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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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Core responsibility: How we scaled our core technologies team

Intercom, Inc.

It’s a familiar problem for all companies that scale fast – how do you keep your core technologies manageable for the increasing number of teams that depend on them? This surfaced as an increasingly large percentage of our product teams’ time being spent on operations or deep diving into understanding our small set of core technologies.

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Product in Practice: Evaluating If a New API is Needed

Product Talk

And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them. Through this process, Chi discovered that while the KYC process required a lot of manual back and forth for some orders, only 10 of the 60 countries they served required extra documentation.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. Marketing technology is now the largest portion of total marketing budget (29% on average according to Gartner ).

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Don’t let fear of feedback undermine your technical design

Intercom, Inc.

Instead of submitting your work for review, afraid of the amount of feedback you’re going to get, embrace the process and seek out the opinions of those who will give you the most feedback from day one. Our technical design process. Write/update your documentation. Own your technical design…to the end.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

With her help, I wrote the first strategy document for Headspace, which eventually led to the complete reimagination of Headspace , maximizing growth for our guided mindfulness product and adjacent spaces. Instead, they’re meant to help the reader understand the strategy document better.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.