ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. Their importance shouldn’t be overlooked or dismissed as not technical enough. This creative thinking exercise encouraged everyone to consider a new market.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lara Hogan is an author, public speaker, and coach on management and leadership. Over the years, she worked in jobs such as Engineering Director at Etsy and VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, growing emerging tech leaders, demystifying public speaking , and championing engineering management. And the book was born.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. Have the courage to say “no”.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership. A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2023

It’s also helpful to include things like: remote vs virtual etiquette; expectations around official breaks in the agenda, or technology (like if you’ll be using a virtual meeting room like Zoom, or a digital tool like Mural, and what they need to know about it); and requirements around availability and clearing calendars (to deter multitasking).

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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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. out of 5 stars.

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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.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life. You can read more reviews and even buy the book with my affiliate link: [link] 1. I hardly imagine Product Managers with autocratic leadership thriving in this environment.

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Under 10 Consulting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

three roles of product management: business strategy, technical planning, and growth tactics. Technical planning drives the next version of your existing products, defining new features and capabilities to be delivered next. Review trend analysis from research firms. Communicate problems to the technical team. Activities.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Ideal team size is 6–8 people, which includes participants from Business, Sales & Marketing, Technology, Product and Design teams and any key leadership related to the product. Empathy Building Exercise helps your team to get further into user’s mindset. It is a good idea to include user interviews in the session.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2024

Then more tech layoffs were announced and performance reviews kicked in, all leading to stress levels creeping back up. I also try for focus time at the end of each work day to review documents and prepare for meetings instead of working late. Here are two exercises to help identify commitment to change.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In team review sessions, the senior person should share at least one recent failing each time, alongside the learning – this normalises openness, uncertainty, curiosity. The post 4 Challenges That Get in the Way of Effective Product Leadership appeared first on Mind the Product. CEO vs Product Management.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Here is what you should do: Set up time with your leadership teams to prioritise the goals for the next few months Share the goals and initiatives that are required to be prioritised before the meeting. Work with the tech lead on this. The outcome is to create your initiatives/themes roadmap. I’ll link to it once its written it up.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Digital transformation is “the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of enterprises”, according to an MIT and Capgemini white paper. Gartner says : “Digital business transformation is the process of exploiting digital technologies and supporting capabilities to create a robust new digital business model”.

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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. Short on time?

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Regular roadmap reviews. Whether you’ve been diligently maintaining your product roadmaps or they’ve fallen by the wayside while you managed crises and put out fires, it’s time to get back to fearlessly checking in and updating them regularly. Reassert your leadership.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

Or at your performance review, you might wonder what you should start doing to get a promotion, what is blocking you and what you are currently doing that works well. I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Even though the lists get very long, reviewing them regularly enables us to evolve or amalgamate ideas overtime to create some very successful experiments. To make these sessions most valuable we mixed in some blue-sky brainstorming with some themed discussions and group exercises to generate ideas in a certain area.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

Or at your performance review, you might wonder what you should start doing to get a promotion, what is blocking you and what you are currently doing that works well. I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

But first, let’s review what tailoring your resume implies. Mistake #2: Inappropriate language: Everybody knows that tech is different. Mistake #3: Boasting : Another misconception, this time usually played for laughs, is tech leaders’ tendency to aggrandize their own achievements. What is this for again?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

This is an opportunity to learn about how the company does product management, and may even include a trip to learn about the tech industry in various markets! First, a recruiter will review your resume. This can range from making a presentation on a project of yours to completing a product exercise.

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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. . The Agile Leadership Team. HBR article setup. Balance from the Top.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Now, we’ve evaluated top picks based on course content, reviews, communities/groups around the certifications, and industry recognition. The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. We’ve scoured the certification landscape.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. So I assume that roadmap reviews will surface deeper concerns like…. DEVELOPMENT.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

This internal meeting encourages host company attendees to arrive on time and is the final opportunity to review session content, facilitation plans and any other meeting notes before presenting to the members. Finally, the meeting facilitator should review of the participation guidelines and ground rules to encourage member participation.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Spectacular & Dangerous Road on Earth- Tianmen Mountain Road, Zhangjiajie, China ( [link] ) When we talk about product management in tech, usually we don’t explicitly distinguish between B2C and B2B. this is why a critical skill of product owner is leadership without authority. Everyday’s tasks are different.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product management guides the development of a product at the intersection of technology, UX, and business. A good product manager course should teach you many skills including technical skills, project management skills, and communication skills. Technical skills for product managers like SQL and HTML/CSS. Conclusion.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Now that I'm integrating all the tech review for Book 3, I realize I can simplify all these principles. Exercise your value-based integrity as a model for the people you lead and serve. I'm still integrating the tech review comments. People can't possibly remember 21 principles. 21 principles?

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