Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

You must learn to do so in a way that is strategic and constructive without completely shutting down the other person. Product managers can provide transparency on vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, value and cost. Go over the pros and cons of each idea to encourage a positive and constructive conversation. Be Transparent.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality. Strategies are more designs than they are decisions, i.e., they are more constructed than they are chosen (they are not to be confused with making plans/roadmaps).

Data Visualization 78

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Amplitude

JUNE 4, 2019

Shilpa: Spenser, before we dive into user privacy, what’s the unique vision that motivated you to build Amplitude? Our onboarding team takes a consultative approach in helping our customers construct their data taxonomy to achieve the best possible governance and privacy standards.

Analytic Tools 61

Analytic Tools Customer Experience Data Visualization Government 61

Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. They verify if the feature will be a monetizable market opportunity: Does it fit the vision? Help the CEO define a clear vision The CEO is supposed to define why their company exists and set a vision.

User Testing 40

User Testing Product Management Product Manager User Friction 40

Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How do you approach constructive criticism? Read our article, ‘The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival’ to see how our product management, consultancy and coaching support helped take a number of companies to the next level. So take their advice and execute on it! Accepting Criticism.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Be sure they’re aligned with the vision and goals for the product. Over time you might be given more responsibility, but vision, product-market fit, etc., Get aligned on the vision.

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Bain Public

MAY 21, 2018

As we have become accustomed to having customer research and User Experience (UX) lead product vision, a new problem is stopping eager Product Managers from putting the process they were using, and applying them on AI problems. While Product Managers inspire through vision, decisions roll downstream and tend to be more implementation based.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. If you transfer your product vision, share customer success stories and get to know the people behind your outsourcing company then they will open up and be very thankful.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

First and foremost, this is our opportunity to remind everyone of the guiding vision. A vision statement allows you to create a mechanism for developing, communicating and tracking what the company is trying to achieve. That’s why successful product managers learn to do so in a way that is both strategic and constructive.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a background in Business Administration, Management, and Leadership, he has vast experience as a Business consultant, Product strategist, and now as an Innovation Portfolio Lead. Then later on, I did some management and digital consulting as well. “ Innovation is not something completely brand new. .” Viktor: Yeah.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These programs seek those students with the curiosity, vision, and collaborative spirit to tackle some of the most challenging technical problems today. Consult a Google Interview Coach If you really want to get the most interview preparation you can, consulting an interview coach with experience at Google can be very effective.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. “It is about the people, and vision and purpose and work, in that order. Not work, work, work” I went to the Boston Consulting Group for a few years and then I went to business school at Stanford for a few years.

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Reporting Tools Feedback Software Research Software Technical Review 118

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

On top of that they’re also highly sceptical – the best ones question everything (in a collaborative, constructive fashion). Involve engineering early and often, so everyone has a chance to contribute to the product vision and buy into where the product is headed. Transparency builds trust and trust leads to great effort.

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Engineering Customer Experience Analytic Tools Reporting Tools 113

The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

When working with external “corporate strategy” consultants, I found the level of strategic work to be all over the place ranging from high level M&A recommendations to low level project management / implementation support, driven by the functional strategy of whoever was paying the consultant.

Analytic Tools 60

Analytic Tools Strategy Technical Review Customer Experience 60

Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A product is no different from a well-constructed story. They’re responsible for turning your product vision into a tangible product users appreciate and gravitate to. To nurture this relationship, Melissa Perri, a Product Strategy, UX Design, and Process consultant, suggests focusing on the skills each team brings to the table.

Analytic Tools 71

Analytic Tools Research Software Reporting Tools Data Visualization 71

Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Experienced CEOs delegate large blocks of responsibility to functional leaders so they can do their CEO-specific work: fundraising and investor management; assembling a strong executive team; setting long-term vision; growing a healthy corporate culture; leaning in as PR spokesperson and deal-closer-in-chief.

User Testing 97

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience CTO Coach 97

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I didn’t know if I wanted to be a librarian, but I wanted to bring librarianship to new settings, like this big information world we were constructing out of digital stuff. Lou, thank you so much again for joining us, telling us all about your vision for connected information and humanizing technology. Jonathon: Brilliant.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. A lack of rigor in how we construct experiments creates many measurement problems.

Data Visualization 75

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

If you were a young, smart and ambitious person in this era, the hot commodity and technology that you would work on would have been construction. We forget that many of the words we use to describe the process of engineering a piece of software and technology uses a lot of the language that was developed for construction.

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