Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Product strategy is a high-level plan that outlines how the product will support the vision and achieve business goals. Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. We need to avoid this.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Product strategy is a high-level plan that outlines how the product will support the vision and achieve business goals. Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. We need to avoid this.

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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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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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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

You could point to his success at negotiating new contracts with labour unions to cut costs, increases in organisational efficiencies, or his introduction of a strong vision to enhance stakeholder value. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

When a clear path and vision is necessary for success, it makes sense that taking the proactive approach would yield the best chances. It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. The Reactive Product Manager. Being reactive gets a lot of flak.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. and coaching. It is not a mere management role.

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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. The product manager’s role is about the business’s vision for the product, primarily on the market and customer feedback. 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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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. A lack of rigor in how we construct experiments creates many measurement problems.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here’s a look into where each department is coming from when making requests: CEO: The CEO will evolve the company's visions, the product’s high-level strategic baseline and communicate it in a clear and explicit way. The marketing team problems revolve around the product not being the number one lead magnet it should be (e.g.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

But small teams also have less to lose. But when left to their own devices, early adopters can create some bad precedents. This can both create bad habits and turn people off to the tool before it’s spun up. Executives frequently don’t have much insight into the day-to-day operations of various teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Any advice on developing that elusive product intuition or product “spidey sense” ability? You'll notice interesting trade-offs in the products that developers and companies are building. How do you balance constructive feedback on how a company can do better versus seeming like you are overly critical?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Any advice on developing that elusive product intuition or product “spidey sense” ability? You'll notice interesting trade-offs in the products that developers and companies are building. How do you balance constructive feedback on how a company can do better versus seeming like you are overly critical?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. Team Strategy Team strategy should be primarily focused on how a specific agile team can be maximize value delivery by prioritizing a backlog of specific tasks (commonly known as user stories).

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

Do you empower small, agile teams? Dubin the founder in the face of the company has this vision. And I’m not saying that’s good or bad. But industry, as a construct, I think is a big blind spot. I’m saying if you’re looking out for those weak signals you can see them a lot more.

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