In the worst case, people get fed up with trying to get hold of you or waiting for an answer and stop consulting you. Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. MORE
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Different situations in my consulting work and with … Continue reading → Team Building clarity confidence courage decisiveness strength teamworkI’ve recently had several experiences that required me to get out of my comfort zone. The subject of courage has becoming particularly important and meaningful to me in recent weeks and months. MORE
34 I spent a few years working as a consulting Product Manager at Pivotal Labs. I found this book when I left the safe haven of teams and was forging a path as a freelancer and independent consultant. MORE
Every few months or so, we will bring you a new interview with a featured 280 Group Consultant/Trainer who discusses a number of Product Management issues. The post Featured Product Management Consultant Interview: Phil Burton appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. MORE
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John Mansour is the founder and managing partner at Proficientz , a training and consulting firm that specializes in product portfolio management. Contributed by John Mansour. Before your mind wanders too far, let’s set the record straight. MORE
” Her consulting work, personal life events and her business partner emphasized that the lessons as “Ms. Contributed by Saikrishna Chavali. Kicking off the 2017 BPMA calendar is Alyssa Dver on using Neuroscience to build confidence. MORE
Sue Raisty , Product Management Consultant and CEO at Sure Product Consulting. Title: Product Management Consultant and CEO. Company: Sure Product Consulting. The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least. MORE
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However, from what I’ve seen through various consulting projects, the application of Ries’ approach has become so formally structured that many organisations are missing out on the true initial intent – a framework for quick learning and continuous innovation. MORE
Greg Cohen is the author or Agile Excellence for Product Managers, and a Lean Product Management expert, as well as a consultant/trainer for 280 Group. MORE
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. The Walmart product managers want to make it easier to give them money Image Credit: Mike Mozart. Hopefully everyone already knows that Walmart is a huge company. MORE
A few years ago, I wrote a couple of blog posts about working as a consultant in product management. As a consultant, I’ve also seen many organisations try to create a culture in which their product, design and development teams can live in a continual state of flow and be “in the zone”. MORE
Therein lies the opportunity for a product management consultant. Consulting on a part-time and freelance basis may be a viable option for you, depending on where you are in your career. marketing acumen to promote the nascent consulting business. MORE
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For this topic we have brought in one of 280 Group’s senior consultant and trainers, Bill Haines. In this new video and blog post we discuss something that is exceedingly important in the product world: messaging. MORE
Ellen is an Agile Product Coach and President of EBG Consulting focused on achieving product agility through the convergence of product management, agile/lean principles, and organizational learning. MORE
Actuation Consulting has been conducting research on what separates high performance product teams from the pack. In a second post, which will be published on Actuation Consulting’s website, I will take a closer look at what executives can do to help their product teams be successful. MORE
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As a consultant, I am comfortable there will never be an organization at scale which can avoid coordination and planning. Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. MORE
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Huge consultancies and one-off consultants have been paid to implement a great manifesto as a repeatable process, not taking the size, stage, growth, culture, and capabilities into consideration. As technology professionals, we have been stuck at metaphorical basecamp for years. MORE
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Setting the right price can determine if your product will be a success Image Credit: Allen. MORE
What do you call a process that has multiple complex steps, requires detailed explanation and dogmatic adherence to rigid tenets defined by expensive consultants? Want to hear a joke? Agile. Or at least, that’s the way it feels in 2017. If you aren’t using story points, spending hours building a backlog, reviewing burndown charts and using appropriate terminology, you’re “doing it wrong.” MORE
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Roadmap – “ Yes, but ” is consultant speak for “I’m answering your question, but let me tell you the question you should have asked – and the answer to that question as well.” MORE
She owns Facilitated Change, an independent consulting firm in Harrisville, NH. An Agile Product Open meetup recap. By Lisa Sieverts – The BPMA sponsors many different groups that provide practical educational and workshop type events. MORE
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For this video we are joined by Tom Evans, a Senior Consultant and Trainer with 280 Group who has over 25 years of Product Management experience and helped develop the Optimal Product Process framework. MORE
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Pepsi’s product managers screwed up Diet Pepsi, can they fix it? Image Credit: Mike Mozart. MORE
