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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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Mergers & Acquisitions in Product Management: How to Navigate Growth & Integration

Productside

Meet Brian Fugere , a pro whos navigated the high-stakes terrain of M&A more times than he can count. In this edition of Productside Stories , we dig into Brians 30-year legacy of building, integrating, and supercharging product portfolios across healthcare, software, media, and government. Brians advice? People issues come first.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

Product Talk

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Teeba Teeba’s career so far has included four years in non-product roles, four years as a business owner, and four years working in fintech/banking product roles. Meet our continuous discovery champion, Teeba Alkhudairi. Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior Product Manager.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Far from dictating terms, PMs serve as facilitators, synthesizing input from engineers, designers, marketers, and other stakeholders to ensure that products meet customer needs and business objectives. Product managers don’t wield the top-down authority that CEOs do; instead, they lead through influence, alignment, and empathy.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Its chock-full of stories about how the author solved business problems by writing code. Even though it had been ten years since I had written a line of code, I decided to dive back in and I started automating my business logic. It wasnt easy.

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These “Best Practices” Are Slowly Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

Companies like Canva grew by defying industry conventions around complex, professional-focused design software making powerful design tools accessible to everyday users and businesses. If your meetings are full of nodding heads and no pushback, youre not making progressyoure just circling the familiar. and pursue the answers.

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UX Analytics: It’s Not Just About Data Collection and Methods

Userpilot

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Expert review : Established design experts check your products design based on usability principles to identify potential improvements. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.