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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
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
To provide a consistent communications platform for every employee, most companies hold some form of staff meeting on a semi-regular basis. These all-hands meetings are usually led by the CEO and other senior executives. Why product updates should be part of every all-hands meeting. For product leaders, an all-hands meeting is a unique chance to present product-related information to the entire company. 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
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. Have you ever been talking in a meeting, only to realize that no one is actually listening to what you’re saying? As your ever growing to-do list continues to pile up, you reason you have no choice but to multitask during meetings. There are several things we can do to help people stay focused during meetings. Strategically Time Your Meetings. 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
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. I learned that good facilitation goes beyond what happens in meetings; it starts with involving the right people at the right time. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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?
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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?
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?
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: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
RealtimeBoard
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.
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.
Modus Create
MAY 20, 2019
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. Have you ever been talking in a meeting, only to realize that no one is actually listening to what you’re saying? As your ever growing to-do list continues to pile up, you reason you have no choice but to multitask during meetings. There are several things we can do to help people stay focused during meetings. Strategically Time Your Meetings.
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.
Modus Create
APRIL 4, 2019
Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. I learned that good facilitation goes beyond what happens in meetings; it starts with involving the right people at the right time.
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.
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.
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: 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?
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.
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.
ProductPlan
APRIL 23, 2019
To provide a consistent communications platform for every employee, most companies hold some form of staff meeting on a semi-regular basis. These all-hands meetings are usually led by the CEO and other senior executives. Why product updates should be part of every all-hands meeting. For product leaders, an all-hands meeting is a unique chance to present product-related information to the entire company.
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.
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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