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A Practical Prioritization Approach for Technical Debt

The Product Coalition

Assume you have new feature requests from business, but your technical team wants to fix the technical debts first, what do you do?”. However, what ends up happening a lot of the time is, product teams lose track of these ‘Deliberate Tech Debts’, and start accepting them as design/engineering decisions. Copyright?—?Dilbert.com

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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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Treat Your Career Like you Treat Your Products by Adam Warburton

Mind the Product

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. Find a Mentor.

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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. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Voice of Customer: Why VoC should lead your product development process

Usersnap

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?