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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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The Important Product Manager Skill That You’re Missing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

In this article, we’ll delve deep into the importance of networking for product managers, drawing upon years of experience and insights from industry leaders. Innovations arise daily, and staying ahead isn’t just about skill—it’s about insights. It includes tech enthusiasts, market researchers, and even end-users.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Defining customer needs with jobs-to-be-done theory. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third. Read the interview at https://blog.mixpanel.com/2016/08/11/steven-sinofsky-product-leadership/.

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The Most Under-Appreciated Product Management Skill

ProductPlan

When interviewing customers to make sure you truly understand what they think. In these situations, silence (followed by thoughtful responses) shows you’re valuing the opinions and insights of others. Crowdsourced Picks. Products we build solve problems for users. When discussing priorities with stakeholders.

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Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World

Centercode

How you involve real users in beta testing? What’s your prediction on companies leveraging customers to test their products – will it continue on? We are seeing it grow with the capabilities of technology and companies implementing A/B, Canary or Crowdsourced testing via platforms like Centercode.

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Isn't corporate Library due for Disruption?

SidsAvenue

From the report " When it comes to justifying their spend librarians and information specialists put a lot of stock in usage statistics: 86% use them to prove the value of their purchases, second most important is feedback from users (77%). " They also get a chance to build leadership qualities. Why should the library change ?