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Effective Meetings vs. Pointless Meetings

Henry Shapiro

In the early days of a company’s growth, things are a lot simpler. You can rely more on "serendipity as a service" to keep projects and initiatives organized, and everyone has a decent idea of what people are prioritizing from week to week

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Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

Meetings. ” It's too hard to find time to meet. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Consequently, you often have to run longer meetings. Close the meeting.

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Rethink the Tools That Create Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

I wrote about general meeting problems in Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid). But “hybrid” teams have much worse meeting problems. That's because the team no longer has one meeting location (on camera, on one channel).

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Collaborate Better with Your Customer-Facing Teams

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach, Fearless Product LLC

Customer discovery is the lifeblood of product teams to identify the most important customer needs to solve next. Often it's the Product and UX members of the trio who take lead on facilitating this discovery. But what about other customer-facing teams in an organization? How do product teams best partner with these teams to understand customers’ unmet needs and decide which needs to address next?

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Get Your Colleagues to Run Better Meetings

The Product Coalition

productivity meetings management leadership workplaceA 10-step guide to more effective discussions Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Report templates for less status meetings

Folding Burritos

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. You’ll notice however that there isn’t much space for meetings in this graph. Templates and tips for less status meetings. The post Report templates for less status meetings appeared first on Folding Burritos.

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Five Lesser-Known Tactics to Level Up Your Meetings

The Product Coalition

meetings work professional-growth management leadershipExperiences from a product leader, ex-McKinsey consultant, and current Stanford MBA student Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Running your retrospective meetings, the right way

Mind the Product

A retrospective meeting can benefit any team, irrespective of whether you follow Agile or not. Read more » The post Running your retrospective meetings, the right way appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Optimize for Respectful Remote Meetings

Johanna Rothman

I've had the pleasure—and displeasure—of many remote meetings over the past few weeks. The difficult meetings had a common root cause: the meeting leaders attempted to do a direct transfer of how they lead an in-person meeting to remote/WFH meetings.

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The Ideal Support Community for Your CX Team

Speaker: Adrian Speyer, Head of Community and Lead Evangelist for Higher Logic Vanilla

Struggling to reach your customer service goals? A support community could be the answer you’re looking for. Worried about time to resolution and quality of self-service answers? Let Adrian Speyer explain in this free webinar.

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Time Management Tips – Meetings

The Product Bistro

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

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A Product Ops Meeting Template

ProductCraft

One way is through dedicated product ops meetings. We know, we know — no one wants more meetings on their calendar. Read more » The post A Product Ops Meeting Template appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Meet your new best friend: Product ops

Mind the Product

Read more » The post Meet your new best friend: Product ops appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Meet the team: Intercom’s PMMs discuss our approach to product marketing

Intercom, Inc.

Marketing Meet the team PMM podcast product management product marketingAt a product-first company like Intercom, our product marketing team has always had a crucial role – and over the years, we have often discussed how we approach product marketing.

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Customer Preferences: How Community Can Deliver a Simplified Experience

Your customers want a simplified customer experience. Make sure you give it to them with community. Download the whitepaper to learn more!

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Product Talk Is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Juhlin

Product Talk

Meet Ellen Juhlin , a product coach and consultant and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs. Meet product coach and consultant @ellenjuhlin. Meet our newest Product Talk instructor, Ellen Juhlin!

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Meet the MS in Product Management Class of 2020

Product Management Unpacked

Discover what's behind this year's outstanding cohort. Product Leaders Product Management Education ms in product management

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Intercom on Product: Meet your marketer

Intercom, Inc.

To this end we’ll be broadening our scope in future episodes, to look at the various intersections that a product team meets in a typical SaaS organisation. This is the age-old product-meets-marketing challenge. What’s the scope for those meetings?

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Leadership Tip 15: Reward Meeting Behavior You Want to See

Johanna Rothman

You need a senior person at a meeting. The meeting is supposed to start at 2 pm. When I've asked why the person is late, they often say, “I had another meeting that ran long.” Possible Responses When People Arrive Late to Your Meeting.

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Research Study: Customer Perceptions of the Community Experience

We surveyed more than 600 consumers about their perceptions of the community experience. Our aim? To reveal how community can impact business-focused objectives. Get your free copy of this research report today to find out how customer expectations can be addressed and how it can affect your brand’s bottom line.

