to a community call.

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Two Powerhouses, One Vision: How Northpass and Gainsight Will Shape the Future of Digital Customer Education

Gainsight

We’ve built a fantastic culture on our core values, won NJ’s Best Place to Work four years running, and became a sought-out destination for aspiring software engineers in Poland. We gained instant recognition from customer education luminaries who appreciated our refreshing and differentiated narrative in the market.

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Getting Quality Results from B2B Customer Interviews

ProductPlan

Let’s assume that you have established a clear research objective, either an area of inquiry related to your customers’ domain where you’d like to develop some differentiation or a hypothesis you have developed about how your product could improve based on some sort of customer feedback. Software engineers working with blockchain.

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How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software

Mironov Consulting

Unlike for major hardware, there is no perfectly accurate software spec. It’s impossible to completely describe every data validation check, option, logical branch, dialog box, pixel placement, error message and workflow without duplicating the code itself. Savvier manufacturers may reduce costs, and therefore prices.

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What Does a Lead Engineer at ProductPlan Do in a Day?

ProductPlan

I’m currently a remote Lead Software Engineer at ProductPlan, where I head up a team of four engineers focused on bringing you List View , among other things. I use Legends to differentiate our Sprint Goals vs. our Stretch Goals—this is nice to have and use as a reference to review past sprints. 6:00 pm: What a day.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind. ” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind. Just make sure to figure out how you’re defining retention for your product, and stick with it.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Other organisations, like Google, offer fantastic learning opportunities and growth progression and we believe that most NGOs will also try to differentiate on their organisational purpose. Prior to communicating the decision to the candidate, we spend time with the hiring manager to really tailor that message to the candidate.