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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way. I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions.

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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. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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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. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software?

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Let’s Make It Better: Solving the Real Problems That Matter

The Product Guy

Every great solution starts with finding the real problemand often, its not what it first seems. A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management.

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall? It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. .

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. For example, the owner of a persistence service has to be able to describe its interfaces or APIs and converse with the users—the development team members who use the service. A platform owner owns such a platform.

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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

billion in annual gross profit, expand globally, and build out a full suite of products across payments, banking, and SaaS. Through conversation, talent reviews, and direct experience leading large organizations, I’ve developed a few key principles to help new skip leads better understand and perform their role.