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The Key to Driving Alignment is Remote Collaborative Exercises, Featuring Isabelle Berner VP of Product

ProductPlan

There’s still no real replacement for real-time, dynamic discussions and exercises to foster stakeholder alignment. Berner, 12-year product management career included stints at Pivotal and Betterment, joining the software development consultancy specializing in Lean and Agile. Define goals and anti-goals.

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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time. Michael soon found a job at a management consulting firm as a Business Analyst working with different technology companies from startups to large enterprises. It taught him “how to communicate in every way”, Michael says.

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366: This is modified Agile for hardware development – with Dorian Simpson and Gary Hinkle

Product Innovation Educators

Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? These include roles at Motorola and AT&T along with dozens of companies as an innovation and product development consultant. Using the focus matrix is a collaborative team exercise.

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Announcing Modus Kickstart

Modus Create

Software development projects require a maker mindset and comprehensive planning to be successful. Modus Kickstart helps to align and prepare for development by first bringing the three key players of software development together: product, UX, and engineering. Collaboration Between UX, Product, and Engineering.

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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.

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Why We Don’t Interview Product Managers Anymore

The Product Coalition

In our specially designed auditions, product managers perform real-world exercises to assess how they think about problems in an environment where nobody from the company knows anything about their experience, their background, or their formal education. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15.

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Product Waste and The ROI of Discovery

Mironov Consulting

 Product Management (and Engineering & Design) see continuous customer interviewing and intellectually honest experimentation as this decade’s biggest game-changer: better discovery is how we deliver more value with the same development staff.  (See  (See Teresa Torres’s bestselling product book.)