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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

This mostly worked, but it required a lot of administrative work to keep our systems in sync. There were dozens more that required that we make changes in all of our systems. At the heart of all of my administrative troubles was the need to move data in between disparate systems and to make sure that all of these systems were in sync.

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

But what’s cooler is that you can use these tools to build functional prototypes from a Figma design, convert a rough hand-drawn sketch to a working app, translate a PRD document into an interactive prototype, or even build a usable internal tool for your team, with no coding ability.

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Product in Practice: Evaluating If a New API is Needed

Product Talk

Depending on the country where the consumer is located, Chis company may need to request different documents from them in order to fulfill know your customer/know your business (KYC/KYB) requirements, an identity verification process thats used to prevent financial crime. Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

With her help, I wrote the first strategy document for Headspace, which eventually led to the complete reimagination of Headspace , maximizing growth for our guided mindfulness product and adjacent spaces. Instead, they’re meant to help the reader understand the strategy document better. Here is a template for that document.

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Turning OKRs into a high-performance system

BrainMates

Turning OKRs into a high-performance system By Kathryn Shepherd-King At a Glance OKRs Aren’t the Problem. But somewhere between the town hall announcement and the end-of-quarter review, things fall apart. Review regularly Don’t wait for the quarter to end. Use each review to improve the next and keep the feedback flowing.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself. “Fairness” isn’t coming.