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392: How uncovering customer pains and unmet needs led to launching a rapidly growing product – with Matt Danna

Product Innovation Educators

His professional career has entirely involved product roles, most often as Product VP or Head of Product. During his experience he became aware of an opportunity to better serve small businesses that needed to frequently make and manage client appointments. 2:35] What early experiences caused you to be interested in creating products?

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

“Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” We talk about value and business cases and backlogs instead of bluntly saying that “this customer request is an outlier, so I’ll never put it into my plan.” It certainly feels that way.

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Squads Done Right: Mastering Modern Team Dynamics

The Product Coalition

When I introduced the notion of cross-functional, empowered product teams, the CEO said it was exactly what they needed and immediately created a task force with three VPs to lead the change: the VP of Product, the VP of Engineering, and the VP of HR. Put the engineering structure aside for now.

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Remote Work: Ways to Think About “Fair” Compensation and Benefits

Johanna Rothman

Before the pandemic, Jenny, the VP of Engineering, insisted that the engineering staff needed to work in the Boston area. And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Focus On Releasing Products Customers Want to Buy. Reduced cycle time. And a good customer experience.

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What is the Role of a Technical Program Manager?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

They must be able to make prudent decisions when it comes to how to best apply an organization's time, resources, and personnel to achieve some end. Previous experience managing people may be very helpful in this regard. Primarily, TPMs work extensively with the engineering teams in their organization.

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Insider Secrets for High Impact Growth with Sean Ellis

Bryce York

But came back for the first time in 30 years to speak at SydStart 2015? The biggest cost of an out of sync team – wasted effort. That time and energy was wasted because everyone wasn’t on the same page. Wasted effort means you’re not using resources efficiently. Goal : Improve new user activation.