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How to be a Great Product Manager According to Experts at Dropbox, Stripe, and Concur

Alchemer Mobile

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

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. Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message.

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Build Strong Product Teams by Hiring Graduates

Mind the Product

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. Often the most promising students are those who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, or entrepreneurship. Choosing the Right Graduates.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology. Unfortunately, there were none.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. The customer vs. the user: the one buying your product isn’t the same one who pays for it.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

Early in the transition process, it is advisable to educate them with product-related workshops on agile principles. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It How do you deal with that? once a year?

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How Software Products are Created in Test Kitchens

The Product Coalition

Turns out that as the Startup Grind Dashboard continued to evolve and become more robust to support Startup Grind’s community management needs, the Startup Grind leadership team realized the product might be able to be used by other organizations to manage their communities. Yep, creative naming. They were right and now that’s Bevy.