Actuation Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

Last week we covered the basics of the Product Requirements Document (PRD). This week I’ll lay out the eight things that set a PRD apart as a highly useful document. Deliver these eight, and you’ll have a document that smoothes out development and leads to a positive outcome. It will be….

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Actuation Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Essentials of a Product Requirements Document (PRD). In this week’s post, I’m going to discuss the nuts and bolts of the PRD (Product Requirements Document). Next week I’ll complete this discussion by covering some of the specifics that will be part of a good PRD.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 1, 2019

We had to write very detailed requirements in advance, review them and plan accordingly. It resulted in slow reaction to changes and many obsolete requirements. With the move to agile and the preference of working software over comprehensive documentation (see the agile manifesto) there is less demand for such long specifications.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

Product management is an increasingly popular field in the technology industry. Each year, more people are becoming interested in, and trying to break into the field of product management. Some PMs are business-focused, some primarily work on product growth, some are highly technical, and so on. Keep it short and sweet!

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 1, 2019

We had to write very detailed requirements in advance, review them and plan accordingly. It resulted in slow reaction to changes and many obsolete requirements. With the move to agile and the preference of working software over comprehensive documentation (see the agile manifesto) there is less demand for such long specifications.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. Background My father runs a humble video production house in my hometown?—?Jhansi.

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Usersnap

APRIL 29, 2023

Product managers have a lot of ground to cover. From staying on top of market trends, user needs, customer feedback , and industry insights to managing their resources, and planning what’s ahead for their product. Breaking-edge technology usually feels like something that requires advanced technical knowledge.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2018

As product managers, our job is to determine what matters most to our customers. And how much time should we spend iterating on a product that launched last month versus moving onto something new? Experimenting lets us measure the impact of the products we’re building quantitatively, by testing them before and after release.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

A few months ago, I was given the task of delivering a product using technology that our company had never worked with and that our team had never encountered. Our task was to deliver an extension to our core product in a technology that my current team had no expertise in. Develop In-House or Find External Expertise?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 1, 2019

We had to write very detailed requirements in advance, review them and plan accordingly. It resulted in slow reaction to changes and many obsolete requirements. With the move to agile and the preference of working software over comprehensive documentation (see the agile manifesto ) there is less demand for such long specifications.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 28, 2018

We had to write very detailed requirements in advance, review them and plan accordingly. It resulted in slow reaction to changes and many obsolete requirements. With the move to agile and the preference of working software over comprehensive documentation (see the agile manifesto ) there is less demand for such long specifications.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

At ucreate we constantly challenge and re-evaluate our processes for building great products for our founders. Due to this increased communication overhead, we needed to re-think how we could improve communication, product workflows and handover documentation across our ever expanding teams. Side note: ??Drift

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2018

At Trulia and Zillow Group , I had peers with decades of experience in Design and Engineering across many types of companies and interacted with many types of Product Managers. The engineering team is extremely strong and known for much more than just development. Product people aren’t exactly known to have insignificant ones either.

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Our Masters of Product Management podcast provides listeners with engaging topics to help you think differently and about things you encounter daily, but often don’t have enough time to reflect and take action. Get your dose of insights, in just 15 quick minutes by tuning into the Masters of Product Management podcast.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This article is based on information provided in our webinar, Customer Validation for Product Managers , with Centercode CEO Luke Freiler. If you are reading this, it probably won’t surprise you that 47% of product managers have run Beta Tests as part of their job. As the product leader, you know your product better than anyone.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why product management role is so misunderstood. The Technical Aspect Throughout my career as product manager I have talked with many product managers from different companies, seen a lot of product management recruitment ads, and followed many product management discussions and lectures. Don’t get me wrong.,

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Path to PM is a series of interviews with product leaders about breaking into product management. ProductPlan develops product roadmap software for product managers. How did you break into product management? I've been in product management and new product development for about 15 years.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We talk to Katja Muradyan , an Exponent alumnus, on her journey to breaking into product management from a consulting background and her experiences building various products in Europe. I started there as a Project Manager and left as Product Manager. Every time you apply for a product role, you should be ready for anything.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

