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Introducing "Elements of Product Management" Book
I’ve turned the best of Elements of Product Management into a paperback. I’ve rewritten significant portions with an editor. Ships to US, UK, India, and…
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The importance of defining product principles to guide product decisions
What are product principles and how to development them
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How managing ML-enabled products requires you to think differently
Adjusting to think in terms of probabilities and using data to identify problems
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How teams are organized will influences your product more than you might realize.
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Reformatting flow diagrams for explaining complex processes
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Practical Advice for Product Managers Working With Early Stage Startup Founders.
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Using product requirement documents and user stories appropriately without creating a mess.
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Templates for internal product managers.
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Arguing about data instead of arguing about ideas
Using data from experiment to validate ideas instead of arguing about the idea
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Ultimate Prioritization Templates
One notion template to rule them all
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Why prioritization sometimes feels like art rather than science.
There is no art. There's only communication, both what is and isn't communicated.
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Fear paraylzes, which destroys action
When we are afraid of making a mistake, we're really afraid of humiliation.
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Rethinking outcome-based product roadmap to plan for uncertainty (part 2).
Yes, this one has a new template and it's in Notion.
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Understand why it's okay to be output oriented...in many cases.
Outcome over output rather than outcome versus output. When you can't control outcome, you control what you can, which is the quality and quantity of…
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Rethinking outcome-based product roadmap to plan for uncertainty (part 1).
Understand that a roadmap should define the what before communicating the how. Ideas for how to improve outcome-based product roadmaps.
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The Elements of Product Management
The Elements of Product Management
A monthly newsletter with templates and practical advice for product managers working at startups to get sh*t done. Based on my 10+ years of PM experience plus interviews with others. Previously published on mindtheproduct & towarddatascience.

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