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	<title>The Experience is the Product | Better product management and products</title>
	
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	<description>Better products and product management through constant iteration and stronger communication.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why “Innovation Teams” Fail (and how to prevent it)</title>
		<link>http://www.cindyalvarez.com/best-practices/why-innovation-teams-fail-and-how-to-prevent-it</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s OK to say you belong or reside within and have an innovation team within a corporate/business environment. Innovation is not a dirty word. - Carl Knibbs, Cup of Innovation, Anyone?

I agree!  I&#8217;ve seen two reasons why &#8220;innovation teams&#8221; are poorly regarded within larger organizations.  Actually, they apply to pretty much any type of &#8220;special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Must Solve the First User Experience, First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bay Bridge is closed, shutting down the major commute artery for thousands and thousands of people.  Luckily, there are public transit alternatives - the BART trains that run under the bay and the high-speed ferries.
That doesn&#8217;t mean people are using them. Judging by local news radio reports and anecdotes I&#8217;ve heard the last few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Front-Load the Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.cindyalvarez.com/best-practices/front-load-the-pain</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about a bug that I still think about.
It could have been avoided if I&#8217;d been able to successfully convince us that we should sacrifice a little bit of backwards-compatibility.  It would&#8217;ve meant customer complaints. Some customers would have delayed their upgrades; some may have even threatened to not renew their contracts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Good Enough” Formula for Segmenting an Existing Market</title>
		<link>http://www.cindyalvarez.com/execution/the-good-enough-formula-for-segmenting-an-existing-market</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Execution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent press about Mint&#8217;s acquisition and the &#8220;Good-Enough Revolution&#8221; has gotten me thinking that there&#8217;s an emerging pattern here that more startups (and established companies!) should be capitalizing on.
The Formula


Look for markets where the existing solution is incredibly powerful but people dread using it, or feel stupid using it because they haven&#8217;t invested enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Pricing a Dot or a Triangle?</title>
		<link>http://www.cindyalvarez.com/profitability/is-your-pricing-a-dot-or-a-triangle</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Profitability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most product managers I know secretly (or not-so-secretly) dread pricing.  Price too high, and you risk alienating customers; price too low and you&#8217;re undervaluing yourself and making it harder to raise prices later.
We stress so much about that number that we tend to forget that &#8220;price&#8221; isn&#8217;t a single number to our customers.  When customers [...]]]></description>
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