The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. The four memorable moments below taught me, and continue to teach me these lessons.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

You also need to test whether others like your product enough to pay for it. [7:36] Find out what would be involved in production by talking with a co-packer or an R&D consultant. Test any modifications you need to make for production. You also need to test whether others like your product enough to pay for it. [7:36]

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management. Test new approaches, such as shifting certain tasks to the evening or using a timer to prioritize key activities.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. Specialists decide what value and basic features should be implemented first to test the idea.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. Indeed the relevant decision-makers, influencers and domain experts should be involved, informed and consulted, as appropriate. What may help is to think about how we can test our assumptions.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I identify as a coach and not a consultant. We can actually test our designs. Assumption Tests Help Us Discover the Right Solutions This is where our second small research activity is going to come into play. We’re going to test, does this solution address the target opportunity? Here’s the thing.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

And they iteratively test and develop those solutions together. The good thing about these types of disagreements is that we can quickly resolve them by testing our differences. Run a quick assumption test to help you decide between the differing perspectives on the team. They interview customers together. It will slow you down.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

Joining us is returning guest, Carmel Dibner, who is a principal and co-owner at Applied Marketing Science (AMS), where she has helped companies uncover critical customer insights to improve products, services, and customer experiences.Before moving to consulting she was in brand management at Unilever.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 13, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 10, 2023

Here's a short test to know if your job will survive the (somewhat) imminent AI revolution: Does your job require you to analyze something someone already did? The post A Short Test to See if Your Job Will Survive AI appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. At some point. That's how you can protect your job.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 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

APRIL 7, 2020

A longtime consultant, author and teacher, we grabbed him for a chat focusing on some of the lessons contained in his fourth book, How to Lead in Product Management. 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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Product Talk

JUNE 16, 2021

Trios should be consulting other members of the team, but limiting who leads the discovery process allows teams to move quickly. But that doesn’t mean they have time to come to every customer interview , be involved in the design of every assumption test , and be included in every decision. Third, a product trio leads discovery.

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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

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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Mind the Product

AUGUST 18, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

We agreed “done” would be when the user story had been checked in, code reviewed, QAed and deployed into our staging (test) environment. Further analysis revealed a number of factors that contributed to this discrepancy: Writing automated tests and refactoring work. This work was not reflected in the story point estimation.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), Testing for accessibility. Making products that work for everybody.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This week, former US Marine William Treseder – now co-founder and SVP of Product at innovation consultancy BMNT – joins us to talk about how he works with Government, Defense, Academic and Corporate clients to transform their innovation culture. [.]. The importance of Innovation. Design Sprints. . Get in Touch, Rate Us and More!

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Mind the Product

MARCH 2, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Plugging in: how to generate insights Analysis: how to prioritize and understand feedback Communication: how to synthesize information Test/Build/etc & then repeat. In my management consulting days I learned the best way for people to receive this information is as (1) time saved (2) money saved (3) money earned. It’s cyclical.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them. They go out and test many ideas to look for evidence. Three Types of Launch. Linus Pauling.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 15, 2023

You’ll find her at Ember Consulting, which she founded to help companies build meaningful communities. Product and community work well together because a community gives you the landscape to test new ways to solve that problem and keeps you attuned to how the problem evolves for your target customer. [6:51]

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. According to Jeff Gothelf , Lean Startup emphasizes making assumptions about your target market, testing them with rapid prototypes, and iterating based on customer feedback. A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Then I went onto being a consultant where I was starting something new every three to six months. They are very comfortable with alignment, systems thinking, mapping, research, lean testing, and driving things forward when 99% of it is uncertain. Or they may be freelancers because they enjoy digging into new environments.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Melissa Peri, Produx Labs Founder and Product Management Consultant, states in her talk about “the Build Trap” that when she asked the early pioneers of Agile about customer collaboration, they often noted that customers then very often were internal stakeholders who provided the requirements.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2021

We know that we need to have a North Star; that we need to run A/B tests; and that A/B tests are awful. We know that we need to have a North Star; that we need to run A/B tests; and that A/B tests are awful. We all know that we need to measure what matters; that if it’s not measured, then it’s not managed.

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