ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

While internal stakeholders such as marketing, sales, and support play an important role in successfully offering a product, it would be wrong to try to please them and to say yes to all their ideas and requests. ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Experience 156

Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. the market, competition, customer needs etc.). the short story is that not all tech debt is bad.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. OKRs are a goal-setting framework individuals, teams, and organizations use to define measurable goals and track their outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. We knew our market inside and out. Should we only offer the product to members or the market at large? One allowed for a personalized experience, while the other offered a larger market potential. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero. a clear path forward.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

Many infrastructure development teams don’t have a product manager, or have a fractional product owner/analyst working primarily on detailed technical requirements. Said another way, great development teams want to work on great technical problems. Product managers and development teams solve different problems.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared. Demos are shown. Why Does It Matter?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Customer Experience Product Management Product Manager Product Research 253

Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Customer Experience Product Management Product Manager Product Research 253

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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Technical Review User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback 114

The Product Bistro

JULY 12, 2016

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments. It also focuses on preparing specific product features for market release.

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Gainsight

JULY 5, 2022

It is increasingly apparent that having a CS Ops team and leader is becoming a necessity. However, to completely leverage the expanding customer success effects, your CS leader needs an individual or team to help map out the where, when, and how customer success intersects your daily operations and transforms your customers’ journey.

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Usersnap

JUNE 24, 2022

If you only reply to negative reviews, that’s all prospective customers will see and it will give them a bad first impression of your company. Mention other products or services Share the positive review with your team Share the positive review with the world (yourself!) Gives specific & constructive Feedback.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Then we need those motives to inform not just our product but our sales, marketing, support, and process.

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User Testing Product Research Research Software Customer Experience 134

Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. 5-Second summary. What is psychological safety?

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Tyner Blain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is important to not describe a situation as self-evidently bad , but rather to reshape your framing to discuss the problem which attends. We don’t want our teams to operate with a lack of clarity, we want them to operate comfortably with a lack of certainty. Imagine road construction on your commute to work in the morning.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

SEO can help you see market trends, providing incredible value to your business. The good news is that SEO can help make that process much easier by giving you the insights your team needs to pick a profitable niche and scale your business. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen (at least, not without a ton of marketing spending).

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User Testing Data Visualization Research Software Customer Experience 88

People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. And, the SVP of Sales who would stop by my desk in the mornings to share the good and bad about the product and my team with me. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? Can you afford local market rates? You need especially to make sure the in-person communication of both teams doesn’t get lost.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. This project took the Kenyan market by storm when it launched in November 2012, with 100,000 new accounts signed up on the first day of operation.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

It brings together who the product is for, the needs of the market, and your set business goals. Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

It brings together who the product is for, the needs of the market, and your set business goals. Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

Product Strategy 52

Product Strategy Roadmap Onboarding KPIs Strategy 52

Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. Pete, the marketer, agreed to rework the marketing strategy to support the next major release. This allows you to get better at offering constructive feedback in the future.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Bad time-management in product teams (or any team for that matter) is a source of pain for many but, by taking some simple actions you can ensure they’re a thing of the past. Here’s how you can support your team’s time-management as a product leader. In Conclusion.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Frameworks have drastically improved the capabilities of small teams to produce amazing experiences for people in very short periods of time. We have a small but really great infrastructure team who help maintain fast development environments. ” That doesn’t make for a very good marketing story.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. So how does a product leader develop great negotiating skills, deep empathy, and a backbone of steel ?

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 18, 2022

The BoS team reflect on their journeys: Kirk’s story: After doing well in Standard Grades (Scottish version of GCSEs) there were high expectations of me for my Highers (A Levels). I’ve worked in construction, entertainment, youth development, stage schools and now conferences; I’m 28. and scared to open it. NoWrongPath.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

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. While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

Saying no isn’t a bad thing—if we didn’t say no our products would never be released because they would include thousand of features and support every use case imaginable. “An An effective plan for product development includes prioritization as its most important facet,” says Cypd’s VP of Product Jason Burke. “A

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

In a free market, successful companies that become complacent or comfortable with their share of the market, who don’t carefully consider the needs of the customer, become less competitive over time. How do you define those pillars for your company and turn the metaphorical into the physical, and actually construct them?

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). So putting on our touchy-feely communications hats instead of our hard-bitten market-dominating armor, let’s unpack a few sample discussions. Maybe this is about a member of the team who’s been passed over for a promotion. A clumsy way of voicing real concerns.

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