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Are You Experiencing Product Manager Insomnia? What should be keeping you awake is what keeps your customers awake. Remember to be market-driven and to focus on the problems that your customers value—and are willing to pay to solve. |
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Clean Language in Business Analysis Clean Language originated within the discipline of therapy and focuses on understanding other people’s personal metaphors. It can help business analysts to form better questions and prevent inadvertently leading or pre-supposing a solution. |
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Dodging the Requirements Hazard Tacit knowledge includes the knowledge that business stakeholders possess that isn’t codified or written down anywhere—and information they don’t even know they possess. The challenge for business analysts is that it is essential to get at this type of information in order to write requirements. |
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Hiring Technology Product Managers: The Latest Scott Sehlhorst looks at an analysis of how companies are posting requirements for hiring new technology product managers in the US—including the trend of placing more importance on domain experience than product management experience. |
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