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Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Product Management Journey?—?Developer Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I received a lot of questions recently on how to transition into a Product Manager role. in Computer Science) in 2008.

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Learning from Failure: Product Manager Style

The Product Coalition

Many product people know that rushed development can kill the final release. In this case, negotiations between Atari and Universal Pictures/Steven Spielberg over the rights to the film were only completed in July 1982, leaving only 5 and a half weeks for development in the push to release the game in time for Christmas.

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A Better Problem Statement Template

Tyner Blain

There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.

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Defining the Problems

Tyner Blain

Knowing a good structure is necessary, but you also need to avoid filling the good template with bad content. There are two patterns I see with product managers I work with – describing problem manifestations, and falling victim to the curse of knowledge. Each new link is more abstract and less immediately actionable.

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How to Be an Ethical Product Manager

The Product Coalition

But what about in product management? Should there be a code of ethics for Product Managers? Being a Product Manager isn’t like being a therapist, doctor, or lawyer. So maybe now is the perfect time to collectively create a Product Management Moral Code. Why should companies care about ethics?

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Janice Fraser: Knitting at the Edge of new

Mind the Product

For four years, every six months during Obama’s second term, I brought a team to the White House to teach startup-type thinking to Obama’s administration.”. She then spent five years in editorial at tech media publisher IDG before joining Netscape in the mid 90s, effectively as a product manager. “I It’s a big meaty project.”.

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Are You Using Your Creativity the Right Way?

The Product Coalition

Product managers need to be creative. Creativity has many forms, and you only need some of them for your product career. Photo by Rodolfo Clix from Pexels When I first decided to move into product management, I also decided to interview at Google. You have to understand, it was early 2008.