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Product Managers and Technical Skills: What’s the Deal?

The Product Coalition

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. And yet…we all seem to stay hung up on technical skills.

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How To Partner With Technology Suppliers

The Product Coalition

Having worked on a number of large technology programmes involving the selection and management of strategic suppliers, I wanted to share my perspectives from the ‘buy side’ on how to build effective partnerships. They provide the opportunity to rationalise your supplier base, reducing risk, complexity and management overhead.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Chat with other staff engineers and ask them how they got there. They likely don’t have all the answers.

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Challenges of Product Management and How to Overcome Them

Alchemer Mobile

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. The top challenges of product management.

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. Download The Ultimate Modern Support Tech Stack guide. Is your tech stack ready?

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Tech Spikes: Why, What, When and How

The Product Coalition

Tech Spikes are a useful activity for your product development team to perform when you need to explore how you are going to solve a challenging problem. This practical guide to Tech Spikes covers why you would do a tech spike, what they are, when to use them and how to run one.