Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Product Leadership Forum is a chance for senior product professionals to discuss the challenges they face in a safe environment. By gaining insight from your experiences, you can develop principles on which to base your leadership style. How to Level Up Your Product Teams to Product Leaders.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Table of Contents Product and design partnership What does design-driven leadership mean? Design-driven leadership is product management Final thoughts The very essence of leadership is creating a space that enables our teams to dream big, imagine, and bring what was once unthinkable to life - therefore, changing humanity.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. The vision is where you intend to be in several years.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

In simple words, a digital transformation strategy is a thorough plan for utilizing digital technologies to enhance the physical components of your company, including engineering, production, and service. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns. Vision & goals Now, chart your course.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. Context: the most important tool to empower your team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It’s very transparent, very collaborative, and filled with really smart, amazing people.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers need to have good problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Leadership. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team? As such, they need to have superb communication skills.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) Finance One of my favorite teams to partner up with is finance.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, value to the user, how to win in the market, metrics, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and how the product delivers results for the organization. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

Claire Lew // CEO, Know Your Team. In this BoS Talk, Claire discusses how n o one sets out to be a bad boss, but it’s easy to become one. Learn how to ask your team the right questions, why trust is important, and why being nice can be a bad thing. My name is Claire Lew and I’m the CEO of Know Your Team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Security Engineer Interview Stages In general, the security engineer interview has the following interview stages at most companies: 1.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

How NOT to manage a Startup As a product manager, I led 2 teams in my recent startup gig with a lot of uncertainty, distractions and constant changes that impacted the engineers. A startup that is trying to scale, there are good and bad times. We had grown more than 30% without proper guard rails and senior leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

While I thought it was an absolute, for a micro-second, I questioned it, and then the floodgates of doubt opened — maybe not such a bad thing in this case. Especially in mature companies, roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty when you are early in developing a product. The slide doesn’t guide product teams for planning purposes.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

for good and bad. primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused Marty said that anyone in the product team needs to get coaching, including the leaders themselves. A group of experts still doesn’t make a great team.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Average ships per person in the team. Let’s dive in!

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. I then have a section on product leadership, which is important for all product managers, but especially for senior folks looking to advance in their career.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2018

may choose to operate in silos, Product Management is the department that brings all of the teams together to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, vision is seen, and needs are met. for the good or bad. Where many of the departments in the organization?—?whether whether large or small?—?may Sadly, such a degree does not exist.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. Do they talk about tasks and deadlines or blurry visions about the future? None of these are good or bad, but these signs can help you evaluate the culture of the team. How were we developing our teams?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Yet most of the product community’s dialogue centers around the relationship with product and engineering. I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ).

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. That’s why product teams must invest the time and energy to build trust with the rest of the organization.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. A good vision answers: Whose world are you trying to change?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

And there is, of course, the company all-hands meeting where leadership shares future direction and celebrates past achievements. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Why Events Matter to Your Team. Humans are story-seeking creatures.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

And there is, of course, the company all-hands meeting where leadership shares future direction and celebrates past achievements. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Why Events Matter to Your Team. Humans are story-seeking creatures.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

maybe not such a bad thing in this case. In mature companies, roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty when you are early on in developing a product. To be clear, the slide isn’t useful for product teams or planning purposes. The value of the roadmap increases exponentially based on the number of engineers and executors (e.g.,

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products. Software PMs are able to manage the scope of the product.

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