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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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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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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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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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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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Co-Located vs. Remote/Distributed Teams: What Works and Why

The Product Coalition

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. This was around 2010. We realized early that you can have all the tactics in the world but if they hit your homepage and your homepage is bad, it’ll go to s**t. What the hell happens when they land on your website?