PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

But a smart library that knows your reading preferences could tell you exactly what books you'd like to read next and where to find them in a sprawling physical space. Their books are organized by type and by author last name. In the example above, product customization advancements can be applied to legacy systems like libraries.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 7, 2022

This is not the first time Amazon has tried to add designer wares to its sprawling and fast-growing website. Since creating a special section on its mobile app to house high-end fashions, the e-commerce giant has been able to attract just a handful of big brands.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 20, 2023

Supercenters are sprawling stores of around 180,000 square feet offering 100,000 products. Instead, they think that their supercenters could be the heart of a web of businesses all working together to attract shoppers and drive profits. So what are these “supercenters”?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fast Company) Process – How Spotify manages 500+ squads at scale How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software components in production?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2018

Thanks to the internet, on-demand shopping experiences have nearly put an end to seemingly endless big-box stores and the sprawling real-estate they need to support customers. Advances in automation are creating new efficiencies that can scale customer support teams. Consumer expectations.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

You start with good intentions, but the toll keeps going up and you end up just sprawling and sprawling and sprawling. All the additional knowledge system is doing is just adding to that waste a day a week. A company signed on and became a Guru customer last year, and they had roughly 600 sales AEs across the world.

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Gainsight

MAY 31, 2022

While technology and automation create efficiency and scale, it’s also important to limit tool sprawl. For CSMs, it means they are able to drive value conversations instead of issue escalations. . Tools and technology are part of the solution, but you’ll find greater success maximizing fewer tools at the start. .

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Amazon’s dominance of digital retail sales has led to a fast-growing ecosystem of startups and services aimed at matching different parts of Amazon’s sprawling network and at helping product managers and brands of all sizes meet consumer expectations set by the e-commerce heavyweight.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Survey: Choose from a sprawling library of survey templates or create one from scratch. Segmentation: Create fine-grained user segments based on your user’s industry, job title, in-app behavior, and more. Trigger bespoke experiences for users according to their user group. Launch targeted surveys with Userpilot.

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Roadmunk

JUNE 20, 2017

Our new system makes it easy to see the biggest picture, no matter how complex or sprawling your organization. It can get complicated and finicky, especially when everyone’s roadmaps live in different places and tools.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s infamous for its geographic sprawl, while Bristol is a relatively compact city. Two years from its initial launch and Wriggle had evolved from an idea about using tech to tackle food waste into a known name for a certain set of app-savvy urbanites in Bristol. It was time to expand. London was calling.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Contributor management : You can create a sprawling decentralised network of freelancers and international partners. Master calendar : The master calendar has everything you need to collaborate efficiently and plan content ahead of time, knowing exactly what you are publishing and when.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

While this isn’t mandatory, it is another solution for when the product backlog starts to sprawl. For some agile teams, splitting user stories into two separate roadmaps might mean dividing out the product owner’s responsibilities between two new roles, say product backlog manager and product owner , as Andrew Petro argues. Velocity Tracking.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It uses sprawling sentences of vaguely agreeable sentiments, and sloppy formatting, to dissuade readers from engaging with its contents. A good doc takes the time to outline non-objectives and risky assumptions. It challenges the reader, and pulls out underlying disagreements for discussion.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It uses sprawling sentences of vaguely agreeable sentiments, and sloppy formatting, to dissuade readers from engaging with its contents. A good doc takes the time to outline non-objectives and risky assumptions. It challenges the reader, and pulls out underlying disagreements for discussion.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In 2014 the radical dutch design studio Metahaven created an online documentary about propaganda in the age of social media, focusing on the Ukraine War, called The Sprawl. Here are some examples. This is their website for the documentary. All its elements are fighting for our attention : the background, the videos, the text.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 30, 2018

It uses sprawling sentences of vaguely agreeable sentiments, and sloppy formatting, to dissuade readers from engaging with its contents. A good doc takes the time to outline non-objectives and risky assumptions. It challenges the reader, and pulls out underlying disagreements for discussion. A bad doc is written to be written?—?a

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

A sprawling, empire-building roadmap branches out from the core capabilities that brought success to the product and tries to take it in new directions. Instead of chasing potential and possibilities, the product roadmap must build on what matters most. Don’t squander a solid foundation. Product roadmaps lay out the future for the product.

