Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Meet Ellen Juhlin , a product coach and consultant and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs. Meet product coach and consultant @ellenjuhlin. Because it was a permanent install, we also became a beta test site for new software updates, so I was filing bug reports and giving feedback and opinions about the software.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). What date will it be?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Now that I'm integrating all the tech review for Book 3, I realize I can simplify all these principles. Exercise your value-based integrity as a model for the people you lead and serve. Writing Words is a Lot Like Writing Code (for Me). I knew that when I simplified the code, I decreased the number of lines of code.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15. all pointing to a simple fact. Job interviews mean you hire the best actor on the day?—?not

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Under 10 Consulting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

three roles of product management: business strategy, technical planning, and growth tactics. Technical planning drives the next version of your existing products, defining new features and capabilities to be delivered next. Review trend analysis from research firms. Communicate problems to the technical team. Activities.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you are not a software person by training, you might think typing is the thing we need to optimize for in software. Typing is the easiest part of writing software. The hard parts are these: Understanding what the person/team who touched the code before you did. Understanding the boundaries of the current code.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

This internal meeting encourages host company attendees to arrive on time and is the final opportunity to review session content, facilitation plans and any other meeting notes before presenting to the members. Finally, the meeting facilitator should review of the participation guidelines and ground rules to encourage member participation.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

Even though the role is very versatile and one of the least standardized roles in tech companies, there are core sets of skills you can develop to be in a good position to become a strong Product Marketing Manager. Here are some exercises that might help boost your creative skills: Think about some products you use often.

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

The client had a strong business built on what was once a revolutionary technology. However, they wanted to extend that technology into a new product that would allow them to enter new markets. Over the next two days, I walked Tim and Mark through some structured exercises to brainstorm different markets.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When you are in digital transformation consulting, a funny thing happens: you start seeing patterns emerge across clients in different industries and apps of different contexts. Drew: This exploratory prototype focused on visualizing possible future technologies.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

This is an opportunity to learn about how the company does product management, and may even include a trip to learn about the tech industry in various markets! First, a recruiter will review your resume. Why are you leaving consulting? A common question is: do I need to prepare for a technical round?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

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. So I assume that roadmap reviews will surface deeper concerns like…. DEVELOPMENT.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Accordingly, an action plan often starts with hiring a consultancy to help figure out a more actionable roll-out plan, mostly comprising of training and workshops, initial team building activities, and probably some audits concerning financial reporting requirements, technology or governance issues. (Or, probably, follow Haier.)

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freshtrax

JULY 23, 2019

World Population Review, 2019 ) ( Statistics Bureau Japan, 2019 ). World Population Review, 2019 ). of companies with 5 or fewer employees don’t have a dress code. 3% of companies with between 3,000 and 10,000 employees don’t have a dress code. ( Often, they have strict dress codes and work over 40 hours a week.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

This is an opportunity to learn about how the company does product management, and may even include a trip to learn about the tech industry in various markets! First, a recruiter will review your resume. Why are you leaving consulting? A common question is: do I need to prepare for a technical round?

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Tania Katan (Author, Creative Trespassing) – Creative Trespassing: How To Sneak More Imagination Into Your Work And Get More Done from Business of Software Conference. Uh, and I work with people and companies to show them that there are more creative ways for doing our less like technically creative work. Transcript.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company hires a fancy management consulting firm to help them “optimize” operations, one of the first things they’ll do is document how things are currently being done. One inevitable outcome of any process mapping exercise is uncovering missing parts of the process that aren’t otherwise obvious.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1 features.  Commitments

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 4, 2022

Having to set thresholds manually for every single metric is a very time-consuming, monotonous exercise. As a result, enterprises end up spending a lot of time and money having consultants tune thresholds manually and most adopt technologies that include dynamic thresholding capabilities. Dynamic Thresholds.

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Product Talk

JULY 19, 2023

Amy finds it helpful to color code her tree, so green represents a good outcome she’s working toward, yellow is an opportunity to address that outcome, orange is an idea for a solution that is being tested, and pink is an idea for a solution that has been tested and dismissed. And the end result of this exercise?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. Sam Mallikarjunan, Head of Growth at HubSpot, a leader in inbound marketing and sales software, explains that teaching the user in this example to create an email campaign isn’t good enough.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

And, there’s always an opportunity to ship code that is far from a “finished” product. While the particulars vary from organization, a typical definition of done consists of a checklist containing items such as: Code is peer reviewed. Code is checked in. Code is deployed to test environment. Code is documented.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 13, 2020

So here at Exponent, we've come up with a potential structure and tips for you to follow to increase your chances of pivoting into a career in product management if you've never worked in tech or a product adjacent role before. This book contains simple and helpful exercises that can help you get started on your PM interview prep journey.

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Atomic Spin PM

APRIL 24, 2018

Creating custom software can be extremely complex—juggling evolving technologies, competing stakeholders, many types of users, etc. And that makes it risky, both for the company who funds the project and for the consultant who stakes their reputation on it. Working through this worksheet with clients is a very powerful exercise.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 25, 2022

IT managers often complain about two main types of problems with monitoring and management tools, and they are both fundamentally associated with weak and inadequate alerting features: Firstly, after they install the software, they start to receive many “false” alerts. Modern Alerting Technologies.

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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. And also stay closely connected with UX and technology trends. Viktor: Yeah.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As you can imagine, being one of the biggest tech companies, this engineering internship program is a favorite for many students. This program allows students the chance to contribute to software projects with other STEP interns and full-time Googlers. These are Engineering & Technology or Business.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

At least in the B2B software product world, I haven't found that to be true. " "Here is another one-line ticket written by non-technical users who don't understand their problem or our system.  We'll  Most of our P1 escalations are for code we didn't write and don't think is good."

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Identifying users’ needs, wants, and problems In today’s world, there’s no such thing as a perfect digital product, all thanks to evolving customer expectations and the emergence of new technologies. ChatGPT’s widespread adoption made Google issue a ‘Code Red,’ which later resulted in the release of Bard , Google’s very own AI chatbot.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

Tim has worked for HP, Apple, Sybase, Siebel, Oracle, and Citrix before starting his own consulting company. Alternatives could be non-smart phones (think Nokia), or some new wearable technology that is built into watches, clothing, or something else. This article was written by Timothy Fallen-Bailey, an Exponent PM Coach.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

Scott Berkun, author of The Dance Of The Possible, spoke at Business of Software Conference USA 2017 about how to unlock your creativity and pursue it in your workplace. Scott Berkun The Dance of the Possible BoS2017 from Business of Software Conference. Now in 1884, the hot tech sector was not web development, wasn’t cloud computing.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Upcoming Events. BoS Europe 2019 BoS USA 2019. Don't Miss a Thing - Get BoS Updates.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. Are we improving DevOps repeatability, retiring tech debt, and shortening our release cycle? Sales needs Product and Engineering to review these ASAP. Ideally, most customer needs are handled by the current product.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rich Mironov, CEO/Founder, Mironov Consulting. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates?

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