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  • CS 177 Human Centered Product Management
    • CS177 Human Centered Product Management Syllabus
      • Lecture 5B- Agile and Storymapping
    • Lecture 1A | Introduction to Human-Centered Product Management
      • 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
  • CS247B Design for Behavior Change
    • 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
  • The How and Why of Sketchnotes
    • Glossary for Design Techniques

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Product Sense Pushup 1: Three Ways to Organize a Company

September 29, 2026

Spotify At Spotify, teams have autonomy, where each Squad of 6-12 people can choose the framework they want to follow and focus on one…

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Week 1 PSP: Three Ways to Organize a Company – Who Actually Decides What Gets Built

September 29, 2026

At Config 2023 , Brian Chesky told a room full of designers that Airbnb no longer had traditional product managers, and they cheered. That…

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Week 1 PSP: Three Ways to Organize a Company

September 29, 2026

Spotify uses small cross-functional teams called squads, which are grouped into tribes. The squads have a lot of freedom and are supposed to decide…

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Product Sense Pushup 1: Three Ways to Organize a Company

September 29, 2026

In Product Management in Practice, LeMay establishes the notion that product managers must adapt to different roles and needs based on the day and…

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Week 1 PSP: Three Ways to Organize a Company

September 28, 2026

In Spotify, teams with different functions own a mission together and what they call tribes coordinate related squads together and each squad has a…

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Week 1 Milestone: Cold Interviews

September 28, 2026

Works as a Staff Product Manager (actually recently promoted from senior PM) on Walmart Marketplace API Ecosystem in Sunnyvale Has been on PTO (Planned…

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Week 1: Cold Interviews

September 28, 2026

X person: Been in the tech industry for 20 years, 10 years in PM  b2b , b2c, automotive, real estate, fintech   Average day: …

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Week 1 PSP: Three Ways to Organize a Company

September 28, 2026

Zappos does not have an official PM title, instead, it relies on employees to perform “product” duties wherever possible, as they act as founders…

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Product Sense Pushup 1: Three Ways to Organize a Company

September 28, 2026

Spotify, Airbnb, and Zappos organize product teams very differently, but what stood out to me most is where decision-making power actually sits and how…

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