Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. What I am asking you to do is to not be religious about any prescribed system. My productivity suffered.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08 To be at an advantage when fixing bugs, a lot depends on how the software team is structured, and how the code is written: Have proper documentation. Use popular frameworks.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. I've seen teams define new OKRs every month, every quarter, or every year. Writing Effective OKRs.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Frameworks like Jobs-to-be-Done are extremely helpful in determining exactly what the product is supposed to be doing for its customers — that is, the needs it serves.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. When I worked at Trustpilot, we had solid evidence that consumers wanted to read reviews about products. Currently, Trustpilot only shows company reviews). Your Skills Resume: Can you Identify Profit?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Onboarding systems are no exception, especially when you’re trying to replicate on-site conditions in an online setting.

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eG Innovations

JULY 19, 2022

Grafana is developed by Grafana Labs with a free version of Grafana available on GitHub under a GNU AGPLv3 license. Nagios is a free, open-source monitoring system for computer systems. Nagios can proactively probe systems and resources and raise alerts if problems are detected. Other Information: What is Nagios?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. You can lose your confidence in the product while talking with some of the software developers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” The GIST Framework ?—?Goals,

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2021

Demonstrating Excellence in Product Management Your leadership team relies on Product Leaders to bring a depth of product expertise to the organization. As an IC, you should aim to understand the Product Development Lifecycle well enough to guide and coach other PMs to success. Definition as simple as modifying designs.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Frameworks like Jobs-to-be-Done are extremely helpful in determining exactly what the product is supposed to be doing for its customers — that is, the needs it serves.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. Let’s review the three key types of outsourcing arrangements and what the differences among them mean to you as a customer. Besides the well-known issues associated with software vendors?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. Definition of user onboarding.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a trader of spices in 500BC, you most definitely had to consider customer expectations, profit margins, and the emergence of new techniques for preserving your product. So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Speed is everything.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A GTM strategy provides direction for all team members, reduces your product’s time to market, and helps you cut costs. Design a launch plan before the product is ready and assign clear roles to team members. And create goals for tracking your team’s success with the product launch.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Although data science can’t predict the future, it can definitely help you focus resources, troubleshoot issues, and even unlock new markets. However, we’ve had a great team. Any insight from data analysis will only ever be as good as the data itself. Benn: For sure.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

Business understanding, effective communication and systems thinking. I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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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. So I definitely was really worried about those stairs. Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple. Transcript.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Who are the people that most directly make these systems work every day to drive our businesses? These are all questions that not only help identify the admin, but also help get to the root of developing empathy for your admins. This metric is poor because it doesn’t capture intent. Admins, of course.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. companies and teams get excited about OKRs and put every conceivable thing they may wish to work on into them. Having too many goals robs teams of focus.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

Bots are great at things that are suitable for computer calculations, like when your next bill is due. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. It’s a drag-and-drop system where you can build your own AI systems. Gmail announced this app framework last year. Apps everywhere.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. He led an international team for a while, focused on running experiments in new markets, and did growth work breaking ground in Latin American and other developing markets.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back. Before we start talking about the product backlog anti-patterns, I would like to make a small detour to make you familiar with my mental model, how agile software development works. So from my perspective, I like to refer to it as the product creation arc.

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