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___ by Product Coalition (4 min read)

write good PRDs, please

Once your team moves to the “Build” stage, it is necessary for the development team to understand the previous research, product vision as well as the roadmap. PRD (Product Requirement Document) is the answer to keeping all the team members on the same page.

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___ by The Beautiful Mess (6 min read)

take the survey

Feedback is local, and action is local. Your team works it out and solves the problem. But sometimes the problem is less local. Information needs to travel further for it to make a difference. In this situation, people are quick to blame managers for over-filtering and/or failing to coordinate a response.

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___ by Oleg Yakubenkov (9 min read)

your key product metrics

In this essay, Oleg, who has worked at Facebook, discusses why it is important for team members to remember at least approximate values of the key product metrics, why this usually doesn't happen, and how to get there.

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we're also following 👀

• Discovery: problem vs solution. (by Marty Cagan - 4 min read)

• The Product Agent: Managing Ideas on a Product Team. (by Product Coalition - 7 min read)

• The most painful leadership lesson I learned. (by Mal Sanders - 4 min read)

• Paytm Case Study: identifying customer needs

• Extra: interviewing for Y Combinator W2019. (by Jesse Harding - 13 min read)

news on products 🤑

• How Unnit built a gaming engine for the future.

• Amazon launches Alexa Print.

• General Motors takes $2 billion stake in electric truck startup Nikola.

• Ola is facing drivers a legal challenge over data access rights and algorithm management.

• SpaceX completes another successful short test flight of its Starship prototype.

• Toyota creates $800M fund to back mobility, AI companies.

jobs on product 

• Wine Direct - Jr. Product Designer (Vancouver, CA)
• Eletronic Arts - Technical Product Manager (Vancouver, CA)
• iQmetrix - Project Manager (Canada)
• KUDO - Product Manager (Remote / NY or SF, US)
• Anyl - Product Manager (Remote, NYC)
• Techstars - Growth Associate (Remote)
• Lyft - 2021 Associate Product Managers (San Francisco, US)
• Gorgias - Product Designer (San Francisco, US)
• Chowbus - Associate Product Manager (Chicago, US)
• Clyde - Associate Product Manager (New York, US)
• Petal - Associate Product Manager (New York, US)