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Five Meeting Tips for Newly-Remote Teams

Johanna Rothman

I found the biggest change when I started to work remotely was how meetings changed. When we meet in a conference room, we can see each other. The cameras mimic how we meet in person. I see too many meetings (in-person or remote) where the people don't know what to expect.

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How to conduct productive sprint planning meetings for product managers

Mind the Product

Keeping your sprint planning meetings productive isn’t just about the meetings themselves. Preparation beforehand and acting on the results of the meeting afterwards are also crucial. Let’s look at the three crucial elements of impactful sprint planning meetings. [.]

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Facilitate Celebrated Triage Meetings

Modus Create

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.

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5 Ways to Meet Customers Where They Are

Apptentive

The key to understanding your customers lies in meeting them where they are. Here are five tips to reassess your digital experience, meet customers where they are, and turn the channel into an actionable listening tool.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

Join Bob for his session where he will discuss driving your company’s “top-down” goals with a clear and well communicated “customer-up” product strategy!

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SVPMA July Meeting – Steven Haines

The Product Bistro

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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Start a Meeting From Questions

The Product Coalition

Why it is so difficult to organize a good meeting? management meetings teamwork business leadershipContinue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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The Future of Work is Asynchronous and The Death of a Meeting

The Product Coalition

asynchronous remote-working distributed-teams meetingsLast year proved that working remotely isn’t just a fad for some other hip companies that definitely don't work for us. Or something that… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Meet the Intercom team at Web Summit 2021!

Intercom, Inc.

Apply for a mentorship meeting here. We’re extremely excited to connect with the tech community – in person – at Web Summit in Lisbon from November 1st to 4th.

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Meet Your Goals with a Practical Product Strategy

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

Whether you manage a feature, a product, or a whole suite of products, you likely have some goals that you're trying to meet. But do you have a strategy? Strategy and goals are different. It's your strategy that allows you to make decisions that help you meet your goals in the first place. For example, if you want grow your revenue, your strategy may be to enter a new market - and you may decide to make your product stand out in that market by adding analytics. If you want to have an articulated strategy that you can use to make decisions, stay on-track, and meet your product goals, this is the webinar for you! Join Nils Davis, author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook, as he explains how you can get your team aligned to a practical product strategy.

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Skip Level Meetings: Twelve Questions Product Managers Can Ask Leadership

The Product Coalition

Skip level meetings are one-on-one meetings where you meet your manager’s manager. These kinds of meetings are important because… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Optimize for Respectful Remote Meetings

Johanna Rothman

I've had the pleasure—and displeasure—of many remote meetings over the past few weeks. The difficult meetings had a common root cause: the meeting leaders attempted to do a direct transfer of how they lead an in-person meeting to remote/WFH meetings.

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Intercom tour: Meet the Sydney office

Intercom, Inc.

Even a simple daily or weekly meeting will help everyone stay in the loop. In today’s episode, we’re venturing to the Harbour City to meet some of our Sydney team and find out what it’s like working over 7,000 miles from headquarters.

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#ProductboardStrikes: Meet Productboard’s first brand campaign

ProductBoard

At Productboard, we champion customer-centric product management: the practice of putting the customer at the center of all product decisions, actively seeking out customer feedback, and prioritizing based on customer needs.

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Interpreting your Qualitative & Quantitative Data through Storyboarding

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.

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Top 7 Zoom meeting Fixes

Antwak Blog

Half of our work hours are spent on digital meetings … mostly zoom meetings. Sick of creating zoom meetings every day? Fix: Create recurring meets with the same URLs. Fix: Well, you can auto-copy the invite URL when starting a meeting. Life is Digital now.

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Structured Meetings Are The Product Manager’s Secret Weapon

The Product Coalition

Meetings are a necessary evil for many. There is still no better way than a meeting to get a group of people together and make a decision in a short period of time. Yet, many of us dislike meetings. Another reason is because meetings tend to be one-directional.

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Make Sales & Product meetings a win-win

Intercom, Inc.

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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Using online whiteboards to improve your Zoom meeting experience

CardBoard

As entire organizations are moving to digital working environments, online meeting spaces are increasing in use and popularity. With online whiteboards on the rise they have been looked at as a solution to the problems the digital meeting place has created.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

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.