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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. During the project, teams were organized by platform (web, iOS, Android, etc.), In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year

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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. Product Management with Solids and Fluids Michael studied nanotechnology engineering at university with a focus on emerging technologies in a variety of industries.

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14 tips to help you run a successful product design workshop

Intercom, Inc.

When we want to discuss problems, imagine new ideas, and brainstorm solutions, it’s best to bring people together – whether in person or virtually. Too often, a discussion can become unfocused, brainstormed solutions end up scattered and lacking direction, or the session devolves into a competition of who can assert their ideas louder.

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Free User Persona Template for SaaS – The Fastest Way to Create a User Persona for Your SaaS Business

Userpilot

User persona templates are a shortcut to creating a user persona from scratch for your SaaS business. Contrary to conventional wisdom, for B2B SaaS, you don’t need to fill in every little detail about your user like their favorite food or where they went to school to create a user persona – it’s not a dating profile.

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Pricing and packaging your software does not have to be hard.

The Product Coalition

For the past 6 months, I’ve been thinking a lot about pricing and packaging technology products. Here are the top reasons why pricing/packaging exercise seems more complex than it needs to be: Underestimating the effort and time to create and to get buy-in across the organization. Quickly create a pricing tool for the packages.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Key learnings.

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Why We Don’t Interview Product Managers Anymore

The Product Coalition

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15. all pointing to a simple fact. Job interviews mean you hire the best actor on the day?