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Time You Spend in Agile Meetings

Johanna Rothman

Whenever I teach agile approaches, I discuss the possible meetings a team might choose. Some people turn to me in dismay. They start adding up all the meeting time and say, “That’s a lot of meetings.” Could be. Especially if you use iterations. You might have these meetings: A retrospective once every two weeks. A demo once every two weeks.

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Stress-Out Your Buyers (a little) For More Effective Product Positioning

Product Management University

Effective product positioning comes in many forms. But there’s only one outcome you’re looking for: An emotional reaction. Do it consistently and your pipeline will be chock full of qualified leads. Reminding your buyers of their biggest stressors before serving up the solutions is one way to evoke the emotional reaction that ultimately engages your salespeople with decision-makers.

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Kennan Murphy-Sierra (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. You will encounter numerous escalation, blocker, and air cover situations throughout the course of working on projects in product management, especially when a manager is ac

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Four Honest Lessons from Intercom?s Biggest Product Launch Ever by Mark Ryan

Mind the Product

On the first World Product Day, late last month, Mark Ryan, a senior product manager from messaging software supplier Intercom in London, gave a deeply personal talk at the probably highest-ever ProductTank venue – the 23rd floor at eSailors in Hamburg. He shared some great lessons on how Intercom has built a new version of its messenger in only four months and involving 150 people in eight product teams.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Agile Gone Wrong

The Product Coalition

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. This being said, I’ve noticed a few common mistakes when product teams are adopting agile, most notably: Focusing on velocity, with almost a disregard for quality Only building, and forgetting about the measure and learn principles These are no

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TEI 182: What Sales wants from product managers ? with Ian Moyse

Product Innovation Educators

Putting sales and product managers on the same team to create better products. Product management is a highly cross-functional role. Product managers work with product teams, R&D, engineering, marketing, finance, and others, but the one group that is most often discussed, especially in B2B organizations, is sales. You’ll hear about it at product management meetups, such as how a salesperson keeps asking a product manager to do product demos for customers or how the sales team won’

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Join UserTesting at Mind the Product on July 17th

UserTesting

The largest product conference in the world, with the industry’s most innovative and talented product managers, is just around the corner! We’re excited to be back at Mind the Product this year, taking place right here in San Francisco. If … The post Join UserTesting at Mind the Product on July 17th appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Do more with Intercom: 5 new apps for seamless workflows

Intercom, Inc.

Building a platform is something we have been passionate about at Intercom from the start. From very early on , we’ve invested in an open platform and have supported a growing ecosystem of partners and customers building on it ever since. In April, we launched our new Messenger , making it possible to use apps for quick actions right inside the messenger.

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Join UserTesting at Mind the Product on July 17th

UserTesting

The largest product conference in the world, with the industry’s most innovative and talented product managers, is just around the corner! We’re excited to be back at Mind the Product this year, taking place right here in San Francisco. If … The post Join UserTesting at Mind the Product on July 17th appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Product Managers Know How Valuable A Product Name Is

The Accidental Product Manager

Coke product managers are fighting for the rights to “zero” Image Credit: Daniel Go. As a product manager, you know just how important the name of your product is. We spend a great deal of time trying to come up with the right name that will match the product development definition for each of the products that we manage. Our goal is always to create a name that will capture what the product does, be memorable, and in this confusing age of the internet be unique enough that we can br

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