Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad. What is our positioning? Problems with Customer Development. Back then, it was almost every Mac user in the world).

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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. The number and style of behavioral inquiries will differ per position, but expect a lot of them!

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

After interning at a wealth management firm, I began recruiting for sales and trading positions, which seemed like a happy medium. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business. rating from 63 reviews on the App Store with over 500 users.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. The foundation of a positive, two-way working relationship is having a sense for what motivates your teammate. Their story isn’t uncommon.

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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.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. What does good, actionable feedback look like?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Technical and product teams can spend a lot of time estimating the effort involved in a proposed piece of work. First you need Entrepreneurs: I like there to be small team to give your Product Manager some help, so Business Analysts, Product Owner and similar are obvious candidates. How Value Poker Works. Apple and Oranges.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been on a sort of health kick for a few years: I quit smoking, I started walking to get low impact exercise, and so on. I had been taking 2 Aleve each day (1 morning, 1 evening) because I had been developing arthritis in my hands. I could barely sit down in a chair from a standing position, or get in bed or roll over once in.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

This acronym popped up a while back in Organization Development circles and when I heard it the first time I thought… uh yeah, that’s all high-tech. But much of the world doesn’t operate like high-tech. Any mistake made by the team is the fault of the leader. Usability is bad. What does that look like?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. Sometimes you need a technical whiz, or someone with marketing chops, while other opportunities demand deep experience in a particular industry. Entering an interview unprepared is just as bad for the interviewer as the interviewee.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 18, 2010

Working alongside Gus Tai , Ajay Chopra , Jim Tybur , Dan Scholnick , and the rest of the Trinity team provided an inside look into the world of venture capital. Given that I've spent most of my entrepreneurial career in scrappy startup environments, I developed a valuable new perspective on evaluating opportunities. Seek Leverage.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. There’s a debate about dates : some feel they’re too constraining and that the team should be able to launch the product whenever it’s ready. Few teams put nearly enough effort into onboarding.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. And just relabeling the positions of the old middle management rarely works. There seems to be a belief?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  At almost all of my clients, I see major product waste: products released on time/on budget that don't deliver positive business outcomes.

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. He led an international team for a while, focused on running experiments in new markets, and did growth work breaking ground in Latin American and other developing markets.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Alternative assessment methods, such as portfolio reviews, collaborative discussions are presented as more promising avenues for assess the candidate and promoting inclusivity in the hiring process. I’m still going to ask for a design challenge 11. Even at a contractual level, the context varies.

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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is wanting more that pushes humanity to seek improvements, develop new technologies, and reach for a higher level." More often than not, they can't build it by themselves due to various constraints and look to hire a product for the job. The users themselves, if they can, may build new solutions: the DIY types.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . Applying this approach designed for Kanban can dramatically accelerate the forming and improvements of a Scrum team. How does work flow through the team/system? .

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

QA specialists face more and more challenges during the work: the volume of tests rises while technologies dynamically change. To optimize the workflow and keep up with the changing technologies, they need to apply completely new methods, such as testing automation and go deeper into programming.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

Tim has recruited, mentored, and managed product managers in each of these positions, so you could say he knows a thing or two about interviewing for product managers. Alternatives could be non-smart phones (think Nokia), or some new wearable technology that is built into watches, clothing, or something else.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and Nice try #1.)

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact. Profitability.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Role of the Product Owner According to the Scrum Guide “The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

Looking back at examples from history including The Eiffel Tower, the invention of the Post-It Note, and the development of the Computer Mouse, Scott’s talk is all about how to think creatively at work – and why it’s so important. Now in 1884, the hot tech sector was not web development, wasn’t cloud computing.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. As anyone who has developed a training center will tell you, the number one goal of this effort is to get people to utilize training materials. The customer success landscape has changed.

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Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have. Modus CoE’s don’t promote a specific technology – they help our teams grow their leadership competencies, collaboration abilities, and communication skills.

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Product Solving

JULY 29, 2020

While institutions as a whole seem to fall prey to the institutional imperative, product teams seem to fall prey to a different, yet similar, set of imperatives. This isn’t always a bad thing and in many cases (specifically those where the decision being made is reversible) can be beneficial.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. I felt this incredible intense pressure from the team and also from within myself to launch what we had built.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

So there’s almost always two questions that I hear from the executive team or the leadership team when faced with reviewing a roadmap or anything else that comes out of product management usually they are phrased in these two ways. Most important in the enterprise space is our sales team. No coincidence.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. Basecamp was able to fund the development of hey.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you motivate and lead a team when the future is uncertain? I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Being British we like a bit of bad news. But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. We had high relevance.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

She is also one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. Do you empower small, agile teams? And so, this chart is just a chart from the gaming business, and it reflects market share position in various gaming platforms over time. And I’m not saying that’s good or bad.

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