Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. Often somebody on the team is responsible for reading through all that stuff, synthesizing it into insights, and disseminating those insights across the team. This is a very manual process, so few teams decide to do the work. [4:22]

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Download the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered for Free The Scrum Master Theses in Detail The Role of the Scrum Master This first set of the Scrum Master theses addresses their role in the Scrum process. The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and and coaching. A cross-functional?—?be

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Self-organizing, empowered teams often conflict with the middle management’s drive to execute personal agendas, self-preservation being one of them. Servant leadership and self-organization, for example, have proven time and again to be starting points for moving toward serious value creation. Leadership in this George S.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. I would say that was a pretty bad decision.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 1, 2023

Product Planning is researching, making decisions, and taking action to develop a successful product. Product management teams will have their cadence and frameworks for planning, but typically it consists of some version of annual combined with quarterly planning. What is Product Planning?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Third is setting goals.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. The former describes the problem that users want to see addressed, for example, lose weight , or the benefit that users want to obtain, for instance, reduce the risk of developing diabetes.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

She wrote, “In a past life, I sat on the other side of the table supporting hiring teams to define processes, find candidates, and make great hires. When it comes to PM leadership roles, hiring teams would share the same small handful of reasons for rejecting candidates. It’s not that you’re bad at your job.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. HBR study – team members, not leaders, more responsible for innovation. Instead, it is how team members interact and their accomplishments that drive innovation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Most of us have become product managers and then moved on (or will move on) to product leadership based on our experiences and knowledge. Later I founded a startup and then worked in business development at Microsoft. It was decent, but we had poor bandwidth and the content was not great. Click here to download the Action Guide.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. Download the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered for Free How to Make ‘Agile’ Work in Startups Then? There seems to be a belief?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Often, it is a sign of a lack of trust in the team’s capability.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The product team must then develop and execute its product strategy within those boundaries. The founding team sees long-term value in not having to make decisions based on the demands of outside owners. The senior leadership team is responsible for establishing the business strategy and communicating it across the organization.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day. It all starts with a commitment from leadership that strategic thinking and planning are worth the time and makes it a core tenet of the team’s approach. Time Management. Turning an Abstract Concept Into Practice.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

So far, this Product Owner interview guide has been downloaded more than 8,000 times. ?? The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. Tweet This.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. Download the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide?—?160 For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. A vision with this level of detail gives teams enough direction to make decisions. Click here to download the Action Guide. Innovation Quote.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way. What is a product owner?

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UX Studio

MAY 29, 2018

But team building retreats can do exactly that. Every six months, our whole UX team travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about our big goals. These team building retreats play an important part in UX studio’s culture. Do a retreat when your team has lost its energy.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. Agile Leadership Summit. This event may have gotten its start as an ancillary part of the Agile+DevOps Leadership Summit, but for Agile product leaders, this is the main event.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. good-products-bad-businesses/. Building your product team – interview with Steven Sinofsky, former MS Windows President. increase the number of right products developed.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Read on for an even speedier download of today’s content. The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic. Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. That means you have to download the app or sign up for the product! Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

You can also download a copy of the SiriusDecisions’ Product Management: Planning Assumptions 2019 to learn more about these trends — plus a “bonus” sixth trend — and learn how to stay ahead of the curve, or listen to a recorded on-demand webcast to hear my colleague Lisa Singer and I discuss these trends in more detail.

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Usersnap

JUNE 17, 2019

72% of customers blame poor customer service as the reason for having to explain their issue multiple times. Top 4 Struggles for Customer Service Teams. You have to understand the customer’s problem and forward it to the developers or marketing team. So, how can you overcome miscommunication and improve efficiency?

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the spirit of “Staying Thirsty” we’ve compiled this list of books, blogs, Slack communities, and podcasts for product-obsessed people that want to develop themselves in and out of the office. Download three podcast episodes at the beginning of every week. ShapeUp —Basecamp [Free Download]. Books for Product Managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Inspiration for product teams – a better Amazon Echo in 3 months working part-time and distributed. A recent one-day seminar for the Audio Engineering Society showcased the work of a small distributed team who volunteered their free time over a 3-month period to prototype a bigger better Amazon Echo called Speak2Me.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In this webinar, Steven Haines, founder and CEO of Sequent Learning Networks and author of The Product Manager’s Survival Guide , draws on extensive product leadership experience to show how to develop customer empathy, develop great customer insights, and transform them into better value propositions. Poor financial planning?

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 12, 2019

They have a painful awareness of these problems but to tackle them, companies need a strong commitment from the leadership over an extended period of time, possibly years. Analytical leadership. De-risk development by continually listening, testing and iterating with end-users. Analytical leadership. Continuous iteration.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Microsoft Teams had to figure out how to scale and service their product when its application was far greater than they had anticipated. In the book, I talk about the leadership style in a wild horse herd, which has an alpha mare leading in the front, an alpha sire in the back, and some horses within the herd that shape its behavior.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

You can also download a copy of the SiriusDecisions’ Product Management: Planning Assumptions 2019 to learn more about these trends — plus a “bonus” sixth trend — and learn how to stay ahead of the curve, or listen to a recorded on-demand webcast to hear my colleague Lisa Singer and I discuss these trends in more detail.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful. TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls

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