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Finding Great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Here are some classics on product manager hiring along with value-added commentary. Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People The “Google way” of hiring, as presented in a widely-read article, is often cited as a model to follow. Combining cognitive tests with structured interviews yields even better results.

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Test-Driven Product Management at an Early-Stage Startup

Amplitude

This is a guest post in our Product Innovator Series from Jennelle Nystrom, product manager at Farmstead. . Today, it’s common to hear people talk about testing early-stage products like it’s a bad thing. You can’t build a better product just by A/B testing button colors, no.

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Product Experimentation Guide for Product Managers

Userpilot

A mindset of product experimentation is vitally important for product success and growth. TL;DR Product experimentation is a systematic and data-driven approach, where you consistently design and run experiments that help you make better product decisions. There are many different types of product experiments.

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13 Product Mmanagement Tools the Best Product Managers Use

The Product Coalition

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. During this presentation, attendees will hear case studies, examples, and best practices gleaned from Jim's 25 years of using the Product Discovery Cycle.

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Sales Presentations: Calculating Your Buyer Relevance Quotient (BRQ)

Product Management University

Nothing accelerates the sales process more than a presentation that simply “nails it.” ” Here’s a quick test to determine the B uyer R elevance Q uotient (BRQ) of your sales presentations. The Playbook: Go find a sales presentation you’d consider to be one of the best. The result is your BRQ.

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Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information. From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product.