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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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527: The truth behind “CEO of the Product” – with Francesca Cortesi

Product Innovation Educators

Early in her career, Francesca encountered this phrase alongside the common description of product management as sitting at the intersection of business, user experience, and technology. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Expecting Resistance: Handling Stakeholder & Leader Concerns During Product Operating Model Pilot

Product Talk

I tried to document my strategy. Hope Gurion: In that scenario, I’m going to presume that that is not a product tech design functional leader, that that might be somebody operating in another part of the company with strategic context. You can call it whatever you want—product reviews. Someone shares their org context.

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

Product Talk

Some of these challenges were due to me being a beginner. If you arent familiar with the technical details of REST APIs, you might want to read my Understanding Web APIs: What They Are and How They Work article before reading the rest of this article. I ran into documentation that was incorrect. I was new to OAuth.

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Product in Practice: Evaluating If a New API is Needed

Product Talk

And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them. Through this process, Chi discovered that while the KYC process required a lot of manual back and forth for some orders, only 10 of the 60 countries they served required extra documentation.

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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.

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical product manager ). IDEs) that help you write code with the help of AI Let’s review the most popular tools in each category to see what they can do and what we can build. I’m confident you will too.