Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

.” Recent findings from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovator award program indicate that highly innovative companies follow some form of stage-and-gate process, including agile-stage-gate, to balance risk and rigor in the development of new products and services. What was the difference?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. As we evolve toward outcomes, we are asking product teams to deliver performance. Who doesn’t want the autonomy to decide what to build? Your product team might also include other folks like the ones included here.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. That’s a big question, and many roads lead to this outcome. What differences lie in the company expectations? Who am I building for?, and so on.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you think about what you want, and where you want to be, the intrinsic and extrinsic value of your development increases massively. This post brings all of these together to provide you with a four-step process to create your own Career Development Plan. It’s a lot about how you frame it. This post is about just that?—?determining

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? This is the main question we discuss in this article, so if you’re after the answer, you’re in the right place! TL;DR A product team structure describes how the business organizes experts from different roles and functions to deliver successful products.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Get your cup of coffee ready and watch the full recording from our live panel discussion with product professionals from leading brands like Dropbox, Concur, and Stripe. Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Why does everything take so long to build? Maybe everyone on your team is working hard to ship good, high quality software only to be faced with comments from different parts of the business about why things take forever to build. You might still be building the wrong thing, no matter how fast you build it.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The best are the ones who dig into the problem space, validate ideas, are ruthless prioritizers, and know how to make sure everyone understands what they’re building and why. With their Collect interface, you gather knowledge from stakeholders or potential customers with open ended questions. Explore is where it gets fun.

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . Additionally, they’ll probably have a skill set that makes you a little insecure about your resume.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This article explores the skills and characteristics of excellent product operations personnel. A product operations manager at a smaller technology company may engage in different activities than someone at a larger firm. Questions product operations job candidates can ask during an interview.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Even with the many different company-specific permutations, it’s helpful to establish a general product manager career path to help you plan your next move. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Associate Product Manager.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount. Can your VP of CS do some CS Ops?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. However, these open-ended questions are a key part of determining if you're the right fit for a job at Google. Let's get ready for your dream job at Google!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 3, 2022

The skills and responsibilities with this job are not necessarily industry-specific. Bizops acts as a partner between cross-functional teams in an organization to both ask and answer questions about the way a business functions. But that doesn’t mean that business operations is about unspecialized skills or knowledge.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent. ”   Product waste is building the wrong thing.  Kanban vs. Scrum makes little difference if customers stay away in droves.  Better Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At Enough preamble.  Here’s

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

Whilst this is not the case in every organisation, there is a general perception in the Australian job market that people are promoted because of tenure rather than capability and skill, particularly in large organisations. The act of leadership is complex. These activities require leadership skills.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When we asked our Atlassian Community members for their top tips, communication and empathy featured prominently. Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. We put this question to our Atlassian Community and two major themes emerged: empathy and communication. In Leadership. Related Article.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Hence, you have to figure out on your own what is working for your organization.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. What is your role?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2018

The companies in the Better Capital portfolio came from different industries, including metal parts manufacturers, software companies, and fashion retailers; in general they were all well established, often with a successful past, but had hit trouble usually because of a failure to adapt. Questions included: Who are our customers?

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Hope, do you want to say hello and share a little bit about your background? First of all, I’m appreciative, Teresa for your setting this up and for everybody joining. Teresa and I have worked together for a number of years and when I was heading up product teams at a couple of different companies. Hope Gurion : Sure.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

This morning as Lancaster and I walked to the Ferry Building, Karl the fog (yes, it has a verified Instagram account) was still lingering, hiding the Salesforce Tower from view. In a number of situations, individuals asked for the “right” way to do something. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team.

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Mind the Product

JULY 11, 2019

What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer. The degree of uncertainty. Why is it Important to Know the Degree of Uncertainty Upfront?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceedings kicked off with workshops and leadership discussions on Thursday, followed by the conference itself at London’s famous Barbican Centre. To kick-start a day of listening and learning, we began by asking ourselves the most important question of all – are we building the right thing?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Even with the many different company-specific permutations, it’s helpful to establish a general product manager career path to help you plan your next move. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Associate Product Manager.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

But should we treat our direct reports differently than our other coworkers and colleagues? Should we skip the niceties and consensus building within our own teams just because we can? With your team, no one can stop you from giving orders and micromanaging staff. Plenty of opportunities exist to lead your team.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 21, 2023

Without improving, they spend more time and money than needed to build things, and much of what they build is worthless or wasted. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I know we’ve met a few times at different Mind the Product events. I admire your work from afar. You have a number of things that have been really fun and interesting, including your card deck, which we’ll get into later. That sounds like a great question to start with. Let’s dive in.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Our current reality is vastly different from what we’ve seen even 10 years ago. And no matter how many walls we build or how hard we try to curb immigration, we are forever bound to work with people who are nothing like us culturally. If you follow a different practice, please let me know in the comments!). The World is Flat.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The scaling SaaS company often have to find out through practice what the difference is between a product owner vs product manager. Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. In the end, they are two separate roles with different goals. Businesses need to know the difference.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It asked open-ended questions about their concerns, then for a ranking of ten pre-selected issues. This was three times more frequent than any other topic and highlights the product management leadership shift from delivery janitors to value creators. 11% called out training, mentoring, and skilling-up of product managers.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Navigating a career in product is different for everyone. To answer these questions, we talked to three of our MTP Engage Manchester session speakers – all of whom signed up for speaker coaching from MTP Engage Manchester speaker Lauren Currie. Oluwatobi Otokiti. Oluwatobi Otokiti. Getting the Career you Want.

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Bain Public

APRIL 13, 2020

Yet the time and rigor required to gather/validate consumer insights are often at odds with the agility required to maneuver internal politics, leaving a huge window of opportunity for improved collaboration between c-suite executives and product teams. You don’t want to know the answer to a question you’re going to ask.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. business models, your product/business, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) 4. Here we see the common Accidental PM in its natural habitat Your first priority is to do whatever it takes to build your foundation in the craft of product management.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The results showed that they wanted better (and more frequent) feedback on how to further develop their product management skills. Therefore, as a goal, we decided we wanted every product manager to be able to answer these two questions: Where do I want to go? Most of what we found were several skills matrixes broken down by seniority.

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