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The Power of Amazon's Written Narratives

Sachin Rekhi

I love talking to Amazon employees about how the writing culture is interwoven into their product development process and the pros and cons of it. I wanted to share what I learned from the book for those evaluating whether to bring a writing culture to their own product teams. Get used to it."

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. There was no-one in the middle to ‘ translate ’.

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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Product managers who work with cross-cultural teams are in the crossfire. It simply doesn’t work.

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3 Product Manager job spec requirements that need to go?—?aka Moneyball for Hiring Product Managers

The Product Coalition

To paraphrase: Your goal shouldn’t be to hire Product Managers, your goal should be to hire someone that helps your team ship value at a higher rate. And in order to do that, you need to someone who is complementary and compatible with your existing team and with the game you are playing as a company, at the stage your product is at.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. into context and help product teams know what to use when. We no longer take months or years to release value to our customers.