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A guide to choosing the right PLM software

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software is designed to manage every aspect of a product’s lifecycle from ideation to retirement.
PLM solutions can eliminate inefficiencies, improve collaboration and accelerate time-to-market, but how do you select the right one for your organization?
Key features of PLM software include centralized product data management, workflow automation, version control, collaboration tools and compliance management.
PLM differs from ERP (enterprise resource planning) and PDM (product data management) in that PLM provides a holistic approach to managing a product's entire lifecycle, integrating PDM functionalities and connecting with ERP systems.
The benefits of investing in PLM software include streamlined product development, enhanced collaboration, improved data accuracy, accelerated time-to-market, improved product quality and cost savings.
The key features to prioritize when selecting a PLM solution include centralized product data management, integration with existing systems, scalability, a user-friendly interface, compliance management and analytics and reporting.
Popular PLM software solutions that cater to different industries, strengths, and pricing include Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle, Oracle Agile PLM, and Aras Innovator.
Steps to select the right PLM solution include assessing your needs, involving stakeholders, evaluating vendors, considering total cost of ownership, testing the system and planning implementation.
Investing in the right PLM software means enabling teams to work smarter, innovate faster, and deliver better products. With the right system in place, you’ll unlock new efficiencies, improve collaboration, and stay ahead of your competition.

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Writing Like Professionals

Professional writers consider the needs and preferences of their readers.
Plan your writing by outlining the content and conducting research.
Write in clear and concise language, avoiding unnecessary words and jargon.
Use active voice to make your writing more direct and engaging.

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Top angel investors in the U.S.

Crunchbase has partnered with Lenny Rachitsky to find out who some of the most successful angel investors in Silicon Valley are.
The list includes investors who have been most active over the past five years, who are most active currently, and who have been most successful historically.
Some of the most successful angel investors on the list are Edward Lando and Nadav Ben-Chanoch, Gokul Rajaram, Elad Gil, and Scott Belsky.
The investor's profile includes their investment focus, investment history, success rate, and contact details.
The most active angel investors of the past five years include more than 1,000 invested startups, including over 25 unicorns.
Other investors with the most exits in the past six years include Justin Kan, Fabrice Grinda, and SV Angel.
The list is compiled using data from public fundraising announcements and investors who voluntarily shared cap tables with the firm.
The more active angel investors are investors in a wide range of industries, including fintech, infrastructure, AI, B2B, B2C, and consumer products.
Warm introductions by trusted sources are always recommended when contacting these angel investors, but cold emails with a good pitch can also work.
The numbers included in the list are directional and not exact, but overall, the list provides a useful resource for those looking for funding for their startup.

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From Traditional Software to a True Service: My Journey from Fixed Releases to Continuous Delivery

In the early years of my career, I worked extensively with big releases and rigid roadmaps.
We’d plan everything upfront, code for months (or a year!), and then fling a single, massive software package out to customers, when we felt “ready” to ship.
Once you lock those requirements, everything else becomes inflexible.
Waterfall-based planning largely ignores the reality that requirements can — and do — change as soon as your product meets real users.
Years into my career, my “lightbulb moment” came.
I realized we were chasing a moving target with an outdated plan.
The biggest takeaway for me was that SaaS is about value over version numbers.
But I’ve discovered a recurring pattern: behind the agile label, they’re often still effectively waterfall.
I’ve navigated these pitfalls repeatedly — both as an in-house leader (e.g., CTO or VP Engineering) and as a strategic consultant.
Viewing software as a living, evolving service dramatically accelerates success.

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What Stack You Need to Build and Scale a SaaS in 2025

To build and scale a SaaS in 2025, it is important to choose tools that are fast and facilitate growth.
Next.js, a framework built on React, is recommended as a foundation for its speed and flexibility.
Using the FastStartup boilerplate, which is built on Next.js, can help accelerate SaaS development with features like user authentication, subscription payments, and pre-built dashboard.
Prisma is suggested as a reliable and scalable database option, while Vercel is recommended for hosting, as it seamlessly integrates with Next.js.

