Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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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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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With this tool, you can create PTO policies, manage the days off requested by employees, and do a host of other things. Develop Communication Strategies One of the biggest challenges business owners have when managing remote workers is communication. This is why you need to develop and maintain communication strategies.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2018

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2021

from insecure cryptography to weak passwords ? Localization testing To help the client succeed in the international markets, QA teams adapt an app so that it meets the linguistic, cultural, and regional requirements of a particular country. Game censorship policy in China is rigorous, which is complicated by vague guidelines.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team. Not all friction is bad. Share information across multiple teams. How do you create friction logs?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. These questions are bad for starting a discussion: “Do you think this is cool?” “Was and I’m happy to share my 2021 read-list with my conclusions.

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Indicative

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Thanks to customer feedback we have a lot of exciting features in the pipeline, that’s why we’d love if you shared your feedback (good or bad) here through our two-question survey ! The insights and information important to you and your team will automatically be delivered via email when you need them. New Features. Scheduled Reports.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Effective product team communication is not about talking to your team more often or providing them with more granular tasks. You want to make sure your team understands why what they’re doing matters. Not just from you to your team, but from them to you, and to each other. What is this data telling us?

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ProductPlan

JULY 8, 2022

Shadow IT may be quick, easy, and convenient for individual employees or teams trying to solve a problem. Plenty of product development organizations also began using collaboration tools such as Trello and Asana on the sly. Providing broad OAuth permissions to these applications creates security risks if abused by a bad actor.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? How do you handle poor performers? How would you describe your role in coaching and career development? Tell me about a few people on your team and the career development plans you created with them. How do you balance feature development and technical debt?

Engineering 52

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Bad turnover. Team learning logs. Measure for a Purpose. Example Measures. Innovation.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Bad turnover. Team learning logs. Measure for a Purpose. Example Measures. Innovation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. We have to develop an appetite for generating fresh ideas. Embrace diversity and give voice to every team member. It is the only thing”.

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nulab

MARCH 11, 2020

A SWOT diagram can help you work out your business’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (which, as you’ve probably worked out, is exactly what S-W-O-T stands for). Run a competitor analysis to see what others in the marketplace are doing, including their strengths and weaknesses. Suss out the competition. Competitors.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2021

Things were already tough merging teams from multiple companies to launch a unified platform in Latam when countries started closing their borders. Sales were non-existent, and everyone in the company was working around the clock to bring our clients back home from their holidays with countries policies changing every minute.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a team lead, one of my responsibilities is taking part in the recruitment process. I’ve been on good interviews and I’ve been on quite a few bad ones as well. And I can tell you there’s nothing more heartbreaking than seeing a good candidate do bad at this step. And it’s been quite an intense period for us in that sense.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Reaching a product goal and accelerating a company’s success is not possible unless everyone from all teams, including engineers, marketers, sales, support, etc. This results in poor habits around roadmap completion. have goals moving in the same direction. Click here for a list of Paul's upcoming speaking engagements.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list. This is our fantastic UX team. However, we have also developed a remote policy that helps us effectively collaborate with clients worldwide. We did it for you instead!

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Department of Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Height is a new project management tool for product teams and they’ve just launched 2.0 which gives product teams AI super powers. For SaaS product teams, one of the more complex parts of building zero to one applications is implementing permissions. You can find out more here. Subscribed Hi product people ?,

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In the world of Human Resources, it may seem easy to find a candidate with a spiffy resume and loads of experience, rather than building upon an already existing team. Spending on a proven team, however, gives you the opportunity to build on the knowledge that already exists internally. Team consistency=efficiency.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

Technical Review 52

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

When developing a product strategy you have to do a couple things – you have to both develop a strategy designed to support the company’s strategy, and you have to express it an a way which makes it actionable. As a leader, she could express intent and rationale, and her teams could trace their efforts back to her purpose.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

But the ability to avoid that fate won’t come from open workspaces, a relaxed dress code, and a bring-your-own-device policy. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. But it simply can’t inform the day-to-day decisions that product teams need to make.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Ethics: The discipline of dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty and obligation Miriam-Webster Dictionary. And while the medical profession pioneered the concept of professional ethics, other industries have also developed ethical codes. Great Power = Great Responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Honesty is the best policy. Typically, this industry doesn’t put up with underperformers, so if you’ve made progress in your career, then you’re doing something right. You can’t lead or even garner the respect of your development team, you have to believe in yourself. Vulnerability shows you have humility. Conclusion.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. Each methodology has strengths and weaknesses, and since implementations can vary widely, it’s useful to understand how and when to apply elements of each.

User Testing 59

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2018

Tactically, you want to ensure your Agile team is following the roadmap and delivers as expected. And it seems all you need is to prepare the backlog, prioritize it, push into development and regularly follow up on the status and results. Sounds like a plan, except that you have to re-plan on an ongoing basis. That would be a waste.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2023

Leading questions aren’t always bad. However, you can use leading questions with a specific context to collect product development ideas or get actionable insights. Moreover, it can collect employee feedback regarding issues like new company policies. ” Leading question for gathering product development ideas.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 5, 2023

Planning the process helps to align your teams with the same goals during data collection, tracking, and implementation. Define your tracking goal Your first task is clearly defining your tracking goal so that your team has a set direction. It aligns data across teams and helps them make data-driven decisions.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). Maybe this is about a member of the team who’s been passed over for a promotion. A more honest (and productive) opening for the employee could be “I’m bored with what I’m doing” or “My team doesn’t listen to me” or “I thought I got the be the CEO of my product.”.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

You also have activities unique to IT, such as software development, change management, network architecture, and tech support. For example, teams can face poor system performance, network failure, data breaches, and malware attacks. Why do organizations need IT Management?

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