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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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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. Maybe it is time for a tough re-review of the entire set of projects to kill some of them to benefit the whole portfolio.

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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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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams

The Product Coalition

In other words: If two teams are building a part of an application separately, that system will probably have two components, introducing dependencies and additional communication overhead. In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Coherence, Outcomes, and Dictation

Tyner Blain

This isn’t about name-calling a leader as a dictator , it is about honestly acknowledging that the dialog is a dictation – orders are given and orders are taken, without more than a superficial interaction. When scenario 1 happens, how should the system respond? This is clearly insane. This is inside-out thinking.

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Tools to Help Product Managers Think Strategically and Commercially

Mind the Product

The State of Product is an exercise in strategy, it’s an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products’ margins and revenue generating impact.