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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The story of how the first product of the information age was created and found product/market fit. Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Source: Wikipedia Gutenberg’s Entrepreneurial Journey Under these conditions, imagine how hard it was to launch a world-changing product.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Where do your teams agree on low scores?

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. An Executive Needs a Feature *Now*.

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What is Program Sense in Technical Program Management?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

These are: Influence: As a TPM, a crucial aspect of the position is influencing and persuading the relevant teams and stakeholders to take the necessary actions to accomplish certain goals. As such, a TPMs program sense entails the ability to manage and navigate through technical dependencies and work alongside the engineering team.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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To manage a Product Roadmap, you must be a Diplomat, Strategist and Defender

Bain Public

By leaning on empathy, we can build an open-minded work culture that encourages collaboration, opinions, and feedback, allowing us to gain a variety of perspectives from the people on our teams and beyond. Everyone’s opinion matters, and when they trust that we’re listening, a culture of respect develops. How big is our technical debt?

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