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How to best meet the needs of the connected consumer Image Credit: Ismael Celis. How to best meet the needs of the connected consumer isn’t just a product managers dilemma, nor just a marketing executive or UX design professionals. MORE
Or is there something smaller that can meet their need without disrupting the overall roadmap? A path to less stressful projects at any scale. 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
Before you invite a sales person to a meeting, ask yourself why. Marketing and product management teams often invite sales people to planning meetings. If you must get sales input to your issue, don't invite them to a meeting; go talk to a few sales people. In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support [individual] customers or they support the market.—Peter —Peter Drucker, American management consultant. MORE
How to get more out of remote meetings with RealtimeBoard A meeting with three or more people is always a challenge because it requires synchronization across several independent minds. The post How to get more out of remote meetings with RealtimeBoard appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog. This is where a group facilitator needs to take control. They ensure that the discussion never gets sidetracked, that everyone is engaged and on the same […]. 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
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
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
The post Meet the PMs Who Created 2018’s Hottest Mobile Apps appeared first on Apptentive. What are some of the hottest, up-and-coming mobile apps not named Instagram, Snapchat, or Uber? Venmo comes to mind first, followed by Duolingo and its stunning first-use experience. 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
In the world of product management, meetings are regular occurrences. As such, it is essential to take the time to plan projects and workflow processes ahead of time, and to routinely review and modify these processes to meet the product owner’s needs and demands. MORE
The post How to Prioritize Product Features to Meet Accessibility Needs appeared first on Product Management Blog. Most product managers and startup folks miss a stakeholder. 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
I waited for all the team members’ to return from their holidays before holding a team meeting that I tagged “ meet the product manager ”. MORE
So creating some kind of visual, graphical imprint of a meeting can help participants better understand problems and recall the agreed decisions. Graphic facilitation of meetings comes in different flavors. In this case, however, the facilitator only focuses on the drawing and usually, it takes more effort and years of experience because they work in real time during a meeting or presentation. I started a few months ago in our team’s weekly client meetings. 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
Last August (I know, it's been a while) I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Christopher Cummings, author of the blog " Product Management Meets Pop Culture ". MORE
Perhaps you have also been in a global meeting where a native English speaker unwittingly embarrassed an international member of the team by clumsily addressing them with local vernacular? Set a detailed meeting agenda in advance and deliberately include keywords that will be discussed. This gives people a chance to research them ahead of time and familiarize themselves, rather than having to fumble and fake it live in the meeting. 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
(This wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't somewhat true MORE
Meet Notejoy , a better way to organize team docs. When a new team member joins the team, instead of sending them to a rich repository of resources to help them get started, we waste countless hours of other people’s valuable time in meetings getting them up-to-speed. 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
This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. MORE
Marty meets Martin: connecting the two triads of Product Management was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. MORE
Molly Stevens on Uber’s effort to connect riders with the flesh-and-blood people behind the wheel MORE
The post Meet the Intercom App Store: Helping customers and partners grow appeared first on Inside Intercom. It’s rare that one product manages to solve all of your needs or the needs of your customers – no matter how extensive or well designed it is. We all use a plethora of tools to collaborate, communicate and get our work done on a daily basis. Each product used is only one tool of many at our disposal. 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
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
Perhaps you have also been in a global meeting where a native English speaker unwittingly embarrassed an international member of the team by clumsily addressing them with local vernacular? Set a detailed meeting agenda in advance and deliberately include keywords that will be discussed. This gives people a chance to research them ahead of time and familiarize themselves, rather than having to fumble and fake it live in the meeting. 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
Meeting Related Topics 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
Folding Burritos
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.
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
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.
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The Product Bistro
JULY 12, 2016
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.
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Johanna Rothman
JUNE 28, 2018
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
JUNE 25, 2018
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.
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?
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.
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struggle to integrate analytics into their products, business models, and pricing strategies in a way that meets a range of user. In meetings, adjust the position of the dots. HOW TO PACKAGE & PRICE EMBEDDED ANALYTICS.
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dscout People Nerds
MARCH 14, 2018
Molly Stevens on Uber’s effort to connect riders with the flesh-and-blood people behind the wheel
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!
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
How to best meet the needs of the connected consumer Image Credit: Ismael Celis. How to best meet the needs of the connected consumer isn’t just a product managers dilemma, nor just a marketing executive or UX design professionals.
