BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rich sat down with Ivy Hornibrook, Leading the Product conference ambassador , to talk all things Product Management. Don’t tolerate bad management if it’s making you miserable. The number one thing I see that undermines product and engineering teams’ success is senior executives who help too much,” adds Rich.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

Your roadmap is a plan, not a commitment . "We We allocate 100% of our resources to the roadmap. We plan to use the other 100% of our resources for special projects." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?. But here’s the rub: A roadmap is not a task list or project plan. That’s not a roadmap; that’s a release plan. ?.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In retrospect, it was probably the best place to start, given that external development teams are now more commonplace.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. But that’s not all.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. The agile product team believes that if they keep on pushing small increments then everything will be okay. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. What’s not fine, Janna says, is when tech debt is accrued without intention; because this happens when there isn’t a shared understanding of how the product will be built, and tech debt usually arises outside the control of the tech team. Ditch the Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. This is exceptionally strange because a bad PM can theoretically cause more damage than a great PM can produce success. saying no is critical for ensuring productivity.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We’ve already highlighted the Top 10 Product Talks from across our conferences and meetups, but not everyone wants to get up on stage to share, so now it’s time to look at the top 10 guest posts here on mindtheproduct.com. Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

There are several reasons for a product team to consolidate its products. Let’s say your phone only lets you make and receive calls, text, and join a video conference. If you decide that consolidating products will benefit your company, you’ll need to develop the right strategy to execute the plan. Related Terms.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. If the executive team doesn’t have faith in product management, ideas are likely to be ignored, plans overruled and cachet denied.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

I hosted Rohini on our podcast to talk about everything from prioritization and product roadmaps to the nitty-gritty techniques for parsing customer feedback. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. Rohini: Sometimes the word “process” gets a bad rap.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Mind the Product founder Martin Eriksson opened the conference by reminding us why we gather each year. He also encourages us to let go of the need to be right (difficult for many product managers) and enlist our teams to help us answer: What problem are we solving? Who are we solving it for? How will we measure success?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Also at this year’s San Francisco conference, my co-founder Janna Bastow shared some of the tricks and tactics she’s found useful to employ when dealing with people – using open questions, games, telling stories and more. Product roadmaps are an evergreen challenge, and featured heavily as a topic on the Mind the Product blog this year.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 30, 2024

tip: stories work with stakeholders and recruiters too) E is for Evaluation What metrics will you use to measure your job search or career development progress? Share People-First Product Leadership Once a Product Manager, Always a Product Manager Stepping away when you feel burnt out is never a bad thing. Want some help?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. Develop the Right Skills Certification in data PM develops the right skills. Big data analytics is a growing global market expected to reach $550 billion by 2028.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I caught up with Louis for a conversation that ranged from our moral duty to make information more accessible to his approach to curating conferences. Each speaker at one of Lou’s conferences is supported by a group of subject matter experts and a professional editor. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s a word that isn’t commonly favoured by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. Organisations arbitrarily issue new role titles such as Product Owner, Agile coaches are bussed in, and teams are organised in “squads”.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. Speaking of which, Microsoft has revealed it is developing a new feature for Outlook that will allow users to keep track of any meetings they can’t attend in person. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), This combination ebook-and-worksheet is a roadmap for keeping testers engaged, because targeted feedback is critical to product success.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Major Takeaways: Outcome-based selling is the future.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that. 0:38] What was your experience developing Adobe Creative Cloud? It failed because we weren’t all-in, not because the product was bad, but because the go-to-market model was completely wrong.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. The vast majority of digital product managers set product roadmaps and write user stories. Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. That’s the good news.

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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In a sense, this brings the Product Marketer a lot closer to the Product Team than a ‘regular marketer’- so we can say that the product marketer acts as a bridge between the product and the marketing team. Even though Natalia works as a part of the Marketing Team, she is very close to the Product Team.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 21, 2015

Don’t Prioritize Features Based on Development Cost. I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds, of different ones, and nearly all of them have one thing in common – there’s some input for development cost. It’s fairly common for product managers to come up with their own spreadsheets or formulas to do this evaluation.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The team won’t respect me if I’m not technical”. Product teams often attract people who are used to being the smartest people in the room. Daniel Pink’s three motivations show what you need to set up to help your team be truly effective. To create safety with your teams, a framework can build confidence.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

Look for the people that are mentoring an intern, running a meeting, or organizing an initiative for the team. Product leaders should think about how to support and develop all product managers, without assuming they want to become people managers. If the manager is the best at everything then they don’t have a very strong team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2019

Team structure, work patterns, timing, tool deployment… They are holistic in the way they seek to address your overall operations. One of the ways this is done is by aligning development with user needs. What is more, how can we streamline the whole product development process along with product discovery, process, and growth?

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. The vast majority of digital product managers set product roadmaps and write user stories. Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. That’s the good news.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. The vast majority of digital product managers set product roadmaps and write user stories. Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. That’s the good news.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

You have a customer who has already bought, downloaded, or signed up for your product and is getting ready to use it for the first time; they haven’t formed any bad habits, but they haven’t formed any good ones either–if you want a real “in the wild” look at how customers approach your product here it is. Think about it for a minute.

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