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Differences in design principles between product and engineeringmanagement (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product.
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