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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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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. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. In fact, our tests regularly failed.

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Moving To The Product Operating Model by Marty Cagan

Userpilot

They include the Product Managers, Lead Engineers, and Product Designers. Then, he founded the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising, and coaching. Usable : Removes technical barriers so any customer can find value in your solution.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. The customer vs. the user: the one buying your product isn’t the same one who pays for it.

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Why This Opportunity Solution Tree is Changing the Way Product Teams Work

Product Talk

We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. Bernie is a Professor of Engineering and the Academic Director at the d.school at Stanford University. We ignore the advice of Chip and Dan Heath where they advise us to avoid “whether or not” decisions (i.e. – Tweet This.

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How We Dealt With Project Challenges: An Agile Approach in a Deadline-driven Development

The Product Coalition

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. It’ll teach you how to set up continuous discovery with your product trio team of product managers, design leads, and tech leads. Recruiting users for discovery interviews.