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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. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. Ex: Backlog grooming/refinement, Requirements review etc.

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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). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. Winning aspiration: Once the strategic pillars and the “how might we’s” are established, kick off day 3 with a creative exercise.

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Release Planning Advice

Roman Pichler

Sample goals include acquiring new users, increasing conversion, reducing cost, and removing technical debt to future proof the product. But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. Carry out this exercise together with the development team.