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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. He emphasized a fundamental shift in how we should approach product development.

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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

Her path highlights how responsibilities evolve from hands-on product development to strategic business leadership, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning, vulnerability, and strong relationship-building skills. Over ten years, she rose through the ranks until everyone in the company reported to her.

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PM Branding: Building Your Personal Brand as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

As product managers, we often focus on the development and success of the products we bring to market. Developing and nurturing a strong personal brand is critical, not only for advancing your career but also for building influence within your company and the broader product community.

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TPG Live Recap: Bridging Enterprise Customer Gaps & Leading Hybrid Product Teams

The Product Guy

We developed a series of exclusive frameworks and step-by-step strategies to help you turn these insights into action. Highlights from the Roundtable On Enterprise Customer Engagement: Users and buyers often have competing priorities – product teams must treat them as separate voices, not a unified one.

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Product Development Demystified: Launching Faster with Confidence through Human Insight

Speaker: Kandice Durden, Senior Solutions Consultant

It’s time to take the guesswork out of product development by putting your customers at the center of your decisions! Approximately 50% of product budgets are allocated to reworking and optimizing post-launch experiences.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products.

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Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation: Key Insights from TPG Live

The Product Guy

Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level.

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The Advantages of Free and Open-Source Software Vs. Open-Core Software

Instaclustr commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a custom study to assess application development decision-makers’ understanding of the benefits of using open-core software vs. free and open source software (FOSS). Check out the findings!

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

Join Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant, as he introduces a new way of understanding what an MVP is about and explores how you can approach validation without wasting the resources of your development team. How to develop effective hypotheses. In this webinar, we'll cover: Misconceptions about MVPs.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand that role to champion usability and customer delight? It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Revitalize QA as champions.

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5 Key Considerations for Top-Notch Product Dashboards

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, as he covers five key considerations for you to keep in mind when you’re updating your software or app to offer the latest in embedded dashboards. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Best practices in customer research when developing your dashboard.

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Building Products Your Customers Love with Empathy and Human Insights

Speaker: Lija Hogan, Customer Experience Consultant at UserTesting & Daniele Hohol, Senior Product Manager at UserTesting

In this webinar, we will highlight the critical areas during the design and development process when reaching out to customers, understanding their needs, testing hypotheses, and refining your approach is imperative. We'll provide examples as well as tangible tips for building customer empathy without delaying your design process.

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Feedback Management: A PM's Key for Continuous and Impactful Product Growth

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal at Pendo & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager at Pendo

Consulting customers throughout the product development process enables businesses to focus on the features that matter. Strengthening the relationship between customer feedback and product development may help businesses remain competitive in a global market that is becoming more difficult by the day.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril.

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Your 2-Part Metrics Audit for High-Value Products

Speaker: Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, Startup Patterns

Join Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, as he takes you through a two-part measurement audit. But what are your measurements and analytics focused on? Are they really truly objective? Do they contribute to the ultimate vision of your product? And is everybody clear on that vision?