The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Low-complexity tasks include processing payroll for employees, posting preapproved content on social media channels, entering invoices into the accounting system, tracking inventory levels for a product, etc. This exercise will help leaders visualize where generative AI can most effectively implement within their function.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Leadership support , shared ownership of outcomes, cross-functional training, and celebrating collaboration can encourage PM-PMM alignment. They articulate the value of the product and make it compelling to prospects through messaging and positioning exercises. What are some key differences in priorities between PMs and PMMs?

Data Visualization 74

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. the true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. and I’m happy to share my 2021 read-list with my conclusions.

Books 120

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

They bypass ROI calculations, due diligence, prioritization exercises, and customer validation. But the problem facing a particular customer may or may not represent a true systemic need. It might be unique to that customer due to external factors or just not be a top priority for others.

User Testing 83

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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

Myth #2: Creativity is a solo act History has done a bad job when it comes to crediting breakthrough inventions and striking creative works to a single individual, greatly neglecting any support systems or collaboration that influenced these great minds. It could be a collection of notes, books, articles, music or art. Leritz & Michael D.

Research Software 81

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Modus Create

APRIL 14, 2020

There is no shortage of guides published about how to build a design system. However, many of these guides do not pay enough attention to a crucial step in building a design system: user research. I’ll discuss why including user research in your design system process is an absolute must.

Research Software 52

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s

Reporting Tools 105

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . I appreciate the concept of the “business operating system” and balancing the agile enterprise.

Agile 79

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

Embracing Influence Product leadership demands you constantly be in product review mode (PRM). Advanced Filtering Capabilities🛠️ : Our enhanced system goes beyond basic filtering. This focus is the key to rapid growth and success.

Product Management 52

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

Feedback Software 148

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Clarify your value proposition Creating a message map is a good opportunity to review and clarify your value proposition. Create your own message map Having done the research and reviewed your value proposition, it’s time to create your message map. Your analytics platform or CRM system can help. Message A/B testing.

Messaging 71

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. These two leadership approaches couldn't be more different from each other.

Technical Review 123

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 As leadership teams, we’re all guilty of recency bias, roadmap amnesia, failure to measure actual outcomes, magical thinking, and blame-heavy interrogations that discourage admitting failure.  We  So for this exercise, let’s posit that reducing current waste by ¼ is possible.  

Product Research 143

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars.

Data Visualization 217

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" At the leadership level, I see a fundamental disconnect between the folks defining/building software products and the folks marketing/selling them: The "maker" side of the house defines prioritization as committing to fewer things in order to finish the most important ones. Then Engineering has to support them.  Most

Analytic Tools 145

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. The book is evidence-based (references to theories in footnotes) and contains exercises you can start using right away. Recruiting users for discovery interviews. Where to buy?

Books 98

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

To facilitate this, developers need to leverage advanced software such as parallel processing systems, cloud computing, and in some cases supercomputers. While several industries benefit from these types of technological solutions, potential buyers are resistant to embracing them due to the uncertainty surrounding these products.

Artificial Inteligence 52

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Business Acumen Institute

JUNE 3, 2019

Organizational structure tends to crumble due to poor communication. Leaders should model how to communicate effectively, and the best leaders know that doesn’t mean a quick sit-down to review to-lists. It also gets easier due to the work of cross-functional employees. The 3 C’s of Communication: Consistent, Clear and Caring.

Systems Review 40

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Business Acumen Institute

JUNE 3, 2019

Organizational structure tends to crumble due to poor communication. Leaders should model how to communicate effectively, and the best leaders know that doesn’t mean a quick sit-down to review to-lists. It also gets easier due to the work of cross-functional employees. The 3 C’s of Communication: Consistent, Clear and Caring.

Systems Review 40

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders. Leadership is a mindset, not a title. Louis: How do you define leadership?

Engineering 135

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Strategic alignment While this shared scaffolding makes it easy to optimize staffing, it also simplifies things for executive leadership and other stakeholders, getting them strategically aligned instead of critiquing the roadmap’s format or presentation. Yet this exercise shouldn’t be in vain.

