Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Agile development is simply a methodology for building software.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

I teach teams that business outcomes are derived from your business model. My business model formula looked something like this: # of teams in my coaching program x price per team. Increasing the number of teams that I coach would increase both revenue and impact. I can only work with so many teams at once.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 14, 2024

This article aims to raise awareness and possible next steps in this evolution. It can also come from experts in your professional environment and developers after a round of handovers. Criticism: Opinion-driven, honest, highlighting the good and bad without hyperfocusing on the negatives. That can be a lot to take in.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This is the main focus of the article, so if you’re after the answer, we’ve got you covered! A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Talk to the developers and engineers.

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UX Studio

JULY 17, 2018

This detailed article will guide you through how we facilitate a UX project kick-off workshop here at UX studio. What happens at a project kick-off workshop? We hold kick-off workshops when a new project starts. You want to trust the design team, and see how they process and understand your product and company.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. To my mind, these are the most important parts.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

My team and I have collectively worked on hundreds of software products, for dozens of different companies across many different industries. That does not mean efficiency is bad, or that it shouldn’t be a priority. But some should be workshops, too. And the result is almost always an inferior product. Absolutely.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. We’ve tested most as workshop methods on our clients in the last couple of years, and have included some research techniques as well. How to develop your brand strategy? They establish what you stand for as a team. Get specific!

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. In this article, we’ll uncover the common branding mistakes that have haunted both enterprises and small ventures. For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous.

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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

It sounds weird at first but wait… Trick 2: Bad ideas don’t always turn out that bad. For one, we automatically exclude a lot of ideas because we find them bad or useless for some reason. Re-evaluating these bad ideas can open up brand new perspectives. Liked this article? Share your thoughts with us!

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

In this article I will describe a few validation methods that we can use by ourselves or with the help of our colleagues. In the various design teams that I have been part of, I’ve often experienced contrasting practices of validating products. We kickstarted the project with a workshop involving all the stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose?—?solving No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. In this article I’ll go over some of the most common issues I see with OKRs and ways to address them. Acquire 2500 leads per month Upcoming Workshops?—?Lean

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UX Studio

MAY 8, 2018

Good team competency management is key for high-quality work, so, we recently mapped the whole team. In this article, we present a step-by-step guide on how to do it yourself. Each member of our team eagerly improves their own skill-set all the time. Competency maps can benefit any team, product or otherwise.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” If you’ve been reading my articles in the past you know the system I’m alluding to?—?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. We can create empathetic, intuitive systems When everyone on the team is empowered to understand data, they can make more informed decisions and measure their own success. He’s been conditioned to not bother the data team.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Whether you’re building a product from scratch, updating something on your platform, or just want to listen to users and create better experiences , this article provides the guide you need. Book a demo to discuss your needs with our team and get tailored solutions. We covered: The benefits of proper user research.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2020

This is far more beneficial for users than a team designing products the way they think they should work. Using tools like personas and user testing, can help a team focus on a specific type of user challenges and needs. This is to the benefit of both the users and the development team. Everything is connected.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Unfortunately, user journey mapping can be a long and arduous process that requires support from all of your stakeholders – meaning multiple meetings and perhaps a workshop ( long sigh ). The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run. Drive alignment across your team.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Faking Agile Metrics?—?Examples

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list. Besides, we answer the following popular questions in this article: How much does it cost to work with a Webdesign Wien agency? This is our fantastic UX team. Vienna Pixel.

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freshtrax

MAY 24, 2022

Nowadays, it has become common to consider UX design during product development and growth. To become a good UX designer, it is important to have a broad knowledge of UX design and in this article, we present seven TED Talks that go over seven different ideas. I once met someone in a workshop who was not very good at being creative.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. When new to a project or team, conduct key stakeholder interviews. How to be a great UX research leader: Engage your stakeholders [Article]. ” Sell the value of UX. Trista Rowan , Sr.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. You can find more information about the template in my article The GO Product Roadmap. Goal-oriented (a.k.a. Outcome-based).

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I spoke to Lean Startup coach Tristan Kromer at Lean Startup Week earlier this month, where he presented a workshop about a “lean experiments toolbox”. The product I work on, Notion , is designed to help teams communicate and collaborate on their data so they can align everyone around their goals and experiments. see more here ).

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Userzoom

JUNE 9, 2020

You know, the type of research at the end of development that often leads to lots of suggestions but are often too late to ever be implemented? Use your analytics, product teams, front-line customer teams, and explore all this data. Be proactive and ask stakeholders to help workshop what this change means.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These are our improv techniques for conducting user interviews, consolidating user pain points to create solutions, humanizing your customers, and working with your team to bring it all home. We hope they come in handy for you and your team. Find ways to connect your team members to their end audience. Becca, back to you.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Like many teams I measured my productivity by output (number of tasks completed) rather than by outcomes (goals accomplished, impact achieved). At the end of the article you’ll find also an Airtable template that I use to manage the system. Upcoming Workshops?—?Lean Idea Set dentist appointment ? Idea Redesign website ?

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