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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

Add to that the agile revolution, which yanked product managers deep into the execution ( preparing a sprint every other week requires a lot of work! ), and you’ll see why two decades later the focus of product management had shifted. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

We spin up outbound marketing/support efforts too early. Stakeholders keep expanding the definition of ‘done’, since we can’t ship a real revenue product without features A, B, C, X, Y and Z. This short-circuits learning and slows down delivery. Engineering and Product are written off as intellectual time-wasters.

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Empathy -- Lead with your EARS and not with your MOUTH

Bain Public

At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility. Product Managers translate between the need to support the effectiveness of outbound activities (Sales, Marketing, Customer support) and the need for efficiency in internal ones (Strategy, Engineering, UX). with emotions, egos, unique styles, and different goals?—?the

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

If you’ve established your market and have significant traction, organizing your teams into pods creates a highly flexible, agile salesforce that’s ready to meet a variety of challenges and pounce on new opportunities. Is your model primarily inbound or outbound? Richard Harris, Founder, The Harris Consulting Group.

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Reorganizing Product Teams

Mironov Consulting

And recently, a product leader at Spotify shared that her group (and many others throughout her company) have evolved to very different organizational models than described in Henrik Kniberg’s 2012 Scaling Agile @ Spotify. This sounds a lot like applying agile thinking to organizations. This is a big shift in time and emphasis.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.