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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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The Mindset of Empowerment by Laura Scanga

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful. The simple exercise of building personas is highly effective in ensuring customers are front of mind when you make decisions. Build Personas.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

I started developing these exercises, and reproducing them in workshops. One exercise I use all the time – and it’s so easy for folks to do – is called “backing out.” For example, I can give input on the data base schema if I want to, or if I have a strong opinion, but the CTO or the tech lead makes that final call.

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Your Product Manager Super Power: Not Knowing Everything

Mind the Product

At this point, if you feel like you need to change direction slightly or reduce the scope of the first deliverable, you can run a “five whys” exercise with the team. You’ll also get a sense for where the largest chunk of value is. Everyone loves a big, dramatic reveal but a big-bang delivery is risky.

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4 Keys to Empowering Your Product Team

Mind the Product

A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. I’ve done exercises with engineering leaders to create rules and my absolute favorites are “what you build will own you” and “fear complexity”. They know they won’t get their hand slapped if they stay within their own “playground”.

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Adding a work trial to your interview process

Lenny Rachitsky

” — Matias Woloski , co-founder and CTO of Auth0 “The trial is about their work. We’d reuse the same exercise across all levels and adjust expectations. Director of Infrastructure), we’d make up the exercise when a few candidates reached that stage in the pipeline.”

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Product in Practice: Why Ramsey Solutions Rotates Engineers in Their Product Trios

Product Talk

The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together. The company brought in Marty Cagan ’s team to do some training and required all product squad members and leaders to read Continuous Discovery Habits. But so far it’s just been a joy.