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TEI 075: Building product lifecycle excellence – with Kimberly Wiefling - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

This episode is about the product lifecycle and developing products customers want. As the pressure to get products to market faster increases, little room is left for learning through mistakes. My guest knows this well and has helped numerous companies improve their processes and results developing products. She has worked all over the US, Europe and Asia, including traveling to Japan more than 100 times to help Japanese companies globalize.

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Structured Customer Visits

The Product Bistro

The lifeblood of product management is customer interaction. Getting out of the office, and sitting down with customers is a powerful aphrodisiac, and allows you to get unalloyed feedback. We do this as often as possible, hence why the typical product manager job description specifies 25 – 30% travel. However, left to our own devices, much of this travel is less effective than it could be.

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Product Management Career Ladders at 8 Top Technology Firms

Sachin Rekhi

Slides: Product Management Career Ladders. One of the areas I often mentor product managers on are the career paths available to them within the profession. Since there isn’t a lot of discussion about this out there, I wanted to share what the career ladders look like for product managers at 8 top technology firms as well as some of the key dimensions upon which advancement in the profession occur.

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The Competitive Analysis Stack

Haines-Group

Customers evaluate your products relative to competing products. So use a structured approach to assess competitors. (Hint, it’s not just a feature matrix.) Pick the top 2 competitors and analyze each using this stack. (Don’t forget that a key competitor may not be a competitor at all, but rather, a non-product substitute for the value that your product would provide.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Product management is hip! And other innovation insights for product managers June 10, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Yep, product management is hip and the world knows it! Those of us in product management know how vital the discipline is to business and that the role is even hip – one of the roles that has potential to have great influence in organizations.

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What it’s like being a B2B product manager — Part 1

The Product Coalition

Spectacular & Dangerous Road on Earth- Tianmen Mountain Road, Zhangjiajie, China ( [link] ) When we talk about product management in tech, usually we don’t explicitly distinguish between B2C and B2B. What we often hear people say is “Product management is very vaguely defined and varies a lot in different companies depending on the type of product, the size, stage, and culture of the company.

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The Authenticity Gap – Bringing the Donuts 06/07/2016

Ken Norton

Is “being authentic” easier said than done? -. In a recent newsletter I encouraged you to be authentic in the workplace, to make sure your work self is a reflection of your true self. The newsletter was generally well-received, with a lot of positive feedback. I also got some heartfelt responses that helped me realize how difficult it.

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[Video] Watch the Keynote Videos from TSW San Diego 2016 Online!

TSIA

Relive the excitement of TSW San Diego 2016 by watching the conference keynote videos online. See what you missed or get a refresher on your favorite takeaways and key points to share with your team so you can apply what you’ve learned to your operation. We’ve put together a playlist of these energetic and informative sessions all about winning in the cloud, watch them here !

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SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap

Good Product Manager

SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. I’ve mentioned the annual SiriusDecisions Summit a few times previously here on this blog. Well, if you missed it this year, it was held May 24-27 in Nashville and it was a fantastic event. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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How user testing fits into agile development

UserTesting

Agile has become the go-to development methodology for organizations that want to reduce the risk involved in shipping new products and features. But even though agile has helped many companies make huge workflow improvements, agile teams can still end up … The post How user testing fits into agile development appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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The Authenticity Gap – Bring the Donuts 06/07/2016

Ken Norton

Is “being authentic” easier said than done? -. In a recent newsletter I encouraged you to be authentic in the workplace, to make sure your work self is a reflection of your true self. The newsletter was generally well-received, with a lot of positive feedback. I also got some heartfelt responses that helped me realize how difficult it.

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Economic Disruption for Equipment Manufacturers: Lessons Learned and What Lies Ahead

TSIA

Since its inception, the internet has had a monumental impact on the world we live in, from gross domestic product (GDP), gross global value creation and destruction, profit performance, social networks, commerce and cyber security, emergency management, and advertising, just to name a few. As a result, equipment manufacturers are facing many new challenges as connected devices are changing the world and old business models are shattering.

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The Authenticity Gap – Bring the Donuts 06/07/2016

Ken Norton

Is “being authentic” easier said than done? -. In a recent newsletter I encouraged you to be authentic in the workplace, to make sure your work self is a reflection of your true self. The newsletter was generally well-received, with a lot of positive feedback. I also got some heartfelt responses that helped me realize how difficult it.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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How user testing fits into agile development

UserTesting

Agile has become the go-to development methodology for organizations that want to reduce the risk involved in shipping new products and features. But even though agile has helped many companies make huge workflow improvements, agile teams can still end up … The post How user testing fits into agile development appeared first on UserTesting Blog.