Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. The Black Mirror Test. The post The Black Mirror Test – Roisi Proven on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Next, I went into sales and operations, then sales leadership. What attracted me to Product Management , and this leadership role was the forward-thinking innovation aspect. I would be able to marry my background in sales leadership with the product development side. . Any lessons learned along the way? Communication is key.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Himanshu Swaroop’s Advice: Get Everyone on the Same Page with Clear Strategy and Tactics Meet Himanshu Swaroop, Transformation Consultant. Himanshu Swaroop , a Transformation Consultant, shared his experience as an advisor at an insurance client where teams used to be set up based on functions. Create a safe space to share progress.

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Being patient is important, especially from a leadership perspective. You’re testing things out. I think self-awareness is a key part of being a Product Manager because Product Management is also product leadership. You don’t have to have a leadership title. Another lesson pair is to be patient and give second chances.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

After college I started with Accenture as a consultant where I learned various development languages and database management along with the soft skills of working with clients. Our Product Management team was growing and had strong leadership, so I asked to make the leap into Product! I’ve learned never to assume.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Over those 10 years, the technical teams created more robust testing and deployment scripts. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2019

Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash Get on the same page early in the project to avoid unnecessary conflict Before I was a grad student in OD, it hadn't occurred to me that the PM disciplines (product, project, program) are like consulting. Because PMs, like consultants, get work done only through other people.

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280 Group

JUNE 2, 2021

Inconsistent testing and learning. In fact, Pendo’s 2021 State of Product Leadership report notes that ProdOps is now established in companies at all major revenue categories! David Nash is a Principal Consultant and Trainer at 280 Group. 280 Group is the world’s leading Product Management training and consulting firm.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2022

This may involve customer panels, usability testing, focus groups and interviews. Bill Haines is a Principal Consultant and Trainer at 280 Group. Bill is a product management and marketing advisor, five-time corporate VP Product/Marketing, consultant on over 90 projects, and author of: The 21 Rules of B2B Marketing.

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280 Group

MAY 31, 2022

Data can be defined in the following ways: Qualitative data is descriptive and characterizing, often recorded in words, and typically gathered through methods such as empathy interviews, shadowing, focus groups, and thought-leadership articles. Authority bias can be mitigated by reframing the HiPPO’s opinion as a hypothesis and testing it.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. The code and tests are relatively easy to change.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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280 Group

MAY 11, 2021

Teams must ensure the product solves the right customer problems with all the right features and functionality, test and validate prototypes, and make a plan for production. 280 Group offers private, customized training, strategic consulting, and actionable optimizations tailored to your team’s unique needs. Get Started Today.

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280 Group

MAY 25, 2020

Assuming that you are getting a handle on those inputs, get out the markers and let’s put what you know to the test. Write a few versions and give each the test: Is it Differentiated, Relevant, Credible? Bill Haines is a Principal Consultant and Trainer at 280 Group. Yes, get a box. How are you different from competitors?

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. The Thick of It and W1A shows.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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280 Group

APRIL 29, 2020

This month, we presented a webinar from our Product Management Leadership series – No Bragging Required: How Women in PM Can Get the Recognition They Deserve. How are behavioral / leadership test assessed differently for women and men? Take a look at this article, A Review of Workplace Leadership Styles: Men Vs. Women.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.]. Timothy Gallwey. *

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

Georgie’s ‘Product Culture, Leadership and Fintech’ feature at Mind The Product. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. So what’s really interesting is that we’re trying to operate at a pace which is not sustainable.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 14, 2020

From that, I learned about the value of testing early and often. In this month’s Leadership webinar, we’ll discuss how to establish the right culture for your Product Management team to really flourish. She helps clients navigate our training and consulting solutions, and also oversees our contingent-search recruiting practice.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. Bruce’s consultancy, Product Culture. Bruce’s consultancy, Product Culture.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

However, we do recommend running more interviews and tests with fewer users or customers in each round of tests. Running more rounds of tests or interviews enables you to find new insights and validate new assumptions you get over time. We recommend having about five users per round or test.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2019

So when we got her on the line, we covered everything… including Japanese deployment strategies, Marmite and peanut butter, product leadership and team organisation, how companies scale, how to pick the right environment for you, and even her new book, Escaping the Build Trap. Quotes of the Episode. This place is a mess.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

UX consultant and strategist David Farkas talks us through how he’s helped teams to better collaborate, communicate, and work together by introducing some of the activities and philosophies to his teams – something he covers in depth in his book, Collaborative Improv – Building Better Products Through Improvisation.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We set ourselves a really clear sprint question, one that you can answer with a yes or a no… [and] at the end of 5 [user] tests, we’ll know how that the user would have answered that question… Unless a minimum of 3 – usually 4 or 5 – are a strong yes, it’s a fail and we’ll have to go back around again.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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