Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. Each function (Engineering, Product, and Design) has their own reporting structure and organization. Organize cross-functionally within engineering, embed product and design It is common for Engineering to organize along functional lines.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. You had five product teams , a user researcher who was new to the role.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Engineering’s principle of ‘building in small steps’ complements design’s principle of building ‘connected, modular systems’ which in turn compliments research’s ‘ship fast, ship early, ship often’ principle.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

We discussed how Ellen first learned about continuous discovery and the steps she took to roll it out, specifically with the engineers at Orion Labs. Teresa: We are here today to discuss how Ellen introduced her engineers to discovery and how she got them involved in a more continuous cadence to their discovery work.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

In our previous discussion on the topic of trends, we broadly categorised important trend shifts into 3 different groups: Technical trends Business trends Design trends Business skills are essential for people who build products. And whilst some roles in product require a background in software engineering, these are usually optional.

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

The product strategy was to drastically reduce the weight of the vehicle to reduce the material and battery requirements. Brand is important and synergies between high performance products should be leveraged to aid the mid-performance products. Mark Frohnmayer is the Founder and CEO of Arcimoto.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 2, 2020

The awkward place content finds itself in product development The importance of content is downplayed in the grand scheme of all the complex pieces required to bring products to life. A product that has invested heavily in integrating content into the overall experience oozes quality. I couldn’t do that. You can feel it.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

Engineers will be rightly proud of your performance achievements but if you don’t share them with the world, you’ll miss an opportunity to capitalise on them. Internal testing – every now again, prioritise some core user journeys and ask your colleagues and members of other teams to do some internal user testing.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think we should assume that people that work in our industry are smart and capable, they care about the products that they’re building. Audience member: You mentioned that we have to overcommunicate strategic context or the product strategy—can you give examples of not-so-obvious situations where we should be pushing it?

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