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7 Things You Need to Know About Agile Product Management

Accenture

In this 2015 article Tom Goodwin wrote: “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. In our upcoming webinar, “Enabling Product Innovation Through Agile Product Management,” we paint a picture of how innovation is possible with an evolved, Agile approach to product management.

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Great Question gets $2.5M seed round to make customer research easier

TechCrunch

Angel investors like Warren Hogarth, co-founder of Empower Finance; Jon Williams, co-founder of Culture Amp and Pyn; Jason Smale, senior vice president of engineering at Zendesk; and Robbie Allan, former group product manager at Intercom also participated. We would talk to customers, but it wasn’t structured or consistent.”.

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

Automattic’s e-commerce plugin, WooCommerce , which it purchased in 2015 , is believed to run more than a quarter of all online storefronts. In a blog post that’s still online , he wrote: My logging software hasn’t been updated for months, and the main developer has disappeared, and I can only hope that he’s okay. billion valuation.

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After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay

TechCrunch

After selling up to Google in 2015, Bank joined Google’s ranks and set about integrating core Timeful technology into Gmail and Google Calendar, before transitioning into various roles at the tech giant — including product lead for Gmail, Calendar, Google Chat, and Google Workspace.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

In the software development field, we always hear famous names like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, George H. That is why today I decided to write about amazing successful, talented and influential women in software development. 20 influential women in software development. . 20 influential women in software development. .

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At Extra Crunch Live, Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque will look back on the Series B deal that brought them together

TechCrunch

Before starting Felicis Ventures (and serving as Managing Partner), Senkut was a senior manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific. He joined the search giant in 1999 as its first product manager to launch Google’s first international sites.

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Hivery bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

TechCrunch

Hivery has its origins in the pre-pandemic era — the Australia-based company was founded in 2015 — but Hosking argues that many of its technologies have become more relevant over the last several years. chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch.

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