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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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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.

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My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises

UX Planet

DESIGN WORKBOOKS How to put design theory into practice in an efficient way My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice.

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How To Create A Powerful Product Experimentation System?

The Product Coalition

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. Allocate time regularly- The only way to get enough ideas to run a high velocity testing system is to set aside time for it. How to prioritize the ideas for maximum business value?

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Product Demos: Avoiding the Trap of Telling vs. Selling

Product Management University

Selling Demos The selling demo on the other hand, is an exercise in customer value themes and storytelling. Can you explain how your system reads resumes from job applicants?” It’s one of the biggest reasons buyers go radio silent after a demo. Instead of going right into the explanation, you can do one of two things.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. The participants came out of the exercise better aligned and improved their future collaboration.

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Is 'Nice' a Secret Tool for Product Managers? Discover Its Hidden Power.

People-First Product Leadership

Nice also can be cringeworthy when a manager says you are “nice” during a performance review. If speaking of monkeys and pedestals is not going to seal the deal with your execs, Teller’s approach to innovation is reminiscent of the problem solving technique, systems thinking.