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How High Performance Organisations Innovate at Scale by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

Methods such as annual performance reviews, quarterly planning and budgeting just do not allow us to react with the speed that’s required to operate a business in an efficient way. 80% of companies think they’re providing a superior proposition, according to Closing the Delivery Gap, the well-known 2005 survey from Bain and Co.

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Why Product Management Is Not The Same As Oprah’s Favorite Things

The Product Guy

They saw the title would be design review or feature review, but what did that really mean? But did it make my life easier if I had to spend extra time outside of meetings explaining things or hold additional meetings because we weren’t able to cover everything in my agenda due to getting stuck on an item? About Esley Svanas.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Revisiting Ben Horowitz’s sentiment that PMs shouldn’t sweat about the “how,” maybe you don’t need to attend the daily meeting the design team holds or sit in on the engineering team’s code review sessions; instead, attend just the important meetings, and set aside more time to focus on big picture items.

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4 Challenges Every Growing SaaS Business Will Face: Lessons from Micha? Sadowski of Brand24

Userpilot

Brand 24 , a social media monitoring solution founded and headquartered in Poland, provides instant access to brand mentions across social, news, blogs, videos, forums, podcasts, reviews, and more. explains, “but back in 2005, this was new and innovative.”. explains, “but back in 2005, this was new and innovative.”. Their goal?

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

A product or feature might have been successful at the time of release, but technical capabilities improve and user expectations evolve. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. For Odeo, pivoting was a defensive move due to competitors taking market share, but not every pivot is a do-or-die situation.

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

Product Innovation Educators

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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Product Talk Is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Juhlin

Product Talk

And that’s how I got into product development—I was beta testing, writing documentation, spec’ing out new features, and learning a lot about technology and hardware, networking, software, processing, clients, all sorts of things. This was around 2005. Bridging that gap from creative to technical had some challenges.