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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. Treat the Platform as a Product.

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Investment Due-diligence Checklist for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

In the current economy… Continue reading on Product Coalition ». Gone are the times when the sketch on a napkin from your lunch was enough to secure your company Series A funding.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Book review: “Product Roadmaps Relaunched”

bpma ProductHub

A new book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched, could help you re-think and re-launch your approach to Product Roadmapping. It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. Don Stoddard has held senior positions is Product Management and Product Marketing over the last 20 years.

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

Creating new software and releasing it into the marketplace to achieve wild success is the dream! If you can simplify your onboarding process and show your product's value from the beginning, you can lower customer churn and increase the usability of your product. Examples of successful product onboarding strategies.

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Four Key Product Management Lessons from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur

Alchemer Mobile

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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