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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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How Do I Become a Product Manager at IBM?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Interactive Walkthroughs in 2021: The Ultimate Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

Building a walkthrough using a dedicated tool is much easier than coding it from scratch. The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot. Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them. Speed is of the essence here.

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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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Best User Retention Tools & Software to Keep More Customers

Userpilot

The choice of user retention tools and software available to SaaS businesses is completely overwhelming. This blog will explain the types of user retention tools & software so that you can take control. Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Source: cultofmac.com.

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

Department of Product

Or how about telling the execs at Microsoft Office that their model of selling physical boxes of Office software is a one way ticket to death by Google Workspace? The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of?