Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. The product piece has always been with me. I started working at Netscape right after its IPO.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Business Outcomes. Agile Transformation. It’s more than outputs.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

Despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Like the technology we use to build the products we love ages and gets left behind, Agile has died while we were perfecting our standup. Culture, people, organizational design, and your current process.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even among experienced product professionals, a common misconception in business holds that product strategy and business strategy mean the same thing. Product professionals need to understand the distinction between business strategy vs. product strategy. They don’t. Imagine a software startup.

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UX Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

Design Ops encompasses the processes, tools, and methodologies that allow design to flourish at scale. Silos Within Teams In many organizations, design, development, and product management operate in silos, a structure that inherently limits collaboration and communication.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. In my case, at Zalando , these are systems for fashion buying, supply chain management, inventory management and procure-to-pay processes (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Companies will see higher productivity, as dedicated teams will work on assigned projects and in-house teams have reduced workloads. Regardless of the stage the project is at, companies can hire remote engineering teams to create more agile workflows. Why Should you hire a remote development team? How to hire a remote development team?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Guest Post by: Sherzod Abdujabborov (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dan Mason]. Local businesses paid us to be on our website, and people told us that it saved them time. We changed the website to accommodate all types of businesses. The So-Lala Product epidemic. A story of one failure.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! They lead a team that consists of developers and designers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

User stories are an important part of product development, which means they’re something that any product manager worth their salt needs to master! Here’s everything you need to know about agile user stories for product managers. User stories are used throughout the development process. What Are User Stories?

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2017

Dave Martin , Digital Director & Product Strategist, talks to ProductTank London about how to build Culture of Innovation in Enterprise Organisations. Product Managers are well placed to share learning from failure and to drive a culture of innovation. This process of translation is often overlooked and underestimated.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Well, you might not need a crystal ball anymore, because AI-driven data and customer insights are here to make your business dreams come true! Improving Product Development with Actionable Insights Real-world application: Netflix ? Customer feedback has been instrumental in shaping businesses over the years.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That doesn’t mean just more time with Customer Success (CS) or building great products to meet customer demands. It also means delivering positive product experiences and overall exceptional customer experiences. . That’s because the most direct, efficient, and intuitive interactions with your customer happen within the product.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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eG Innovations

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It is a fact that, be it small, medium, or large, all businesses are moving towards the cloud. Companies are looking to adopt cloud computing services for elasticity, agility, and scalability. What are the Key Business Drivers for Adopting Cloud Technologies? The 6 Rs of cloud migration. Source: Forbes). What is Cloud Computing?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. Both were then uncommon, and both are still important.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Guest Post by: Syed Abdullah (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bryan Postelnek]. I have worked on several products that were built with passion and vigor. Today the product is very successful. Nevertheless, the initial launch of the product was a complete failure.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. We are both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. I used to lead product at CareerBuilder.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? David Gledhill , DBS Bank Chief Information Officer. Bank customers’ requests are rapidly changing.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Without a clear roadmap and strategy, a Product Manager won’t be able to make impactful decisions.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Work with marketing and sales.

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 14, 2023

There’s a lot of chatter about transformation… possibly because the entire world just got through (still going through, processing, reeling from?) We saw first-hand just how important agility is when reacting to massive disruption. Enter Business Transformation. What is Business Transformation? a pandemic.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience. Product Fruits may be cheap but the UI is too clunky to use effectively and it doesn't have enough flexibility to support SaaS companies as they grow. User onboarding.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to our recent State of UX in the Enterprise survey , ‘including research within the product development process’ is now the #1 challenge faced by UX teams in 2019. I think this really ties in to standardizing the research process. If not, how can you call your product user-centered ?”

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Over the last couple of years we’ve surveyed hundreds of people from some of the biggest companies in the world to discover the current UX landscape in enterprise organizations. The results, as featured in our 2019 State of UX in the Enterprise survey , are a revealing array of common challenges and trends.

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eG Innovations

JUNE 21, 2022

Circularity closes the loops of products, materials, and resources, by extracting maximum value from resources in use, and minimizing waste and emissions”. Most businesses are enthusiastic about doing the right thing and adopting sustainable practices that make a lot of common sense. Circularity in IT. Figure 1: The circular economy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. You start with a discovery track to find out if a product idea is good and if it makes sense to build. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. It’s the foundation of our product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part large enterprise tech companies meant to connect between the company’s goals, the department’s, the team’s and even personal goals over a specified period of time. What are OKRs? This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large Increase app usage.

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Agile Velocity

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your organization is planning an Agile transformation, you may be asking, or be expected to answer, the question of whether to take a centralized or decentralized approach. In sharing this topic with my Agile Velocity colleagues, who all have experience in this area, a more nuanced conversation emerged. . Where to begin .

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. We are currently rethinking the process to be 100% remote-friendly. We are currently rethinking the process to be 100% remote-friendly. This is what we did. The Approach (the Frameworks).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. Creating a product roadmap and getting everyone on board and communicating it and iterating on it is a ton of work and it quickly falls out of sync.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

How do you navigate an organization that is limiting the growth of the product org? I feel limited in my growth as there is not upward opportunity as a Senior Product Manager. Even though it is a large enterprise, you can apply these tips within any size of company. My recommendation is to dive in and start small.

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