product management made easy | management

Listen to your customer !~Listen ! Listen ! Listen !

11 Sept 2017

There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. People are unpredictable, have strong opinions and unconscious biases, and many people in your organisation have more power than you, yet are wrong just as often. In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 Janna Bastow, Co-Founder of Mind the Product and Co-Founder and CEO of ProdPad, shares her own stories of dealing with people, and how she handles the toughest part of the job.

modelling a product manager: how to build a roadmap for your product | the case study of wallmart | management & selling techniques

how to tell the story of your ultimate vision to your prospect clients

1 May 2018

Product Management event in San Francisco about how to build a product roadmap.

It all starts with a product roadmap! Your roadmap should tell the story of how you’re going to get to your ultimate vision. Getting priority, alignment, and balancing short term product iterations with long term strategic disruption is all part of the fun. Hudson talked about what the road mapping process looks like, how to balance short term and long term product/business goals and how various initiatives on a road map get prioritized.

Hudson Levy is currently a Senior Product Manager over Walmart’s entire digital pharmacy, health & wellness business. A Mechanical Engineer turned Brand Manager turned Product Manager, he has over 10 years of experience across product management, marketing, and strategy. Hudson holds an MBA from Duke University and a Bachelors of Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

ABOUT US: Product School is the world’s first tech business school. We offer certified Product Management, Coding, Data and Blockchain courses; our instructors are real-world product managers working at top tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and Netflix. Our classes are part-time, designed to fit into your work schedule, and the campuses are located in 14 cities worldwide, including Silicon Valley, New York, Los Angeles and London.

Product leaders from local top tech companies visit Product School campuses each week. Through lectures, panel discussions, and a variety of other forums, the world’s top product managers visit Product School to provide invaluable real-world insights into critical management issues.

Tips & Samples on project management software 2016

13 best free project management software programs 2016: great project management software tools that don’t cost a penny

1. Best free project management software: Trello

Trello utilises a project-management system developed by a former Toyota vice president, Taiichi Ohno. Every task is represented as a card, which allows you to create a visual representation of what is happening with a project. It is surprisingly effective And free if you can live with only 10MB of storage. https://trello.com/

2. Best free project management software: Freedcamp

A more traditional type of project-management tool, Freedcamp is great for scaling up a business. It works perfectly well as a free tool for when you are starting a business, and costs very little to build on, with multiple paid-for bolt ons enabling new features as you go. It offers good admin tools, fleet management, and customer relationship management. Great for collaborating with colleagues and clients. https://freedcamp.com/

3. Best free project management software: Producteev

Producteev is rare in that it offers unlimited users and projects even on the free version. We can see no good reason to pay to upgrade, so if you want a long-term free project-management tool that is easy to use and flexible, look no further.https://www.producteev.com/

4. Best free project management software: GanttProject

Our first open-source project management tool, GanttProject offers all the features you could ever need, but has a reputation for being somewhat complex. You will never need to pay for it, however. And if you want project management software that can flex to your needs it comes recommended. http://www.ganttproject.biz/

5. Best free project management software: Asana

Designed by Facebook founder Dustin Moskovitz, Asana benefits from a social-network-like level of untuition and ease. It is both simple, and effective, and offers a visual style that will help you get things done. Some users complain that it lacks the full feature set of some of the others mentioned here. https://asana.com/

6. Best free project management software: MeisterTask

We are grateful to blog.capterra.com for pointing us in the direction of MeisterTask. Free and full featured, it plays nicely with online storage systems, other project managers and mobile apps. https://www.meistertask.com/

7. Best free project management software: 2-Plan Team

2-Plan offers great features for no cost, but navigating the way the software works can be tricky. In essence, get everyone working using 2-Plan Desktop, and then merge up the projects with 2-Plan Team. You won’t regret it. http://2-plan.com/

8. Best free project management software: Bitrix24

Ideal for small businesses, Bitrix24 remains free forever, so long as you don’t exceed 12 users. Other great small- or home office features include the ability to communicate across multiple locations, and free cloud storage for your projects. https://www.bitrix24.com/

9. Best free project management software: BamBam!

Another tip for which we thank blog.capterra.com, BamBam! is free for up to 10 users, and allows unlimited projects and storage for those 10 users. https://www.dobambam.com/

 

10. Best free project management software: Zoho Projects

Unlimited in terms of users and projects, the free version of Zoho Projects is limited to only 10MB of storage. http://www.zoho.com/projects/

 

11. Best free project management software: Evernote

Available for web, Android, Windows and iOS, Evernote provides integrated apps, task tracking, blog publication and public and private ‘notes’ formatted into a presentation.

Evernote only allows its users to upload 60 MB of data each month, but it is a great supplement to other free project management programmes. https://evernote.com/

12. Best free project management software: Harvest

Harvest provides time tracking, invoicing and report creating capabilities. It has a free service for small businesses that have around four clients/two projects a month.

Harvest is available for web, mobile and there is a plugin for Twitter and Gmail.https://www.getharvest.com/

13. Best free project management software: Redmine

Redmine can support numerous projects and is highly customisable. What’s more, it offers feeds and notification system, issue tracking, time tracking and forums to discuss projects.

It’s not the most attractive user interface but is highly capable at managing large projects.http://www.redmine.org/

 

Docker containers explained easily in 5 minutes !

Container Tech

Vincent Batts, who works at Red Hat on Docker and OpenShift technologies, explains Docker and Linux Containers (LXC). Containers have been around for a few years, being introduced into the Linux kernel in 2008, but Docker has brought new attention to them this year. So what’s the big deal around Docker?

Docker makes Linux containers easier to use. It helps to solve issues around conflicting runtimes, making things easier for system administrators who have to deploy applications in the real world. It helps solve issues around port mapping, making internet services easier to set up. And it makes applications easier to distribute between the developer side and the operations side.

 

 

How Docker can deploy your Django apps to different server environments.

Django and Docker: a Marriage Made in Heaven

Django and Docker: a Marriage Made in Heaven
Ken Cochrane
Tuesday 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Audience level: Intermediate

Description

Docker is a new tool that makes it easy to bundle and deploy your applications to any host running Docker. In this talk I’ll show you how to get started with Docker, and how to use it to deploy your Django apps to your different server environments.
Abstract
Overview:

The goal of this talk is to show you how you can use Docker to make your life easier when developing Django apps. Developing Django apps is fun, but there is a lot of other stuff you need to do in your day to day work, that isn’t fun. Let me show you how to let Docker help you make those tasks more fun, and take less time, so you can get back to doing the stuff you love.

Outline: Intro to docker for the people who have never heard of it. Show how easy it is to setup a docker server Explain a little how docker works under the covers. Go over the steps that are needed to convert a django application to use docker Show how easy it is to deploy your newly converted docker application to any number of docker servers (EC2, Rackspace, digital Ocean, local server, etc) with a few easy commands. Go over the different use cases for using Docker in your development environment (testing, deployment, etc)

What is Docker ? dotCloud founder speaks about it

dotCloud founder and CTO Solomon Hykes recently stopped by Twitter HQ to show us Docker, an open source project designed to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application.

Common use cases for Docker include:

* Automating the packaging and deployment of applications
* Creation of lightweight, private PAAS environments
* Automated testing and continuous integration/deployment
* Deploying and scaling web apps, databases and backend services