Update to the product management series

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This one:

1. A quick intro to managing software projects
2. Issue management and estimation
3. The Design Sprint
4. The Build Sprint
5. Product Management and the Product Owner role

Firstly, the quick intro is not quick at all, it is 41 slides!

Secondly, the "Product Management and the Product Owner role" deck is too wordy.

Firstly, it's name could be changed just to **Product Management **.

Secondly, we should use this quote:

project management is the art of getting things done... Product management is the art of deciding what to do in the first place.

Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America, on The Ezra Klein Show

The entire deck could be distilled to something like the following:

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"project management is the art of getting things done... Product management is the art of deciding what to do in the first place."

Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America, 1

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Meanwhile, Product ownership is the art of balancing the needs of users with your team's capabilities.

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All good product managers need to be good at all three.

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Further reading

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• The Lean startup
  by Eric Reis
• Inspired
  by Marty Kagan

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Would anyone like to sit down with me and we could go through the slides together?

[sofer]

There is a wider issue here foundersandcoders/coursebook#885.

This is not urgent.