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eG Innovations

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since instances are easy to create, instance sprawl could happen – i.e., instances are created, but administrators forget to take them down. Troubleshooting is more difficult because IaaS customers do not have complete visibility to the cloud service provider infrastructure.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The productivity expansion, gain in flexibility with the video creation process and the creation of a sprawling, decentralized network of thousands of freelancers, while closely monitoring production, costs and revenue, has increased the stock price investors put on the company.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

But continually adding new features and enhancements will result in a sprawling feature set that becomes a nightmare to support, with each new widget likely providing diminishing returns. It makes the product seem much more functional and gives sales and marketing additional things to talk about.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

If, however, you have a sprawling product which several different teams use, you could separate your knowledge base into different use cases. This largely depends on your product and your customers. If your product is mostly straightforward, then perhaps it would be wise to create categories based on the few key features.

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eG Innovations

JANUARY 4, 2022

Tool sprawl could be hindering IT teams’ ability to find the root-cause of problems and could be contributing to unnecessary war room scenarios. As we’ve seen, IT teams do recognize the need for a converged solution to reduce tool sprawl, so why do companies spend so much money on purchasing new monitoring tools with overlapping capabilities?

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 If we’re not really serious about 100% end-of-support for on-prem, let’s instead agree that we’ll have massive product sprawl and not go through the EOL motions.  A  Will a mountain of tech dept and product sprawl and unsupported code hurt our exit strategy?  A few more nibbles of the cake.

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Gainsight

JUNE 6, 2023

via GIPHY But as Collins says, vendor consolidation is about more than just cost-cutting: “There was a lot of software sprawl during the boom. It’s not necessarily about saving money, it’s about simplicity and efficiency, and not having to integrate multiple systems that weren’t built to talk to each other.”

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 9, 2018

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Atlassian

APRIL 6, 2022

With components, scorecards, and apps, we’re excited to see how Compass can help teams not only tame software sprawl but also improve how teams work. Compass is available today in alpha, with a beta coming soon.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 9, 2021

A typical SAP deployment is usually a sprawling, complex system and is one of the most critical applications an enterprise relies on to keep the business functioning, with it interacting with production, sales, dispatch, HR, and other areas of the business.

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eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Moreover, the proliferation of such VMs results in a virtualization or VM sprawl – a condition where the count of VMs reaches unmanageable proportions. Admins need reports that highlight VM Sprawl. #6 6 VM Disk Read/Write IOPS and Throughput.

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Userpilot

MAY 16, 2023

Beyond the sprawling knowledge bases and ever-occupied support agents, UX patterns and in-app communication channels help you meet customers’ needs on demand. Ever wondered how you can implement contextual help that meets customers right at their point of need?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When you are creating an opportunity space for the first time, it’s normal for it to sprawl and be messy. We cover each of these steps in our Opportunity Mapping course. How do you manage the messiness of the opportunity space over time? That’s because you are still learning about the underlying structure of the opportunity space.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Many attribute this to the sprawling bureaucracy of middle managers. Some candidates may find a better culture fit at companies such as Facebook , Amazon , Microsoft , Stripe , Dropbox , LinkedIn , or even smaller companies. Nevertheless, you can never understate: Google is a phenomenal company to work for.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

 Sales gets to pick, and we go another quarter without addressing fragile systems or architectural debt or instrumentation or product sprawl. [B] Eventually, the CEO gives up. and decides that we'll choose projects with the highest current-quarter-revenue ROI.  Sales "That's not how agile works."

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Iteratively Blog

JANUARY 9, 2021

Without a link between your goals, metrics and events you’ll most likely end up with a sprawling tracking plan and data you don’t actually need, while missing out on events crucial to your business. It’s crucial that you start by outlining your metrics and then work your way down to what events you need to properly report on that metric.

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iTexico Design

JULY 16, 2019

Knowledge is the defining aspect that has made humankind as sprawling and thriving as it is today. Aid design and scalability by providing a set of predefined rules. Answer questions like “where should this go.”. History of the Design Grid.

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Split

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The framework we were there to learn was laid out in a sprawling chart with 37 separate boxes. Each of us arriving at that class at the fancy waterfront hotel felt a little special, excited to have been entrusted with charting the course for our product.

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Atlassian

APRIL 6, 2022

Those with more flexible tools say it simplifies their work, making them happier in their roles, while those adopting a growing number of inflexible tools face the risk of tool sprawl. Instead of focusing on the number of tools available, it’s more important to think about the value that each tool brings to your developers.

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