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TechCrunch+ roundup: Down-funnel growth metrics, RIF planning, is e-commerce aggregation over?

TechCrunch

“It’s comparable to the financial crisis of 2008, when poor financial products were lumped together in order to diversify risk and make them look better than they actually were,” he writes. To wit: Five Flute, an issue-tracking platform for hardware product managers, recently raised a $1.2M

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Product Development Process: How to Bring Innovation to Life

Altexsoft

This article will guide you through all the steps of a new product development (NPD) process and give you some insights into implementing best practices en route from a pure idea to roll-out and selling. What is a new product development process? Put together, these efforts compose a new product development (NPD) process.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The captive corporate IT department was a relatively early adopter of Agile management practices, largely out of desperation. Years of expensive overshoots, canceled projects, and poor quality solutions gave IT not just a bad reputation, but a confrontational relationship with its host business.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

In most companies product managers have a lot of products and significant responsibilities. With all the meetings, floods of email, and requirements to manage, the thought of focusing on a product’s profitability can be illusive. Work with the sales team; understand how they sell your products.

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Trust

Lead on Purpose

Focus on the ones you consider to be your weaknesses and take the attitude that you will improve. – The Product Management Perspective: Trust is the most important characteristic a product manager can possess. You also need to trust that the team members will do what they have committed to do.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

In many cases “manager&# is used as a pejorative. The “manager&# is the person who makes sure people follow the processes (good or bad) that have been put in place. The “manager&# is the person everyone quips about. The owner makes sure his product meets market needs. Leadership is a choice.

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The five Cs

O'Reilly Media - Data

We often talk about a product’s technology or its user experience, but we rarely talk about how to build a data product in a responsible way that puts the user in the center of the conversation. Those products are badly needed. News that people “don’t trust” the data products they use—or that use them—is common.