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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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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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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

In fact, our tests regularly failed. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. We were testing our code. I’m not a technical Product Manager. We managed to decrease each dev-test-release cycle from being months to 2 weeks.

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Better Product Internationalization With Localization Best Practices

The Product Coalition

Start on the right foot By factoring in a localization process from the get-go and choosing the right translation software and vendor, translations can be automated and accelerated on a technical level. The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. “The customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems we use. But the customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems that we use.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. But, it is very difficult to actually execute upon unshipping.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. 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.