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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. Since the required skill level is not clear, it’s often also not clear what and how to test when interviewing a potential hire. A real-life scenario This exercise is not theoretical. The Product Interview?—?A

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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. It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone. Test everything!

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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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Here’s Why You Should Write Unit Tests

Modus Create

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. In this article, we will explain why you should write unit tests. . What is Unit Testing? Why Do We Need Unit Testing?

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Tweet This. Lisa Orr understands this all too well.

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Generative AI in Your Business Strategy: From Concept to Reality

The Product Coalition

Low-complexity tasks include processing payroll for employees, posting preapproved content on social media channels, entering invoices into the accounting system, tracking inventory levels for a product, etc. This exercise will help leaders visualize where generative AI can most effectively implement within their function.

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Games to Play and Become a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The factories are leaving due to lack of educated workforce. I recommend this game as an exercise to all PMs that have already received a feedback about being control freaks. MVP and building for scale: Besiege (pc) How do you build something that stands the test of ever increasing scope?