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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. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. How do I build alignment?

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Using Outsourcing to Launch and Scale Your Product Faster

Mind the Product

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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

Userpilot

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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Partnering up with adjacent teams to improve continuous discovery.

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Three Superpowers of a Product Manager

Mind the Product

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. But they are good examples of what my team and I have developed together over the last four years at Zalora. Retrospectives. Release Notes.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. That project led to my first cross-functional team.