Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. In product management, I often saw silos coming from top to bottom. It’s evolving so fast.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Few takeaways for me in the thread below: 1) Diligence+ thoughtfulness > agility Need to keep this in mind in the ‘move fast and break things’ culture. The oldest engineering manager may may be more influential than the newly appointed CTO. Organised by @nextbigwhat and moderated by @cnha.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). DBAs tasking with managing related databases. Finally, before carrying out your stakeholder management, keep in mind that the process is indeed a collaboration. Try to think of the process as an agile development project. IT Administrators. Business Process Analysts.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Despite general happiness with their jobs , many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want to change this year. That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Agile Conference, IEEE Conference Publications (2009): 333-337. Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis. Enabling Specification: The Key to Building Agile Systems.” Ellen’s passion is helping people use modern product requirements practices to build valued products and great teams.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Assuming you do decide to improve the Proof of Concept, then typically you iterate using an agile process. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas It gives stakeholders an opportunity to assess the benefits and challenges before making additional investment on iterative improvements.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

A single product owner with decision-making authority. A development team empowered to deliver the product vision based on agreed objectives. Many of these will probably be familiar to you from the agile manifesto but it required some convincing of a large traditional organisation like the OU. Power Trio. Cross-Discipline Teams.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

How product managers can challenge ideas to achieve long-term success. We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople. Ways to form the vision for a product.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

Arcadier , an e-commerce SaaS marketplace builder based in Singapore, originally came to a Brainmates Product Management course in Singapore, before engaging us for further specialised workplace training. We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Each department wants to hire in its own image.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The team grows, roles shift, output increases, and many other pivotal changes happen within the product team and the organization as a whole. At the same time, rapid growth can present some challenges for product management. These are all valid questions for product people at high-growth organizations.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. One of our clients is a deep believer in agile and that agile teams are self-determining. So why does something that is supposed to be good go wrong?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have helped shape the landscape of product management in the 21st century. Data is an increasingly significant component of product decisions.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions. Managers and their teams negotiate OKRs at the beginning of a quarter and have weekly check ins to review progress and confidence levels.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The product backlog I managed grew daily. That’s typically enough for any product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

With the majority of our product & engineering teams furloughed and operating with a skeleton caretaker team only, here’s my top 10 learnings from recent experience of this crisis: A crisis calls for pragmatism and being truly agile. Myself and our CTO have been side-by-side in leading and working with our small caretaker team.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team. There’s no standard academic path for product people. These two initiatives helped bring much more transparency to any decisions the management team made.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

Product managers and their more recent Agile brethren, product owners, hold one of the most demanding positions in an organisation. As the crucial nexus in the product development framework, their plate is all too often full with business demands, technical requirements, and marketing concerns.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). creating a community of practice for their organisation. writing a book.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Cartoon by Gapingvoid We’ve lost our way in Product Management. When the biggest problem Product Managers face is setting roadmap priorities based on market feedback, it’s symptomatic of the underlying practices and tools. Simply put, Products are Conversations. Great products are made of conversations.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

While Gainsight and Aptrinsic both see an opportunity for something greater by coming together, we’re keeping the teams structured in a way that the encourages the same agility and agency that got Aptrinsic to where it is today. Listen to the Aptrinsic team (about the buyer, market, technology). We’re not changing the product strategy.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. ” When I dove in with Product Managers and Engineering leaders on my team, every presentation seemed to have a different method of measuring adoption. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I had previously failed to appreciated that the design sprint was a productivity tool (obvious now). I had misunderstood the concept and confused it with agile principles. Productivity processes are about detail, the book provides detail by the hour for the 5 day sprint, and importantly explains why.

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