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Motivating Development Teams

Mironov Consulting

But the symptoms aren’t so obvious to the outbound (and extroverted) part of the company. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. So improving.

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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

ProductPlan

You must elevate these business-critical strategic components of your product leadership role into your schedule on a regular–even daily–basis. Before we go any further discussing the activities of a strategic product manager, let’s review the key parts of developing and implementing a product strategy. Product Vision.

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CPO of Zuora, Chris Battles Shares How to Bridge into the Field of Product

Gainsight

He believes his job entails everything outbound through product marketing into the field organization. Nick wondered if the description has developed and changed due to the varied backgrounds and career paths that many CPOs have, including Chris’s. Chris acknowledged that he didn’t have a deep technical background.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

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…. “Why aren’t we getting more done?”

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Creating a Talent Funnel for Finding Great Product Managers

ProductPlan

According to leading research on technical recruiting, the interview process for the Internet and Tech industry currently averages more than 24 days. You have a huge pile of leads based on inbound and outbound marketing, the pool is winnowed down based on their interest, ability to pay, etc.,

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The Accidental Product Manager: From Cars To Games To Google

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Have a friend from the company you are applying to peer review your resume so that it’s in line with the company and position. An example would be Amazon where you should have a resume that screams Leadership Principles. The payments space in Asia is exploding right now, and there’s a need for Product leadership in this area.

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Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise

Mironov Consulting

So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. These often come from visible, credible consumer tech companies with household names and high transaction volumes.

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