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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Negar studied marketing in university and later worked as a Marketing Executive at a professional association. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. Within two years, Negar was promoted to Marketing Manager. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Product Discovery Tips

Roman Pichler

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Luckily, there is a straightforward solution: timebox your product discovery work.

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Interview: A Chat with BPMA Mentor and Edx CTO, Mark Haseltine

bpma ProductHub

I want to see Boston continue to be a hub of technology innovation well into the future. Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. In addition to a technology focus, I often need to be more involved in the business or product side.

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“Build What Matters” Framework for Startups

The Product Coalition

In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability. The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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Announcing Pietra and a16z — my first ex-Uber investment!

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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How Advantageous Is App Development Outsourcing For Business?

The Product Coalition

As a business, you would surely want to increase the market value, for which outsourcing would be the best option. It brings you an amazing opportunity to explore the market for considerate growth. Tech-favoured: Outsourcing companies hold the expertise and are experienced in a wide range of technology stacks.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

For example, my first iteration focused on the problem statements, targeted customer, technical strategies, pricing strategies, and competitiveness evaluation, which was all excellent content that offered important product context but just not the right place. First Attempt. As expected, I ran into a lot of issues at the start of the process.