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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. Product Management in the 90s The 90s in tech. At the time, Microsoft had Program Managers who were essentially engineers. Sound familiar?

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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). First, the developers create a wheel.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

What does it mean for us as product managers? What does it mean for us as product managers? Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. Take a look at the image below of Instagram in 2010.

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Mobile Second: When Desktop is the Right Platform to Focus on First

Mind the Product

In 2010 Google announced it would prioritize mobile ahead of desktop when developing new products. As a startup on a tight budget we had three key requirements for our development process: Build cheaply – We didn’t know how many release cycles it would take to reach product/market fit. Step 2: Development of User Hypotheses.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

Six Fallacies that Prevent Startups from Adopting Agile Successfully From 2010 to 2017, I worked several years in three Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. Participation is free.) Taylorism?—?or

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What is Self-Awareness and why Should you Care?

Mind the Product

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?