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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks.

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3 Simple Steps To Make Your Customer Stories 10x Better

The Secret PM Handbook

Your Problem Should Be Really Bad. You’re not going go to Club, your team isn’t going to make quota. In fact, if you’re in a “sales is not growing” situation, there are a lot of bad potential outcomes if it continues. The key here is to think about the outcomes if this bad situation continues to exist.

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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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This New Template Helps You Write Better Product Requirements

The Secret PM Handbook

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. When not writing his sales handbook, he’s been overseeing the change from Close.io There were a couple of reasons why we kept negotiating for that domain name and tried to buy it. to Close.com.

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Friday Tracks and Takeaways When Lightning Strikes

Gainsight

Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Staff it properly and invest in a proper team.

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5 Business ‘Rules’ Worth Breaking

Business of Software Conference

You set the rules and write the handbook. For Cohen and Smart Bear, solving simple problems was a bad strategy. We tend to have certain ideas about the characteristics of developers and salespeople, and those characteristics tend to be quite different. That’s probably a bad use of my time. ‘So This is liberating.