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Coaching Exploratory Testing

Agile Alliance

Coaching agile teams comes with many challenges - often centered around delivery. Agile doesn't have room for manual testing - or at least you're going to hear that from some agile team members! There's a widespread misconception that manual testing is waste.

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

TechCrunch

The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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Caliber, with $2.2 million in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform

TechCrunch

Caliber , a startup that focuses on one-to-one personal training, is today launching a brand new digital coaching platform on the heels of a $2.2 “My co-founders started testing the idea of coaching people individually and that’s where the light bulb really went off,” said co-founder and CEO Jared Cluff.

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This founder wants to take on the biggest coaching startups with a group-focused approach

TechCrunch

Nishika de Rosairo , the founder and chief executive of HumanQ , has a vision for employee coaching that disagrees with some of the biggest, and most valuable startups out there. Executive coaching for employees is complicated and emotional. The biggest argument in favor of one-to-one coaching is personalization.

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The Science of High-Impact Experimentation

Speaker: Holly Hester-Reilly, Founder and Product Management Coach, H2R Product Science

But too many teams don't know what to test, which leads to poorly designed experiments and unclear results. Join Holly Hester-Reilly, Founder and Product Management Coach at H2R Product Science, as she shares her approach to high-impact experimentation. When to test an assumption.

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Executive coaching from seasoned CIOs makes the difference

CIO

Many of these leaders also leverage executive coaches to maximize strengths, address blind spots, and anticipate potential landmines and unintended consequences. They engage their coach as sounding board and thought partner to work through real-world issues, expand their toolkit and playbook, and decide the best path to take.

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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

CIO

I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team. Start coaching You can teach someone to code, manage money, and complete the tasks of being a manager. But the transition from teacher to coach can be challenging. “I I switched from teaching to coaching,” he says. “I

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Bridging the Online and Offline: How to Apply Product Thinking to Expanding Your eCommerce Business

Speaker: John Cutler, Product Evangelist and Coach at Amplitude

Even brick and mortar businesses are integrating more digital approaches to CX -- testing out loyalty programs and subscription-based models. Join John Cutler, Product Evangelist and Coach at Amplitude, for this enlightening discussion on the current state of the ecommerce landscape.

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Best Practices for Creating Long-Lasting and Continuous Discovery Habits

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, and Coach at ProductTalk.org

interviewing customers, usability testing, experimenting) however, many CTOs will note that we are still stuck in a project world. Most product teams are starting to adopt discovery best practices (e.g. These methods are better than nothing, but how can we improve on this model?