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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Pricing and revenue modeling. Core Competencies. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

The best approach to emerging markets is to export stripped-down versions of existing products and services, and sell them at lower prices. Leverage global resources: Paliwal recruited several of the more open-minded members of the legacy engineering culture to join the India LGT. We need only to be patient.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”