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Xmas Special: Breaking Down the Wall Between Product and Engineering With Vasco Duarte

The wall between Product and Engineering teams is a persistent divide in software development.
Vasco Duarte challenges the status quo and advocates for seamless collaboration between Product and Engineering teams.
He shares success stories of organizations breaking down barriers and achieving innovation through collaboration.
Vasco envisions a future where Product and Engineering work side-by-side in shared spaces of collaboration and value creation.

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Setting North Star Metrics & Leading Indicators

Identifying which metrics to track can be a challenge for product managers, as not all numbers are relevant to their product. A North Star metric, which describes the core value your product provides to users, can help guide the selection of leading indicators and other metrics. To establish a North Star metric, product managers must articulate the basic facets of their product. They can then isolate the core interaction, such as the cycle of uploading a video and receiving feedback, which becomes the North Star metric. Leading indicators are metrics that your team directly influences, which are predictive of how your product will perform. These metrics should be thought of as driving North Star metric performance. Finally, knowing your product's growth phase will help you determine which metrics matter most at the current time.
North Star metrics should be based on the core value a product delivers to its users, not just any ol' number. For example, if you build a product that allows people to upload videos of themselves exercising and receive feedback from professional athletes, then the number of feedback cycles could become your North Star metric.
Product managers need to know which metrics to track and which are irrelevant. Using a North Star metric can help. A North Star metric is the one core metric that best describes the value a product delivers to its users — feedback cycles in the exercise app example above.
Leading indicators are metrics that the product team directly influences and that are predictive of how the product will perform. So if the product team drives up these metrics, then the North Star metric will get better.
To help determine which metric to focus on, consider where your product is in terms of growth. For a product that has just launched, focus on indicators that get users on to, and using, your product.
A North Star metric is the core metric of a product that best displays value to the end user. When thinking about North Star metrics, it is important to also know which metrics to track that can impact the North Star metric performance. These are called Leading metrics.
Leading Indicators are metrics that the product teams directly influence and predict the performance of the North Star Metric. Knowing the product phase and understanding where the product is more valuable can help determine which North Star and Leading indicators to track.
A North Start Metric is the keystone metric for your business – it's the one metric that determines everything. It's the metric that makes or breaks your business, whether or not users stick around or churn out.
North Star metrics should be based on the core value a product delivers to its user. A North Star metric is a business metric that drives growth and is focused on the customer. Examples include weekly active users and monthly recurring revenue, among others.
Product managers can make creating a North Star metric easier by following these guidelines: understand your product's primary value, identify the critical customer interaction, and then link those to a key metric. From there, Leading Indicators can be determined to guide progress towards improving the North Star metric.

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Design Thinking: A Iterative Path to Innovation

Design Thinking is an iterative path to innovation.
The process begins with understanding users and their needs.
Next, the problem is defined clearly and concisely.
Ideation involves generating numerous ideas without restrictions.
Prototyping allows for creating rough models and testing concepts.
Testing with real users provides insights for refinement and iteration.
Design Thinking is a cyclical journey that leads to innovative solutions.

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10 Side Projects to Improve Your Next.js Skills (Even If You’re Busy)

Side projects are a great way to improve Next.js skills without quitting your day job.
Here are ten side project ideas for Next.js: blog engine with markdown support and tagging, portfolio site with dynamic routing and animations, MVP for a small idea using FastStartup framework, weather app with API integration and dynamic display, gamified to-do app with third-party API integration, e-commerce storefront with payment integration and dynamic rendering, recipe app with real-time API query, chat app with WebSocket and real-time messaging, expense tracking app with forms and data visualization, and a forum with authentication and server-side rendering.
FastStartup framework can speed up SaaS development with pre-built components and authentication.
Side projects help self-taught developers learn by doing and FastStartup can accelerate the process.