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Product managers have to pick the right price and then get people to pay it Image Credit: Michael Summers. MORE
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Theranos is in bad shape, but they have introduced a new product Image Credit: Wikipedia. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve probably heard about a company called Theranos. They are a Silicon Valley startup that attracted a lot of attention. MORE
Every few months or so, we will bring you a new interview with a featured 280 Group Consultant/Trainer who discusses a number of Product Management issues. The post Featured Product Management Consultant: Greg Cohen appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. MORE
Blue Elephant Consulting –. Image Credit Take A Week To Celebrate Your Independence. Loyal readers & subscribers, here’s hoping that this upcoming week is a great week for you — I’m taking it off! Blogging will resume next week…. For my readers in the U.S., MORE
Tom writes, This episode features Steve Johnson, a thought leader, speaker, and product management consultant. I was interviewed by Tom Cooper for his podcast. Tom & I tackled the issue of product management roles, titles, and responsibilities. MORE
Before exploring any session content, make sure everyone introduces themselves—CAB member attendees, host-company executives and third-party consultants. By Rob Jensen. MORE
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280 Group
MAY 9, 2017
Every few months or so, we will bring you a new interview with a featured 280 Group Consultant/Trainer who discusses a number of Product Management issues. The post Featured Product Management Consultant: Greg Cohen appeared first on 280 Group Product Management.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 24, 2017
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Actuation Consulting has been conducting research on what separates high performance product teams from the pack. In a second post, which will be published on Actuation Consulting’s website, I will take a closer look at what executives can do to help their product teams be successful.
280 Group
AUGUST 30, 2017
For this video we are joined by Tom Evans, a Senior Consultant and Trainer with 280 Group who has over 25 years of Product Management experience and helped develop the Optimal Product Process framework.
Roadmunk
AUGUST 10, 2017
Sue Raisty , Product Management Consultant and CEO at Sure Product Consulting. Title: Product Management Consultant and CEO. Company: Sure Product Consulting. The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least.
280 Group
JUNE 28, 2017
Greg Cohen is the author or Agile Excellence for Product Managers, and a Lean Product Management expert, as well as a consultant/trainer for 280 Group.
The Accidental Product Manager
AUGUST 21, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Pepsi’s product managers screwed up Diet Pepsi, can they fix it? Image Credit: Mike Mozart.
The Accidental Product Manager
MARCH 20, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. The Apple iPhone 7 plus contains more features than the iPhone 7 Image Credit: Kārlis Dambrāns. You sorta gotta have some pity for the poor product managers over at Apple.
The Accidental Product Manager
MAY 1, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. What would you do if your biggest customer decided to go it alone? Image Credit: Wil C. I seem to recall that there is a type of fish that attaches itself to sharks, I think that it’s called a remora.
bpma ProductHub
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Ellen is an Agile Product Coach and President of EBG Consulting focused on achieving product agility through the convergence of product management, agile/lean principles, and organizational learning.
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As a consultant, I am comfortable there will never be an organization at scale which can avoid coordination and planning. Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating.
bpma ProductHub
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EBG Consulting. She is founder and principal of EBG Consulting , which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes. Contributed by Ellen Gottesdiener and Jeff Sutherland. Deliver Value Sooner. Backlog refinement prepares your backlog for development.
The Accidental Product Manager
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Yes, every car needs a navigation system, but from whom? Image Credit: LotPro Cars. I am more than comfortable admitting that I become lost very easily.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Will Disney still have magical pricing if they make changes? Image Credit: Tallapragada sriram. Can you tell me where “… the most magical place on earth…” is?
The Accidental Product Manager
AUGUST 28, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Everything was going great at Twitter, what happened? Image Credit: Kooroshication. So here’s a question for you: do you “tweet”?
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Theranos is in bad shape, but they have introduced a new product Image Credit: Wikipedia. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve probably heard about a company called Theranos. They are a Silicon Valley startup that attracted a lot of attention.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Caption: Customers are trying to break Tesla’s auto drive feature Image Credit: randychiu.
Pragmatic Marketing
JANUARY 10, 2017
Before exploring any session content, make sure everyone introduces themselves—CAB member attendees, host-company executives and third-party consultants. By Rob Jensen.
