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Design Sprints by Jake Knapp

Mind the Product

In 2001 Jake was working at Microsoft on the Encarta Encyclopaedia product, and all encyclopaedia content was stored on a CD-ROM – in new and innovative ways for the time. There is a strict script and system for making the most of this week, without any meetings, as it’s a heavy investment for any company. The Genesis.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. “The customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems we use. But the customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems that we use.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

Google, still just a scale-up in 2001, managed to come out stronger from the dot com bust and made a successful IPO in 2004. We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. If you’ve been reading my articles in the past you know the system I’m alluding to?—? The GIST Framework ?—?Goals,

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Is it Time for a Licence to Practise Product Management?

Mind the Product

This is why: Product management isn’t yet a standardised discipline – The legal profession is well established, and deeply rooted in legal systems that are centuries old. Many thanks to Rosemary King, James Gadsby-Peet, Lisa Long and Andy Ayim for reviewing draft versions of this article. Let’s get started! Kent Beck et al.,

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Idea Validation?—?Much More Than Just A/B Experiments

The Product Coalition

Stakeholder reviews?—?You You want to review your idea with internal stakeholders not because they can tell you if it’s a good idea or not (they will definitely try), but because they can help flush out business risks? In 2001 this outcomes-over-output message was definitely very new.

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The Digital Workspace Monitoring Journey

eG Innovations

I joined eG Innovations in 2001 when the company was an infant. When there is a problem, you have to be able to say whether the issue occurred in the Citrix stack or whether it was due to the underlying infrastructure – the virtualization technology (VMware, MS Hyper-V, Citrix hypervisor, etc.). Another area of focus is automation.

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Commentary on 14th Annual State of Agile Report ? Part 1.

Agile Velocity

From a glass half-full perspective, consider the progress made adopting Agile, especially since the Manifesto in 2001. Some of the top practices include holding Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Sprint/Iteration Planning, and Sprint/Iteration Reviews. . There are two interpretations of this statistic. Going Beyond “The Team” Focus.