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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

I see product management reduced to a gopher for development and a clean-up function. Product management under sales. When I joined a company in 2006 to run product management (as a CMO), the VP of sales would meet with the product managers every Monday morning to make new feature requests per what sales had sold the week before.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

He abandoned plans for a PhD and instead worked as an engineer and product manager at Applied Materials before getting his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with an MBA. He then joined Google in 2004, and 11 years later found himself named CEO as part of the Alphabet reorganization of the firm.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Which would you prefer: one where a barista knows your name and your favourite drink and your favourite music is playing, or one where everything is made for an average customer? Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop. Moreover, it’s not only changes in these components that might affect you.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

Scrum’s Achilles Heel: Product Discovery In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint?—?just just to name a few. you name it.

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The Ultimate List of Product Leaders You Must Follow (UPDATED)

The Product Coalition

For sure, joining a group of product professionals in your town can help you start building your community. Can you find your name? 29 Product Leaders You Must Follow Julie Zhuo is Product Design VP at Facebook. She studied Computer Science at Stanford and joined the company in its early stages, way back in 2006.

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What Makes Amazon’s Product Strategy So Sticky?

ProductPlan

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

How do you put a box around a product that defies categorization? How do you name an all-in-one solution for a plethora of problems, which – until now – have required individual tools? And they would name a bunch of software, but they’d use Docs and Sheets to do just about everything. Do you see things differently?