Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Occasionally, I run into a CEO who had a really bad childhood. I’m happy when my team picks whatever framework they like – whatever flavour of scrum or kanban or agile something else, or any process they want to use, I don’t care how they write user stories – if they write user stories.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. Open discussion is the best way to explore this.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2020

For four years, every six months during Obama’s second term, I brought a team to the White House to teach startup-type thinking to Obama’s administration.”. As part of this community-building, Seneca has thus far successfully run two conferences called Founders and Funders , each attended by about 200 people. “I

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Back in March, I spoke at ProductCamp Cascadia (an online conference hosted by ProductCamp Portland , ProductCamp Seattle , and ProductCamp Vancouver ) exploring the topic of design justice. Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. In fact, a lot of teams operate on a validation mindset. This is my framework.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, I moved to the startup world. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Last fall, I gave a talk at the JSDayIE conference in Dublin about how Intercom and Ember have evolved together over the past six years. Frameworks have drastically improved the capabilities of small teams to produce amazing experiences for people in very short periods of time. This is the “ship every day” for a framework.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of? In a product development context, and particularly with reference to technologies, this can be problematic. Others will fail.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It’s heart-breaking that, after all the effort that goes into developing and launching a new Product, from so many different people, 40% of product launches fail. Among his other achievements Kent founded a tech startup in the USA with 2 employees and then grew and scaled it to a global team of 60 in 3 countries before a successful exit.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. That’s because it wasn’t a normal meeting room.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. Pipedrive’s SVP of Sales, Tara Bryant, on building a solid sales framework.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: When evaluating clients, the biggest thing Bailey and her team look for is whether the organization is willing to give up control. And I got to work with the international growth team for Facebook. One of my business partners, Kai, was one of the people on the international growth team for Facebook.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Apart from helping clients with product design, we also develop digital products in-house.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Usually companies are looking for culture fit and how you might resolve conflict within a team. Be authentic. Get experience.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

She’s worked in product from early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies like Rackspace and Square, a company with the sensitive task of handling customers’ money. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. ” Michelle: I know.

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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. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here are some common buckets you may be asked about: How you work in a team How you handle conflict and/or stress Times you took initiative How you solve problems and adapt to change You're virtually certain to be asked some of these, so let’s prepare. STAR is a four-part framework with the following structure: Situation.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles? including myself?—?went

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Usually companies are looking for culture fit and how you might resolve conflict within a team. Be authentic. Get experience.

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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. Last fall, I spoke at Productized, a product conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on this very topic. The Lean Startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. This is why I decided to jump in.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 31, 2020

You can spend as much as you want on developing a product, but no one cares how much you spend – they only care about it’s value. In this talk Rich gives you the key points to remember throughout your journey from startup to success. Rich Mironov, Smokejumper Product Executive. Upcoming Events. BoS Europe 2020 BoS USA 2020.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Learn the method that Bruce used to focus his team on the few critical things that resulted in the sale of his company for $125 million. Bruce McCarthy (Founder, Product Culture) – Prioritization: Saying No To Good Ideas from Business of Software Conference. He’ll cover: Why prioritization is important. Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 23, 2020

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – How Game Design Can Inform Product Design from Business of Software Conference. It’s an altogether different kind of product development. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 28, 2020

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? My favourite thing to challenge security professionals with when I speak at a security conference is ask them how many of the things that they tell their partners to do, they themselves ignore answer generally all of them.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018, she explains some of the advantages with examples from MeetEdgar. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? So we don’t have a sales team. Q&A with Rich Mironov. Transcript.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018, she explains some of the advantages with examples from MeetEdgar. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? So we don’t have a sales team. Q&A with Rich Mironov. Transcript.

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