Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2020

Big revolutionary changes – those are rare and you probably don’t need them every day; you need them once a year, to sort of shape the vision for the year. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. What Is Product Management Consulting?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Being on the inside of a company as it takes off is a special kind of experience – and being in a product leadership position while that’s going on gives a unique viewpoint. That can provide a fuzzy vision of the future, which by the way may not be right, but it stops it all being chaos. and then a strategy (having a plan).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. This phrasing was better than the ‘product consulting’ that I started with but still not quite there. Many people confuse strategy with a general direction or vision. You are not alone.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. Without it you can't be vision-driven. You assumed there was a vision. He seems busy.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. Targeted to startups, scale-ups or SMB organizations It takes place over 12 weeks, live via Google Meet. Is this program for me?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. Melissa Perri is a product management consultant, speaker, and teacher.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. CEO of Product Labs. Author of “The Build Trap”. How to create a scalable product organization.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. As a staff engineer, a lot of your energy goes into cross-team collaboration for the vision and strategy. Then, I moved to the startup world. Where is the company going to be in five years?

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

There were so many seniors to help us juniors learn how to be an employee and how to be a good consultant. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe. I decided to join a smaller startup, which was a company called XING. It was an 80-person startup back then.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. In smaller companies and startups, both need to have a clear and firm understanding of the product strategy. But there are numerous differences that keep these two roles separate.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. The Product Manager Podcast is a space to share and talk about the latest tips, tricks and tools to build great products and also make the world a better place.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Demand for Product Management thought leadership is still growing. Why the Product Manager Should also Play Dumb Product Managers, Make your CEO provide a clear vision Tomorrow’s Product Managers Will Need Solid Data, Model and Problem Understanding You accomplish everything through others Factors that Damage Your Integrity.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

The Pipeline allows leadership to communicate a ranked list of priorities. Teams meet frequently and communicate, and the vision and work are visualized using Scrum. Learn more about Steve’s Lean Program Consulting. Eric Reis’ Lean Startup. Process—the lean product development process itself. 6:50] Pipeline.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Climbing the leadership ladder.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The CEO, or any of the founders if you are in a startup, seems to rightfully want to set the tone. Both as an employee and as a consultant working with CEOs closely for 5 years already, I have seen it happening time and again. Or do they? Here are 3 things you want to pay attention to.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Lea was responsible for the product vision and strategy of the Creative Cloud, transforming Adobe from boxed software to one of the most successful SaaS services in the industry. After Adobe, Lea led product at InVision, a startup focused on design collaboration where she built and designed best practices for the product team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To help you find the right match we collected the best UX research consultancies you can work with. . Our diverse team consists of 60 dedicated UX designers and UX research consultants with diverse backgrounds, such as sociology, psychology, or human-computer interactions. Product Vision & Strategy. They mainly focus on.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

He spent 10 years at Google, where he created the Design Sprint process, and he has worked with over 100 startups including Nest, Slack, 23andMe, and Uber. His writing on startups and productivity has appeared in Fast Company, TechCrunch, Slate, and LifeHacker. Jake is currently among the world’s tallest designers. Scott Berkun Author.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Of course, we made mistakes, learned, and iterated, as all startups do. Then the leadership team took our quarterly goals and translated them into objectives and shared them with the managers. Protip: Ideal OKR driver should possess time, seniority, passion, and vision. Here is how it all went. OKR cycle 1 So, we are doing OKRs!

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Design and consulting constitute roughly 5% of the total service portfolio. UX studio is a young European product design company with an established thought leadership in the design communities. Our clients are growing startups and established brands like HBO, Google, Netflix, or Wizz air. UX studio. .

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products. How do we win?

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Bain Public

APRIL 28, 2020

You can change everything in your startup except the market. The number one cause of startup failure (42% of the time) is no market need." Running frequent experiments allows entrepreneurs to test each element of their vision. In a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world, and it won’t matter. CB Insights.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. Then, he became a consultant and was recruited by Netflix as VP Product Management (during the period it grew from 2 million to 13 million members). Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Or should they offer transitory leadership support through coaching? Related read: How to Make Sure Your Product Leadership Team Will Boost You Up - Not Drag You Down. The Product Veteran vs The Coachable Product Leader. Should companies look for product leaders with experience running product teams to appease peer execs?

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Under 10 Consulting

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

People in product management roles—product managers, product owners, product marketing managers, and consultants—often talk about job responsibilities, methods, tools, and templates. In a world of agile methods and lean startup and business pivot, aren’t the activities of product management already being done by someone?

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

What the CEO needs to do is shift their focus toward building the product leadership team, empowering the product manager to think strategically and focus on features that map and complement a ‘high level’ strategic baseline they set for the product. Driving Key Results. What can you expect to learn in the workshop?

Feedback Software 52

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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