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When 2 Become 1: The Roles of Product Manager and Product Owner

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Since the Agile Manifesto first distinguished the roles in 2001, the same person has often been expected to serve as both PM and PO. Understands customers, the problems the product solves, why the product is winning or losing, competitive differentiation, etc. Engages in market-sensing activities to determine the future of the product.

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The Best of Both Worlds: Vertical Marketing and Horizontal Products

Product Management University

That same messaging also helps the sales force talk the talk more credibly to ensure continuity between the marketing messages and the sales process, and that credibility may the one thing that ultimately differentiates you from the competition. Here’s an example.

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Is Agile Product Development Right for Your Team?

The Product Coalition

Yes, people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs were intelligent designers; but what was it that differentiated their working approach from other methodologies ? Famously, in 2001, around twenty tech personalities published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Soon, the world started paying attention to what they were doing.

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

The Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework: Clayton Christensen and Anthony Ulwick [10:42]. Jobs-to-be-Done Framework. And so a bunch of people came together, they started sharing what they were doing, they started asking what can we do differently, and a lot of this frustration culminated in 2001 with the release of The Agile Manifesto.