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). Two major obstacles stood in my way. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. This needs to happen at every level. Chiefly: What makes a release successful?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. 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. Plot summary. Where to buy?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Nevertheless, the experiences that many software engineers have with most recruiters aren't that great. However, job recruiters have a bit of a bad rap.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2019

How to generate more innovation every day As I consider starting my own business doing what I would call “software innovation management consulting” I can’t help but notice that I’m far from alone. So why so much activity in the innovation management consulting space? There are a bunch of ways teams deal with this point in time.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. This needs to happen at every level. Chiefly: What makes a release successful?

User Testing 60

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. Finally, a lot of teams – especially in larger organizations -- are misaligned on priorities.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Transformation Labs is an advisory and consulting firm that helps enterprise and technology companies accelerate their path to product success. I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I also ran my own consulting business for a few years. I graduated university in the 1980s.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. Warning – do not watch on an empty stomach. Unsubscribe anytime.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. We often recommend looking up your interviewer on LinkedIn to understand them a bit better, and reviewing public vision documents produced by the company.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

When working with external “corporate strategy” consultants, I found the level of strategic work to be all over the place ranging from high level M&A recommendations to low level project management / implementation support, driven by the functional strategy of whoever was paying the consultant.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In this webinar, leading product development consultant , coach, and trainer Sari Harrison shows how to go beyond conventional metrics to understand whether you’re delivering value to users by helping them make their lives better. Finally, we want to use metrics to generate shared context on the team and alignment among members.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Transformation Labs is an advisory and consulting firm that helps enterprise and technology companies accelerate their path to product success. I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I also ran my own consulting business for a few years. I graduated university in the 1980s.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

We’re just terrible at writing them; and, still, the development group wants more detail—and more and more and more. And developers have to make sense of the requirements. Developers then complain, “Don’t tell me how to do my job,” because the requirement now explains how the feature should be implemented. And they’re right.

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