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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). a skateboard.

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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. It simply doesn’t work. We’re Trapped in our Cultures. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you. Days where we’re B or C players.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. That’s simply a byproduct.

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Becoming a Product Leader: Leading Product Success in the First 100 Days

Product Management Unpacked

In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Consider the data you just collected – the opinions on your listening tour, where you need to take the product or company – and how it compares to the information you had when you were hired.

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Is Product Management Certification Right For You?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. PMs come in all shapes and sizes, but ultimately they’re responsible for managing the product through its lifecycle. To ship a great product.