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Indecision in Product: How to Avoid Becoming a Bottleneck

Mind the Product

As a product manager, the worst position you can put yourself in is creating a bottleneck by making slow decisions. Leaving your team in limbo without a sense of direction is a far worse position to be in than taking a wrong step. But, as I’ve learned, the quest for a perfect decision often does more harm than good.

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Janice Fraser: Knitting at the Edge of new

Mind the Product

It’s looking at key leadership skills “for life, family, work, and business”. She says it became very commercial very quickly in the late 90s and post the 2008 recession has been very aggressively commercial. It’s a big meaty project.”. The bro culture that many people find distasteful has developed since the recession, she says.

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Prashanth Chandrasekar on writing the script of the future

Intercom, Inc.

Created in 2008 as a question and answer site by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, it has grown to become one of the primary technology communities on the web, and by far the largest corner of the Stack Exchange Network of sites, which collectively has more than 120 million monthly users. Building with – not for – community. Jordan: Cool.

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Are you cut out for Product Management?

BrainMates

Of course, there are many kind ways to say ‘no’ (check out this great article by Sebastien Phlix, Product Manager at Typeform, on the art of delivering a ‘ Positive No’ ). Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. Shy away from taking initiative? Every investment decision we make represents a risk.”.

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How to Take Part in a Product Bootcamp and Revitalize a Product Department

The Product Coalition

Bruno actually had his first Product Management experience back in 2008. For those who do achieve a position, it helps them keep away potential competitors. In a way, you must craft your own way to the position. For many, this means slowly auditing your functions and realizing that they actually amount to a product position.

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What Makes Amazon’s Product Strategy So Sticky?

ProductPlan

In 2008, millions shifted to billions with $19.1 It’s common to make arrangements where you supply your development resource to work within another team (with their senior development leadership/code reviews/etc.) According to Godden, successful product leadership comes down to having a leader solely dedicated to a product.

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How We Build and Sustain High-Trust Teams

StubHub

By Jennifer Lau, Senior Product Manager Wellesley College, 2008. It always comes back to soccer. Soccer is a game that I love and have learned from throughout my life. I have been the captain of my high school, college, business school and rec teams.