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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “ brainstorming ”—doesn’t always go smoothly. Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “brainstorming”—doesn’t always go smoothly. But in case you’re not familiar with Ellen and her work, here’s a quick overview.

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Stop Technical Debt From Slowing Your Product Down By Asa Schachar

Mind the Product

What exactly is technical debt? In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Asa Schachar, Engineering Manager at Optimizely , explains exactly what technical debt is and how to stop it from slowing down the product development process. Or read on for an overview of his key points: What is technical debt and why is it important.

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

The whirlwind of change, driven by intense collaboration with design and engineering, was short-term focused — almost to a fault. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap.

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Track competitors and emerging trends with Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine

Roy Madden

The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, called Leo, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time. Meet Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine. Feedly’s AI Engine (Leo) automatically tags key market intelligence concepts.

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SaaS is Helping to Re-engineer the Caregiving Service in Farming

The Product Coalition

Table of Contents The Story Begins in Iowa ; Joining the Family Business ; Creating the Solution ; Making the Product ; Technical Challenges ; Moving To the Market ; Founder Tips ; Conclusion. You know, we’re in a technological age where we can be applying some tools to this. His father led a veterinarian clinic.

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Why Your Engineers Are Hungry for Your Product Vision.

The Product Coalition

Review design. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Why does product vision matter to your engineers? Review sprint work in retro. Write spec. Create ticket.

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