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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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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

In fact, our tests regularly failed. The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. We were testing our code. I’m not a technical Product Manager. We managed to decrease each dev-test-release cycle from being months to 2 weeks.

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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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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.

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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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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.