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How I would make Spotify more social

The Product Coalition

while commuting in public transport. In order to differentiate from other types of playlists and to be able to display a badge for unseen added songs, I decided to make the playlists covers circle. That point would need to bring engineers and designers into a meeting to estimate precisely the work to do.

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Transitioning to Product from a Functional Role

Mind the Product

Transitioning from a functional role such as marketing or engineering to product can seem daunting, especially if your education and experience aren’t specifically tailored to product, but it can be done. Reverse engineer the role. Why Is Product Management Growing in Popularity? For her, the move into product was not much different.

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The Marketplace Starter Pack

The Product Coalition

Nowadays we have a huge number of successful companies on a wide range of markets, a lot focused on general goods such as Ebay, Mercado Livre, AliExpress and even Amazon but we have marketplaces in transportation like Uber in real estate like AirBnB on food & groceries like Rappi on services like Thumbtack and so on.

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Product Positioning for Product Managers

Department of Product

The company’s mission is to catalyze the shift to a sustainable transportation system. Z” is positioned to establish significant price differential with “Y”. Stephen holds both a BS & MS in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. But the mission includes a twist.

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Insights from a Product Manager User Research Interview

Balsamiq

I work in the Transportation industry with a focus on the Trucking vertical. Technical requirements (functional and non-functional) are uncovered through stakeholder interviews from different teams (Engineering, Executives and SME) and interactive workshops. I have honed the ability to differentiate between user needs and user wants.

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Insights from a Product Manager User Research Interview

Balsamiq

I work in the Transportation industry with a focus on the Trucking vertical. Technical requirements (functional and non-functional) are uncovered through stakeholder interviews from different teams (Engineering, Executives and SME) and interactive workshops. I have honed the ability to differentiate between user needs and user wants.

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Google - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, written by Larry Page & Sergey Brin in 1998. For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. Vision: Product Walkthrough.