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PM Training material for Adidas
Training materials to deliver an API Product Owner training by Zdenek Nemec and Jordi Fernandez Moledo.
Get in the Van and Other Tips for Getting Meaningful Customer Feedback
Michael Sippey has been building tech products for over 20 years. His most valuable ideas, though? They came from speaking with customers. Here’s how.
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone—not just select “high potentials”—could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth?
Are Your Lights On?
An entertaining look into the human activity of problem solving, this book tells you how to figure out what the problem really is, determine whose problem it is anyway, and decide whether you really want to solve it.
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
The next time you find yourself faced with a difficult decision or just trying to understand a complex situation, let Super Thinking upgrade your brain with mental models.
Radical Candor: How to get what you want by saying what you mean
Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism, delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success.
On Writing Well – The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction
It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.
Product Managers & their favourite Books
Product 360 is a monthly event series that aims at bringing together all the knowledge from Product, UX, Design, Data and Engineering under the same roof and share experiences and best practices from global product leaders. One of the questions that runs every single time is what are their favourite books that they would suggest to aspiring PMs. We compiled a small list of these Product Management books and resources according to their recommendations.
Face to Face Team Meetings
What does it take to have successful meetings, especially when everyone is working remotely?
Babis Makrynikolas, VP of Prod. Blueground
Babis Makrynikolas, VP of Product at Blueground, a platform that caters to rentals of fully furnished apartments, is sharing best practices for efficient PM hiring, analyzing the different dimensions for assessing PMs, discussing who should be part of the interview process and touch on other topics such as ideas for building a more diverse team, deciding on candidate seniority, and setting a high hiring bar.
Maria Arnaoutaki, Senior PM, Spotify
Product 360 hosts Maria Arnaoutaki, Senior Product Manager at Spotify. Maria pivoted from teaching to tech when she discovered her interest in product and software after joining an early-stage Greek startup, Nannuka. Self-taught in coding and data analysis, she’s now a product lead at Spotify in London, focused on platform product teams while also managing a team of product managers.
JADBio awarded spin-off of the year
JADBio, a leader in Automated Machine Learning for life-scientists, with offices in Los Angeles(CA), Denmark, and Greece, won the 1st Prize as “Spin-off of the Year”, 2021 at the 1st National Startup Awards by Elevate Greece, the Greek Government’s official platform for the Greek Startup Ecosystem.
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Becoming an Efficient Content Manager using WP & Elementor
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Why You Should be Speaking at Tech Conferences
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7 Awesome and Free AI Tools you Should Know
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