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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. Training a computer vision model is very hard and usually requires an AI research team, but we wanted to make that problem accessible to anyone. That warms my heart because we’re on the same team and doing this together.

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The Rise of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. User stories and user story mapping help a team align around the top priorities and get clarity around what they are delivering.

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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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. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. The outcomes I’ve looked for on my roadmap are about commerciality, building teams, and the underlying technology. Find a Mentor.

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Top 5 Observational Research Best Practices

BrainMates

When building a metadata platform, designed to power a new media business, a series of customer interviews with the content producers were conducted to understand the workflow and develop a solution more effective than the existing patchwork of tools. Where appropriate, provide a visual record through photographs or video. But it does.

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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. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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Flow’s Daniel Scrivner on the brave new world of asynchronous productivity tools

Intercom, Inc.

Like it or not, however, we now have no choice but to adapt – and that means ushering in a new era of potentially more efficient products, if we can just figure out how to get through a difficult learning curve where we’re frantically switching between calendars, video chats, email clients, spreadsheets, and documents. So what’s the solution?