Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Discuss development progress and user feedback on the latest product increments.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last A competitor announces ChatGPT-based retirement investment advice.  

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. an angry internal stakeholder shouted. Why go through the trouble?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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nulab

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A flash Silicon Valley campus staffed by armies of developers, bazillions in the bank, and countless users. You need to understand their product team structure… And you need to learn how startups can adapt them for rapid scaling without losing sight of their goal. Product roles explained: Product team structure.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for an effective user behavior analysis tool and wondering if Heap is the best option for your SaaS company? TL;DR Heap is a good choice for user behavior analysis and it comes with features such as in-app events, feature tags, user journey mapping, and user segmentation analysis. But it isn’t without flaws.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for an effective retention analytics tool and wondering if Heap is the best option for your SaaS company? Heap is one of the most sophisticated product analytics tools available in the market. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest. Try Userpilot!

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Everyone in your product development ecosystem should have a shared, consistent, and coherent answer to the fundamental question, “What is your product?” Many organizations erroneously define their products by taking a technology perspective.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

My team and I have collectively worked on hundreds of software products, for dozens of different companies across many different industries. And as it turns out, efficiently made software is often not very good software. That does not mean efficiency is bad, or that it shouldn’t be a priority. Absolutely.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work  And any software we build and sell once to the client who paid for it. Investor pressure for a high-value market exit.  VCs

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. Part of the solution is to establish a set of shared goals —goals that people support and that help you progress your product. The Product Leadership Conundrum. This ensures that each sprint moves you closer towards the release. (If

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

In the various design teams that I have been part of, I’ve often experienced contrasting practices of validating products. In essence, it’s the process of sharing a piece of design and gathering feedback from your colleagues or other peers. These are tools that will help you discover good or bad patterns of use in your live product.

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UX Studio

JULY 17, 2018

This detailed article will guide you through how we facilitate a UX project kick-off workshop here at UX studio. What happens at a project kick-off workshop? We hold kick-off workshops when a new project starts. You want to trust the design team, and see how they process and understand your product and company.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

Even if your product is not affected by any deadline, it may be helpful to consider dates or timeframes when developing a product roadmap, as this allows you to understand if the plan is realistic. A handy tool for this job is the Iron Triangle shown below. Dates on a product roadmap are neither good nor bad in my mind.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2021

Things were already tough merging teams from multiple companies to launch a unified platform in Latam when countries started closing their borders. It was no longer the reign of developers, but a company-wide tool to communicate and be in sync. Tip: Throwing more tools into the problem only makes it worst.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers.

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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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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. With a bit of human-centric thinking, teams can build shared understanding of why, what and how to measure their work.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2020

What better way to delight consumers than to design services based on their expectations, wants, needs and feedback? This is far more beneficial for users than a team designing products the way they think they should work. Your solution will have to be not only desirable by the users, but viable and feasible as well.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? I have often spoken with PdMs who say they don’t think their team understands what they want.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Following a day of focused workshops and leadership discussions, we came together at London’s Barbican Centre to talk product. We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room. We are all Imposters.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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