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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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

Product Talk

They received a lot of pushback from the engineers initially because it created complexities around code reviews, tech debt management, release processes, etc. The top diagram is how the team was structured to complete the technology transformation project mentioned earlier. Expose tech and organization dependencies early.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. out of 5 stars.

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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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14 tips to help you run a successful product design workshop

Intercom, Inc.

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Warm-up exercise (3-5 min).

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