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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. I advise every product managers to focus on the customer outcome rather than the technical implementation. Specifically, a lot of “how” has been removed as those were more engineering and solutions focused details.

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The 10th Annual Product Management Awards Winners

The Product Guy

Harpal now works as an independent consultant and interim Chief Product Officer (CPO) advising companies and teams globally on strategic product development and innovation. He has a computer science degree from Cornell University, and still spends some of his spare time keeping his technical skills sharp. The Best Product Consultant.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I knew that I couldn’t look into the code to see that our engineers had built what I was looking for. We were making great progress. In fact, our tests regularly failed.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

Collaborating on digital product design with engineers or managers follows the same principles as the prisoners dilemmaboth of you can either cooperate or defect. For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Prisoners dilemma in digital productdesign.

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Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager?—?Playlist Platform

The Product Coalition

What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? The following block answers: Collaborate with designers, engineers, researchers and data scientists to identify problems, opportunities and solutions that will support the needs of our users and impact our goals / metrics. Know what our users want?

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Structured Visits – Cross Functional Team

The Product Bistro

Even though structured customer visits are technically “ marketing ” research, for them to be valuable requires that many of the key groups in the organization are involved. In this case, it would likely be a marketing person (or product manager) for the moderator, and an engineer as the scribe / SME.

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Top Product Manager Roles at Data-Driven Companies (+Candidate Spotlight)

Userpilot

You will work closely with Meta product and engineering teams to deliver on Meta’s product roadmap. PM with a technical background and a strong product sense. Technical fluency to understand, communicate, and drive impact in highly technical and fast-moving problem spaces. PMs with no technical background.