Product Management

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Advice for the Pre-Product/Market Fit Days — This Founder’s Playbook for Pivoting with Purpose20+ min read · Sep 9th · CEO Tara Viswanathan shares her biggest lessons from the early years of building Rupa Health — including how to pivot your way into the right product and build the winning team.
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Most conventional startup advice out there is post-product/market fit, but it’s dangerous to take that advice when you’re still pre-product/market fit. 
The most common mistake I’ve seen founders struggle with is falling in love with a particular product or solution and thus spending too many cycles on something that doesn’t work. 
Finding product/market fit is about finding the small problem that seems so simple and obvious in retrospect.
John Cutler
TBM 36/52: Looking at Example Boards3 min read · Sep 2nd · In this post I am going to try something a bit different. I am going to: Share boards inspired by real world teams (I see lots of boards) Share what I see in the boards Share links to what people on…
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While it is important to visualize the work, not the workers, it does help to see what people are working on. Obviously, it is only possible to work on one thing at once, but we keep all of those open things in our head somewhere. We often rationalize that we’re “only contributing a bit” to something. Even still, it is in our head.  Action Item: Visualize what is actually happening on your team.
While it is important to visualize the work, not the workers, it does help to see what people are working on. Obviously, it is only possible to work on one thing at once, but we keep all of those open things in our head somewhere. We often rationalize that we’re “only contributing a bit” to something. Even still, it is in our head. Action Item: Visualize what is actually happening
Nielsen Norman Group
UX Roadmaps: Definition and Components8 min read · 2020-07-06 · A UX roadmap is a high-level, living artifact that prioritizes and communicates a UX team’s future work and problems to solve.
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steve blank
A Path to the Minimum Viable Product~17 min read · Apr 22nd · I first met Shawn Carolan and his wife Jennifer at the turn of the century at 11,000 feet. I was hiking with my kids between the Yosemite…
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kylepoyar.substack.com
Is it time to ditch the old SaaS metrics?5 min read · Mar 20th · How to manage a SaaS company in the era of Product Led Growth
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John Cutler
TBM 13/52: Asking Better Questions (Part 2)4 min read · Apr 1st · I have a book for sale! You can read it free here. Or download the ebook here. Or tip. In this post I am going to briefly describe a board design I use to elicit questions. At the day-job (Amplitude)…
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Towards Data Science
Why we need more AI Product Owners, not Data Scientists~12 min read · Mar 10th · About a crucial, yet underutilized role in AI Product development.
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Mind the Product
How am I Doing? Thoughts on Evaluating Product Managers4 min read · Feb 25th · When you hit a certain level in your product career, a big part of your job becomes managing your team(s) rather than actually doing the work. It’s rare that this shift is ever formally ushered in,…
medium.com
A How-To Guide to Product-Market Fit7 min read · From 2019 · Start with defining the market, not the product
Harvard Business Review
Design for Action~17 min read · From 2015 · How to use design thinking to make great things actually happen
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Today design is even applied to helping multiple stakeholders and organizations work better as a system.
Often, fear of the unknown kills the new idea.
Intercorp’s success in boosting the middle class in Peru depended on the thoughtful design of many artifacts: a leading-edge bank, an innovative school system, and businesses adapted for frontier towns across Peru.
Marty Cagan
Product Strategy: Overview4 min read · 2020-02-18 · Ultimately, empowered product teams are all about giving teams hard problems to solve, and then giving them the space to solve them. But, how do we decide which problems they should solve? Answering…
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Whatever the goal is, your strategy is how you’re planning to go about accomplishing that goal.
While product strategy starts with focus, it then depends on insights.
So many of the companies I meet have a goal (like doubling revenue), and they have a product roadmap (the tactics), yet no product strategy to be found.
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Product Strategy is About Saying NoFrom 2014 · Intercom's Des Traynor at Business of Software Conference 2013, Boston, MA talking about why Product strategy is mostly about saying no. Funny, thought provoking…
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Intercom
Intercom on Product Management book1 min read · From 2016 · Drawing from some of the best posts on our blog, the Intercom on Product Management book offers guidance on the tough decisions you need to make as a PM.
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Buffer
People Don't Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves8 min read · From 2014 · Understanding the features vs benefits phenomenon is one of the hardest things to do in product marketing. Here're some examples for features vs benefits products
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blog.asmartbear.com
I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead.5 min read · From 2017 · Product teams have been repeating the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) mantra for a decade now, without re-evaluating whether it’s the right way to maximize learning while pleasing the customer. …
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Journal
How To Design a Bulletproof Product Strategy8 min read · From 2018 · Anytime a company consistently ships product faster than the average, people will assume they are doing something heroic.
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Product Strategy is a fancy way of saying, “this is how we will behave day-to-day to accomplish our end goal”.
Great product companies have four things in common: a clear product vision; a product strategy; a set of priorities; and a way to measure outcomes.
Great product companies have four things in common: a clear product vision; a product strategy; a set of priorities; and a way to measure outcomes.
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