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

Product Talk

Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. Question: What advice do you have for companies moving from functional teams to value-driven, cross-functional squads? These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. and CBC Gem.

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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

You’ll hear from Trevor Acy , who needed to balance time for learning with bias for action and Iryna Melnyk , who saw how the opportunity solution tree could help her think through some of the challenges she was facing as a product leader. I don’t want us to come back and say, ‘Why don’t we just do this build to test thing?’”

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Competitive Demos – How to Attack Your Competitor’s Strengths

Product Management University

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. From the initial discovery meeting or demo (many times it’s the same meeting), do your best to build a strong rapport with someone that seems to favor your solution.

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3 Tiers of Customer Value in the Product Management Maturity Model

Product Management University

Your solutions have to make users “quantifiably” better at their job in ways that have measurable value to their organization. One of the biggest reasons customers buy your solutions is to eliminate organizational silos that prevent them from serving their customers more seamlessly. The Role of the Solutions Manager.

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The Power of Agreements Beyond Roles: Building a Culture of Collaboration and Organizational…

The Product Coalition

Let’s together explore the challenges of roles and responsibilities in the business world and understand how informal agreements might be the solution for more effective collaboration. Causes of role dysfunction: Operational complexity: As companies grow, tasks become more interconnected, making clear role definition challenging.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 5 of 10 – Integrating Business Processes vs. Products

Product Management University

In addition to functionality, you’re highlighting the fact that all your products reside on a common platform and the associated benefits that come with it. That would have led them to the customer business processes that are most in need of operational integration. Here’s the scenario.

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Customer Advisory Boards: Three Best Practices and the Jaw-Dropping Moments

Product Management University

Your ultimate goal with customer advisory boards is to align priorities across your portfolio to the operational business priorities of your target customers. If your solutions advance the right operational metrics for the customer, they’ll invariably deliver strategic value to the C-suite. Recruit VPs and Senior Directors.