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(Book: Part 1/6) Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond (feat. Magali Pelissier)

(Part 1/6) I had an opportunity to chat with Magali Pelissier, Product Management Leader at Cisco, about her latest book: "Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond", and it made for a very exciting conversation.
You can find the book ⁠here⁠.
Magali's podcast, "Product Perspectives", can be found on ⁠Apple⁠ & ⁠Spotify⁠.
For more details, check out Magali's ⁠website⁠.
Note: The entire conversation is spread across 6 episodes. I highly recommend that you watch them in sequence.
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Challenges in bootstrapping a SaaS Startup

I stumbled into an ⁠article written by Melissa Kwan recently where the author had listed a number of challenges in bootstrapping a SaaS Startup, and as someone who runs a Startup with both B2C and B2B products, some of the points resonated well with me.
I figured it might be worth sharing my perspective on some of the items mentioned in the article, and draw the parallels to our experiences.
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(Part 2/2) Podcast Collaboration: Introducing my first 2 guests

(Part 2) 2 podcast collaborations in - time to share a few thoughts!
My first podcast was with ⁠Matthew Davidchuk⁠, a brilliant engineer. And no surprises - 90 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better engineer.
My second podcast was with ⁠Magali Pelissier⁠, a brilliant product leader. And no surprises again - 120 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better product manager.
(The podcasts are in "post production", so should be published shortly)
Look out for more podcasts with Matthew and Magali, as the first podcast has turned into a series! Plus, my next guest is a very special one from New Delhi, and we will be discussing a 3rd topic (hint: there may well be a hands-on, LIVE coding component to that conversation).
#snowpal #podcast

(Part 1/2) Podcast Collaboration: Introducing my first 2 guests

(Part 1) 2 podcast collaborations in - time to share a few thoughts!
My first podcast was with ⁠Matthew Davidchuk⁠, a brilliant engineer. And no surprises - 90 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better engineer.
My second podcast was with ⁠Magali Pelissier⁠, a brilliant product leader. And no surprises again - 120 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better product manager.
(The podcasts are in "post production", so should be published shortly)
Look out for more podcasts with Matthew and Magali, as the first podcast has turned into a series! Plus, my next guest is a very special one from New Delhi, and we will be discussing a 3rd topic (hint: there may well be a hands-on, LIVE coding component to that conversation).
#snowpal #podcast

Porting over 250 podcasts from one platform to another

Scalability isn't limited to applications in production. No matter what you do, you want to ensure that it is a scalable approach. Short of it, the exact same activity is going to take a lot longer. Besides, what's interesting is that making even tiny changes to your approach tends to go a long way in enhancing overall productivity.
In this podcast, I'll share the approach we took to port hundreds of videos from one platform to another, and why we were able to accomplish that in shy of 10 hours.
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Do you love what you do? Do you feel fulfilled at work?

And are you doing more of it? Here's my take on a Venn Diagram you've most likely seen that illustrates the implications of our career choices beautifully.
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ETA: What does your team base their estimates on? And how accurate are they?

It is one thing to provide an ETA for any given task, but it is completely another to provide a meaningful, reasonably accurate, and accountable ETA. Ask for ETAs but take them with a grain of salt. Focus more on solving the problem efficiently and less on the actual time it will take to solve that.
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Waterfall vs Scrum vs Kanban vs Agile

If you want to learn the theoretical differences between these terms, you are better off checking it out on the web. Just do a search and you'll find a lot of hits.
But, if you want to get a sense of the more practical differences, and how you should apply it in the context of your specific project, then you may want to give this podcast a listen.
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Adding Scoped Bookmarks on Snowpal Pitch using the Relations Feature!

Pitch has always supported a Linking feature that allows you to structure your content any which way you want (aka, create content once, use it any number of times). Relations is a new feature that is another feather on the cap, and it works beautifully whether you use it with Linking, or simply by itself.
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Building a Mobile App - Part I (Starting to build a native mobile app, and wondering which way to go?)

If you are starting to build a native mobile app and are a little unsure of how to proceed, this podcast (the first in this series) might offer you some guidance.
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