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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. However, the policies and procedures increase friction and make it harder to get the Right Things done. It's time to start removing some of those policies and procedures. Yet, the policies and procedures remain.

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Solving Product Development Challenges With Product Review

Mind the Product

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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Sleeping Giants – Nandini Jammi on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast]

Mind the Product

Since this episode first aired, Nandini has stepped down from Sleeping Giants and has also launched Check My Ads , a brand safety consultancy. Listen if you’d like to learn more about: * Acceptable use policies. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Brand reputation. Moral ethics.

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How Can Product Managers Deal With Faulty Components?

The Accidental Product Manager

Over at General Motors their plans to ramp up electric-vehicle production in China were set back after the product managers determined that the Chinese-made batteries it intended to use failed to meet its own performance and safety standards during testing. and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. What went wrong?

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Building Intercom from home: Software delivery in challenging times

Intercom, Inc.

As the situation escalated a few weeks ago we consulted our business continuity plans and thought hard about the challenges our business would face. A time for the tried and tested. The results showed that many senior engineers, engineering leadership and technical program managers felt that their productivity was negatively impacted.

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How to Break into Product Marketing Management (PMM)

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Given how new and versatile the role is, product marketing management is also probably the least standardized role in tech companies, which makes the process of becoming a PMM quite obtuse and vague. The part that makes product marketing management different from other marketing roles is the technical (aka “product”) piece to the equation.

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How Does Product Management Give you the Best Chance of a Successful Digital Transformation?

Mind the Product

Digital transformation is “the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of enterprises”, according to an MIT and Capgemini white paper. Gartner says : “Digital business transformation is the process of exploiting digital technologies and supporting capabilities to create a robust new digital business model”.