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Working Remotely as a Product Manager: It’s about trust.

Product Management Unpacked

Stereotypes about what kind of work can or cannot be done remotely lead to unrealistic expectations and underperforming programs. The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management.

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Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Concepts and Considerations

The Product Coalition

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. The control group is used as the standard or benchmark to which comparisons are made. The reason is simple.

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Design Your Development Process for Learning

Sachin Rekhi

But what I've found surprising is that these learnings haven't been readily applied to the development process and they definitely should be. From the earliest stages of a startup, the R&D team should be designed in such a way to maximize learning for improving the R&D process itself. What exactly do I mean by this?

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Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects

Mironov Consulting

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Why Machine Learning Products Should be Managed Differently

Mind the Product

What then are the implications of ML products for team structure, focus, and hiring? Whether the data is good or bad, once interventions are made a counterfactual problem arises. Even products which set out to augment existing teams will change how they work, and change is hard. Team Structure. Data Quality.

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The Code and Fix Model

The Product Coalition

This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Engineers will begin the Coding process after some initial discussions with the product team.

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Product Backlog Defense

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Often, it is a sign of a lack of trust in the team’s capability.