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. Open discussion is the best way to explore this.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. Ethical frameworks for product development. *

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. Final round: 3 sets of 45-minute interviews with PMs Same interview format as previous round, with an additional one on leadership & drive to see how you lead and work with others. Having a clear framework helped me develop an ok answer.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large you are probably not challenging yourselves enough.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I decided to join a smaller startup, which was a company called XING. Tweet This.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Montreal is rife with burgeoning startups and midsized tech firms. A few years ago, after an 8-year stint working as a product manager for startups in Silicon Valley, Paul realized something about the tech organization ecosystem in his hometown of Montreal: many of them had poor product culture. Transitionary Leadership.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Partnering up with adjacent teams to improve continuous discovery.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni This book is all about the fascinating and complex world of teams. It explores the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, I moved to the startup world. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. Two colleagues and I built a framework that translated our intuition into steps for building world-changing products systematically.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

" and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership." What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2020

For four years, every six months during Obama’s second term, I brought a team to the White House to teach startup-type thinking to Obama’s administration.”. It’s looking at key leadership skills “for life, family, work, and business”. It’s looking at key leadership skills “for life, family, work, and business”.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. In addition, this person works closely with the experimentation teams to ensure that they are aligned with the overall business objectives, measure results objectively and follow best practices.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. User interviews, surveys, and usability tests inform persona development, influence ideation, and help measure success. How much do they overlap? Are they engineers?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. User interviews, surveys, and usability tests inform persona development, influence ideation, and help measure success. How much do they overlap? Are they engineers?

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation. Who was on time?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. Let’s get to it.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

We’re going to go all inception on this and I’m going to present it in the way I often do when getting teams to do this for the first time?—?a Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels Step 2: Wargame it with a Pre-mortem Wargaming is something I learned in the army (not the computer game). a simple four step plan to planning?—?hurts

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. companies and teams get excited about OKRs and put every conceivable thing they may wish to work on into them. Having too many goals robs teams of focus.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space. What can be cut first?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. I've seen teams define new OKRs every month, every quarter, or every year. Writing Effective OKRs.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The product team must then develop and execute its product strategy within those boundaries. Imagine a software startup. The founding team sees long-term value in not having to make decisions based on the demands of outside owners. With limited funding, the startup will need to generate revenue quickly.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Realising it would be safer to diversify, he’s gone on to spend the last 30-plus years working with more than 90 organisations across the world in interim leadership roles and consulting. We talked to Rich about leadership, how to make sure that your next job is with the right company, and how to win friends and influence people.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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