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This time around, let’s meet our VP of Market Development, Hayley Jean Farr , and hear from her in her own words. I’m also super passionate about mentorship and try to meet with one of my four mentees (who truly are mentoring me!) MORE
However, beyond these natural tensions, meetings and decisions often go awry simply because people have different personalities and communication styles. Ultimately, these techniques and lessons learned will help you leave your meetings with actionable, lasting decisions. For example, you can schedule individual interviews with certain people before meeting as a group. For less structured meetings, make a habit of keeping tabs on each attendee’s level of participation. MORE
You’re about to go into a sales discovery meeting with a new prospect. Here are three ways to make sales discovery meetings more engaging for your prospects by just being curious. The post Curiosity: The Key to a Great Sales Discovery Meeting appeared first on Proficientz. Sometime is pays to just be curious. Is your mindset more like salesperson with a quota, or someone that’s looking to create new relationships in your professional network? MORE
How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment. How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment. To provide a consistent communications platform for every employee, most companies hold some form of staff meeting on a semi-regular basis. MORE
In a meeting setting, taking control of the conversation and agenda are second nature to them. They may encourage others to deviate from the planned meeting agenda. ” Meet With Leadership Beforehand. Having a separate meeting for this discussion is key. MORE
Some meetings are boring. Particularly conference calls. To make them more fun, add Conference Call Bingo to your next conference call. Source [link MORE
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On Wednesday, July 6th, I attended the SVPMA monthly meeting. This time was different from the usual invited speaker, it was Steven Haines of Sequent Learning who hosted a “role play” of a cross functional product meeting. In the post session discussion, I was a bit shocked to see that when Steve asked if the product managers in the room had meetings like this, more than half didn’t. MORE
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. This is why it’s important to plan your meeting agenda and know it intimately ahead of time. Clear communication is key to productive meetings and projects. An attendee who thinks they can simultaneously check their email, reply to slack messages, juggle oranges, and pay attention to the meeting. MORE
This post is about making these ideas concrete through a set of guidelines, templates, and JIRA+Excel tips so you can create effective status and progress reports quickly, have less meetings , and get out of the building , which is where you need to be. MORE
The post Meet Your New Partner: The Sales Team – B2B Marketing Rules appeared first on 280 Group. In B2B, Sales is your #1 customer. No, no, no… Sales is not our customer! They constantly insist that all the deals we lose are due to features, price, or because our literature sucks. MORE
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.—Dave What would you do differently if meetings could only be 5 minutes, 20 minutes, 90 minutes, or all day? MORE
Meet Your Happy Chemicals. As product designers, we aspire to build product experiences that are not only useful (solve a real pain point for our users) and usable (effortlessly allow our users to accomplish their goal), but ultimately delightful (elicit a positive emotion from users). MORE
Every single one of us in software development has received a Triage Meeting invitation and thought or even responded with, “I don’t have time for this.” I have noticed that some, if not most, people don’t feel these meetings have significant importance or value. Because often these meetings do not impact their contribution to their project or add value to their agenda. Individuals who attend a Triage meeting should be contributors and influencers. MORE
Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. I fully expect you to change the board to meet your needs. MORE
we’ve found the short, fortnightly meeting to be a game changer. Recently, it resulted in the launch of a popular new feature: the ability to automatically route conversations to the right team in our live chat solution: But don’t rush into these meetings with a laundry list of feature requests (you’ll probably hear a “no” ). As with any cross-functional meeting, you risk having too many cooks in the kitchen. Preparing for your meeting. MORE
The post Meet the Betabound Team appeared first on Centercode. If the Customer Validation platform is the skeleton, Betabound is the beating heart of Centercode. MORE
We’ve put a lot of thought into those processes, and have settled on two meetings in particular when we’re preparing to ship a new product or major feature – Product Forums and End-to-End Reviews. MORE
One outstanding way to do that is to run great team meetings. By team meeting I don’t mean your staff meeting (if you are a manager), daily stand-ups or reviews with your execs. It’s rare for the engineers or even the designers to say, “hey, can we meet on that?”. MORE
