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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. The foundation of any successful team is their leader.

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Three Superpowers of a Product Manager

Mind the Product

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. But they are good examples of what my team and I have developed together over the last four years at Zalora. Retrospectives. Release Notes.

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Growth Interview Questions from Atlassian, SurveyMonkey, Gusto and Hubspot (Guest Post)

Andrew Chen

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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How to run a product meeting and nurture your team culture

UX Studio: Product Management

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? None of these are good or bad, but these signs can help you evaluate the culture of the team. How were we developing our teams?

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of? It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. Others will fail. It’s impossible for one person to do.