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This Framework Gives You Product Management Super Powers

The Secret PM Handbook

Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. Good Metaphors Improve the Usability Instincts of Your Developers. What Should Product Teams Optimize?

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3 Simple Steps To Make Your Customer Stories 10x Better

The Secret PM Handbook

Your Problem Should Be Really Bad. You’re not going go to Club, your team isn’t going to make quota. In fact, if you’re in a “sales is not growing” situation, there are a lot of bad potential outcomes if it continues. The key here is to think about the outcomes if this bad situation continues to exist.

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. The Stage-Gate process came from stories of successful entrepreneurs and teams.

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12 Knowledge Base Benefits You Can’t Miss Out On

Userpilot

Results in higher team productivity. It’s a great way to save time for your HR team while ensuring new employees don’t get stranded. Company and team structure. Your next instinct might be to hire more people on the support team, but that’s costly, and it doesn’t always solve the problem. It empowers users.

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading! Goldstein, Steve J.

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The Secrets of Highly Successful Sales People: Objection Handling

The Secret PM Handbook

After all, a known bad (the current situation) is sometimes better than an unknown bad (a new application that doesn’t work). How do you prepare the sales team for these kinds of objections? Develop stories about how customers chose you because of one of these features or are using this feature to enable something valuable.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom.