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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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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Next, cluster related problems into broader themes, and give each theme a relatively short and pithy name.

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. This sounds simple enough.

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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. 10 Regularly Review and Adjust the Roadmap. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Image From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights

UX Planet

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights.

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. It’s a combination of IT software and LEGO blocks. By doing them all, we guarantee they’re all late.

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

Mind the Product

His name is Eric. Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. Eric loves coding and is passionate about new products. A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Company name. Persona Activating Exercises. Unbelievable!