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Product in Practice: How Botify Broke Down Silos and Moved to Product Trios

Product Talk

Former Staff UX Designer Maureen Rodaro was also key to implementing and evangelizing this type of exercise and a driving force behind pairing product managers and designers. Going through this exercise also revealed that some tasks are in between roles. This means that each trio can adjust the RACI to their own experiences.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

As I coached teams on how to make better decisions about what to build, I often got feedback that it was messy. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. They take all the opportunities they’re hearing from their interviews and they do an affinity mapping exercise where they group similar opportunities together.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. When considering VP Marketing hires, they push on positioning, messaging, MQL funnels, social media engagement, and broad marketing strategy.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. This ensured women got fewer messages, and hopefully more of the right ones. Only to prospective dates rather than work colleagues.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Teresa: Who are your typical customers? Who was deciding on that output?

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. So some more time has passed and the team started getting the message. That’s the proper answer. Loneliness.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

It was a really useful exercise to get a really tight plan. The remainder of them in our San Francisco office our CTO in Reading, and the benefit of that was whether it was good news or bad news we had local strong leadership that I totally trusted and do today to retell our message there as well. Making sloppy decisions.