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Product Discovery at Scale

The Product Coalition

These methods are often referred to as design artefacts and they include activities such as problem definition, prototyping, customer interviews, exploration and many more. The main phases of product discovery are: 1. This is likely to involve both design and technical details.

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How to Avoid Costly Surprises in Connected Product Design

Mind the Product

This list includes: Define your product specifications early. Make your environmental and safety definitions accurate but restrained. These include things like product components, price targets, user demographics, product volumes, operating life. The Order of Steps can Make or Break Development Costs.

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Product Managing the Cloud with Hemanth Kempanna

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

While there are lots of content out there advising on this subject, I would just like to call out one thing which I believe has helped me time and again: having empathy towards my interviewer. If I have to mention one specific thing that I learned from Exponent, then it is definitely the art of responding to estimation questions.

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Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

Paul: When we reflect back over the last eight-plus years for me, 10 years for you, there are definitely two things that dominate. And so, you decide to establish long-term technical ownership in the form of a team. What would you advise them to do? What happens there, Paul? Paul: Not good things. Paul: Two things.

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From Product Manager to Partner: An Interview with Ashley Carroll

Amplitude

Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! Why the move from product to the venture capital world? You’re managing many products at the same time.

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How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth

Department of Product

This is supported by the definitive book on organizational design in engineering teams: Team Topologies. In most cases, you should pretend that design and product are part of the team. One example of structural work that aids in onboarding is role definition. Who does technical leadership? Who does project management?