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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World

Centercode

Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How you involve real users in beta testing? In our interview with Adam Satterfield , director of Testing and Quality at Anthem, we dive deeper into these questions and the importance of test strategy on the whole.

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The Important Product Manager Skill That You’re Missing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

When you’re connected, you have a broader spectrum of information to draw from, allowing you to anticipate market shifts, user needs, and potential threats. By networking, you’ll get: Crowdsourced Solutions: Instead of spending hours researching, a well-placed question within your network can offer immediate answers.

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The Most Under-Appreciated Product Management Skill

ProductPlan

When interviewing customers to make sure you truly understand what they think. Crowdsourced Picks. Keeping tabs on KPIs, dealing with a demanding customer, attending standups, updating financial forecasts, and scheduling customer calls might sound like a crazy week for most people. Problem-solving. Common Threads.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Defining customer needs with jobs-to-be-done theory. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do. Insights lead to innovations and increased value for customers and the organization. Read more at https://strategyn.com/2016/07/11/customer-needs-defined/.

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Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team

The Product Coalition

In this game, the team members turn a blank, white box into a product package reflecting the value our product provides to our users. Think of the product box as a tangible elevator pitch capturing the essence of your product as a sales pitch to prospective customers. What Do We Know about our Customers? in pairs?—?the

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third. Create the right mindset by first understanding product goals, such as increasing the number of customers or decreasing the volume of customer service inquires. build products customers want and love. Read more at [link].