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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

From its foundational beginnings in early brand management to high tech software program management, product management has emerged as its own collective of product-focused best practices. I don’t know how technical Ken was back then, but he had the respect of the Software Engineers, which was critical. I had never heard of Agile.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

Back in the early 1980’s, both firms understood the unifying importance of software and the great potential of personal computing. In 2001 it introduced the iPod + iTune combination, and followed the trick again with the iPhone and iPad. This very act provides the opportunity for a new wave of startups. Consider Microsoft & Apple.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.

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