Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

Creating a successful product requires a clear vision. Equally important, it requires confidence that the vision is aligned with the needs of the customers the company exists to serve. Organizations must develop a deep understanding of their customers to gain this level of confidence. A Tale of two Brands.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

They lead their teams, building excitement on a product vision, roadmap, and features. You need to build trust with your manager, their manager, their peers, and with senior leadership that you can do the work and you can do it well. I directly managed multidisciplinary teams and led projects with up to 50 developers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

is a multinational company that develops and manufactures beverages. Her company was contracted by Heineken at the end of 2019 to work on their software development projects. Ultimately, they both learned how a user-centred and evidence-based approach to product development can work well with agile software design methodologies.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The stories varied, but a central character recurred: a leader with a vision to humbly serve others. Nowadays, I don’t hear many stories about servant leadership in the media. I think we need more compelling stories of leadership in our lives. A servant leader. We need more inspiration in general.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2018

Purpose-Driven Product Development Jesse E. Having a limited view of the world, it’s difficult for teams and organizations to maintain a consistent vision for their world, and it’s vitally important to have communication frameworks and practices in place in order to achieve shared understanding. Owens II ?—?Director

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Organizations are already fully staffed to their current way of developing software, and it stands to reason that most of the folks who will be working in the new paradigm will be transitioning from an old role to a new one. The “Development Team” groups really keyed in on the need to become more self-directed. Protecting the sprint.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. I started developing some curious side effects. Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder/CEO, Balsamiq.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 15, 2021

The impact of the years with fewer women in product, plus the higher churn of women in this role, is finding its way into senior leadership. According to our report, both women and men see product leadership in their future. However, many women are looking at product leadership for more years of their careers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It is meant for certain use-cases and audiences, largely those who are not a key part of the decision-making process, but who are affected by it and by leadership, who don’t have the time to dive deep into the how and why of products and features. The mission statement is all the things it will (and will not do) to achieve its vision.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). Perhaps its origins in software development didn’t do the Product Owner role any favours in this department?—?it

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

While there’s no one-size-fits-all template for building an effective product strategy, be sure to think through these five factors as you develop yours. Product Mission and Vision. A product vision is the big-picture “why” of your company. Your product vision describes the world that your company wants to create.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2018, Perri published a popular book entitled “ Escaping the Build Trap : How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value ”. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. Using her scientific approach to product management, she runs programs such as The CPO Accelerator to grow product leaders.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Because there is still the very simple principle that most people actually don’t run one flavor of any type of software development process. So there’s teams who are technical teams so those people might be the product manager, program manager, the developers are working on it, the designers, the QA. Why do you have that?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. About half of Amazon’s operating income in 2018 came from AWS, which has more than 1,000,000 active users. billion and nearly $233 billion in 2018. Wikipedia ).

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Bain Public

JULY 13, 2020

Since meeting at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator in 2019, we’ve worked with Blaise Transit to provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level. This also included streamlining operations and optimizing the turn-by-turn navigation.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At Amplitude we’re big believers in product teams aligning their vision and strategy to a north star metric. This isn’t just a “set it and forget it” thing we do at the leadership level. Setting a north star metric isn’t just a “set it and forget it” thing we do at the leadership level.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We’re humble that as an influential organization, we can share product leadership best practices and transform organizations through product-driven culture adoption when they’re in their infancy (pre-seed), helping them drive a path toward a clearer view of the bigger picture.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And so, uh, it’s 2018, uh, whether it’s preferred or not, many of us are starting to think about how can we be good at remote teams because of the advantages that affords because of access to talent because of all the nice things, productivity benefits and things like that. So these 30 minute pair buddies are really fun for that.

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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. But facts I’ve discovered that many companies just ask a design team to execute on the vision. And together we did the user research because this is a team sport.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Some of the most common are: Blockchain Developer Cybersecurity Analysts Financial Analysts Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Learning Scientists Product Manager Quantitative Analysts & Data Scientist Risk & Compliance Managers In many ways, these two companies are very similar.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

On the casino side what we developed was a machine which allowed you to play on four roulette wheels simultaneously. So I just googled “Leading expert computer vision”. So could I use computer vision as a means of being able to generate body shapes and also allow me to digitize garments really fast and really cheaply.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Develop empathy – learn what’s it’s like to walk in your customers’ shoes so that you can build the products they really need and want. Performance goals: Qualitative objectives and quantitative key results for the team to aim for, and complete the unified vision. Cultivate Psychological Safety.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

List the key strategic themes or initiatives to achieve your product vision and achieve the business goals for the product. Q1-2018 (actual). Q2-2018 (target). H2-2018 (backlog). Development. These themes should be the high-level drivers for your product roadmap and listed in priority. Short-Term Product Roadmap.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. It also helps you start developing a better sense of which books are worth reading or not , so you are not restricted on what other people tell you you should read.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Jacob de Lichtenberg outlines how Dual-Track Agile is a development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process – and how to run it. What will be the big trends that shape our craft in 2018?

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

So when you think about like the American dream you think about someone like my dad; immigrated from a developing island – the population today is still about 50,000 people, I think there are more people enrolled in university California Berkeley. This is something that my first leadership coach was like you suck.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Planning the design and development of new products or features. Working with teams to develop new products or features. You plan for the future and participate in the details of product design and development. See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Responsibilities of Product Management.

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Usersnap

JUNE 30, 2022

Because SaaS product management requires research, strategy, internal company alignment, product development, and continuous product refinement along the way. Fast-moving business as part of developing target markets! Numerous SaaS and software companies are using product-led growth strategies to develop their customer base.

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Amplitude

MAY 15, 2018

We’re thrilled that Sam is a keynote speaker at ROADMAP | NYC Product Summit on May 31, 2018. I was fortunate to work with extremely talented leadership and peers who gave me tons of autonomy to grow the product and team. I launched their first mobile apps, led a redesign, and opened a development office for them in NYC.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I’ve been in product management roles or engineering management or UX or business development or agile enablement. Well I’ve developed and had at that point developed a methodology over time that I’m going to tell you about to try to make some sense out of that chaos. I’ve done a lot of different things.

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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2019

Whether you take 20/20 as a sign of your increasingly strong vision about your customers (you might say you’re “gaining sight”… I’ll be here all night!) Human-First Leadership. Speaking of 2020, that’s the theme of Pulse 2019: 20/20. I’ll reveal them here, but you have to be at Pulse if you want to know more!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

The solution is collaborating at several levels and it starts with developing a shared vision and purpose for the product. Getting buy in to the company vision and the ‘why’ driving that vision are essential. Agreement and understanding of both the company and product vision give the team a North Star.

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