Ask a room full of agile product managers what comes out of a sprint planning meeting, and most will list two things. Why Sprint Planning Meeting Debates Are Almost Inevitable. These meetings have an enormous amount of pressure built into them. MORE
Ask these things both in a group meeting and during 1:1s. The post Pleased to meet you: Tips for managing an established team appeared first on Inside Intercom. MORE
The post Building for Billions in India: Meeting the Challenge of Building Products For A Complex Country appeared first on Mind the Product. India is a complex and diverse country, more so than any other emerging market in the world. MORE
We wanted to control our own plans, and not be reliant on an external partner to meet our requirements. We set up regular meetings to ensure key stakeholders were kept up to date with development plans and timelines, as well as getting input on prioritisation. The post Meeting the Challenge of Rebuilding a Legacy Product appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
Who among us hasn’t felt the reality of this principle while sitting at a Monday morning staff meeting thinking of all the important tasks we could have been doing instead? But are meeting a necessary evil? Can a nice view from the meeting room make the meeting more effective? MORE
Molly Stevens on Uber’s effort to connect riders with the flesh-and-blood people behind the wheel MORE
Whenever I teach agile approaches, I discuss the possible meetings a team might choose. They start adding up all the meeting time and say, “That’s a lot of meetings.” You might have these meetings: A retrospective once every two weeks. MORE
Would you say your day is packed with productive meetings that help you progress, learn and further work relationships? 80% of your time in meetings. When was the last time you had a meeting and thought: wow, that was a really useful way for all of us to spend time? My goal with this blog post is to tell you everything that I have learned about making meetings more effective. Eliminate My first rule of meetings is; if you don’t need to have it, don’t have it! MORE
The post Levelling up in 2018 to Meet Your Goals appeared first on Mind the Product. For better or worse, the turning of a calendar year conveniently provides us with an opportunity for introspection. MORE
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. Our scrum master was also present to facilitate the meeting. Why did this meeting fail? First, every person had a different understanding of the meeting’s desired outcome. To avoid this, spend a few minutes at the beginning of every meeting to review your agenda and clarify what you hope to accomplish. MORE
The topic of customer advisory board (CAB) meeting agendas is a popular one at our training events and at other CAB industry events we attend. Internal Prep Meeting. The host company should plan to have an on-site prep meeting before the face-to-face CAB meeting begins. MORE
For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Jeannie Griffin, Vice President of Products and Technology Solutions at BCD Meetings and Events. The post Women in Product Management: Jeannie Griffin, VP of Product and Technology Solutions at BCD Meetings and Events appeared first on 280 Group. MORE
I wish I had the secret to time management and how to control the beastly amount of tasks that build inexorably in the typical product manager’s “to-do” list. Alas, Product Management is one of those roles that collects the odds and ends of the organization, either by design (formally assigned), or by being the “buck-stops-here” […]. product management essentials MORE
Quick navigationDo you really need a remote meeting?Remote Remote meeting frequencyPreparing for a remote meetingRunning a remote meetingAfter a remote meetingRemote meeting etiquetteRemote meeting software toolsTo build best-in-class teams, win the competition, and, ultimately, create the next big thing, organizations are hiring talent from all across the world, making teams increasingly distributed. MORE
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FEBRUARY 13, 2018
This post is about making these ideas concrete through a set of guidelines, templates, and JIRA+Excel tips so you can create effective status and progress reports quickly, have less meetings , and get out of the building , which is where you need to be.
The Product Bistro
OCTOBER 1, 2018
I wish I had the secret to time management and how to control the beastly amount of tasks that build inexorably in the typical product manager’s “to-do” list. Alas, Product Management is one of those roles that collects the odds and ends of the organization, either by design (formally assigned), or by being the “buck-stops-here” […]. product management essentials
Modus Create
APRIL 25, 2019
Every single one of us in software development has received a Triage Meeting invitation and thought or even responded with, “I don’t have time for this.” I have noticed that some, if not most, people don’t feel these meetings have significant importance or value. Because often these meetings do not impact their contribution to their project or add value to their agenda. Individuals who attend a Triage meeting should be contributors and influencers.
