Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas. Testing business ideas. Testing Business Ideas, by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder: US , UK , DE.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. That’s why we must take action and test it. COVID is gone, and despite the initial hype, the resulting economic slowdown is here to stay. Beijing’s Forbidden City, July 2003 (photo taken by me) June 24th, 2003, was the first day of life after SARS in Beijing.

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Product Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

April 3rd: Identifying Hidden Assumptions: The Key to Faster Discovery Cycles Every week, I talk to people who can’t believe that product teams can really test multiple product ideas in the same week. It’s because most product people are stuck in a project-based idea-testing world.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. They're testing me." Share People-First Product Leadership Cultivating a culture of authenticity One begins to wonder when the the culture deck is 100+ pages and/or the whisper network is strong.

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. Product leadership is about more than bossing around your direct reports.

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Mind the Product

MAY 24, 2022

Even in companies with profound product knowledge, they’re consistently asked to test those ideas in their daily routine. Read more » The post Why it’s never a good idea to test your idea appeared first on Mind the Product. Product Managers are bombarded with feature requests and ideas every day.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 26, 2021

What about LMs who answer in these ways: Sure, would you like to cut testing? This is one of those intermittent series of posts about leadership, loosely based on the Modern Management Made Easy books. Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.). What if you don't feel safe enough to say the right thing? No problem!

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. From that success, I was then officially asked to move into the product role by the product leadership, and I have not looked back since then. The post My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership appeared first on.

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Centercode

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But the company’s founders weren’t convinced that their internal testing procedures were providing the coverage they needed. The leadership team created a beta testing program to solve that problem. Now, their beta test ROI is over 250% — and the team is able to maximize its beta results to the fullest.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. The Black Mirror Test. Listen if you’d like to learn more about. Ethical frameworks for product development. Links mentioned in this episode.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like? There are essentially two different types.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Over those 10 years, the technical teams created more robust testing and deployment scripts. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Check out my product management test that helps you assess your product management knowledge and indicates gaps and weaknesses, so you can make a focused effort to strengthen your expertise. Trust me.”.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. The Black Mirror Test. The post The Black Mirror Test – Roisi Proven on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Centercode

MARCH 18, 2021

When it comes to improving product success, your product test data works exactly the same way. From the way your customers are interacting with your product to how it’s performing in real-world environments, customer testing generates a lot of data. Being Insight-Driven During Customer Testing. First, you need structure.

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UX Studio

JULY 9, 2019

Ever wonder about the difference between leadership and management? This article shares essential leadership qualities. Also, we’ll give some examples of what leadership on a UX team looks like. What does leadership involve? Everyone has leadership qualities. Leadership qualities list. Both need leadership.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2017

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests. Prioritise your A/B tests.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

They’ve tested and learned which of their solutions or growth ideas are working and have not been afraid to shut down ones that aren’t and scale up ones that are. Walmart has tried a lot of things and been willing to test them and learn in the market what works. They’ve brought in robotics in some aspects of stocking.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. To analyse your current product management skills, I recommend using the following three subsets: Tactical skills, strategic skills, and leadership skills, as the following picture shows. The third row contains the most important information.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

His expertise is on leadership for innovation and business transformation. His most recent book is Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. That’s the problem we are trying to address in Beg Bet Leadership. [11:44] A lot of that experience is now in Big Bet Leadership.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. You can manage the team in exactly the same way you have managed product up until this point – with artefacts like canvases, processes like testing assumptions, and tools like metrics to demonstrate progress. Book suggestion: Product Leadership. Developing Your own Team.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Grow Your Leadership Skills. Validating solution ideas : Using, for example, product demos , usability tests, and A/B tests. For example, you might decide that as an intermediate step, you aim to manage a larger product and use this opportunity to develop your leadership skills and understanding of product roles.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

This can be done for example by involving the developers and product owners in the user research, the wireframes assessment and the usability testing sessions. A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team. Resource management.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

To move them forward, Jo has introduced product lifecycle thinking, shared KPIs, product portfolios, and a lean process for testing new ideas. To do this, you need to jump from an idea to something you can test as quickly as possible. The post Product Leadership at News UK by Jo Wickremasinghe appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A large part of their success can be attributed to effective cross-functional data leadership. 3 Keys to Strong Cross-Functional Data Leadership. Strong cross-functional data leadership is dependent on more than just collaboration and communication. Maura’s closing advice for cross-functional data leadership?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The test involves a leader asking themselves: “Would I fight to keep this employee if they were considering leaving?” The company values transparency and open communication from everyone, including leadership. This includes reflections on challenges, problems to solve, and what is top of mind for the leadership team.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

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Centercode

APRIL 11, 2019

Whether it’s the rise of AI, CI/CD, or DevOps, the lines between testing and development are blurring. But as testing methodologies evolve and bleed into development, professional testers are questioning how this evolution will affect their role in product development. Many people are jumping on the test automation bandwagon.

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Userpilot

JUNE 28, 2022

In the busy, competitive world of SaaS products, there’s something that can give product managers a serious advantage: prototype testing. In this article, we’re going to break down the principles behind successful prototype testing – and help you get started. What is prototype testing? Let’s dive in!

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BrainMates

JUNE 10, 2019

With Google showing three billion hits for the term “leadership”, why do we find this so interesting? Sitting in an airport lounge googling leadership surrounded by suited up business leaders all doing important work in the world. Leadership is hard, complex and messy. Leadership is hard work which you choose to do.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. The next layer is the company’s leadership.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

They ran early usability testing to validate the team’s direction. Design and user research combined to do testing on early prototypes which improved confidence in the team’s direction,” says Himanshu. Product trios and multi-functional teams are sometimes formed around legacy applications and legacy organizations.

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Continuous integration, testing, and review processes are integrated into the development cycle, ensuring high-quality outcomes at every stage. Effective Leadership Traditional command-and-control leadership styles are less effective in today’s dynamic environment, often stifling innovation and team potential.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Servant leadership is a term that’s been around for decades. While it can sometimes feel overused or outdated, I believe the principles of servant leadership remain as relevant today as they’ve ever been. Applying Servant Leadership To Every Level Of An Organization. The Role of Servant Leadership in Agile.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. The bias toward solutions was also due to a data-driven product approach and a strong A/B testing capability.

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