Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

.” Recent findings from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovator award program indicate that highly innovative companies follow some form of stage-and-gate process, including agile-stage-gate, to balance risk and rigor in the development of new products and services. What was the difference?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. As we evolve toward outcomes, we are asking product teams to deliver performance. Who doesn’t want the autonomy to decide what to build? Your product team might also include other folks like the ones included here.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? This is the main question we discuss in this article, so if you’re after the answer, you’re in the right place! TL;DR A product team structure describes how the business organizes experts from different roles and functions to deliver successful products.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you think about what you want, and where you want to be, the intrinsic and extrinsic value of your development increases massively. This post brings all of these together to provide you with a four-step process to create your own Career Development Plan. It’s a lot about how you frame it. This post is about just that?—?determining

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. That’s a big question, and many roads lead to this outcome. What differences lie in the company expectations? Who am I building for?, and so on.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Why does everything take so long to build? Maybe everyone on your team is working hard to ship good, high quality software only to be faced with comments from different parts of the business about why things take forever to build. You might still be building the wrong thing, no matter how fast you build it.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This article explores the skills and characteristics of excellent product operations personnel. A product operations manager at a smaller technology company may engage in different activities than someone at a larger firm. Questions product operations job candidates can ask during an interview.

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . Additionally, they’ll probably have a skill set that makes you a little insecure about your resume.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount. Can your VP of CS do some CS Ops?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. However, these open-ended questions are a key part of determining if you're the right fit for a job at Google. Let's get ready for your dream job at Google!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 3, 2022

The skills and responsibilities with this job are not necessarily industry-specific. Bizops acts as a partner between cross-functional teams in an organization to both ask and answer questions about the way a business functions. But that doesn’t mean that business operations is about unspecialized skills or knowledge.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. What is your role?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2018

The companies in the Better Capital portfolio came from different industries, including metal parts manufacturers, software companies, and fashion retailers; in general they were all well established, often with a successful past, but had hit trouble usually because of a failure to adapt. Questions included: Who are our customers?

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Mind the Product

JULY 11, 2019

What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer. The degree of uncertainty. Why is it Important to Know the Degree of Uncertainty Upfront?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceedings kicked off with workshops and leadership discussions on Thursday, followed by the conference itself at London’s famous Barbican Centre. To kick-start a day of listening and learning, we began by asking ourselves the most important question of all – are we building the right thing?

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I know we’ve met a few times at different Mind the Product events. I admire your work from afar. You have a number of things that have been really fun and interesting, including your card deck, which we’ll get into later. That sounds like a great question to start with. Let’s dive in.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

But should we treat our direct reports differently than our other coworkers and colleagues? Should we skip the niceties and consensus building within our own teams just because we can? With your team, no one can stop you from giving orders and micromanaging staff. Plenty of opportunities exist to lead your team.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 21, 2023

Without improving, they spend more time and money than needed to build things, and much of what they build is worthless or wasted. 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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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Our current reality is vastly different from what we’ve seen even 10 years ago. And no matter how many walls we build or how hard we try to curb immigration, we are forever bound to work with people who are nothing like us culturally. If you follow a different practice, please let me know in the comments!). The World is Flat.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Navigating a career in product is different for everyone. To answer these questions, we talked to three of our MTP Engage Manchester session speakers – all of whom signed up for speaker coaching from MTP Engage Manchester speaker Lauren Currie. Oluwatobi Otokiti. Oluwatobi Otokiti. Getting the Career you Want.

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Bain Public

APRIL 13, 2020

Yet the time and rigor required to gather/validate consumer insights are often at odds with the agility required to maneuver internal politics, leaving a huge window of opportunity for improved collaboration between c-suite executives and product teams. You don’t want to know the answer to a question you’re going to ask.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. business models, your product/business, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) 4. Here we see the common Accidental PM in its natural habitat Your first priority is to do whatever it takes to build your foundation in the craft of product management.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The results showed that they wanted better (and more frequent) feedback on how to further develop their product management skills. Therefore, as a goal, we decided we wanted every product manager to be able to answer these two questions: Where do I want to go? Most of what we found were several skills matrixes broken down by seniority.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? We've got your covered. An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I’ve found most executives genuinely want to know, “How do I help our Agile transformation?” Becoming an agile company is new for leaders and teams. Yet, leaders are often left out while teams get the lion’s share of the attention from Agile coaches. the partner they choose to provide Agile coaches or Agile consultants).

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a genuinely worthy lesson about willingness to learn, the ability to adapt successfully, the power of motivating team leadership, the benefits of making data-driven decisions from product usage insights, and the results produced from commitment. “I had to think about leadership differently,” Amy stated.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of a product, these specialists must possess a wide variety of skills and competencies to propel a product to success. If that sounds appealing, here are some of the skills needed to break into and thrive in this rapidly growing role. Personal Skills Are Essential for Product Managers.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 19, 2021

A recent article from Product Coalition explains why landing your first job as a product manager will be a challenge. If you are hoping to land a product management job—especially your first—you will need every advantage you can find. Refresh your knowledge of the basics. Benefits for an experienced product manager.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I’ve found most executives genuinely want to know, “How do I help our Agile transformation?” Becoming an agile company is new for leaders and teams. Yet, leaders are often left out while teams get the lion’s share of the attention from Agile coaches. the partner they choose to provide Agile coaches or Agile consultants).

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We are all in a battle, multiple battles in fact, with a lot at stake: whether it’s the fate of the company we work for or for the product that we build. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Money is cheap.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Whether you’re new to product management, want to add to your skills, are hiring product managers, or creating a product management process this book has something for you. The best answer to a question that arises is “It depends.” You’ll find a lot of great advice and fine points of product leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Your first 90 days as a product manager can feel overwhelming. Many of the resources we have here at Exponent are dedicated to nailing your tech interviews so you can ultimately receive an offer. But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? Get to Know the Stakeholders

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. Q: How would you answer the “Tell me about yourself” question? Each of us has a unique story and my journey would be different from yours. My family details and hobbies.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Here are some tips on how to hire the Product Manager (PM) who will be the perfect fit for your team. With Product Managers, however, people skills are paramount. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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