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Larkin

@larkinpm

Larkin Plaeger-McCollum. Product leader focused on service marketplaces. Currently lead PM for high end health and beauty @ Groupon. #prodmgmt, #UX & more

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined April 2009
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"Data without context has zero value" -@martingilliard, at the #ces retail conference #data
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Stores see a 60% increase in purchases when customers use VR in-store to see what furniture will look like in their home (and fewer returns too) #ces #vr #retail
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Good morning Las Vegas! Anyone else at #CES? Message me!
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"Tomorrow's CEOs Will Come from the Supply Chain": just one example of how product success isn't purely about traditional product management fortune.com/2018/12/11/ceo-s… #prodmgmt
Tomorrow's CEOs Will Come from an Unlikely Place: The Supply Chain | Fortune

Tomorrow's CEOs Will Come from an Unlikely Place: The Supply Chain | Fortune

To find top executives in waiting, look to this under-appreciated part of a business, Nader Mikhail writes.

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"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late" - Reid Hoffman #entrepreneur #startup #prodmgmt – at Merton, London
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What are some ways to stay #Agile during a phased rollout? @larkinpm's answer to @Li_Li_D and me: prodpad.com/2016/12/phased-r… #prodmgmt
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Forget the MVP - Identify and test your riskiest assumptions with a RAT says @rikhigham hackernoon.com/the-mvp-is-de… #prodmgmt
The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. | HackerNoon

The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. | HackerNoon

There is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product. It’s a way of testing whether you’ve found a problem worth solving. A way to reduce risk and quickly test your...

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“Why Most Product Roadmaps are a Train-wreck” - switch to a "Learning Roadmap" by @codysimms medium.com/techstars/why-mos… via @mlharper #prodmgmt

Why Most Product Roadmaps are a Train-wreck (and how to fix this)

It is 2017. We have Agile. We have Lean Startup. We have a million (give or take) product management blog posts about how to properly do…

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Put a cost on technical debt to encourage teams to focus on it - by @johncutlefish medium.com/@johnpcutler/putt… via @Paul_Yokota #prodmgmt
Putting a Cost On Debt

Putting a Cost On Debt

Dev teams often struggle with persuading the business to prioritize debt work-down and complexity/risk management. The shiny efforts with a…

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Pretty much the coolest thing ever: An animated tour of Stitch Fix Algorithms: algorithms-tour.stitchfix.co… via @stitchfix_algo #data
Thanks Matt! teapawt.net/MattAndersonUT/status/…
Matt Anderson 🇺🇦 (@MattAndersonUT) profile pictureMatt Anderson 🇺🇦@MattAndersonUT10 Mar 2017
Follow great #prodmgmt folks: @apiazza @brianpiercy @kartvee @larkinpm @LarryThePMGuy @lisaw1 @mlharper @tektalk #FF
“The Challenges and Importance of Data-Driven Business Decision-Making” by @drnugent branch-blog.qlik.com/the-cha… #data #prodmgmt
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“Never stop experimenting”  - How Onboarding Experiments Helped Increase App Interactions 2.5x - by @rvirb productcoalition.com/how-sim… #prodmgmt
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"Productivity is about mind management, not time management" teapawt.net/kadavy/status/83917842…
📚 David Kadavy, author (@kadavy) profile picture📚 David Kadavy, author@kadavy7 Mar 2017
What I learned about productivity while reinventing Google Calendar medium.com/the-mission/what-…

What I learned about productivity while reinventing Google Calendar

Listen to an audio version of this article >>

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"Netflix’s Near Death Experience:” listen to your customers " by @receptivejoe productcoalition.com/netflix… #startup #prodmgmt
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Mobile-first isn't good enough; design for a multi-device CX journey smashingmagazine.com/2017/02… by @marsinthestars vi @MattAndersonUT #prodmgmt
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"Story Point Alternative: 1–3d Stories" - great philosophy, whichever unit you prefer medium.com/@johnpcutler/stor… by @johncutlefish #prodmgmt

Story Point Alternative: 1–3d Stories

How about splitting all user stories until they’re likely to take three or fewer days to complete? Let’s forget story points. It’s worth a…

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If your product has a feature and your user doesn't know about it, then your feature doesn't really exist. – Kathy Sierra
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So important - "A design system is an evolving ruleset governing the composition of a product." medium.freecodecamp.com/how-… #prodmgmt #design
People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get *the right* things done.
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