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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. How do I build alignment?

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of? It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. Others will fail. It’s impossible for one person to do.

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Using Outsourcing to Launch and Scale Your Product Faster

Mind the Product

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation. Who was on time?

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How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth

Department of Product

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Partnering up with adjacent teams to improve continuous discovery.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles?

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The Product Market Fit Engine | Rahul Vohra, CEO, Superhuman | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Rahul shared an incredibly simple framework Superhuman uses for understanding their customers. Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. I felt this incredible intense pressure from the team and also from within myself to launch what we had built. Step 2: Segment.