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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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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). The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Pillars to a Proto-Strategy.

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Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Product Talk

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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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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Tools of the Trade: A Look at Optimal Workshop’s Discovery Tech Stack

Product Talk

Like many aspects of continuous discovery, there’s no single right way to build your tech stack. Another advantage of tools like Intercom and Pendo is that you can set up A/B tests of your recruitment intercepts to better understand what kind of phrasing or types of incentives best engage your customers.”. Tweet This.

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Let’s Make It Better: Solving the Real Problems That Matter

The Product Guy

An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues. By collaborating with residents and testing new formats or themes, we could design events that truly resonate and foster a sense of belonging. Or consider a fitness goal.

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Tweet This. Lisa Orr understands this all too well.