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

Product Innovation Educators

This combination helps ensure that the final product concept isn’t just technically feasible but also genuinely meets market needs. He advises executive teams on AI, innovation and strategic product management, combining data-driven insights with cutting-edge technology to drive transformational change.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

For example, my first iteration focused on the problem statements, targeted customer, technical strategies, pricing strategies, and competitiveness evaluation, which was all excellent content that offered important product context but just not the right place. First Attempt. As expected, I ran into a lot of issues at the start of the process.

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The 10th Annual Product Management Awards Winners

The Product Guy

Harpal now works as an independent consultant and interim Chief Product Officer (CPO) advising companies and teams globally on strategic product development and innovation. He has a computer science degree from Cornell University, and still spends some of his spare time keeping his technical skills sharp. The Best Product Consultant.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

I’m not a technical Product Manager. If you are having similar problems with your development process I highly advise you to analyze the reasons to them, starting with an honest answer to the question – is your process actually solving your problems? Similar, right? Should be an easy fix. Or were we just not doing it right?

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Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work

ProductPlan

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. It’ll go away ,” the famous TV dad advised his family on dealing with challenges. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work. We call it a mistake.

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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Sample goals are acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt. Second, you can use your key performance indicators (KPIs) to discover roadmap goals such as improving engagement and removing technical debt. It describes the specific benefit or outcome the product should achieve.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. That said, product designers should still have a moderate level of knowledge about the technical aspects of the product and the industry as awhole.) Try explaining that at theoffice!