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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? How are those mass messages crafted? Send messages?

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Reviving the Handwritten Thank-You Note: Tips, Tools, and a 4-Sentence Template

Atomic Spin PM

A handwritten note in the mail elevates the message above the digital fray. It spreads positivity by helping you notice and encourage the behaviors you appreciate around you. Finding someone’s address requires a different headspace from coming up with a sincere message of thanks, so segment the jobs. Example #1.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

What’s In a Name? Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. So our first struggle is what to call this role. I think writing software would be fun” isn’t a strong selling point.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. This ensured women got fewer messages, and hopefully more of the right ones. Only to prospective dates rather than work colleagues.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Teresa: Who are your typical customers? ” Super helpful. Who was deciding on that output?

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

And then I’ve really only started companies as a byproduct of I have an obsessive personality and I channel that in a positive area which is like I’m obsessed with learning and getting better. Basically the fact that messaging from a technology standpoint I say hasn’t changed in my career. So I was nervous about that.

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Behind Every Great Product

svpg

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.