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Motivating Development Teams

Mironov Consulting

But the symptoms aren’t so obvious to the outbound (and extroverted) part of the company. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. And first prize is a Cadillac.

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A Product Manager’s Approach to Building Integrations for SaaS Software

Mind the Product

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. In fact, integrations can often derail product roadmaps, so it is imperative for product managers to plan them well. Prioritize Long-term Roadmaps Ahead of Quick Hacks.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

Userpilot

They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. It tells your product team what they need to do to build a product that satisfies the needs of a specific group of users, and contributes to the realization of the company objectives. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. Source: Pragmatic Institute.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.