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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. The Product Interview?—?A The correct answer is always C.

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What is Product Strategy?

Product Bookshelf

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L.

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How To Be More Creative: Simple Exercises For Your Team

UX Studio

It sounds weird at first but wait… Trick 2: Bad ideas don’t always turn out that bad. For one, we automatically exclude a lot of ideas because we find them bad or useless for some reason. Re-evaluating these bad ideas can open up brand new perspectives. How To Create A Convincing Product Vision To Guide Your Team.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them.

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Developing a Thorough Understanding of Atomic Roadmapping Habits

ProductPlan

And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . Learn how to set up your roadmap for success: Building New Habits and Breaking Bad Ones. Develop effective atomic roadmapping habits can allow your team to develop a clearer product vision. Imposter syndrome.

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How to build a world-class product team

Mixpanel

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. I hope you find this info both thought-provoking and useful. Customer focus. Communication skills.