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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. Okay, those were way too many words to explain that knowledge is usually not a bad thing for a PM… Exercise 1: know your data structure Take the following data structure of a note-taking app.

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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

1 ] In fact, some people argue that product leadership can only be exercised by a management role. Leadership can therefore be exercised without being a boss. The leadership they exercise is called emergent or lateral leadership.[ The leadership they exercise has been assigned or granted by the CEO or another executive.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message. Overall, some valuable lessons captured from this exercise, “How does this strategy framing help translate into actions?”. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product.

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Customer Retention Priorities vs. Wallet Share Growth: Will There Ever Be More Overlap?

Product Management University

Resetting Your Customer Retention Priorities: A Team Exercise. Treat this as a collaborative product management team exercise, not an exercise for each product manager. Here’s the most important part of this exercise. Seize the opportunity. None of them are relevant yet!

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Five Ways to Use Product Management Best Practices

As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.

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482: People-first product leadership for higher performing teams – with Diana Stepner

Product Innovation Educators

I use an exercise called an Emotions Wheel that helps people identify their emotions. The Emotions Wheel is an exercise I do at the start of my people-first product leadership course on Maven. Another exercise I use is called a Read Me. I use an exercise called an Emotions Wheel that helps people identify their emotions.

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Optimizing internal product communications

Folding Burritos

There’s a simple exercise that brings a lot of clarity to how we can structure our communication about the product with stakeholders. To start the exercise off, we need to write down the list of questions that we get asked by (or that we ask) stakeholders. The communication dimensions. To whom should we say it? Content (What).

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Go to the Cloud: How Product Managers Can Lead a Cloud Transformation

Speaker: Stephanie Lewandowski, Senior Product Manager, Teachstone

However, moving your product to the Cloud is not a simple lift-and-shift exercise. Leading a digital transformation inevitably means considering the Cloud for your products. Cloud offers great flexibility, increased security, and more innovation opportunities.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.