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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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TEI 306: Accomplish twice as much in half the time – with Steve Glaveski

Product Innovation Educators

The 4-Hour Work Week focuses on making the leap from employee to entrepreneur, but my system is for individuals working either for themselves or as part of a team, and for leaders of organizations looking to build Time Rich cultures. A lot has changed since The 4-Hour Work Week was published in 2007.

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How to Build Products That Transform People?s Lives by Chris Hay

Mind the Product

Mobile-phone based payment system M-Pesa first launched in Kenya in 2007. Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari. Be Passionate. It’s a simple as that.

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Communicate Your Vision with an Internal Roadmap

The Product Coalition

That approach works fine until your sales team gets on the phone to tell a customer about the Next Big Thing. When you define a roadmap as a group of project commitments, you’ve set your team up for failure. The steps outlined in this article will help your product team to frame the conversation. So why build a roadmap at all?

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. We realized early that you can have all the tactics in the world but if they hit your homepage and your homepage is bad, it’ll go to s**t. This was around 2010.

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What is the Ideal Product Team Size?

ProductPlan

It means more firepower is required, as the current team (or lack thereof) is no longer able to adequately handle product management as is. This moment also represents an opportunity to determine what an ideal product team would look like. A key question here is: what is the ideal product team size?