In this post, an enterprise (IBM) and a consumer (Google) product manager describe a typical day in their life on the job. While there doesn't exactly exist a "typical" day in product management, you can expect to perform certain tasks based on the stage of your product. This is where you'll write requirements and epics.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 7, 2019

We tend to reflect the careers of aspiring tech professionals who aim to complete the transition to Product Management. There are, however, other alumni who take the course even though they already are Product Managers. Product School’s course allows them to revitalize Product Management teams, taking their skills to the next level.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How to develop Product Roadmap ] [Next : Chapter 14?—?Product Product Prioritization ] [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Once your team moves to the “Build” stage, it is necessary for the development team to understand the previous research, product vision as well as the roadmap. [Prev : Chapter 12?—?How

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Mixpanel

JULY 6, 2023

For so long, using the apps and services we need to be productive has required technical formulas or exhausting interfaces. Have some scratch notes you’d like expanded into a new product requirements document (PRD)? The rules of SaaS are changing. Generative AI is unframing all of that.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

In an organization with engineers, engineering managers, technical project managers, product managers, UI/UX designers, what is the responsibility and working relationship between the different roles? What products do we own and what business value do we provide either to the end users or internal customers?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Product Requirements Docs (PRD) might be one of the product managers’ best friends. Personally, the PRD not only helps me communicate how a product or a feature looks like to the rest of the team, but also keep my thoughts in line and allows me to make more informed decisions about the next steps.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2021

If you ask people in the industry, people will say 70% of your ideas will probably fail, and of the ones that work, they will require 3–4 iterations before they start delivering significant value. So if you’re not iterating over things you’ve already shipped, you’ll likely end up with a product that is not helping customers effectively.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week!

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Mixpanel

JULY 6, 2023

For so long, using the apps and services we need to be productive has required technical formulas or exhausting interfaces. Have some scratch notes you’d like expanded into a new product requirements document (PRD)? The rules of SaaS are changing. Generative AI is unframing all of that.

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Mixpanel

JULY 6, 2023

For so long, using the apps and services we need to be productive has required technical formulas or exhausting interfaces. Have some scratch notes you’d like expanded into a new product requirements document (PRD)? The rules of SaaS are changing. Generative AI is unframing all of that.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

Identifying the right approach in product management can seem obscure, a bit like looking for sparks of fireworks through the fog. In product management there is always the opportunity to innovate, to do things differently, and to add a bit of your own special super power to turn chaos into order. Remember the four prior steps.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Developing systems for a diverse group of stakeholders to consume the same data is no small task; it’s a journey. As engineers, we know there are many tricks to give the perception of speed (just ask your web developer) even if some piece of an underlying system is actually slow. Organizations rarely have patience for that journey.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

After 18 months of being an Agile Product Manager, here are the top five lessons I learned. Then we moved into our new, spacious, permanent office, and something strange happened: what had once been absolutely natural interactions now required getting out of our chairs and walking an extra 40 feet, while balancing a coffee cup on our laptops.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

“The product shall.”. Market requirements typically define the problems your product will address using a formal, stilted language known to all technology people. You Shall Not Write Requirements Without the Verb Shall. I’ve completely given up on formal requirements. The requirement is the problem.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2019

A walkthrough of the Product Management role. The tl;dr version “For a given universe, a Product Manager aligns all stakeholders towards a set of outcomes, defines dynamic paths to achieve those outcomes, and finally drives execution along those paths while constantly measuring progress across comprehensive metrics and milestones?—?all

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Mixpanel

JUNE 12, 2023

Hear me out: In my role, I’m tasked with working stride-for-stride with the product teams across our large company to arm them with the data insights needed to improve their products. Keeping pace and maintaining alignment can be essential for the ultimate direction and success of our core product offerings.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 12, 2023

Hear me out: In my role, I’m tasked with working stride-for-stride with the product teams across our large company to arm them with the data insights needed to improve their products. Keeping pace and maintaining alignment can be essential for the ultimate direction and success of our core product offerings.

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