Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together. This opportunity solution tree is a visual aid that can help you find the best place to focus your team’s energies, whilst ensuring you consider enough opportunities. Quality Design. Being Human.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) July 28, 2016. "Process"

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. duvEyGJUpd #prodmgmt.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 14, 2022

This creates something of a “hit or miss” approach to my personal development. Assume you are developing a minimum viable product (MVP) to show at a convention, for example. Your teams work is meaningless if you don’t meet the event deadline. Most teams I’ve worked with are very lousy when it comes to historical tracking.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Generation Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Generation Focus team is very grateful to be a part of the vibrant EPIC People community. Our founder, Joanna Beer, appreciated the opportunity to meet with the EPIC team to share about Generation Focus’ work towards ensuring equity and inclusivity in research recruitment. Scroll down to read the full interview!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems. Having a clear framework helped me develop an ok answer. Suddenly, I could see myself joining the team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Six Fallacies that Prevent Startups from Adopting Agile Successfully From 2010 to 2017, I worked several years in three Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. Participation is free.)

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

I teach teams that business outcomes are derived from your business model. My business model formula looked something like this: # of teams in my coaching program x price per team. Increasing the number of teams that I coach would increase both revenue and impact. I can only work with so many teams at once.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

I’ve also witnessed several agile consultancies starting to adopt more product discovery work and seek out, what I would call, more product orientated Agile Coaches, those with a product management background over a project or IT development one. For example, just look at this recent job ad from PwC here in Sydney. PwC job ad from Linkedin?—?looking

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. Know your neighbors Explore your competitors’ apps , and public feedback to document their strengths and weaknesses. At the minimum, your mobile product will bring design teams, IT, marketing and operations together?—?these

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2017

Instead, they use a system that allows them to explore many possibilities while continually developing options for better investment decisions based on what they discover from exploring each possibility. The majority of options will turn out to be bad options but the point is that those options are now visible as such.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

Scott Berkun, author of The Dance Of The Possible, spoke at Business of Software Conference USA 2017 about how to unlock your creativity and pursue it in your workplace. Now in 1884, the hot tech sector was not web development, wasn’t cloud computing. Which for us today sounds really boring.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager - Ben Horowitz Let’s talk about Product Management - Josh Elman How to Hire a Product Manager - Ken Norton Be a Great Product Leader - Adam Nash PM at Microsoft - Steve Sinofsky What Distinguishes the Top 1% Product Managers from the top 10%?

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

Empower Your Teams if you Want to be Truly Agile. Agile and Lean are not inherently poor or incorrect, rather they’re being used to solve problems they weren’t designed for. But the true value of Agile comes from empowering teams to make decisions and then holding them accountable for these decisions.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. Speaking of which, Microsoft has revealed it is developing a new feature for Outlook that will allow users to keep track of any meetings they can’t attend in person. billion IPO price in 2017.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. And while this isn’t bad, it forgets that keyword research is a study of language. From 2015-17, Plaid was a modern API for banking data for developers. They’re crystal clear that they speak to and for developers.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Look no further than Amazon – in a 2017 letter to shareholders , CEO Jeff Bezos, credited a decision-making model for the company’s ability to deliver value to the market faster: “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. Achieve better business outcomes.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. To create a backend system that will allow the sales team to manage their leads.” “To These product initiatives aren’t bad, they are just communicated at the wrong time and with the wrong intentions.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The day before Mind the Product London 2017 we ran a forum for invited product leaders on a series of topics with some of the leading product managers from around the world. Developing Your own Team. Product leaders have many questions – and even more answers – about how best to develop and empower their teams.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Another type of challenge is called “whiteboard challenge”, which, in addition to potentially falling into the above unethical categories, involves inviting the candidate to the office and asking them to solve a prompt at the whiteboard while members of the evaluation team observe the candidates and/or interact with them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Well-refined Product Backlog Items Few Scrum Teams are mature enough to refine and decompose Product Backlog Items (PBIs) to a granular level. Estimates in this scenario may turn out to be promissory notes by the Developers* eventually turning against them when not expected for. Developers?—?The

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. These product managers tend to believe they have all the answers, that they produce the best solutions and designs, and that their teams should just do what they’re told.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Purpose of the Sprint Planning The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Source : Scrum Guide, 2017. The Development Team overestimates its capacity and takes on too many tasks.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

In this talk from BoS USA 2017, Paul talked about the important things to get right to set your company up well to turn your software into money. He’ll be talking about how to scale and onboard sales teams effectively. We got the team together and went to work on it. Find out more about BoS Europe 2019 here.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. 3]: Judge Holds Winn-Dixie Supermarket’s Website Violates the ADA (14 June 2017). More on that later.

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Mind the Product

MAY 10, 2018

According to Rohit, this was the major barrier that prompted Gaana to include transliterated search and voice assistance in nine different languages early on in the product development cycle. For reference, as of 2017, the PC penetration in India was only around 10% whereas mobile penetration was as high as 75%!

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams.

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