Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Every team has a valuable mix of strengths, and varying levels of skill and expertise in different areas across its members.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Our commitment was firm, leadership backed the change, and it was underway. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. an angry internal stakeholder shouted. Water under the bridge.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. In Leadership. 5-Second summary.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise. I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. As you become better at your transformation efforts and become more aware; you start seeing your weak spots.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Product managers are often called in late in the selling cycle to address specific customer demands/requests or to position our product against competitors. Why Does It Matter? Our word is our bond.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The good news is that SEO can help make that process much easier by giving you the insights your team needs to pick a profitable niche and scale your business. Finally, once you’re done with keyword research on finding a niche, share the results with your team for further brainstorming. But how do you find that niche? Let’s see how!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. So how does a product leader develop great negotiating skills, deep empathy, and a backbone of steel ?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

From the outside, a Product Manager (PM) is a resolute individual responsible for completing a product’s development. Product management leadership requires an ability to support their teams to victory! What are the 4 Phases of a Successful Product Team One-on-One? Again, this is a sign of poor team planning.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

This is especially true for new EMs, who often previously worked as software engineers or developers before being promoted. EMs are no longer only responsible for themselves and their own workload, like the ICs on their teams. Now, of course, they are bound to their teams and must work through them, not through themselves.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 28, 2019

UX issues may be overlooked, business concerns might be missed, customer relationships can suffer, and the rest of the team will be forced to scramble and pick up the slack. This is why product manager turnover is an essential concern for any product team leader. Why Product Managers Leave Their Jobs. The manager.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). Maybe this is about a member of the team who’s been passed over for a promotion. The position was advertised as exciting and strategic and heroic, but turns out to be as unsexy as other jobs. A clumsy way of voicing real concerns. Sounds very serious.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . What does your team and company need?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. Given the nature of the position , you can also expect them to cover many different areas including: Program sense : assesses how you manage resources, mitigate risk, etc. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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Business Acumen Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

These folks are generally positive and congenial and often fun to be around. If you’ve heard of Influence Management , you likely recognized it as a key leadership skill and one that you wanted to add to your own professional arsenal and to that of your employees, but can it be taught? How do you train teams in influence intelligence?

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Business Acumen Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

These folks are generally positive and congenial and often fun to be around. If you’ve heard of Influence Management , you likely recognized it as a key leadership skill and one that you wanted to add to your own professional arsenal and to that of your employees, but can it be taught? How do you train teams in influence intelligence?

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” As they work with several teams throughout the product’s development, being firm on goals and expectations will teach each team to expect direction. Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. The Reactive Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

We’re going to go all inception on this and I’m going to present it in the way I often do when getting teams to do this for the first time?—?a What would usually happen is as a commander you would develop your initial plan, once done you will present it to a group, usually your commander, peers, other impacted parties and your team.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”

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Bain Public

MAY 20, 2021

Without a diverse team and an inclusive, safe space, success will be much harder to achieve (in all aspects). We’d like to contribute to this conversation by sharing some tips on how product managers can alter their management style to encourage a more diverse and inclusive environment for their team and clients.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. A product owner’s role tends to be more tactical, and they work with the scrum team to make the product manager’s plans a reality. Although they are both parts of the same team and share many of the same goals, the two roles have different focuses.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their way to good processes and collaboration, rather than “best practices” folks who believe there’s a fundamentally right way to do things. I take the position that categorical imperatives are always wrong.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 29, 2022

I strive to grow a team of data professionals and help them achieve their potential. You're trying to join a growing team or be part of a larger data team that will help coach you into bigger and better skills. Remember to include the basic information from your past data science positions. Let’s find out.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

You have a massive pool of candidates proactively applying for an open position or recruited by headhunters, human resources, or the hiring manager themselves. Some candidates will leave the funnel because they’re not interested as they learn more about the position, while others exit because they aren’t a great fit.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Not just technology companies, but all industries often struggle to have a broad diverse representation amongst their teams. Diverse teams—those made up of people from different races, gender, sexual orientations, backgrounds, and experiences—lead to more creativity, a variety of thought, and more empathy for customers.

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