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The Definition of Product Management Is Shrinking. It’s Not Good!

Product Management University

The definition of product management has been changing and evolving over the past 10 years and I’m not sure it’s for the better. I make it a regular habit to have conversations with product management directors and VPs. It keeps me current on the landscape of the product management profession without any slant or bias to what we do.

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built.

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The 20th Anniversary of the Minimum Viable Product: What Happened?

DevelopmentCorporate

The concept was introduced by Frank Robinson in 2001. Steve Blank expanded on it in 2005 with the Customer Development Methodology. Since 2001 there have been several attempts to improve on the core MVP concept. Think Agile and SAFe, Since 2001 there have been seven different attempts to redefine the MVP.

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NASCAR Product Managers Try To Restart The Race

The Accidental Product Manager

NASCAR product managers try to attract a new fan base Image Credit: roger blake So when I say “NASCAR” to you, what do you think of? The problem that the NASCAR product managers are facing is that fans warmly nostalgic for Old Dixie are aging out. In the past, this image would have been fairly accurate.

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High Performing Teams: Super Goals & Super Identity

The Product Coalition

A new product team’s success is more heavily influenced by top management support and organisational politics than it is internal team factors (e.g. A super goal, with top management support, means your team now has the foundation for a super identity-that is, your team can have the sense of being part of a small, elite group.

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Top 10 FinTech Software Development Companies 2019

The Product Coalition

The market is saturated with hundreds of FinTech software development companies, so it can be challenging to choose the one that best fits your business. Are you looking for the best FinTech developer to build a robust payment app, personal accounting app, or banking application?

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The 21 best agile product management resources

ProductBoard

In 2001, a group of software developers set off a revolution in the world of tech when they outlined a new way of managing product development—agile. At the time, older models of product management such as waterfall were becoming obsolete. In the unpredictable world of tech, faster and more adaptable teams win.

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