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

Product Management University

Strengthen your upstream practices around market and customer knowledge (not to be confused with user knowledge), customer discovery (not to be confused with user and product discovery) and create strategic product roadmaps (not to be confused with feature delivery schedules).

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How to be a great product manager during a recession

Product Management Unpacked

The 9/11 Recession: (March 2001 – November 2001). Prioritize your roadmap for customers. Anything that makes you a continued ‘aspirin’ versus a vitamin in the features roadmap goes to the top of this week’s sprint. Look at the roadmap. The Iran/Energy Crisis Recession: (July 1981 – November 1982).

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Why is Agile Still Being Treated as Gospel?

The Product Coalition

Ever since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, the concept of becoming more efficient by embracing iterative delivery models and “learning-on-the-go” has captivated senior executives to junior project managers alike. All of this adapted to small development teams or small companies is no problem.

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Centercode CEO Talks Tackling Challenges with a COVID-World Mindset

Centercode

Since 2001, Centercode has helped hundreds of iconic tech companies bring amazing products to market. Everyone is adapting their roadmaps to this new reality. How can companies fulfill higher customer expectations when resources are strained and the path forward is unclear?

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Branding Yourself as a Product

Pragmatic Marketing

Unfortunately, in 2001 as the dot-com boom went bust, Fujitsu, for the first time in the company’s history, lost money. But you should still build a roadmap that answers this question: Where do you plan to be in two years, five years, 10 years? And you must regularly refresh your career roadmap, just as you would for a product.

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What strong teamwork looks like: 7 proven models

Atlassian

Authors and business leaders Frank LaFasto and Carl Larson invested a lot of research into the model that they developed in 2001, studying the work of hundreds of team members and leaders to understand what made successful teams tick. Use it when: You want to understand the individual components of your team.

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Why Drawing Maps Sharpens Your Thinking

Product Talk

And, of course, there is our most debated artifact, the roadmap. We’ve already discussed the success of the business model canvas. Customer journey maps and empathy maps are also common. As is Jeff Patton’s user story mapping. Despite the prevalence of maps in the world of product, they are often under utilized. Tversky, B., Tversky, B.