The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Activities to try: If you need to focus or align the team, I recommend starting with this Playing Field exercise. Lead a mapping exercise to outline the customer’s current experience journey. Use this exercise to narrow down many ideas into a short-list so you can get from Post-It Note to project brief more quickly.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

I tried to avoid it as much as I could and took upon myself the role of the peacemaker — the one who always sees things from multiple perspectives and tries to balance them. If you think about it from their perspective, and let’s think about it with UX principles, starting an argument with you involves a lot of friction.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

I am sharing my view on the most and least valuable from a design perspective. I could see how HBO would have benefited from a refreshed look, and even from a repositioning exercise to signal a broader programming and make a more family-friendly look for some categories if you wish. 2023 was quite a busy branding year.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Engaging with non-designers during ideation has brought forth perspectives that I might not have considered on my own. Partnering with colleagues to conduct testing has not only expanded my reach but has also brought in other perspectives. QoQo plugin for FigJam helps a lot with ideating on user needs and journey map.

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Haines-Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The exercise is to identify and express the most critical stuff. It’s valuable to do this exercise with a cross-functional team because the discussion about what should go on the box reveals assumptions and knowledge gaps and allows team members to inform each other and/or to agree where more research is required.

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Product Management University

MAY 21, 2020

Here’s a great exercise for product management, product marketing and sales. Use the customer org chart graphic above for reference and see if you can come up with a few short YOU statements that communicate value from the customer’s perspective. Give it a try.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Consuming a variety of resources and perspectives has helped me to observe work from different angles and ultimately improved my output. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that’s time consuming but pays off. So how can you build your own library of resources specific to your needs? Copy interfaces that you like.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

The participants came out of the exercise better aligned and improved their future collaboration. You’ll all need to learn to take the time to explore the diverse perspectives on your team and to work together to get to better solutions. This forced the participants to understand the customer opportunity in more detail.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

To get access to unique perspectives and expertise, build a cross-functional team. That’s because without the perspectives and expertise of team members from across the organization you may struggle to come up with diverse insights into potential causes and solutions. The RCA process starts by defining the problem.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Have your product strategy team lead an exercise to prioritize those opportunities based on the value both from the buyer/user perspective and revenue potential. Here are the first steps you should consider to make the transition: Catalog buyer/users’ needs (often found in your backlog).

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Perspective Taking If Henry Ford had been an architect, we would have a quote about hotel owners demanding faster elevators. Perspective taking is the act of putting yourself into someone else’s shoes – and a necessary step in generating an outside-in view of the problem.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JULY 20, 2018

As an exercise for myself, I decided to take a mental model that’s usually used for decision making – a 2×2 matrix – and apply it to marketing. I found it gives an interesting perspective. Consider doing the exercise again with a different pair of differentiating capabilities. Click To Tweet.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ideation is an intentional exercise to generate a high volume of ideas for a business’s products, services, and customer experience. Unlike “free-for-all” brainstorming sessions, these exercises remain structured and guided by a product team member. What is ideation? What’s required for ideation? Modify/Magnify/Minify.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

With physical fitness, we know you should eat healthy, sleep enough, and exercise, but we don’t have a lot of clarity around what exactly you should do to build a proactive mental health practice. There is an exercise I call an emotional push-up. Great tools are journaling and meditation. Ask for feedback regularly and often.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As product people, we’re always looking to change, be that culturally, from a business perspective, or in our own personal careers. John describes this as an exercise – one you have to work on and to practice. It’s not always dysfunctional or political, but it’s hard and it’s uncertain.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 30, 2021

These exercises bring out everyone’s unique strengths and different perspectives, so the results are always very different. We’ve done live design exercises like designing book covers and rethinking city flag design to more reflective exercises like cataloging where we pull inspiration from both in and outside of design.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2021

Describe that we’re going to try a little exercise to see if we can better understand each other’s perspectives. It becomes less about Mary’s opinion, or Jake’s opinion and the team as a whole can see multiple perspectives and talk through the best way forward. Acknowledge that Mary wants to paint the wall blue.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. The Cardinal sin: no Questions for Your Interviewers. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2024

