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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Just like a product roadmap shouldn’t simply be a list of to-do items , I’m looking for outcomes and objectives in this context. Are they team players?

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Just like a product roadmap shouldn’t simply be a list of to-do items , I’m looking for outcomes and objectives in this context. Are they team players?

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Dropping the news that something is late on the day it was due is doing you no favors.

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From Awareness to Adoption: Keys to a Successful New Feature Launch

ProductPlan

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. To avoid an unsuccessful launch and weak usage, product teams and their product marketing counterparts must be in lockstep. Rinse and repeat.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. There are things, bets you might take, but you definitely wouldn’t have taken in the midst of a pandemic.

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