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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

How to Write for Secondary Readers Polly, a program manager, works with her program team to solve a cross-program problem: status reporting. Up until now, Polly and the program team created a monthly status report. Her ideal readers are the teams doing the work, so they can change their demos and reporting frequency.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

“A majority of consumers (are) now reporting a company’s security practices directly influence their spending habits,” said James Barham, PCI Pal’s CEO. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

The cadence of reporting and informational updates play a key part in the representation. For example, serving as the business owner of an agile software tool such as JIRA, used by product management and other product development stakeholders. Finally, top-notch communication skills are essential. Data is important.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

But the training was intense! This sales training laid the foundation for the survival tactics Janna still uses today to manage people. One of the hardest challenges in product management is getting people aligned – especially if they have different reporting lines and objectives. Janna Bastow. Ask questions.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

You can create sales training and prepare go-to-market plans for upcoming feature launches months in advance. In an Agile, fast-moving and competitive environment, what you are frequently not able to achieve with output-focused product planning, however, are desired user and business results.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

“A majority of consumers (are) now reporting a company’s security practices directly influence their spending habits,” said James Barham, PCI Pal’s CEO. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

They rarely focus on testing ideas through experimentation, finding market opportunities or learning what customers want, but instead, drown in bureaucratic meetings, arguing with stakeholders (instead of actually engaging in meaningful dialogue with them) and justifying backlog decisions (instead of reporting on outcomes from those choices).