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Waterfall or Agile? It Turns Out It Really Doesn’t Matter.

Sequent Learning

? Waterfall or Agile? When I started in product management in the early 2000s, my company exclusively used the “waterfall” development methodology. We were the epitome of a linear-driven organization with our phased scoping documents, business cases, product requirements documents (PRDs) and development plans. I worked for a large financial services firm that responsibly monitored […].

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Product Manager is not the Customer

The Product Bistro

The role of product manager is somewhat synonymous 1 with the agile concept of “product owner” where you are the representative of the “customer” to the development team. The implication is that this is a role that channels the customers’ needs, desires, demands into the process. What this doesn’t mean is that the product owner is the customer, substituting her needs/experience/knowledge for actual customer facing requirements, but instead represents the custo

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Why Product Managers Are Key to IoT Security

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we discuss why Product Managers are key to IoT security. We also talk about the importance of creating a culture of security within your company. Since security continues to be one of the top challenges plaguing IoT adoption, this is an episode no Product Leader should miss. […]. The post Why Product Managers Are Key to IoT Security appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.

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Convert more leads with our new HubSpot and Marketo apps

Intercom, Inc.

Today, we’re announcing our new HubSpot and Marketo apps, which allow you to seamlessly sync your customer data so that you can nurture and convert more leads. Sales and marketing teams today have access to more tools than ever before. These tools help with everything from increasing website traffic to upselling customers, but the abundance of tools on offer brings its own challenges – not least of which is having your customer data in many different places.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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5 Lessons in Designing Physical Products for Software Product Managers

Mind the Product

In 2009, I’d already had 15-year career in the tech industry, mainly as a product manager at software companies like Microsoft and Adobe. But that year, I decided to take the plunge into physical products, launching KOR Water with my partner Eric Barnes. Our goal was to make what we called “sustainable hydration” the non-negotiable, socially acceptable choice over bottled water.

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Starting The UX Process: How We Organise Kick-off Workshops

UX Studio

This detailed article will guide you through how we facilitate a UX project kick-off workshop here at UX studio. A kick-off meeting is an opportunity to introduce the UX process, list and format of the deliverables, and project control and change management processes. Beginning with pre-preparations and going through follow-up, we will explain the whys, packed with examples and practical information.

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The Hottest Tech in Silicon Alley at the July 2018 NY Tech Meetup

Indicative

Each month, we bring you the highlights the Silicon Alley’s longest-running tech event, the NY Tech Meetup. Indicative was proud to be among the presenting companies at July’s event, hosted at AppNexus. Presenters demoed technology that ranged from helping consumers save money, to helping the city plant longer-lasting trees. Read more about the night’s highlights below.

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Plan with Problems. Execute with Solutions.

The Product Coalition

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency. The rest of the company (product management, project management, sales, executive team, marketing) might be left behind or only be partly included.

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Creating a dynamic visual hierarchy: best practices from Chipman Design Architecture

Miro

Creating a dynamic visual hierarchy: best practices from Chipman Design Architecture Here at RealtimeBoard, we empower team-driven companies to create outstanding products and experiences while we turn the challenges of distributed work into competitive advantages. That’s why we are always curious about the ways leading companies from around the world build a strong foundation for a […].

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Experiment 02 — Title-only, Magazine, and Card Views

Roy Madden

We all have different preferences when it comes to the layout of the lists of articles we skim. Some people prefer text only, some prefer large images, some prefer a mix of both. We created different views to let you personalize Feedly to what works best for you. The purpose of Experiment 2 is to give the community the opportunity to provide feedback and help tune the designs.

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The Hottest Tech in Silicon Alley at the NY Tech Meetup

Indicative

Each month, we bring you the highlights the Silicon Alley’s longest-running tech event, the NY Tech Meetup. Indicative was proud to be among the presenting companies at July’s event, hosted at AppNexus. Presenters demoed technology that ranged from helping consumers save money, to helping the city plant longer-lasting trees. Read more about the night’s highlights below.

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Waterfall or Agile? It Turns Out It Doesn’t Really Matter

Sequent Learning

Waterfall or Agile? When I started in product management in the early 2000s, my company exclusively used the “waterfall” development methodology. We were the epitome of a linear-driven organization with our phased scoping documents, business cases, product requirements documents (PRDs) and development plans. I worked for a large financial services firm that responsibly monitored any and all changes to its core platform.

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Improve Your Results with Clear Value Propositions

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

Let’s say that you work for a beer company and are trying to figure out how to increase revenues. Sales is pitching to distributors that the beer is “Less Filling”, while Marketing is advertising that the beer “Tastes Great” and Operations is delivering “the Lowest Cost Light Beer.” If you could get everyone aligned around a common understanding of the product’s value proposition, each team’s actions would reinforce (rather than contradict) one another for maximum impact.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Waterfall or Agile? It Turns Out It Really Doesn’t Matter.

Sequent Learning

? Waterfall or Agile? When I started in product management in the early 2000s, my company exclusively used the “waterfall” development methodology. We were the epitome of a linear-driven organization with our phased scoping documents, business cases, product requirements documents (PRDs) and development plans. I worked for a large financial services firm that responsibly monitored […].

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

In the past few days we’ve been browsing the internet with a single purpose?—?to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. So we decided to curate a list of the best of the best?

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Why Product Planning for B2B should be different than B2C

The Product Coalition

Is there a difference between developing a product for enterprise and a consumer? Although in both cases your software product is used by humans, an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different. It is true that enterprise products are becoming more consumerized as the world gets more competitive and user expectations increase.

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