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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been.

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Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager?—?Playlist Platform

The Product Coalition

That implies a lot of traffic, internal customers, ultra-optimization of customer experience, and, as a result, the need to build a platform and not just a one-time feature. Know what our users want? What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? No one needs smarty-pants throwing technical terms around.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

As argued in the intro of the book, even though enterprise software makes up a big share of the total software market, most Product Management books still focus on consumer products only as well as ignore that enterprise software products are built and distributed very differently. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”

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Why This Opportunity Solution Tree is Changing the Way Product Teams Work

Product Talk

It’s easy for teams to work along both dimensions of product discovery—working to understand their customer’s context and iteratively testing their ideas—but that doesn’t mean they know how to connect the two sets of activities. But there’s more power behind this exercise. But Bernie’s exercise is about more than multitracking.

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Structured Visits – Cross Functional Team

The Product Bistro

Our last post was an overview of what is a structured series of customer visits, and a high level overview. This next post in the series will dive deeper, and discuss the importance of structured customer visits being cross functional. In this case, it is also advisable to record (with the subject’s permission) the interview.

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How Software Products are Created in Test Kitchens

The Product Coalition

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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Unlock Your Tech Career Potential with the Career Transition Compound Effect

People-First Product Leadership

I am leveraging my product background in both coaching and advising AI-driven startups. Pivot 1: CRM Strategist to User Experience Researcher Key Strategies: Leverage Your Unique Background : My communications skills became my secret weapon in translating complex tech concepts to marketing stakeholders.