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The PRD Isn’t Dead: New Best Practices for Digital Product Development
By Milos Belcevic
For many years, there has been debate around the value of a PRD in digital product development. The issue is not *whether* one should be used, says product expert Milos Belcevic, but *how*.
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Perfect Pizza: Using a Digital Customer Research Tool to Measure Taste
By Anna Shcherbakova
Customer research in the food sector is expensive and time-consuming. Here’s how one global pizza company used its own food-ordering app to get new levels of insight into its products—for free.
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Two Roadmaps Diverged: Strategic and Tactical Routes to Product Development
By Jerry Gutierrez
Product professionals are often called upon to act as both product owner and product manager. The key to doing that well? Maintaining separate strategic and tactical roadmaps. Here’s how.
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How to Navigate Fintech Regulations in Product Development
By Purva Tamhankar
Regulations can present a big challenge for fintech product managers. Build compliance into your development process from the start, with these tips from a leading financial product manager.
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How to Define an MVP Scope in 3 Hours
By Phillip Wood
Scoping an MVP doesn’t have to take days. Product manager Phillip Wood explains how he gathers product specialists, designers, and engineers to brainstorm features, pare them down, and create wireframes—all in a few hours.
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Learning to Learn: 5 Tips to Master Any Product Management Domain
By Milos Belcevic
Product managers work across many industries, and domain-specific knowledge is essential to finding success in each one. Learn how to quickly acquire industry expertise with these tried-and-tested recommendations.
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Design Sprints: Fostering Creativity Through Constraints
By Daniel Hatton
How can creativity thrive in an environment of rules and set processes? The creative constraints introduced by design sprints can help product managers find the midpoint between structure and chaos.
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Growth Product Management: What You Need to Know
By Philippe Araujo
Growth product managers are now a mainstay of Silicon Valley, but what do they do, how do they work, and what value do they bring? Find out in this guide to an increasingly vital product role.
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