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1 min readJan 3, 2022

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🍟4 best links of 2021 / PM Snacks #51

Revisit the best links of 2021: good PRD documents, prioritization, why people hate product managers & more…

2 min readDec 21, 2021

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🍟4 best links of 2021 / PM Snacks #51

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Productverse

🙊 Stop giving feedback / PM Snacks #50

Learn why feedback are overrated in a true radical candor way, how to better articulate OKR & opportunity trees, and more…

2 min readDec 21, 2021

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🙊 Stop giving feedback / PM Snacks #50

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🍚 Stop using RICE / PM Snacks #49

Learn how to prioritise beyond simplistic frameworks, how to better interview, what are NFTs and more…

3 min readDec 21, 2021

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🍚 Stop using RICE / PM Snacks #49

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Olivier Courtois
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🍷 Monthly wine tasting, mental models & boards / PM Snacks #48

Learn very useful mental models for product people, what to put in your kanban board, why medium does “wine tasting” and more…

3 min readDec 21, 2021

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🍷 Monthly wine tasting, mental models & boards / PM Snacks #48

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Productverse

⚖️ Do you have principles? / PM Snacks #47

Learn more on product principles, how to escape the increasing WIP trap and more…

3 min readOct 20, 2021

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⚖️ Do you have principles? / PM Snacks #47

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Manage without Scrum, Instagram’s product principles & more / PM Snacks #46

Learn how big tech run projects without Scrum, Instagram’s product principles, basic character design in video games and more…

3 min readOct 20, 2021

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Manage without Scrum, Instagram’s product principles & more / PM Snacks #46

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🧟The zombie edition: from cats to scrum & more / PM Snacks #45

Learn more about zombies, slack’s product culture, workshop activities & blockchain

2 min readOct 20, 2021

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🧟The zombie edition: from cats to scrum & more / PM Snacks #45

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Olivier Courtois
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Productverse

People hate product managers, find out why & more / PM Snacks #44

Don’t commit these product sins, understand how PMs execute at FB, learn to draw wireframes & more…

2 min readSep 17, 2021

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People hate product managers, find out why & more / PM Snacks #44

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Olivier Courtois
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Productverse

📄 Anatomy of a good PRD document, why you can’t validate ideas & more / PM Snacks #43

Learn how to write better product-requirement documents, how to de-risk ideas, how to interview PMs & how to ask better questions

2 min readSep 17, 2021

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📄 Anatomy of a good PRD document, why you can’t validate ideas & more / PM Snacks #43

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Olivier Courtois

Olivier Courtois

10y+ in Product, now freelance / coach / advisor • Newsletter at productver.se • ex- VP-Product comet & Product Director ManoMano

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