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How to Define an MVP Scope in 3 Hours

Scoping an MVP doesn’t have to take days. Product manager Phillip Wood explains how he gathers product specialists, designers, and engineers to brainstorm features, pare them down, and create wireframes—all in a few hours.

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Phillip Wood

Phillip Wood

Phil is a senior product leader with 17 years of fintech experience. He has led consulting engagements with Visa, Mastercard, and TD Bank, and built successful payment and business loan products with fintech startups. Phil has a record of driving increased user engagement through better product and UX design.

Learning to Learn: 5 Tips to Master Any Product Management Domain

Product managers work across many industries, and domain-specific knowledge is essential to finding success in each one. Learn how to quickly acquire industry expertise with these tried-and-tested recommendations.

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Milos Belcevic

Milos Belcevic

Milos is a product specialist who has built and shaped B2B and B2C digital products in education, HR, healthcare, and more. He is a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Professional-Product Owner (CSP-PO).

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Design Sprints: Fostering Creativity Through Constraints

How can creativity thrive in an environment of rules and set processes? The creative constraints introduced by design sprints can help product managers find the midpoint between structure and chaos.

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Daniel Hatton

Daniel Hatton

Daniel is an innovation and product manager with seven years of experience at PwC, and a track record of working creatively and entrepreneurially to bring ideas to life and generate new value streams.

Growth Product Management: What You Need to Know

Growth product managers are now a mainstay of Silicon Valley, but what do they do, how do they work, and what value do they bring? Find out in this guide to an increasingly vital product role.

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Philippe Araujo

Philippe Araujo

As a growth product manager, Agile expert, and digital innovation consultant, Philippe helps clients, both startups and established companies, use data to deliver an improved user experience and increase product performance.

Extended Reality and Its Possibilities: A Guide for XR Product Managers

How can product managers leverage the possibilities offered by the latest XR technologies? Industry veteran Eugene Ovcharenko presents use cases and best practices for an evolving field.

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Eugene Ovcharenko

Eugene Ovcharenko

Eugene is an accomplished Head of Product with more than 17 years of experience. He has focused his engineering and technical management expertise on XR solutions design, prototyping, and product management for startups and enterprise companies such as Lucid Reality Labs, Room 8 Studio, and iLogos Game Studios.

Proof in Numbers: Using Big Data to Drive Results

These case studies illustrate how data-driven product management can make a radical difference in how you solve large-scale product issues.

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Lavinius Marcu

Lavinius Marcu

As a product manager specializing in data science, Lavinius helps clients improve product performance and scale their businesses. His portfolio includes the creation of an AI price prediction engine, which used machine learning to forecast optimal pricing for the cruise industry.

How to Reduce UX Friction in Secure Product Development

Prioritizing data security often comes at the expense of a good UX. To balance client needs with user preferences, product managers must use research, constant calibration, and a dose of creativity.

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Leor Hurwitz

Leor Hurwitz

Leor is a veteran product manager specializing in fintech, fraud, and cybersecurity. He has led product development in both startups and large corporations, including IBM and Microsoft. Under his leadership, his teams nearly eliminated fraud for one client, protecting systems that process $230 million per year.

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Greg Prickril

Greg is a seasoned product strategy consultant and trainer with nearly 20 years of experience shipping digital enterprise products at IBM, Microsoft, and SAP. He is also a global expert on delivering complex products and solutions at an enterprise scale.
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