Roadmap 52

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To their surprise, it turned out that 40% of the retained users — people who kept using the system by the way — are of a different profile than the one they are aiming for. In either case, eBay would evolve from being a paying customer to becoming an enterprise-grade paying customer.

User Testing 78

User Testing Customer Experience Systems Review Enterprise 78

The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

This exercise and the decisions you make to remedy any problems will help your teams, customers and company become more successful. The success criteria are captured in salesforce (or whatever system) to provide transparency within your organization. Where do your teams agree on low scores? Where do they disagree?

Development Team Review 113

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

In both situations, the incentive structure of an organization most likely still fosters a predictable behavior that contradicts the organization’s goals at a system level. The following list of Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns addresses Scrum events, system-related issues as well as issues of individual players.

Reporting Tools 78

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. At a later stage, typical agile events, such as Sprint Reviews, also work well by demonstrating what value the Scrum Team created for them. Providing an idea management system is a good starting point. once a year?

Product Research 97

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

What problems are you trying to solve by doing this product envisioning exercise? I stuttered – currently our company goal is to increase marketplace liquidity, but this exercise is not directly tied to the goal. Before getting into any details, Andy asked – What is your company goal? Start with clear company goals.

User Friction 104

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 28, 2023

You may be able to clarify that the issue is abandonment due to confusion. One of the leadership responsibilities is to prioritize investment – explicitly making choices to place one bet at the expense of not placing another bet. Which must be fixed before the system can be recharged.

Research Software 52

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Maybe it’s useful to actually to share some examples instead of talking about this in the abstract, but it’s basically about us having a predictable system. We actually have a bit of a system. ” What we’re saying is, “Envision the whole system, find the first viable piece to ship that, but you definitely have one eye on the rest.”

Research Software 209

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It fits as a training program because it includes multiple leadership sessions and coaching for your staff on implementing, using, and improving customer success systems. This program is designed for more enterprise companies trying to get personalized training while enhancing their customer success systems. Who is this for?

User Testing 81

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Hope also does some leadership coaching with her own company, Fearless Product. I know that Hope and I hear a lot from the teams that we work with that most product people are really eager and they’re really diligent. They’re the company that makes the P90x exercise software and a number of other things. Tweet This.

Product Research 290

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

Indeed, only a well-maintained system can fend off the feature factory. The system itself can be explained in less than five minutes. Let’s dive into the basics and review some examples. Objective: Create a design system. “The original OKR system was just a way to set smart stretch goals. Individual OKRs.

Feedback Software 75

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Turn them into a [fill-in a ticket-system of your choice] monkey or deprive them of the ability to say ‘no’?—?as A Product Owner is a leadership role, yielding no authority in a traditional management sense. Suppose a person or a group of individuals, for example, a product council, exercises control over the Product Backlog.

Product Research 89

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

And everyone can come together and be efficient as a system. ” And how that exercise was set up was this core group, like, we’re calling it just, like, a virtual team, was given a prompt of just, like, how might we see the evolution of work in the next one year versus the next three years? Christy : Great.

Technical Review 246

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UX Studio

JANUARY 17, 2024

She practices thought leadership and leverages her diverse expertise to mentor designers, guide leaders, and provide strategic counsel to startups. Her focus spans various areas, including product-led growth, UX design, user research, leadership, hiring, and scaling businesses. It was more like project leadership.

User Testing 74

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We’ve come to see that “design thinking” and “agile engineering” are their own systems of organizational structures, workflows, philosophies, and skillsets. In the same way, we can build growth teams as a system too. They are key to how we work within a company. This is true top of funnel acquisition.

User Testing 110

User Testing Customer Experience Reporting Tools Data Visualization 110

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They felt like they needed some help in defining the space they were trying to capture, and the more we talked about it, the more we realized that they were the only ones who were unifying all of these measurement systems in one place and using the data across all those silos. There were like five or six operating systems for mobile phones.

Technical Review 205

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It also brings a change in how priorities are communicated between different business departments, how the engineering group operates, and it is a huge trust exercise for the leadership, but if used properly, this could unlock superpowers for the company.”. Does your team have suitable systems? An OKR Methodology Final Review.

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