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).
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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?
Craft.io
JULY 31, 2018
In the world of product management, meetings are regular occurrences. As such, it is essential to take the time to plan projects and workflow processes ahead of time, and to routinely review and modify these processes to meet the product owner’s needs and demands.
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.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 24, 2018
Perhaps you have also been in a global meeting where a native English speaker unwittingly embarrassed an international member of the team by clumsily addressing them with local vernacular? Set a detailed meeting agenda in advance and deliberately include keywords that will be discussed. This gives people a chance to research them ahead of time and familiarize themselves, rather than having to fumble and fake it live in the meeting.
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Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 24, 2018
Perhaps you have also been in a global meeting where a native English speaker unwittingly embarrassed an international member of the team by clumsily addressing them with local vernacular? Set a detailed meeting agenda in advance and deliberately include keywords that will be discussed. This gives people a chance to research them ahead of time and familiarize themselves, rather than having to fumble and fake it live in the meeting.
Craft.io
JULY 17, 2018
The post How to Prioritize Product Features to Meet Accessibility Needs appeared first on Product Management Blog. Most product managers and startup folks miss a stakeholder.
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Before you invite a sales person to a meeting, ask yourself why. Marketing and product management teams often invite sales people to planning meetings. If you must get sales input to your issue, don't invite them to a meeting; go talk to a few sales people. In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support [individual] customers or they support the market.—Peter —Peter Drucker, American management consultant.
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.
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.
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
(This wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't somewhat true
Apptentive
APRIL 24, 2018
The post Meet the PMs Who Created 2018’s Hottest Mobile Apps appeared first on Apptentive. What are some of the hottest, up-and-coming mobile apps not named Instagram, Snapchat, or Uber? Venmo comes to mind first, followed by Duolingo and its stunning first-use experience.
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.
Sachin Rekhi
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Meet Notejoy , a better way to organize team docs. When a new team member joins the team, instead of sending them to a rich repository of resources to help them get started, we waste countless hours of other people’s valuable time in meetings getting them up-to-speed.
Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic
Both are necessary to have a complete understanding of where the desirability of the product meets the viability of the business. Qualitative vs. Quantitative is a silly argument.
Product Innovation Educators
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Or is there something smaller that can meet their need without disrupting the overall roadmap? A path to less stressful projects at any scale.
RealtimeBoard
MAY 15, 2018
How to get more out of remote meetings with RealtimeBoard A meeting with three or more people is always a challenge because it requires synchronization across several independent minds. The post How to get more out of remote meetings with RealtimeBoard appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog. This is where a group facilitator needs to take control. They ensure that the discussion never gets sidetracked, that everyone is engaged and on the same […].
All About Product Management
JULY 29, 2010
I waited for all the team members’ to return from their holidays before holding a team meeting that I tagged “ meet the product manager ”.
Product Manager in Heels
MAY 2, 2015
Last August (I know, it's been a while) I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Christopher Cummings, author of the blog " Product Management Meets Pop Culture ".
Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
It may seem impossible now, but what if we said that with a few changes, you could be meeting deadlines with the ability to predict progress with accuracy, be happy with your progress against the roadmap, and be making time for near-continuous discovery?
Inside Intercom
JULY 31, 2018
The post Meet the Intercom App Store: Helping customers and partners grow appeared first on Inside Intercom. It’s rare that one product manages to solve all of your needs or the needs of your customers – no matter how extensive or well designed it is. We all use a plethora of tools to collaborate, communicate and get our work done on a daily basis. Each product used is only one tool of many at our disposal.
Mind the Product
JUNE 19, 2018
This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 18, 2017
Marty meets Martin: connecting the two triads of Product Management was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
UX Studio
JUNE 5, 2018
So creating some kind of visual, graphical imprint of a meeting can help participants better understand problems and recall the agreed decisions. Graphic facilitation of meetings comes in different flavors. In this case, however, the facilitator only focuses on the drawing and usually, it takes more effort and years of experience because they work in real time during a meeting or presentation. I started a few months ago in our team’s weekly client meetings.
Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM
Are we willing to live with some level of technical debt in order to ship product and meet deadlines? As a Product Manager, you probably have to deal with technical debt. Regularly. Whether you like it or not - because it can’t be avoided.
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