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Breaking the Silos: How Product and Engineering Build Better Together

Productside

But PMs bring something different : systems thinking, long-term vision, and the ability to synthesize inputs from across the business. Guy applies it to team structure, workflows, and even workplace policies. This is where Guy pushes back against the idea that engineering canor shouldreplace product management. Thats why we test.

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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

Mike points to their unlimited vacation policy as a symbol of this trust-based culture, where employees were treated as responsible adults capable of managing their time and contributions. Creating an Inclusive Innovation Environment The foundation of PayPal’s innovation success rested on a culture of trust and autonomy.

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How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

Lenny Rachitsky

Previously, he spent nearly eight years at Palantir, working as a forward-deployed engineer. His work at Palantir ranged from accelerating the Covid-19 response to applying AI to drug discovery to optimizing aircraft manufacturing at Airbus.

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Product Takeoff

Product Takeoff

To achieve that level of confidence and to build products in that space we as product managers have to focus on a few key principals before we plan on getting the next thing in the marketplace.The four major principals we generally go by are Vision, Strategy, Team and Rapid learning.

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How do you say no to customers?

Intercom, Inc.

On the other hand, reassuring them that the decision reflects your company policy or product vision can quell their frustration while still making them feel heard. Imagine if a customer writes in with an urgent feature request – if they feel this is due to a sloppy oversight, you will only stoke their anger.

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The Shape Up Method: What Product Managers Need to Know

The Product Coalition

Product managers feel that they are a part of the feature factory and not being able to concentrate on the vision and strategy of the product. Clarity on the vision is half battle won. The higher management goes through the list of projects that connects with the vision. The company didn’t have a return policy when they started.

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10 Tactical Tips to help with your day-to-day as a Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Have a communication policy outlined for your team There are so many enterprise tools available today ranging from email to instant messaging. Establishing a communication policy for your team can go a long way?—?set You’d expect everyone to have access and/or remember your team’s vision or goal, but it’s not that simple.