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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? How will you differentiate from these? What’s the state of those systems? If so, will you also have your own account system? Are members contributing content or only system administrators?

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Why Product People Should Care About Business Strategy

Roman Pichler

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? Which management systems are required? What is your winning aspiration? Why does your organisation exist? How will you win?

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m Because technology differentiation is no longer a real factor today start ups, it turns out that most products are succeeding or failing due to core product/market fit followed by the distribution strategy.

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How AI will impact product management

Lenny Rachitsky

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. Think about it—what is AI best at? .’ This post is just the beginning of a discussion.

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16 Product Management Best Practices For Successful PMs

Userpilot

Ensure alignment between the product vision and product strategy on one hand, and the business objectives on the other. Develop a solid differentiation strategy and use a mix of differentiators to help your product stand out from competitors. Make sure you have a system in place for the effective sharing of such data.

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The “Agile C-Suite” and The Critical Role It Plays in an Organization’s Path to Agility

Agile Velocity

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . I appreciate the concept of the “business operating system” and balancing the agile enterprise.

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Incorporating Empathy into Product Management

ProductPlan

Your product will integrate with accounting software, CRMs, and inventory systems. Despite these scenarios and use cases exceeding the initial product scope and vision, the rest of the world isn’t changing how it works just because your product strategy didn’t account for edge cases. Scope of product. Product development.