The Accidental Product Manager
JUNE 12, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Product managers have to pick the right price and then get people to pay it Image Credit: Michael Summers.
bpma ProductHub
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
John Mansour is the founder and managing partner at Proficientz , a training and consulting firm that specializes in product portfolio management. Contributed by John Mansour. Before your mind wanders too far, let’s set the record straight.
The Accidental Product Manager
JANUARY 23, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Once a product has been killed off, it’s gone. Right? Image Credit: Heather Paul. There’s one aspect of being a product manager that we don’t spend enough time talking about. Killing products.
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Product managers need to know how to get things started Image Credit: Andre Chinn. So you are in the process of starting your brand new product manager job. Congratulations. Now what?
bpma ProductHub
JUNE 21, 2017
She owns Facilitated Change, an independent consulting firm in Harrisville, NH. An Agile Product Open meetup recap. By Lisa Sieverts – The BPMA sponsors many different groups that provide practical educational and workshop type events.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 17, 2017
A few years ago, I wrote a couple of blog posts about working as a consultant in product management. As a consultant, I’ve also seen many organisations try to create a culture in which their product, design and development teams can live in a continual state of flow and be “in the zone”.
The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 3, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting –. Image Credit Take A Week To Celebrate Your Independence. Loyal readers & subscribers, here’s hoping that this upcoming week is a great week for you — I’m taking it off! Blogging will resume next week…. For my readers in the U.S.,
Roman Pichler
JULY 11, 2016
In the worst case, people get fed up with trying to get hold of you or waiting for an answer and stop consulting you. Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features.
Mind the Product
APRIL 11, 2017
I spent a few years working as a consulting Product Manager at Pivotal Labs. I found this book when I left the safe haven of teams and was forging a path as a freelancer and independent consultant.
bpma ProductHub
JANUARY 3, 2017
” Her consulting work, personal life events and her business partner emphasized that the lessons as “Ms. Contributed by Saikrishna Chavali. Kicking off the 2017 BPMA calendar is Alyssa Dver on using Neuroscience to build confidence.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 24, 2016
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. 7-11 product managers want you to visit their story for more than slurpee Image Credit: nist6dh.
The Accidental Product Manager
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. The Walmart product managers want to make it easier to give them money Image Credit: Mike Mozart. Hopefully everyone already knows that Walmart is a huge company.
Mind the Product
APRIL 10, 2017
Huge consultancies and one-off consultants have been paid to implement a great manifesto as a repeatable process, not taking the size, stage, growth, culture, and capabilities into consideration. As technology professionals, we have been stuck at metaphorical basecamp for years.
The Accidental Product Manager
MAY 22, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. In order to find more customers, you have to know how to search for them Image Credit: Jeffrey Beall. Just exactly what does a product manager job description say that we have to do?
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. We buy from Amazon online, right? Image Credit: Luke Dorny. You would think that being a product manager who works for Amazon would be a pretty cushy job right?
The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 17, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. The best way to keep customers is to do a good job of communicating with them. Image Credit: Joan M. As product managers we know that selling our product to a new customers is a fantastic accomplishment.
Mind the Product
MARCH 28, 2017
However, from what I’ve seen through various consulting projects, the application of Ries’ approach has become so formally structured that many organisations are missing out on the true initial intent – a framework for quick learning and continuous innovation.
Tyner Blain
APRIL 7, 2015
Roadmap – “ Yes, but ” is consultant speak for “I’m answering your question, but let me tell you the question you should have asked – and the answer to that question as well.”
The Accidental Product Manager
MARCH 27, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Setting the right price can determine if your product will be a success Image Credit: Allen.
Pragmatic Marketing
JUNE 27, 2017
What do you call a process that has multiple complex steps, requires detailed explanation and dogmatic adherence to rigid tenets defined by expensive consultants? Want to hear a joke? Agile. Or at least, that’s the way it feels in 2017. If you aren’t using story points, spending hours building a backlog, reviewing burndown charts and using appropriate terminology, you’re “doing it wrong.”
The Accidental Product Manager
JANUARY 16, 2017
Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World Product Management Skills™. Caption: Bar code scanners have been around for a while, how do you grow your market? Image Credit: Unitech. Product managers for bar code scanners have it pretty good these days.
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