Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

On the Product Love podcast , host Eric Boduch and I had a wide-ranging discussion including how product management leaders need to support the product managers on their team, the most important traits of product managers, and some simple practical ways to be “customer-focused.” ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

She currently supports very large organizations including P&G in becoming more innovative and agile. We just wanted to name and describe them so we can do them on purpose whenever we need to. [7:25] I was facilitating an offsite for a small company, their first in-person event in a few years since COVID.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

To calculate: How to track free trial conversion rates in UXCam Example of parameters to use to measure free trial conversion rates Add a report to your dashboards in UXCam to easily keep track of the number of users converting from a free trial to a subscription by using custom events. This metric provides a different view of activation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

As a follow-up on my article 3 sins of implementing Agile , I am bringing this idea to Scrum , the most common manifestation of Agile. The company implements Sprints as two or three-week development periods used as a planning unit. The company implements Sprints as two or three-week development periods used as a planning unit.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

I conducted an event titled “ Top 5 Skills to Stand Out as a Senior PM in a Hybrid World” for Reforge on Tuesday, 27 February 2024. Event Recording Slides Two questions asked during the event reminded me of my time at Pearson. Starting a community of practice I joined Pearson to create the Future Technologies team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: Hey Des, glad to be here.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: Hey Des, glad to be here.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I know we’ve met a few times at different Mind the Product events.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

They envisioned themselves as a CS Pit Crew for a racing team with the CSM as the driver. Major Takeaways: Companies need to organize and set up teams properly to accomplish growth. They also have to realize that customer success is a team sport that requires a coordinated effort between CS and Sales. The answer?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. Let’s go find a bunch of speakers that we like, people whose names we might recognize.” 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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s Murphy’s Law after all ( don’t blame me, I just inherited the name! ) We’re going to go all inception on this and I’m going to present it in the way I often do when getting teams to do this for the first time?—?a The idea is not to point out how bad you are at planning but rather to strengthen the plan. insanity much?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them. Both of these examples would increase the lifetime value of that customer , as well as take the pressure off your sales team to close new business. Speed is of the essence here. Lower support costs.

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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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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. Shape Up occupies the same territory, serves the same function, as Those Various Agile Methodologies. ” So what is Shape Up?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy Organizations Regularly, InfoQ applies the ‘ Crossing the Chasm ’ metaphor to engineering practices, thus covering a part of the agile movement to create learning organizations.

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nulab

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Tips, tools, and methods for developing ideas fast can be a real lifesaver when you’ve got to be creative on tap. The same is even more vital when you’re working as a team. Product names. Event ideas. Then they, in turn, can add their own comments for you and the team to read back. Invite everyone onto the team.

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. Once we had a couple dozen big names, it was easy to convince the laggards. We also started doing offline events. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. Upcoming Events. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2020

TL; DR: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. Basically, the Development Team and the Product Owner adjust the previously discussed scope of the upcoming Sprint to the available capacity. Diagram source: Scrum.org.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

He’ll be talking about how to scale and onboard sales teams effectively. Upcoming Events. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? We got the team together and went to work on it. Find out more about BoS Europe 2019 here. Transcript.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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UserVoice

MAY 4, 2018

One of the most important, and often most-overlooked, aspects of adopting a “little-a” agile culture lies in the application of continuous improvement practices. And while Scrum has this function built in on the team level, the sprint retrospective is insufficient to serve the needs of continual improvement of the organization as a whole.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Often my contribution is discernment or understanding of how things fit together allowing me to navigate vagueness and generate actionable clarity for what to do next, create a strategy for the future, or simply provide more perspective on how an event or product might affect other systems connected to it. Asta Roseway , Microsoft Research).

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. My goal was to put our varied methodologies and techniques (Lean, Agile, Jobs-to-be-Done, design thinking, etc.) Anders Ericsson.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Customer Development It always starts with the customer. It is the single most critical factor in determining whether a product makes money, yet it is an afterthought, a last-minute consideration made after a product is developed.” We develop our product to take advantage of our desired distribution channels.

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Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

In the world of Agile IT projects, there are a lot of misunderstandings and expectations of what a CoE is and how a CoE should work to deliver results. By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 15, 2019

Enterprise architects face a number of hurdles when they try to discuss weaknesses and shortcomings, share their plans for the future, or seek out the approval of others. With a personalized frame of reference, stakeholders can better assess what it will mean to their teams and priorities. Give them a name.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Why the best SF companies work with remote UX teams. These teams like to write about how they do design and hate to do music video–style showreels.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And over the years we’ve made a name for ourselves being an independent company we’re a relatively small business intentionally. One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. Basecamp was able to fund the development of hey.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Upcoming Events. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Most important in the enterprise space is our sales team. And they all want to know what’s the question that the sales team wants to know? BoS USA 2019 BoS Europe 2020.

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