Under10 Playbook
JULY 19, 2017
Some meetings are boring. Particularly conference calls. To make them more fun, add Conference Call Bingo to your next conference call. Source [link
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Centercode
JUNE 11, 2019
The post Meet the Betabound Team appeared first on Centercode. If the Customer Validation platform is the skeleton, Betabound is the beating heart of Centercode.
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On Wednesday, July 6th, I attended the SVPMA monthly meeting. This time was different from the usual invited speaker, it was Steven Haines of Sequent Learning who hosted a “role play” of a cross functional product meeting. In the post session discussion, I was a bit shocked to see that when Steve asked if the product managers in the room had meetings like this, more than half didn’t.
Johanna Rothman
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Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. I fully expect you to change the board to meet your needs.
Johanna Rothman
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Whenever I teach agile approaches, I discuss the possible meetings a team might choose. They start adding up all the meeting time and say, “That’s a lot of meetings.” You might have these meetings: A retrospective once every two weeks.
The Product Coalition
MARCH 26, 2019
One outstanding way to do that is to run great team meetings. By team meeting I don’t mean your staff meeting (if you are a manager), daily stand-ups or reviews with your execs. It’s rare for the engineers or even the designers to say, “hey, can we meet on that?”.
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280 Group
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
The post Meet Your New Partner: The Sales Team – B2B Marketing Rules appeared first on 280 Group. In B2B, Sales is your #1 customer. No, no, no… Sales is not our customer! They constantly insist that all the deals we lose are due to features, price, or because our literature sucks.
ProductPlan
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Ask a room full of agile product managers what comes out of a sprint planning meeting, and most will list two things. Why Sprint Planning Meeting Debates Are Almost Inevitable. These meetings have an enormous amount of pressure built into them.
Modus Create
JUNE 27, 2019
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. This is why it’s important to plan your meeting agenda and know it intimately ahead of time. Clear communication is key to productive meetings and projects. An attendee who thinks they can simultaneously check their email, reply to slack messages, juggle oranges, and pay attention to the meeting.
Mind the Product
APRIL 15, 2019
We wanted to control our own plans, and not be reliant on an external partner to meet our requirements. We set up regular meetings to ensure key stakeholders were kept up to date with development plans and timelines, as well as getting input on prioritisation. The post Meeting the Challenge of Rebuilding a Legacy Product appeared first on Mind the Product.
Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates
Modus Create
APRIL 30, 2019
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. Our scrum master was also present to facilitate the meeting. Why did this meeting fail? First, every person had a different understanding of the meeting’s desired outcome. To avoid this, spend a few minutes at the beginning of every meeting to review your agenda and clarify what you hope to accomplish.
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.—Dave What would you do differently if meetings could only be 5 minutes, 20 minutes, 90 minutes, or all day?
280 Group
APRIL 24, 2019
For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Jeannie Griffin, Vice President of Products and Technology Solutions at BCD Meetings and Events. The post Women in Product Management: Jeannie Griffin, VP of Product and Technology Solutions at BCD Meetings and Events appeared first on 280 Group.
Inside Intercom
JUNE 27, 2019
We’ve put a lot of thought into those processes, and have settled on two meetings in particular when we’re preparing to ship a new product or major feature – Product Forums and End-to-End Reviews.
Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Coach, Kromatic
Both are necessary to have a complete understanding of where the desirability of the product meets the viability of the business. Storyboarding is a simple way to integrate Qualitative and Quantitative perspectives into a complete picture of how the user experience impacts the business model.
Gainsight
JULY 11, 2019
This time around, let’s meet our VP of Market Development, Hayley Jean Farr , and hear from her in her own words. I’m also super passionate about mentorship and try to meet with one of my four mentees (who truly are mentoring me!)
Obo
MAY 8, 2019
Product leaders: Ever been stuck in endless meetings trying to get your stakeholders to agree on priorities and feature ideas? We built stakeholder surveys in Obo so you can get more buy-in and more input with far fewer meetings.
