Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 9, 2019

Finding the right custom software development firm for your project is a tough job. Software projects are notorious for being late, over budget, and frustrating. Making useful, valuable software products takes a lot more than technical know-how. Evaluate the Software Firm First. Will you be growing in size?”

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Feature flags provide so much for software organizations: they allow teams to separate code deployment from feature release, test in production, run experiments, and more. Just as you need different versions of your software to work simultaneously, you also need different versions of the database to work at the same time.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stewart Butterfield, the company’s CEO, saw the commercial potential in a new messaging application that would utilize bots and integrations with other tools frequently used in software development. Let’s review the three key types of outsourcing arrangements and what the differences among them mean to you as a customer.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

The Basecamp team does a fantastic job of thinking from first principles, questioning the status quo, and coming up with novel practices that they've carefully battle-tested on their own team over the last 15 years of developing Basecamp. As always, it preaches a uniquely Basecamp way of doing things. We’ve shaped our own way. Shape the work.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Identification of stakeholders could be challenging and is not always considered as standard work for PMs, but it should be standard in order to plan for the products success and align the product development cycle with the organization’s goals regularly. These are decision makers.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 23, 2019

When evaluating custom software development partners, it’s important to know if your potential partner has a track record of success with companies like yours and projects of similar complexity. This is the third post in a four-part series aimed at helping you select the best software development partner.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 16, 2019

This is the second post in a four-part series aimed at helping you select the best software development partner. Defining “Great People” I would look for two big things: Generalist product developers – I want to work with people who specialize in software product development and who take a generalist approach to technology.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

A strong engagement management process keeps complex, custom software development projects on track for success. This is the fourth post in a four-part series aimed at helping you select the best software development partner. Fixed quotes are more appropriate for pre-developed software purchases or subscriptions.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

Software is never done—there are always more features and functions you could add. So how much should you budget for a custom software project? At Atomic, we like the term “responsible budget”—one that gives you enough capital to create software that starts paying for itself. How much is this software worth to you?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It will take a lot of your time to review and assess every company’s website manually. Capitol Tech Solutions (CTS) is a digital design, software development, and marketing agency headquartered in Midtown, Sacramento. We could discover, though, their excellent rating —5 out of 5, according to more than 25 Google reviews.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Marty Hagewood, a software development manager at EMC Insurance Companies, experienced this first-hand. Large companies’ needs are becoming more complex due to emerging regulations around privacy and security. Agile development. Through it all, customers consistently turn to Atlassian. Flexibility is our strength.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

” Autonomy (project) or code monkey (tasks), which do you think your dev teams will prefer? Scope shapes Shape Up warns us that not all scopes have the nice layer-cake shape with a layer of UI over a thin supporting layer of back-end code. And don’t worry, we’re right here if you need help or any kind of decision.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. When your team is trying to build something that doesn’t currently exist, the development process is full of moments of uncertainty. When you have no idea how to fix your problem, you shouldn’t even bother coding.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. Another Harvard Business Review article, the way your team brainstorms doesn’t actually work. The data backs it up. Author: Melissa Perri.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. Who was deciding on that output? We’ve had some changing roles over time as the company grew, of course. Ellen: Basically, nobody else wanted to be project manager.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

Open-source software has proven its potential for accessibility, connected developers, and reduced expenses. Is open source software the inevitable future? Consider how open-source software has impacted the world. It invented the World Wide Web and distant collaborative development, which the epidemic mainstreamed.

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