The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. A risk is an uncertain event that may have both a positive or negative impact on a product.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Developers are Also our Customers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The conference is structured around the “7 Ps of Product”—Problem, Purpose, Position, Price, Practice, Promotion, and Performance. The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. Agile Leadership Summit. SaaStr Annual.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

UserGuiding's biggest selling point is its $99/month Basic plan but that doesn’t come with all the elements you’ll need to build a positive onboarding experience. Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Enterprises and employees have had to adjust to new realities, both professionally and personally. In 2021, we will likely see a continuation of many of the trends that began this past year, along with some new (and positive and exciting) opportunities that will continue to reshape the business landscape. – Patrick Sheridan.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. I have had a fair share of experience working at enterprise and startup level companies. Their immediate reaction was we cannot do this.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

The product team : This is the close-knit team that build the artifacts used to evolve the product (green layer). Ideally, this is a cross-disciplinary team working closely together in an iterative/agile kind of way. The team tend to operate in weekly / bi-weekly cadence. Your team is who you are in a way.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. This phase then helps to drive our team of experienced engineers and DevOps personnel towards areas of a customer’s system that require deeper dives and threat modeling.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

How would you approach working with new team members in a different country, specifically to grow empathy and connection, due to cultural differences? Even though it is a large enterprise, you can apply these tips within any size of company. Starting a community of practice I joined Pearson to create the Future Technologies team.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. It’s a change in approach that’s driven by demands for more agility and greater velocity from the time a problem is identified to the time that a product is released. . Written Methods. Visual Methods.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. Do they have money? Who pays us money?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

That meant we had plenty of money to run experiments and invest in high-quality work, as well as in developing the next generation of creative talent. J: The traditional consultancy space, where you are largely working with enterprise, tends to provide limited exposure to the kinds of data that you would get working in-house at a startup.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

At UX studio, we work with rising startups and established enterprises worldwide. As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. It offers product strategy, design, and development services.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This is way more efficient than relying on your already-busy dev team. You can add interactions so that other team members can see the functionality. You can also use InVision to gather feedback from other team members, and collaborate with them on your designs. Once your design is done, you can hand it over to your dev team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. I’ve had personally some bad experiences, where I didn’t really get much support. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop the idea. Louis tells them: “ Don’t show up with a talk. Show up with an idea. ” And so on.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Does your organization have an enterprise architect or Chief Product Person? We create these positions to check that the teams don't try to implement something “wrong.” ” However, a single person in this position creates bottlenecks and dependencies. (A The teams on the upper left have fewer connections.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Split

MAY 31, 2022

When teams embrace testing, they’re more innovative, agile and in sync with ever-changing customer needs. Experimentation also reduces risk, because teams know how the product will be received before it’s rolled out. In reality, there’s no reason why teams can’t adopt some simple tools to start experimenting today.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 15, 2019

Among those filling non-executive technical roles, enterprise architects, in particular, must be able to speak to a broad audience about a variety of topics. Challenges enterprise architects face. For enterprise architects, this presents a few challenges. Why storytelling is so important to enterprise architects.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? Now Things get Messy. Can users use it?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products. Software PMs are able to manage the scope of the product.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. The best books available can help you learn more about product management, collaboration, habits, remote teams, different methodologies, and more. Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.

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