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3 Simple Steps To Make Your Customer Stories 10x Better

The Secret PM Handbook

These stories are a critical component of the knowledge that product management can provide to sales and marketing and sales engineers to help ensure sales success. Your Problem Should Be Really Bad. You’re not going go to Club, your team isn’t going to make quota. It was a big challenge for me once.

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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom.

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading! Goldstein, Steve J.

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5 Business ‘Rules’ Worth Breaking

Business of Software Conference

In his 2010 talk, Smart Bear and WP Engine founder Jason Cohen talks about the proverbial ‘rules of business’ and many varying pieces of advice founders get – often from well-meaning mentors and experts. You set the rules and write the handbook. For Cohen and Smart Bear, solving simple problems was a bad strategy.

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An Interview with Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture, and Making Decisions

Split

Chances are if you’re an engineer or product manager who works on anything even somewhat related to continuous delivery, Jez Humble wrote your handbook. This co-author of the Jolt award-winning Continuous Delivery also made hefty contributions to both Lean Enterprise and The DevOps Handbook. Or, “We do this thing called Agile.