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Startup Lessons from The Gambler: Strategic Insights for Entrepreneurs

Balancing pragmatism and celebration fortifies the culture that will carry your business through inevitable highs and lows.
Monitor real metrics such as customer growth, engagement, retention, and satisfaction instead of relying on paper money or unrealized equity.
Scaling prematurely can lead to bloated costs, inefficiencies, and the dilution of your core vision.
Patience and strategic focus form the bedrock of successful startups by investing deeply in what already works.
Abandoning a losing proposition can safeguard finite resources for ventures with true potential.
Even paying customers can harm your business if they force you into unsustainable custom work or divert your focus from your product roadmap.
Establishing clear boundaries and exit clauses upfront ensures you retain control over your decisions.
If market realities or flawed assumptions undermine your business model, exiting entirely can be the most prudent course of action.
Each deal in business carries risks and rewards. The ultimate skill lies in deciding when to hold on, when to let go, and when the stakes demand more drastic measures.
Focus on delighting customers, maintaining a responsible culture, and stewarding your resources wisely to build a lasting enterprise that rewards you and your stakeholders.

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Protecting Against Scope Creep: Essential Considerations for Product Leaders.

To manage scope effectively, establish a structured process for evaluating and approving changes.
Focus on increasing velocity rather than just speed to drive true innovation and product success.
Prioritize ruthlessly by evaluating features, tasks, and change requests based on impact and strategic alignment.
Communicate priorities clearly, set clear acceptance criteria, and foster transparency around trade-offs and decision-making.

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PMs job in a sentence: Align on Value and Clarity

The Clarity-Opportunity-Debt Matrix is a tool that helps sort through tasks based on clarity, value as opportunities, and cost as unresolved debt.
High clarity leads to predictable execution, accurate estimates, and reliable roadmaps.
The matrix focuses on moving from unclear to clear and understanding the value of opportunities and debt.
The middle zone helps identify and manage low-priority work.

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Engineering’s Business Value: From Black Box to Clarity

Technology has traditionally been viewed as a cost center and impacted by layoffs and reduction-in-force initiatives, but Value Stream Management (VSM) practices can address the challenge of linking and communicating the ROI of engineering investments.
VSM aligns work with value streams that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes for accurate tracking of costs, ROI, and value delivery at the team and product level.
Modern organizations are solving cost reduction challenges through intentional team design, using stable, cross-functional teams with dedicated software engineers and selective sharing of specialized roles across a limited number of teams.
Defining clear, measurable outcomes and improving visibility can help establish frameworks that articulate the tangible value technology brings to the business, address unnecessary overhead, and avoid layoffs caused by poor resource planning.
Technology success stems from excelling in two core areas: flow and realization. Structured OKRs can bridge these areas by translating organizational strategy into team-level objectives and ensuring every technical effort connects directly to business outcomes.
Success lies in whether work delivered creates valuable outcomes and the ability to gain insights even when results fall short of expectations, empowering teams to refine their approach or pivot entirely.
Starting with anticipated outcomes enables teams to develop meaningful OKRs that align with broader strategic objectives, define clear customer-centric goals and connect directly to the organization’s strategic direction.
Measurable business features and technical debt investments, when linked to specific outcomes, become strategic initiatives with identifiable business value, rather than “mysterious maintenance work”.
By documenting both anticipated and actual outcomes at the epic level, teams can refine their approach and make strategic decisions that drive growth, while justifying investments and creating a roadmap for long-term success.
By closing the gap between investment and impact, organizations can transform how they view technology, from a cost center to a catalyst for innovation, growth, and customer satisfaction.

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Profitable Engineering: Linking Software Engineering to Business Results

This three-part series aims to show a direct connection between software engineering and business results.
It provides practical insights and strategies to shift the perspective of technology as a cost center.
The articles cover topics such as redefining the value of technology, evolving engineering as a strategic partner, and shifting towards delivering meaningful outcomes.
The series encourages readers to transform their approach and align technology with measurable outcomes.

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Alexis Şanal creates City Makign 101 card game for urban planning role play

Architect Alexis Şanal has created City Making 101, a card game for urban planning role play.
The game turns urban design challenges into a creative adventure, allowing players to imagine design guidelines.
Players use cards detailing urban elements and policies to prioritize and debate their selection.
The game aims to inspire real-world change and is designed for both professionals and the general public.

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