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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower SaaS

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development?

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? It’s hard to know if a developer is an A, B or C player, or a player at all.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Working across land and sea: Tips for remote communication

Intercom, Inc.

For remote workers, live chat is the simplest option for communication. But if most communication is nonverbal, how do you make sure what you say and hear aren’t misinterpreted? for the acronym-minded – for effective remote communication: 1. At the end of the day, communication isn’t just getting information from A to B.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

You'll learn how to set clear, measurable targets, link them to your product strategy, and effectively communicate progress with stakeholders. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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How to Train Your Sales Leaders: Key Learnings from HubSpot and BILL with Michelle Benfer

SaaStr

” Frontline managers are the key link between sales strategy and execution, responsible for: Hiring and developing your next generation of top talent. ” Building World-Class Frontline Managers: The Framework Michelle shared her framework for developing exceptional frontline managers: 1. ” The bottom line?

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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? Most software developers are skeptical.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

Through real-world examples and expert guidance, you will gain valuable insights into effectively managing the tension between innovation and current user demands, ultimately leading to the development of products that delight customers while driving business growth.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand that role to champion usability and customer delight? Restructure how feature requests are communicated. Revitalize QA as champions.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We will focus on synthesis of the needs we discover, communication and alignment tools, and how we operationalize addressing those needs. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

By driving your company’s “top-down” goals with a clear and well communicated “customer-up” product strategy! In this talk, you will learn how to: Empower both yourself and your company by developing a truly customer-centric product strategy. So how do we solve this problem? And that’s exactly what we’re.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Product management goes beyond product development; it involves nurturing a cohesive team. Establishing effective communication channels with team members and stakeholders can be a daunting task. Collaborating with cross-functional teams can be overwhelming, particularly when objectives diverge.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Through compelling storytelling and actionable insights, learn to overcome challenges like misaligned objectives, communication breakdowns, and resistance to change. Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Why the Product Message Should Come From Product Management

Speaker: Jordan Bergtraum, Head of Product at Equip ID & Consultant

A strong message concisely communicates to prospects and customers how you can solve their problems, and how these solutions translate to real value. Product Managers may feel the “message” should be developed by the Product Marketing function, but I disagree. February 23, 2022 at 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST, 7:00 pm GMT.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems and has also come a long way in the decade since then.