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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. The Ukrainian engineer has lived in Japan since he was six, an experience which has made him bi-cultural.

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Previewing a full chapter of The Cold Start Problem — my upcoming book dropping in December

Andrew Chen

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. It was 2015 in December, and on a Friday evening, the office was buzzing. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. I hope you enjoy it!

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

The Product Coalition

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. These roles gave me opportunities helped me gain exposure on how to develop web applications for users.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.