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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. Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream.

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

Department of Product

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing.

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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. Organize cross-functionally within engineering, embed product and design It is common for Engineering to organize along functional lines. For example, Frontend and Backend teams.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. The foundation of any successful team is their leader.

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42 Rules of Product Management

Product Bookshelf

Each encapsulates a key principle of effective product management. There are rules related to working effectively as a product manager, understanding your customers, creating product strategy, and working with your peers and stakeholder. Lawley notes that passion is infectious and spreads across the whole team.

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Growth Interview Questions from Atlassian, SurveyMonkey, Gusto and Hubspot (Guest Post)

Andrew Chen

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.