Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. How do I prioritize the roadmap? I started developing some curious side effects. That’s the proper answer.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

We were iterating and at this point we got the developers to come and sit with us and look at what the how people was responding to this design. So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). So this is a quote.

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