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How to Deal with Unresponsive Stakeholders

Folding Burritos

As Marty Cagan puts it , managing stakeholders is probably the least favorite part of our job as Product Managers. It is, however, something we need to constantly keep on our radar, specially those of us working for larger organizations. A stakeholder is any individual or group that can affect or is affected by your project or product. By this definition, the product’s end users are also stakeholders.

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Lessons Learned on the B2C2B Model

Sachin Rekhi

In a recent post Tomasz Tunguz helped popularize the term B2C2B , which characterizes enterprise businesses that leverage winning the hearts and minds of the intermediate consumer, the employees of the company, as a primary customer acquisition channel. This bottoms-up approach to driving adoption & purchase within the enterprise has gained popularity for SaaS companies in the past years, including very successful startups like Dropbox , Slack , and New Relic leveraging the model.

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What are the best rapid prototyping tools for product experiments?

DISQO

Product teams that adopt and apply lean methodologies are often challenged to find the best way to prototype their product ideas. Understanding product market fit is one thing, but having the ability to rapidly design and test prototypes is another. In addition, creating prototypes for the specific purpose of generating user feedback requires a different mindset than prototypes also built for internal stakeholders (i.e. getting buy-in from leadership and sending specs for engineering).

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The Right Tool for the Job: Only pick up a hammer if you’re working with nails.

Bruno Bergher's Writing

We designers, we can be such gearheads. We can easily spend hours discussing the latest Sketch plug-ins, arguing about the pros and cons of Framer vs Pixate, the merits of InVision over Flinto. Some people can be fanatical about the best pen to use on their Moleskines. I love that excitement: transcending….

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Product Strategy Agility: How to Use Experiments and Options to Create Products Your Customers Love

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Senior leaders often want to see months - or years - long product roadmaps. But these predictions often do not create products your customers will love. While customers aren’t fickle, they often do not know what they want until you give them something to try. That means product leaders need to integrate experiments and options into their roadmaps. In this presentation, Johanna Rothman will explain: How to limit the duration of a roadmap and show possible options.

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Surviving the IoT Revolution: A Tale of Two Companies

TSIA

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens wrote about life in London and Paris during the French Revolution. The story included this iconic opening line: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity," A Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens.

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What are the best rapid prototyping tools for product experiments?

DISQO

Product teams that adopt and apply lean methodologies are often challenged to find the best way to prototype their product ideas. Understanding product market fit is one thing, but having the ability to rapidly design and test prototypes is another. In addition, creating prototypes for the specific purpose of generating user feedback requires a different mindset than prototypes also built for internal stakeholders (i.e. getting buy-in from leadership and sending specs for engineering).

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Is your phone replacing your wallet?

UserTesting

It was a Wednesday afternoon, and that meant food trucks would be lined up outside the office for lunch. I had a craving for Pad Thai, and it just so happened the Thai truck was right there waiting for me. … The post Is your phone replacing your wallet? appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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App connects users with charities based on the news they read

SidsAvenue

via Springwise [link].

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What are the best rapid prototyping tools for product experiments?

DISQO

Product teams that adopt and apply lean methodologies are often challenged to find the best way to prototype their product ideas. Understanding product market fit is one thing, but having the ability to rapidly design and test prototypes is another. In addition, creating prototypes for the specific purpose of generating user feedback requires a different mindset than prototypes also built for internal stakeholders (i.e. getting buy-in from leadership and sending specs for engineering).

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Toward a Unified Project Management Understanding

The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

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Social media site pays members with cryptocurrency for using the platform

SidsAvenue

via Springwise [link].

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Is your phone replacing your wallet?

UserTesting

It was a Wednesday afternoon, and that meant food trucks would be lined up outside the office for lunch. I had a craving for Pad Thai, and it just so happened the Thai truck was right there waiting for me. … The post Is your phone replacing your wallet? appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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