Proficientz – Product Management University
JULY 24, 2018
You’re about to go into a sales discovery meeting with a new prospect. Here are three ways to make sales discovery meetings more engaging for your prospects by just being curious. The post Curiosity: The Key to a Great Sales Discovery Meeting appeared first on Proficientz. Sometime is pays to just be curious. Is your mindset more like salesperson with a quota, or someone that’s looking to create new relationships in your professional network?
dscout People Nerds
MARCH 14, 2018
Molly Stevens on Uber’s effort to connect riders with the flesh-and-blood people behind the wheel
Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker
King uses almost a competitive launch strategy for new games, as each game has a series of KPIs that it needs to meet.
Craft.io
NOVEMBER 23, 2018
Who among us hasn’t felt the reality of this principle while sitting at a Monday morning staff meeting thinking of all the important tasks we could have been doing instead? But are meeting a necessary evil? Can a nice view from the meeting room make the meeting more effective?
Inside Intercom
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Ask these things both in a group meeting and during 1:1s. The post Pleased to meet you: Tips for managing an established team appeared first on Inside Intercom.
Inside Intercom
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
we’ve found the short, fortnightly meeting to be a game changer. Recently, it resulted in the launch of a popular new feature: the ability to automatically route conversations to the right team in our live chat solution: But don’t rush into these meetings with a laundry list of feature requests (you’ll probably hear a “no” ). As with any cross-functional meeting, you risk having too many cooks in the kitchen. Preparing for your meeting.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 12, 2018
Would you say your day is packed with productive meetings that help you progress, learn and further work relationships? 80% of your time in meetings. When was the last time you had a meeting and thought: wow, that was a really useful way for all of us to spend time? My goal with this blog post is to tell you everything that I have learned about making meetings more effective. Eliminate My first rule of meetings is; if you don’t need to have it, don’t have it!
Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
Modus Create
MARCH 21, 2019
However, beyond these natural tensions, meetings and decisions often go awry simply because people have different personalities and communication styles. Ultimately, these techniques and lessons learned will help you leave your meetings with actionable, lasting decisions. For example, you can schedule individual interviews with certain people before meeting as a group. For less structured meetings, make a habit of keeping tabs on each attendee’s level of participation.
Mind the Product
MAY 10, 2018
The post Building for Billions in India: Meeting the Challenge of Building Products For A Complex Country appeared first on Mind the Product. India is a complex and diverse country, more so than any other emerging market in the world.
Sachin Rekhi
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Meet Your Happy Chemicals. As product designers, we aspire to build product experiences that are not only useful (solve a real pain point for our users) and usable (effortlessly allow our users to accomplish their goal), but ultimately delightful (elicit a positive emotion from users).
ProductPlan
APRIL 23, 2019
How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment. How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment. To provide a consistent communications platform for every employee, most companies hold some form of staff meeting on a semi-regular basis.
Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM
Pragmatic Marketing
JANUARY 10, 2017
The topic of customer advisory board (CAB) meeting agendas is a popular one at our training events and at other CAB industry events we attend. Internal Prep Meeting. The host company should plan to have an on-site prep meeting before the face-to-face CAB meeting begins.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 19, 2017
The post Levelling up in 2018 to Meet Your Goals appeared first on Mind the Product. For better or worse, the turning of a calendar year conveniently provides us with an opportunity for introspection.
Modus Create
JULY 11, 2019
In a meeting setting, taking control of the conversation and agenda are second nature to them. They may encourage others to deviate from the planned meeting agenda. ” Meet With Leadership Beforehand. Having a separate meeting for this discussion is key.
Miro
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Quick navigationDo you really need a remote meeting?Remote Remote meeting frequencyPreparing for a remote meetingRunning a remote meetingAfter a remote meetingRemote meeting etiquetteRemote meeting software toolsTo build best-in-class teams, win the competition, and, ultimately, create the next big thing, organizations are hiring talent from all across the world, making teams increasingly distributed.
Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic
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