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Essays from March 2013

2 essays from March 2013

  1. Strategic Product Management challenges: from idea to products in the market

    Photo by Clint Gardner @ flickr (CC-BY NC SA 2.0) I wanted to start this series by focusing on some of the challenges that we face as Product Managers. A key challenge I see repeated in many organizations is the lack of capacity to leap from idea to results, from intention to implementation.Product Managers focus …

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  2. What is Strategic Product Management? – solving day to day problems with the long term in mind

    Photo by Giovanni Orlando @ flickr The release day is close. So many things to do, how to prioritize what to do next? How to discern what is really relevant from what is seemingly urgent, but with little impact in the product? How to make decisions with a cool head when faced with a looming …

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