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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Building the Foundation for Product Vision This activity serves as a bridge between problem validation and product vision development. By identifying and validating solutions before creating a product vision, product managers ensure they’re building on solid ground rather than assumptions.

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In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. As you learn more about your users, your product vision should evolve in tandem. This is why… You Are Not All That. Many organisations, large and small, get along fine without a Product Manager.

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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Ben Horowitz touched passively on “micro-managing” in Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , reminding us that Product Managers should be more vision-focused than execution-focused : “Good product managers crisply define the target, the “what” (as opposed to the how) and manage the delivery of the “what.”

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TEI 323: Product management insights, stories, and secrets from inside Amazon – with Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

Product Innovation Educators

In 2005, when the PRFAQ was written, wifi was not prevalent, so we didn’t know how we could solve that problem. Jeff Bezos has a saying, “Stubborn on the vision and flexible on the details.” We were very clear on the vision—making shipping free—but we didn’t know what the right formula was.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy. A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over?—?and For smaller companies it’s typically competitors who pose the largest threat. A product should be cut when a product’s purpose is met by a similar product of higher growth potential.