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Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

You’re rethinking transportation itself using physics as your guide. Under Musk’s leadership, Tesla adopted a first-principles approach to rethinking fundamental aspects of the electric car. In the end, Telsa knew they wanted a car — a means of transportation for the masses — but a more sustainable, electrified one.

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Has ROI killed UX?

UX Planet

I remember sitting in a leadership meeting as the UX leader, and out of nowhere, someone asked, Jas, whats the Return On Investment, aka ROI, on UX? Poor UX can lead to catastrophic outcomes in industries like healthcare, transport, and nuclearenergy. I know I am. Take the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, for instance.

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The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

In this episode, sponsored by Pendo , listen to learn about: * Product Management in transport tech. * Georgie’s ‘Product Culture, Leadership and Fintech’ feature at Mind The Product. She covers why she enjoys working for the latter, and what it takes for a product person to succeed at each stage. .

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Leadership interviews: This is a critical input to the process and is often forgotten or skipped for various reasons. Key leaders like founders/CEO have really important nuggets of wisdom tucked away in their back pockets, which structured leadership interviews can unearth. Alignment is critical to mobilize any strategy.

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Product in Practice: How One Product Manager Innovates in Big Companies

Product Talk

And, within that domain, I’ve started to specialize in mobility and transportation-related things. You need everyone on board: your leadership , your team , teams that won’t be directly helping you to build things… absolutely everyone. I’m not terribly methodical, but this is one thing that I always do.

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Tools of the Trade: How HiveMQ Automates Customer Interview Recruiting with Orbital

Product Talk

HiveMQ powers use cases in automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, transportation, and more. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy.

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Travis – thank you for leading us at Uber

Andrew Chen

You never feel like the leadership is resting on their laurels, just dialing it in, because TK wasn’t. TK– thank you for your leadership and passion over the years. Wenqi Shao: Thank you Travis for inspiring us to change the face of transportation, for being our chief problem solver. Details matter. We will miss you.