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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. Okay, those were way too many words to explain that knowledge is usually not a bad thing for a PM… Exercise 1: know your data structure Take the following data structure of a note-taking app. Names are fragile?—?they

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

As its name suggests, a product owner in Scrum is in charge of a product. Note that the choice of the name is intentional. The other product people involved should have roles whose names correctly reflect their scope of ownership, as I discuss below. Scrum Product Owner. SAFe Product Owner.

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370: Yes, you can facilitate with confidence – with Tom Henschel

Product Innovation Educators

” The list of companies with names we would all recognize where he has helped to improve leaders is too long to go into, but know he is the person behind many senior executives. His name is Tom Henschel. ” Then address someone else by name and say, “It looked like you were ready to speak.”

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The Art of Naming: How To Overcome Challenges in Naming Products, Services, and Companies

The Product Coalition

How long does it take to name a baby? And how do you go about exploring options and choosing a winning name? But naming a business, product, or service shouldn’t feel so personal, should it? Do you already have a name? The process is deeply personal, and for good reason. How do you know it’s not working?

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

It is built on the idea that goals are more important than features, and it consists of five elements: date, name, goal, features, and metrics, as the picture below shows. Carry out this exercise together with the development team. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work. This should give you an indication of the likely labor cost required.

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Mental Models Applied: Using A 2×2 Chart For Handling Competitive Objections

The Secret PM Handbook

As an exercise for myself, I decided to take a mental model that’s usually used for decision making – a 2×2 matrix – and apply it to marketing. Come up with spiffy names for the axes, and for the quadrants. I used “Right projects, right people” for the name of the magic quadrant. Clever names.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing a Persona Workshop

Mind the Product

His name is Eric. A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Company name. Persona Activating Exercises. If time allows, I strongly recommend you do some persona activating exercises. Our team is building a product for just one person.