January, 2019

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How great Product Managers deal with technical debt

The Product Coalition

Larger, more complex software environments might have current or planned functionality that needs to be accounted for in your development efforts. Technical debt’s interest manifests primarily as performance issues and reduced development velocity. These in-debt products also suffer from reduced development velocity.

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Maximum Possible Products by Sally Foote

Mind the Product

She says it is possible to create quality products in this situation – but it means thinking differently from a West Coast startup. While Minimum Viable Product approaches work for startups, they assume you don’t have any constraints. You have customers with an existing product, this is a big benefit over startups.

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What Does a Successful MVP Look Like?

Mind the Product

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. 15 years ago we founded a product development studio, Mint Digital, and we’ve launched at least 100 MVPs since then. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. We had 12 half-completed new products in development. StickyGram.

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The Little Things

The Product Coalition

Many of these will surely make for good investments (have made some myself), but, as explained below, their effect on the startup zeitgeist at large concerns me. The lean startup method , once admittedly and unwisely elevated to “necessary and sufficient” status (it’s merely necessary, not singularly sufficient?—?more

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. Regardless of whether you work for a startup or a larger business, its critical to understand what product meets the needs of your audience, what unique value proposition this product is bringing to the market, and when you are straying away from the identified PMF.

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What’s the Secret to Becoming a Great Product Manager?

Mind the Product

They go from planning one product to the next, foregoing the opportunity to establish fundamental product instincts, which only develop after managing the same product for an extended period of time. For instance, I know a startup founder, who has been on this journey for close to a decade and still has not come around.

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How to Build Your Self-Confidence by Memorializing Praise and Rejection

Sachin Rekhi

I've had the opportunity to mentor a breadth of product managers through the years as well as entrepreneurs through my work as an advisor to early-stage startups. And in doing so I've spent countless hours working through product challenges, startup challenges, and everything in between. So things worked out phenomenally.

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Design Hacks for Non-Designers: Ask Expert Laura Klein

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

Laura—principal of Users Know and author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups—has over 20 years of experience helping companies innovate responsibly and improve their product development processes. Join UX designer and product management expert Laura Klein for a no-holds-barred Ask Me Anything session on UX design.

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The Secrets to Building Unique, Personalized Experiences For Your Customers

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Author of "You: The Product," Entrepreneur, and Digital Leader

He will share insights he has learned from his successes and more importantly, his failures from his careers at big companies as well as startups. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! In this webinar, you will learn: How to utilize experimentation to your advantage.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way.