Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

You could point to his success at negotiating new contracts with labour unions to cut costs, increases in organisational efficiencies, or his introduction of a strong vision to enhance stakeholder value. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR.

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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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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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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Most likely, you even found yourself in this position right from the get-go; you probably didn’t cause this. Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. You get to the moment when everything’s prioritized for the next development cycle.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have developed a new leadership model – the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM) that offers a path for Product Leaders to examine their current practices, apply new ways of solving problems, and improve their Product Leadership performance. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

When a clear path and vision is necessary for success, it makes sense that taking the proactive approach would yield the best chances. It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. The Reactive Product Manager. Being reactive gets a lot of flak.

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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. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Be sure they’re aligned with the vision and goals for the product.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It doesn’t align to the product vision, nor to the business goals. The team comprises one of the most important things in your work: these people surrounding you, and the relationship with them. We need to see if what we do has an effect in the world, in our loved one’s life, in our professional development. Finding a consensus.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have developed a new leadership model – the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM) that offers a path for Product Leaders to examine their current practices, apply new ways of solving problems, and improve their Product Leadership performance. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Usersnap

APRIL 27, 2022

We sat down with the team for preventing customer churn and were able to combine churn analytics with customer feedback to reduce it down to 4.26%. If your retention is poor then nothing else matters Brian Balfour. And together with the team, we were able to bring the SaaS churn rate down! Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC).

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. 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. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop the idea.

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Bain Public

MAY 20, 2021

Without a diverse team and an inclusive, safe space, success will be much harder to achieve (in all aspects). We’d like to contribute to this conversation by sharing some tips on how product managers can alter their management style to encourage a more diverse and inclusive environment for their team and clients.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Really anything to do with the wind surfing. Well, I still want to grow. [00:35:00]

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 19, 2019

It means more firepower is required, as the current team (or lack thereof) is no longer able to adequately handle product management as is. This moment also represents an opportunity to determine what an ideal product team would look like. A key question here is: what is the ideal product team size?

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. The product manager’s role is about the business’s vision for the product, primarily on the market and customer feedback. Although they are both parts of the same team and share many of the same goals, the two roles have different focuses.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

Looking back at examples from history including The Eiffel Tower, the invention of the Post-It Note, and the development of the Computer Mouse, Scott’s talk is all about how to think creatively at work – and why it’s so important. Now in 1884, the hot tech sector was not web development, wasn’t cloud computing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2021

Use your position to open the door to people with little access , share resources, and good opportunities. But landing financing is almost impossible without a strategy, an idea of the market, and a clear vision for your company. ” Teaching taught me to develop what I want to do from the goal and go backward.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

Do you empower small, agile teams? And the idea was you found an attractive position in an attractive industry – we used to teach this stuff – and then you would throw up entry barriers like crazy and protect that position for a long time. Dubin the founder in the face of the company has this vision.

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