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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. 4 Prepare an Agenda. Close the meeting.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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For better products, start with a problem statement

Intercom, Inc.

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies

Mironov Consulting

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.    And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.  ” What To Do?   No magic bullets. 

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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Concepts and Considerations

The Product Coalition

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This is simply bad return on effort. If it sounds too good to be true, there is often a catch (or two).