Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Change happens. Change is one of the inevitable aspects of business and life. Some find it difficult to deal with change, and their attitude toward it limits their growth.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Home Depot product managers are not giving up in the fight against Amazon Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you are a product manager working in the field of retail goods, there is one word that should strike fear in your heart: Amazon. Retailers like Macy’s, Nordstrom’s, and Kohl’s have all been reporting decreased sales and the culprit is Amazon.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2017

US-based technology companies are working at a fever pitch to recruit the best talent available. I live in Seattle where many Silicon Valley-based firms, including Google and Facebook, have opened offices to tap into the wealth of local talent that companies like Microsoft and Amazon enjoy here. Another growing trend is to hire offshore talent to fill those critical engineering roles which cannot be filled quickly enough here and, perhaps more importantly, is significantly cheaper.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Yegor Bugayenko asked me to be a guest on his podcast to talk about Hiring Geeks That Fit. I gladly accepted and the podcast is now up: Shift-M/10. We spoke about many issues in hiring: Laundry list/shopping list problem in job descriptions. Starting with a “test” or a phone screen (I need to write a post about starting with auditions/tests first.).

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I Wonder The Value

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In August, I organized Lean Startup session with one of my mentors, Guita Gopalan. What the audiences were excited about is how to get feedback from customers, simply and quickly. But, when you apply Lean Startup in real product development, there are a lot of following questions to make the method to reality. The first key question you must answer is; When we can say “we already validated our product/feature”?

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Whether in the pool or already on the market, a new product or service with plenty of ideas will constantly require recurring feature prioritization. An implementation which might have seemed unnecessary one day can become a basic expectation the next. This carries great responsibility, as some new functions might impact usability and also affect business related interests.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2017

How to get the right insights from the right users to have successful products. Design is increasingly an aspect of product management, not just product teams. More of us are familiar with user experience and its impact on design, but where does design really begin? Every true user experience expert I have talked with about this has the same answer and that’s with the user of the product or the person with the problem that we wish to solve with a product.

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