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UX Strategy: What is it and How to Create One

UX Planet

UX professionals often focus on mastering practical skills such as UI design, user research, and usability testing. What are their strong/weak sides? While these skills are essential, for UX to influence at a higher level, UX professionals must also grow their strategic skills. Who are our users? What needs/wants do they have?

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This Framework Gives You Product Management Super Powers

The Secret PM Handbook

One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality.

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The Perfect World and the Real World of Product Research

The Product Coalition

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Focus on identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats specific to your product or product area. The perfect world does not exist, though. There is only the real world. More: SWOT Analysis 2.

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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading! Goldstein, Steve J.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom.