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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Carefully consider who should participate in the meeting to achieve the objective you have set.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Oversharing Information With Developers: Product Management Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Image by master1305 on Freepik Writing product requirements is the bread and butter of thousands of product managers or product owners worldwide. It’s how to communicate to developers what to build. I thought the meeting was fantastic. The actual development required was miniscule. Everything.

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Product Development Process: A Breakdown for Aspiring Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Let’s take a look at what product development is and what are its stages. Product Development is the process of conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing and launching a new product or service. It involves a set of activities that are performed to bring a new product or service to the market.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Product management goes beyond product development; it involves nurturing a cohesive team. Nonetheless, by leveraging foresight and valuable insights, you can cultivate a thriving product management team that works together harmoniously to craft customer-centric products.

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The Lessons of Developing Product Managers

Ronke PM

The most exemplary leaders seek to pull others up, dedicate themselves to correcting injustices and inequalities, and build a legacy of great leaders so they can, in turn, continue to develop more excellent leaders in the future. It’s an economic requirement because we have emerging demographics that are now more diverse than ever.

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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. This can make it challenging to help a development team improve.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

By tapping into the wealth of customer and application data, product professionals can identify underutilized features, prioritize improvements, and streamline development efforts in partnership with the development team.

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Collaborate Better with Your Customer-Facing Teams

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach, Fearless Product LLC

Join Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach at Fearless Product, as she shares 3 techniques to accelerate your cross-functional collaboration with other customer-centered teams like sales, product marketing, and customer success. These 3 techniques will cover: Why and how to hold Customer-journey meetings.

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

With all the technological improvements relevant to product management, there is an increasing need to educate new product managers as well as upgrade the abilities of experienced professionals. Product managers are still predominantly trained on the job.

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Product Managers & UX Research: How Bridging the Experience Gap Can Propel Teams Forward

Speaker: Shakima Jackson-Martinez, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Kristin Zibell, Director of Research Products and Services

If a product is only as good as the team that makes it, then a product will only be as inclusive as the perspectives represented during product development. Your product needs feedback from diverse and marginalized populations to ensure you meet their needs.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. Don't miss King’s data expert (dare we say king?)

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The Connected Journey: Developing your Empathy to Strengthen Strategies for Customer Relations

Speaker: Esther Kieft, Delivery Manager (Group Technology) at Domino's Pizza Enterprises

It is well known that empathy is a key ingredient in creating lovable products, yet not all products offer the best customer experience. From meeting stringent deadlines to insufficient resources being available to carry out customer research, there is a range of reasons why customer empathy could be missing in product development.

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Using Continuous Customer Testing for Pandemic-Proof Product Success

Speaker: Luke Freiler, CEO and co-founder of Centercode

COVID-era product management is fraught with challenges as companies scramble to adapt their approach to make the most out of the current economic climate. A lucky few companies are ramping up to meet skyrocketing demand for distance-friendly products and services.