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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Like any system, it is a collection of interconnecting parts that function as a whole. If so, what are they?

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Ask Teresa: Does the Engineer in the Product Trio Need to be the Tech Lead?

Product Talk

They are responsible for deciding what to build (with appropriate input from the rest of the team, of course). Our more senior engineer might be most interested in system architecture, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. So it’s natural that the more senior people on the team are part of this group.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

To deliver high-quality online courses we were patching together several different tools to create a good student experience. We used Teachable as our course platform, Slack for our community, Zoom for our live sessions, Google Calendar to send out course invites, Miro for collaboration, and Mailchimp to send out course emails.

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now This post will transform how you build products, come up with new ideas, and operate as a PM. Colin Matthews was a longtime PM and now teaches my favorite AI prototyping course: AI Prototyping for Product Managers.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

An AI system, properly implemented, doesn’t have these same motivationsit simply reports what it finds in the data. This discovery challenged a common assumption that machines would struggle with the emotional aspects of customer research due to their lack of human empathy.

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Turning OKRs into a high-performance system

BrainMates

Turning OKRs into a high-performance system By Kathryn Shepherd-King At a Glance OKRs Aren’t the Problem. But somewhere between the town hall announcement and the end-of-quarter review, things fall apart. Leaders aren’t sure how to course-correct without disrupting delivery. It’s How We Use Them. The issue isn’t the framework.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now I believe the future of product management looks like Tal Raviv. He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers).