The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part large enterprise tech companies meant to connect between the company’s goals, the department’s, the team’s and even personal goals over a specified period of time. This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. I’m exaggerating, of course.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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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. Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  We could conceivably do this by raising prices; opening new geographic markets; expanding the current product line; building and launching a new e-commerce business alongside our enterprise CRM business; getting the ticket concession for Taylor Swift’s next tour; or inventing cold fusion to save the planet. ” What To Do?

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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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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So rent rent rent We’re in the Agile Devt software business rent rent build?  After all, we're smarter than other teams.   and then the next.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Janice built her career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. She currently supports very large organizations including P&G in becoming more innovative and agile. You have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.”

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

And if you’re here to find the best project management tool available, I have some bad news for you. Requirements differ from company to company, from team to team, and even from person to person. Jira is the best-selling software development tool from Atlassian. Trello for development and design teams?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

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.”. This conference is dedicated to helping SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs of enterprise software companies ramp up their subscription revenue. Agile Leadership Summit.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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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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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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Indicative

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Thanks to customer feedback we have a lot of exciting features in the pipeline, that’s why we’d love if you shared your feedback (good or bad) here through our two-question survey ! The insights and information important to you and your team will automatically be delivered via email when you need them. New Features. Scheduled Reports.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience. That said, it's not that agile digital adoption platform as one might expect. The poor UI design may actually slow your team down. UserGuiding prices.

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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. To get a sense of where these opportunities may lie, we asked our executive team to share five predictions on trends that will impact businesses in 2021. Open source projects will move into the enterprise. – Jay Garcia.

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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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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Enterprises struggle to innovate and are stuffed with innovation labs, accelerators, incubators, digital transformation programs and the like, which attempt, often unsuccessfully, to fix this. As product managers we need to encourage and coach our teams. We should remember that product management is a team sport.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities. Leading a diverse team. Scaled Agile POPM If you’re familiar with Lean and/or Agile frameworks, you’re probably familiar with Scaled Agile.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

You may be an entrepreneur creating SaaS platforms or a product manager for an enterprise. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. Author: Nate Walkingshaw.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. He did, however, have a few gems.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

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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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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the The result are not what you’d expect: “One combination has the greatest likelihood of producing post-recession winners: the one pursued by progressive enterprises. Think of GIST as a pragmatic, actionable framework to introduce Lean and Agile principles across your organization.

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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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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. It sounds like good logic, but there are multiple challenges with building an MVP: Most teams over-engineer their MVP. This is natural.

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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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