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Product in Practice: Shifting from a Feature Factory to Continuous Discovery at Doodle

Product Talk

She is the Chief Product Officer at Doodle , and we are going to dive into her story about how her team navigated some tricky roles and responsibilities and came out the other side in a much better place. We’re a scheduling company, so we make finding mutual availability between groups of people fairly easy. Teresa: Okay.

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Ask Teresa (and the Community): What Do You Do With Stakeholder Feature Requests?

Product Talk

You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers , you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. This idea (which is probably in the form of a solution you should build) didn’t originate from your discovery work.

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The Power of Opportunity Solution Trees: 7 Key Benefits Revealed

Product Talk

This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. We represent the business need with the outcome at the top of the tree. Opportunity Solution Trees Help Build and Maintain a Shared Understanding Across Your Trio For most of us, when we encounter a problem, we simply want to solve it.

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Product in Practice: Continuous Discovery Fuels Innovation at Sauce Labs

Product Talk

We caught up with Mike to learn how he was able to use the skills he gained in the Master Class to build a culture of discovery and innovation at Sauce Labs. While he’s worked in a range of roles and companies, he describes his focus as building enterprise applications for some of the largest companies.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

So how do we solve this problem? Track and update your product strategy in a way that will build credibility and confidence for future planning cycles. Utilize your product strategy to help build a customer-focused mindset throughout your organization! And that’s exactly what we’re.

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Product-Led Sales is Product Management

Ronke PM

We have to understand that they want bonuses, pay raises, and promotions just as we do. As product managers, it’s our mission to position them as heroes within their organizations by providing products, solutions, and services that solve their unique problems effectively. Our customers are like us.

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Intercom’s product principles: Following design fundamentals to leave space for innovation

Intercom, Inc.

We design simple systems that solve complex problems for our customers. That doesn’t mean we don’t obsess over user interfaces; it means spending time on the right things. Our strength lies in knowing when we should follow standard best practices for design and when we need to innovate and create something new. “We

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The Secret Formula to Staying Customer Conscious During Late-Stage Product Development

Speaker: Jordan Kyriakidis, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO of QRA Corp

Most problem-solving is trying to figure out what’s broken in the first place. Product teams must understand that, in real life, the design phase and the building phase are almost always happening simultaneously. In this webinar, you will learn: How to approach and solve pressing unmet needs in problem-solving.

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Maybe We Should Be Problem Managers Instead

Speaker: Steve Johnson, Founder and CEO, Under10 Playbook

Three things keep company leaders awake at night: 1) Can we sell more of what we built? 2) Can we build what we’ve planned? And 3) Are we planning the right things? Does it solve their problem? Why product managers should obsess on problems, not solutions. Will it add complexity?

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User-Centered Development: The Importance of User Empathy to Build the Right Thing

Speaker: Jesse Walker, Product Manager at Canva

When you add the complexities of working in a fast-moving organization, we can sometimes lose sight of the forest for the trees. After all, at the other end of the product development workflow is a real person relying on the products we're building to make their lives easier. This is an exclusive session you won't want to miss!

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How To Take Action on Customer Discovery

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

We all want to build successful products - and that means satisfied customers. Before anything else, you must understand what problems you can solve. The best way to do that is to get out of the building and start asking questions. Find common themes in your customer interviews and use them to take action.

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Feedback: The Secret to Innovating Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Liz Love, Chief Commercial Officer at ProdPad

As product managers, we all seem to experience similar pain points in our day to day lives. We all struggle with stakeholder conflict, constant feature requests, failed launches, unexpected outcomes, unhappy users, and complexity. The various ways product feedback solves these problems.