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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Engineering and Product are written off as intellectual time-wasters. These (of course) don’t exist yet, since we’re still concept-testing problem statements and feature/function and technical requirements.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Test your strategy whenever opportunity arise as this is intended to be YOUR source of truth to guide you along.

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If You Don’t Know What a Product Manager Is?—?Don’t Hire Me.

The Product Coalition

Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. Let me do MY work without interfering with YOUR anxiety of meeting impossible deadlines. The upside is : doubt is the engine of progress. So if you’re thinking about hiring a PM-as-a-service here are a few pitfalls to avoid in order to reach effectiveness.

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Product Discovery at Scale

The Product Coalition

Product discovery encompasses all the research and decisions on the product, whether that’s planning your next feature, or testing your latest product proposition. Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem. What is product discovery?

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Technical Skills for Product Management. A question that comes up often among would-be Product Managers is: “how technical do I have to be?”.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Technical Skills for Product Management. Attend live classes and interact with Instructors and peers from anywhere in the world.