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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap.

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

The upstart positioned itself to capitalize off of these forces, while Blockbuster ignored them at its peril. This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. Most likely.

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How Our Cross-Functional Teams Decide What to Build at Whispir

The Product Coalition

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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410: Getting attention for a product launch – with Ken Babcock

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons from launching a #2 Product of the Year on Product Hunt – for product managers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:12] When we met, we kept talking about team performance. The emotions associated with teams creating documentation, which is a conduit to sharing knowledge, were very negative.

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Starting A Growth Team: Ten Key Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. So hiring managers must assess candidates based on a few interactions, a curriculum vitae, and some reference checks. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?