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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. and during?—?the the search process. But starting early is not enough. Here are my best tips.

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Cargo Cult Agile

The Product Coalition

It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. Consequently, many consultants responded to the increasing demand for agile practitioners, particularly from corporate organizations, by rebranding themselves. no one will hold back, contrary to Retrospectives as a competing format to gather feedback.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. “Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” It certainly feels that way.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Teresa: Who are your typical customers?

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The Mindset of Empowerment by Laura Scanga

Mind the Product

A successful product manager will remove themselves as a barrier, and bring people to a shared understanding through a customer mindset. In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful. Build Personas.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Balancing business goals with user needs.