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14 tips to help you run a successful product design workshop

Intercom, Inc.

Collaboration comes in many flavors, from small informal working sessions and group critiques to full-blown workshops. What are product design workshops? Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome.

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Strategic Portfolio Management 3 of 10 – How To Use a Portfolio Vision to Lead Products

Product Management University

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. That’s why it’s referred to as your North Star. It never changes!

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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My Product Strategy Model

Roman Pichler

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? Figure 1: My Product Strategy Model. Four Artefacts.

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Spark Innovation With Your Team: Three Workshop Formats To Help

The Product Coalition

Doing so has a ton of benefits, including: More competitive edge: Concerted efforts around creativity and innovation allow your teams to develop new products/services that better meet customer needs and help keep you ahead of the competition. To uncover this information, I recommend a Problem-framing and Idea Generation Workshop.

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Reinventing our wheel: The vision behind Intercom’s new Messenger

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we’ve reinvented different parts of our product many times over the years – most recently, our Messenger. This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. All products follow the same life cycle: development, growth, maturity, decline. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Opportunities at trivago

Product Talk

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. This is why Teresa talks about continuous discovery in terms of forming new habits. It’s not so much about becoming perfect at continuous discovery (because there really isn’t such a thing). Have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share with Product Talk readers?