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Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: How Are Teams Adopting Discovery Habits?

Product Talk

Product thought leaders talk about an ideal way of working. I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” product outcomes).

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Building an Effective Product Feedback Loop

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages. The feedback loop process is.

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Product Trios: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Get Started

Product Talk

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. The goal is for a product trio to represent balanced perspectives while still remaining as small as possible to facilitate and expedite collaborative decision-making. What is a product trio?

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Many of us are accustomed to planning for either discovery or delivery. We know how to plan for where we want to be for a product (delivery). And, we know how to plan to discover a market (discovery). Instead of planning for either discovery or delivery, we can use experiments—for all our work.

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5 Great Career Paths for Sales Engineers & Solution Consultants

Product Management University

The career paths for sales engineers (SEs) and solution consultants (SCs) are wide open due to the blend of business and technical skills, sales skills and positioning expertise required to succeed in this role. Are Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants the Same? Answer RFPs – mostly the product sections.

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Feedback Loops Help When to Centralize or Decentralize Product-Based Decisions

Johanna Rothman

Here, I assume you want multiple releases for your product. That means you will make different product-based decisions at different times. Consider the Continuum of Feedback Loops and Decisions. Product owners might want to change the roadmap as often as every 1-10 days, but I don't see that often.

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Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Speaker: Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior.

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Building Products Your Customers Love with Empathy and Human Insights

Speaker: Lija Hogan, Customer Experience Consultant at UserTesting & Daniele Hohol, Senior Product Manager at UserTesting

Product teams are continuously under tight deadlines to quickly validate new ideas, features and offerings to innovate successfully, ensure product market fit, and avoid rework. In this session, you will learn: The critical areas during the product design and development process when you need to reach out to customers.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.