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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time.

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Product Managers and Technical Skills: What’s the Deal?

The Product Coalition

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Product development is the process of building tech.

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The Evolution of E-commerce: Trends & Statistics in 2022

The Product Coalition

Although the world experienced a tough year in 2020, the national market saw double-digit global e-commerce platform growth. Here are some e-commerce facts that you should know: Latin America witnessed $ 85 billion in e-commerce sales (2021), increasing 25% from $ 68 billion (2020). billion (2020). billion by 2025 from $46.2

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A Team Is Not a Bonsai Tree by Salma Alam-Naylor

Mind the Product

Salma Alam-Naylor, a Software Development Lead at Code Computerlove, illustrates this in her 2020 MTP Engage Manchester talk, where she draws on her experiences as a tech leader to present a very horticultural metaphor that explores leadership, cultivating empowered teams, and the human condition.

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A DevOps Guide for Product Managers

Speaker: Suzie Prince, Head of DevOps, Atlassian

In an ever changing world Product Managers are being pushed now, more than ever, to keep up with business and customer demands. Luckily, the culture of DevOps and the practice of Continuous Delivery supports product managers and their teams as modern software development evolves at a rapid pace.

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Seven Questions You Can Ask To Prevent Overengineering

The Product Coalition

It’s not limited to software development either?—?I I credit overengineering for that really complex change management process or that 200 page employee handbook you may have been asked to read. Originally published at [link] on December 24, 2020. When we put our brain into solutioning mode?—?we

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The Ultimate Guide to Product Management for SaaS – SaaS Product Management explained by 10 SaaS PMs

Userpilot

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?