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Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

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That’s certainly the case for Kelsey Terry , who’s sharing her story in today’s Product in Practice. In her former role as Director of Product at Going (formerly known as Scott’s Cheap Flights), Kelsey was tasked with running a pilot product trio. In fact, Kelsey and her team faced many challenges along the way.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

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When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes

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Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. They keep the team aligned as they manage the messy cycles of continuous discovery. What is an opportunity solution tree? What are the benefits of using an opportunity solution tree? How do you find opportunities?

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The Power of Opportunity Solution Trees: 7 Key Benefits Revealed

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Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. The root of the tree is your desired outcome—the business need that reflects how your team can create business value. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. Next is the opportunity space.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights. Takeaways: Uncover and navigate through common pitfalls that are plaguing product teams today.

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

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The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Product in Practice: Shifting from a Feature Factory to Continuous Discovery at Doodle

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Leading a product team (or several teams) comes with its own set of challenges that’s often similar to but distinct from the hurdles individual product contributors face. And if you’re trying to guide your teams toward being more empowered and autonomous, this is a process that takes dedicated time and commitment.

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3 Templates for Uncomplicating Your Product Management Process

In this workbook, you’ll find a comprehensive set of templates product development and cross-functional teams can adopt to better leverage your existing skills and your data to: Identify the problem to solve. Design a solution. Test and review your hypotheses. Iterate and improve.

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How Product Managers Can Learn to Love Reporting

Speaker: Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager, Looker

For a long time, Product Managers have found it challenging to design interfaces inside their products that users could use for reporting. Fortunately, there are new technical approaches that are making this a significantly different picture, although there are still lots of interesting design challenges.

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How to Empower Your Users So You Can Create a Great Product

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Product people often feel stuck in the middle. However, nobody, not even the product people, can know the future. They also know that users suffer from several problems which range from fake certainty about the solution to not even knowing what they want. They’re supposed to have all the answers.

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The Secret Formula to Staying Customer Conscious During Late-Stage Product Development

Speaker: Jordan Kyriakidis, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO of QRA Corp

It will not come as a surprise to any product manager that teams are always dealing with issues during their product cycle. Product teams must understand that, in real life, the design phase and the building phase are almost always happening simultaneously.