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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

It was all the same work I had been doing before, but now it had a different name. I liked this name. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. I went on being called a Business Analyst as I worked at banks and other financial services companies. It introduced the concept of a Product Owner.

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Why Netflix didn’t follow the regular Gold, Silver styled subscription plan names from the beginning

NextBigWhat

It is quite natural for any company to follow the industry trend of naming pricing plans – after all, use the nomenclature what others are using, as customers (we hope) understand these nomenclatures quite well. And you have to spend ad money/attention educating consumer on what the name of the plans mean. Simple, right?

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Todd Russell Hill 1967 – 2001

DevelopmentCorporate

He passed away on September 11, 2001, when the Towers fell. Todd was never recovered and his name is inscribed on panel S-46 of the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Todd was never recovered and his name is inscribed on panel S-46 of the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Todd Hill was an account executive with QRS Corporation.

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How To Build Your Audience Well Before Launching Your Product

Sachin Rekhi

It launched its now famous Signal vs. Noise blog in 2001 to share their ideas about design, business, and the web. And they knew that many of these folks would be leveraging the Internet, namely blogs, to learn the latest on personal finance. 37signals , SEOmoz , and Mint.com are three such success stories.

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Erika Hall on the importance of conversation in design

Intercom, Inc.

It’s terrifying when I say we started at the end of 2001, which is now a very, very long time ago. The importance of naming. One of the things that got cut way down or possibly totally eliminated was thinking about naming. Is this a name that’s easy to remember? I call that the dog park test.

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The Best of Both Worlds: Vertical Marketing and Horizontal Products

Product Management University

The lint roller manufacturers have figured out that they can generate more revenue by marketing the same product to a whole new segment — pet owners — under a clever new name. Most dog owners will choose the pet hair pick-up because it speaks to their specific need. It’s the best of both worlds.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

This was probably best illustrated in what’s been called the single most famous edit in the history of cinema, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s from a 1962 report published by a man named Douglas Engelbart. Ultimately, tools are a part of who we are and how we conceive of ourselves. Modern software is obsessed with tools.