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Meet Visma’s Champions: Pavel Yegorov and Facundo Borrelli. 🌟 Our Champions play an important role in fostering peer-to-peer communities that are essential to our success across companies, countries, and fields of work. 🚀 In this series we’ll be interviewing Champions of various fields, delving into what motivated them to take on the Champion role and how they contribute to supporting their peers. #ChampionsOfBusinessSoftware

Volume on 🔊 Why hello there, my dear friends and colleagues! I am so excited to finally share with you our latest 2024 Autumn Release: the "New York Edition." → Consider checking our launch on Product Hunt https://lnkd.in/d3KE9CZU ! If you are a team that loves Slack and uses it to share everything from updates to insights and links—this is for you. You might be wondering, why New York? Just like the spirit of NY—where the streets hum with energy and the air is thick with the promise of bold ideas—your Slack does too. We designed this update specifically with startups and high-performing small teams in mind. You are busy, and documentation is never a priority. Yet, you share product updates, releases, decisions, insights, and customer conversations (or links) on Slack every day. Unfortunately, they often get lost in history… Question Base lets you save and document as you chat. Simple as that. Every time it detects information worth saving, it will chime in and suggest that you save it—thanks to AI. It feels like having a designated member on your team focused solely on documentation. We’re excited to offer a free plan, and for our community on Product Hunt, we have a special 20% discount on the first year of the Pro plan. Kasper Tornoe, Yana Tornoe, Question Base, Slack, Product Hunt

🚀 ETLS Connect Watch Parties Recap! 🌍 It’s been a couple of weeks since ETLS Connect, but the energy and insights from the event are still alive! From New York to Berlin, Amsterdam to Lisbon, global watch parties tuned in to hear top tech minds share their insights on the evolving intersection of AI, DevOps, and product leadership – all guided by the fabulous host Gene Kim, bestselling author of The Phoenix Project. 💡✨ With powerhouse speakers, the event delivered inspiring takeaways: 🎤 Idan Gazit (GitHub) explored the potential of AI-native developer tools, envisioning a future where these innovations empower the next generation of software creators. 🎤 Steve Yegge (Sourcegraph) shared insights on The Death of the Junior Developer, urging the industry to rethink training and development pathways in an AI-driven world. 🎤 Paige Bailey (Google) looked at how Google is transforming software development with Gemini, a groundbreaking step toward integrating advanced AI into daily workflows. 🎤 Jason Yip (Grainger) introduced a Target Operating Model for Grainger Product Engineering, setting a blueprint for scalable and resilient product engineering practices. "I left feeling inspired; it was a fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded people and dive into great discussions around AI and leadership", one attendee shared. Some of the top insights: 🔹 AI's Role in Software Development: AI is reshaping the craft of coding, especially as it influences the role of junior developers and demands new levels of senior oversight. 🔹 Validation in AI Workflows: With every output needing scrutiny, validation is critical for trusted, reliable code – especially in AI-driven environments. 🔹 Completion Models vs. Real-World Complexity: While AI completion models offer impressive productivity boosts, balancing them with real-world demands remains a priority for developers. Were you at one of the watch parties? Share your takeaways and any pictures! 📸 A huge thank you to everyone who attended and to IT Revolution; we’re proud to partner with you and look forward to building on these discussions in 2025. 📅 Mark your calendars – ETLS Connect watch parties return on February 26th—more details to come soon! #ETLSConnect #TechLeadership #GlobalTechCommunity

Heading home from spending the week in Boston with HubSpots product group (1800 people and that's not even all of us??!!). Highlights for me: 1. Kicking off the week with the AI team playing a moonshots game from the lab. It was so fun to watch everyone get into their creative groove, take a step back from restrictions/scoping and brainstorm wild ideas to solve some of the world's stickiest problems. When we go to the moon, I want this crew with me. 2. Spending time in person with the Innovation lab... Man! How energizing, I'm full of ideas and ready to build. 3. I also learned that we are super close to really figuring out this hybrid world. My team is remote in R&D, from Ireland to across the US... we are all in different cities but meeting together for the first time was so seamless, easy, and really felt like a continuation of our remote work, relationships & fun. 4. Meeting partner teams, new team members, and PMs, engineers and designers from all over HubSpot. We have some a.m.a.z.i.n.g. things in store for this year that I can't wait to share..... for now, I head into HubSpot's week of rest and will be back in July!

Fabrice des Mazery spoke about how Tripadvisor transformed its software product teams into tech investors at FlowCon France . Here's my write-up of his talk on InfoQ

After soaking up all the insights on flow at ShipItCon, I’ve distilled the key takeaways into a blog post. Dive in to explore how flow, observability, and agile principles can transform your development process. #sic2024

Jumped in a time machine on the way to the office this morning listening to a conversation referencing 2016 when PLG way just getting started. Kyle Poyar explained to Scott Barker on The GTM Podcast that back in 2016 when PLG was getting going, no one even called it PLG. Companies were throwing around terms like "bottom-up", "B2C2B", and "viral products." Everyone trying to describe the same thing in different ways. The first PLG summit Kyle put together? Just 100 people in a room, but what a room. Kyle and his team were watching companies like Datadog and Atlassian pioneer something completely different: -- No traditional sales motion -- Users finding value before talking to anyone -- Product doing the heavy lifting in acquisition -- Growth through actual usage, not just sales Fast forward to 2019: 600+ people at their summit, Figma's CCO keynoting. Then the pandemic hit and everything exploded. Suddenly everyone was at home, discovering and buying software on their own. PLG companies took off. Now, there are playbooks and there are similar companies to take inspiration from. But the initial PLG companies weren't following playbooks or frameworks. They were writing it from scratch, often pulling ideas from B2C and just seeing what worked. What started as a few companies experimenting has grown into an entire motion redefining how software is built, sold, and adopted. Thanks Kyle and Scott for the time machine, and the reminder that the best ideas often begin without a playbook.

Product is a team sport, and the best PMs are force multipliers, not faux heroes battling the odds solo. So I'm very excited Atlassian invited me to 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 '𝟮𝟰 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 (Barcelona | 8 - 10th October) I couldn't think of a better place to spend a few days getting inspired by Atlassian and their partners: ✅ 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Whether you're working as a PM, a CPO or a founder, you're never on your own. Big challenges get solved by excellent teams. "Who are my go-to people?" is always the first thing I ask when I get stuck. ✅ 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 If you're tired of learning, you're tired of life. There is no point in your career when you've learned enough. You have to invest continually in your understanding of the world around you and new ideas. ✅ 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 AI isn't some approaching wave, it's already here. This isn't just a few startups experimenting, but established players delivering magical user experiences and real business results. Register here: https://lnkd.in/d_xKGPG2 Get 30% off with code: 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝟮𝟰𝗘𝗨𝗘𝗗 Can't make the event in person? Register for the digital event and catch livestreams of all the keynotes and many more sessions. #AtlassianPartner #ad  

Data-driven decisions, cost-effective tech adoption, and accelerated progress with minimized risk are just a few benefits of a culture of experimentation. So how do you go about successfully building one? Check out this Built In article by Optimizely's Kevin Li for tips on getting started: https://ow.ly/RzBN50QOT0b

UPI’s product suite is bigger than ever! But most businesses aren't aware about all their options 🤔 Not anymore! 📣 Launching UPI Excellence Assessment - India’s first benchmarking tool to help businesses assess how healthy their UPI stack adoption is!🚀 Take the assessment now - https://lnkd.in/g4dJE4Ne