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title: Spiceworks 4.0 with Tabrez Syed
description: A RedMonk sit-down on Spiceworks 4.0 and the hybrid role behind it — traditional product management crossed with the then-new practice of community management.
publishDate: 2010-11-06
canonical: https://www.mandalivia.com/talks/redmonk-spiceworks-4/
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A sit-down interview with the analyst firm RedMonk, published on their media channel in November 2010, walking through the Spiceworks 4.0 release. The framing question is the role itself: Tabrez Syed introduces his job as a mix of traditional product management and the newer practice of community management, and the conversation follows how those two halves shaped what shipped in 4.0.