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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

For example, my first iteration focused on the problem statements, targeted customer, technical strategies, pricing strategies, and competitiveness evaluation, which was all excellent content that offered important product context but just not the right place. First Attempt. As expected, I ran into a lot of issues at the start of the process.

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Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work

ProductPlan

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. It’ll go away ,” the famous TV dad advised his family on dealing with challenges. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work. We call it a mistake.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Of course, the latter are rarely product designers. That said, product designers should still have a moderate level of knowledge about the technical aspects of the product and the industry as awhole.)

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Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager?—?Playlist Platform

The Product Coalition

What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? explains that we need not just a “techie” who will monitor technical indicators but a product manager who will combine knowledge of the technical world with an understanding of customers' desires and main company metrics. Know what our users want?

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

As an online education platform, your users (course instructors) are making a big bet, where it may take a while to see results. We were building an online education marketplace and wanted to build the Amazon for courses. Tech was that number one place to be, so we started building our course catalog there. It was simple.

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Structured Visits – Cross Functional Team

The Product Bistro

Even though structured customer visits are technically “ marketing ” research, for them to be valuable requires that many of the key groups in the organization are involved. Marketing – of course, the marketing team needs to understand the needs of the customer, and to help craft product requirements to address those needs.

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Feedly is hiring a Marketing Automation Manager

Roy Madden

Set up email campaigns in collaboration with the broader marketing team, recommend and implement A/B and multivariate testing, and advise on ways to continuously improve overall email performance. You have 3+ years of experience with Hubspot, particularly focused on technical implementation. Required skills and experience.