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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. Then iron out any adjustments as a result of these reviews. Let’s dive into detailed guidance for each step.

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Travel Management Systems: Smart Apps Designed To Facilitate Business Travel

The Product Coalition

Now that the COVID pandemic is over, travel management systems are valuable because business travel is back on the table. The term “business travel” might easily evoke images of a glittering world filled with business-class flights, expensive corporate dinners, luxury hotel stays, and various enjoyable activities.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

But if the team motivation is declining—as people are being overworked or stressed—or if the code quality is deteriorating—as bugs are accumulating and the code complexity is increasing, alarm bells should go off. Carefully select them by using the factors discussed above, and regularly review and adjust them.

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La Dolce Vita di un Product Manager

The Product Coalition

While traveling in Italy, I began to understand what it meant — not just words, but a way of life woven into the actions and lifestyle of the people. I decided to review all the concepts of project and product management to understand what I was doing well and what I was not organizing correctly.

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Becoming a Proactive Product Manager

The Product Guy

They will challenge themselves and the team to work in smarter ways, ask more questions, and think about code improvement. Bugs come up, tests take a long time, code reviews are needed, merge conflicts occur, reviews from multiple shareholders might be required, etc. More About The Product Mentor.

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Why 36% is the magic number: Finding the right amount of text in mobile apps

Intercom, Inc.

“Beyond code, beyond visuals and interactions, what do all these apps have in common with each other? Lots of social stuff, banking, travel, local services, fitness, cooking, more than a few games, even apps made by governments. And beyond code, beyond visuals and interactions, what do they all have in common with each other?