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The Art of Arguing

The Product Coalition

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. We have so many of them regardless.

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Why Product Operations is set to be the Backbone of Product-led Growth

Mind the Product

Product ops’ Primary Responsibilities: Engineering, design, product team communication / announcements / reinforcing process, policies, and practices. Maintaining templates, guidelines, how-to references and resources. The product ops person should have access to these and be able to direct people to the latest versions).

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Insight From Marty Cagan’s Coach the Coaches Workshop (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. This is especially true with product strategy, which is still an artifact that most CEOs haven’t seen a great one in action before. I went back to my normal life, personal and professional.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Opportunities at trivago

Product Talk

They already had an established product and regular rituals that helped them consider their users. Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. Tweet This.

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Mentorship and expectations

bpma ProductHub

Here in Boston, the Boston Product Management Association is on a mission to continue this tradition by organizing mentorships programs specialized for Product Managers and Product Marketing professionals. Mentor – Mentee Guidelines. Take a look at the guidelines we have set up for you.

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How To Be Strategic Even if You Can’t Set the Tone

The Product Coalition

Fortunately for us product leaders, this is not the case. Unfortunately, many product leaders haven’t thought this through and feel more bounded by the CEO’s guidelines than they should be. The CEOs usually see this as a straightforward implementation of their general guidelines, and many CPOs don’t challenge that.

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3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Setting Goals for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

You can set goals that are related to company or business objectives , more on that below, but as a general guideline, you should treat the goals you set for your product managers as means to give them guidance and direction, not measure their performance or even the product’s. You don’t really need numbers for that.