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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

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Let’s Abandon Customers and Users

Mironov Consulting

I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking about. I see much broader wins: Our technical teams often make the “I am the user” mistake: we unconsciously assume that the people at the other end of our software are just like us. Bonus points for clarity. Sound Byte.

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Q&A with Sari Harrison: Beyond Vanity Metrics

Revulytics

In this webinar, leading product development consultant , coach, and trainer Sari Harrison shows how to go beyond conventional metrics to understand whether you’re delivering value to users by helping them make their lives better. So we assume that if vanity metrics are going in a positive direction, impact metrics are, too.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

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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Hypotheticals in Product Management Meetup: Abridged Transcript

BrainMates

A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. There’s some really good support for this idea within the executive team, and they think this product is going to help the Telco bring a lot of new clients in as new customers.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. There seems to be a belief?

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’ 1] “Product Needs to Help Sales Close Major Deals” Enterprise sales teams are paid, rewarded, promoted, and measured on closing individual (big) deals.  So  There’s something more systematic here.