However, for most businesses, we like to expand — it’s great both from a revenue perspective and also to de-risk as we diversify our revenue lines and continue to innovate. It’s proven to be a valuable exercise that you can do both individually and collaboratively (it makes for a good team workshop).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

To reach consensus, people must understand each other’s perspectives and feel and think together. At the start of the decision-making process depicted above, encourage people to generate different ideas and share diverse perspectives using free-flowing open discussion or structured brainstorming, for example.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

The most helpful exercise, in my opinion that cultivates self-awareness is meditation. Do I actively practice empathy and seek to understand the perspectives and feelings of others? To gauge your growth as a transcendent leader, ask yourself: How self-aware am I of my emotions, strengths, and areas for development?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Once the Product Owner has refreshed the team’s understanding of what the product vision is, we move on to the product box exercise.

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Roy Madden

JUNE 15, 2021

As a reader he found it easy to discover interesting new perspectives simply by checking the blog rolls of his favorite writers and visiting the sites they recommended. Steve then uses Feedly to sort all these insights into topical feeds like ‘Mind Changers’ (for writers that often shift his perspective) and ‘Workflow’ (for time-saving tips).

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

Building diverse teams and collaborating with teams from across the organization will give you unique perspectives on your product’s inclusivity. To create inclusive products, you need to conduct user research and collect feedback from different perspectives. It also has a great range of accessibility settings.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2019

Seeing a problem from a different perspective is an incredibly worthwhile exercise for a product manager. I now make sure I squeeze the right amount of exercise into my daily routine, I allocate quality time with the people I love, and I also set time aside for myself.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 8, 2023

We thought we were having some success as an innovative company, but it’s always good to get an external perspective. We decided to pursue the OCI award as a learning exercise and a moment of inspiration for the company. We decided to pursue the OCI award as a learning exercise and a moment of inspiration for the company.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Vocalizing these points helped the team gain perspective and prevented them from assuming that all customers think like them (an easy trap to fall into). This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for. What are some challenges they face today, either with or without Mixpanel?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. The often observed estimate inflation is just one way of dealing with the problem from a team’s perspective. in my experience?—?delivers

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2024

To look at the value end-to-end, you need to make sure you address 3 perspectives: First, you need to define the value that you are trying to deliver to your customers. According to McKinsey & Co., by the way, it’s the sole purpose of any business. As you can see from the example above, it’s easier said than done.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

After a point, a change in perspective had to occur. Dedicating more time to seriously exercising three times a week, meditating regularly, and expressing gratitude more often. There were some things that helped me both personally and in the working environment with my team to adapt to the new normal and lessen the effect somehow.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. Additionally, describe the needs from the users’ perspective, for example, “help me achieve a healthy target weight” or “help me significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes”. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

A great way to cultivate a growth mindset and open mind is to learn a new skill, for example, learning to draw or paint, sing, play an instrument, take up yoga, or another form of exercise. Are you, for example, critical of the other person’s work and quick to exercise judgement? Foster Your Learning Capacity.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

People with this competence: - Are skilled at winning people over - Fine-tune presentations to appeal to the listener - Use complex strategies like indirect influence to build consensus and support - Orchestrate dramatic events to effectively make a point A good part of our job requires the exercise of influence.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Those should be standardized formats as well for easier creation and analysis during exercises later on. There are a variety of exercises you can conduct to get the brain juices flowing to help assess information from different perspectives. this is a team exercise, and secondary stakeholders should participate here.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

This perspective shows that a guiding vision must be present to inform strategy. Great analysis does not produce great strategy This is Martinx says “do not think of strategy as an analytical exercise.” Consequently, strategy is hard to visualize and practice. Similarly, strategy guides planning and roadmaps.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

” I always thought it was funny that we would interrogate information and ask it its perspective. So we use user research – and not only user research, but we try to incorporate a diverse set of perspectives into everything we create. “These two pillars: the user research and diversity of perspective.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 1, 2021

There are five categories to brainstorm about from the user’s perspective: Happiness – Measures of attitudes, often collected via survey. For example, let’s choose “Engagement” for the product YouTube for this exercise. What does engagement mean from a user’s perspective? It’s extremely useful!

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