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    • CS177 Human Centered Product Management Syllabus
      • Lecture 5B- Agile and Storymapping
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      • What do you want from CS177
      • 1A Welcome to CS 177: Human-Centered Product Management 1
    • Lecture 1B | Human-Centered Product Management
      • 1B Strategy for Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2A | Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2B | Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 3A – Markets & Tech Stack
    • Lecture 3B — Guest and Value Proposition
    • Lecture 4B – Participatory Roadmaps & Case Study
    • Lecture 5a– Agile, User Stories and User Story Mapping
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    • 1A Introducing Design for Behavior Change
    • 1B Norms, Models, Brainstorm, Screeners
    • 2A Norms and Study Guide
    • 2B Ethics, Persuasion and B=MAT
    • 3A Secondary Research and Theories of Behavior Change
    • 3B Switch, Fraud,
  • Product Management Library
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Comparing the role of personalization

December 1, 2025

Spotify Personalization is a core tenant of Spotify’s product offering. Inherently, the music we listen to and the artist we follow are deeply personal…

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Gen AI Salesbot?

December 1, 2025

Jeannie should not immediately green light the Gen AI salesbot. Instead, Jeannie should invest a reasonable amount into a lightweight pilot, testing the new…

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Product Sense Pushups: Oh no, an error!!!

November 13, 2025

Uber Errors are relatively common within the Uber app, typically when a rider request cannot be fulfilled or when the rider-driver connection has been…

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Response to Ethics Case Study

November 13, 2025

The question of ethics is perhaps one of the hardest, and most abstract, exercises of decision making. Though many decisions in the workplace lack…

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Product Pushups – Subscription Flows

November 6, 2025

Let’s take a look at Spotify, Figma, and NYTimes subscription models. Spotify Spotify boasts a high percentage of premium users. Non-paying users can still…

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Product Sense Pushups – Search and Browse

October 31, 2025

Netflix Netflix’s recommendation heavy algorithm serves the primary function of maximizing users’ watch time. By indexing heavily on previous user tastes/tendencies and what’s currently…

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Siiquent-Teomik Merger

October 23, 2025

Business/Revenue Models & Markets Isolde, the head of Siiquent, makes gene-based diagnosis technololgy for hospitals and diagnosis labs. Though they sell machines at near…

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Reflection on “Product Manager in Practice”

October 23, 2025

It’s funny because going into this article, I had the question — “So what exactly does a product manager do?” And coming out of…

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Ethical Jobs Reading Response

October 23, 2025

The first thing that strikes me about the “Working for Ethically Complicated Organizations” article is how objective the tone of the author is. It’s…

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