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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

90% of executives say they prefer visual storytelling over dense reports. Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. Thats where storyboarding comes in.

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Moving from Solutions to Problems

Folding Burritos

What we want is to create a culture where stakeholders come to us with problems, rather than ready-made ideas and solutions (i.e. Yet, I wanted to dig deeper into this issue by focusing on: The reasons why a Solution-first culture makes your life harder; A “framework” to drive stakeholders to think in terms of Problems. features.).

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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

He most recently ran Product Management, Marketing, and Partnerships across Square while reporting to the CEO. It happened with PMs, engineers, designers, and marketers at all levels of seniority and tenure. How do I help line managers deal with IC performance issues on their team instead of dealing with them myself?

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Treat Your Product Team Like a Product

The Product Guy

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.