Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. Management—not the teams—often chose a Scrum board with three columns. Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? Managers don't trust the teams to do their work.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

Do you or your managers want people to be happy at work? For example, if your manager has not maintained their one-on-ones with you? You might feel stress, a lack of social relationships, worry that your job satisfaction doesn't match what your manager thinks. Did I manage to smile at some point today? My delivery.

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Managing groups. A study which explores how important it is for everyone in your team to feel individually accountable for the group’s decisions: Managing Group Decision Making Processes: Individual vs. . *

Product Research 222

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Sam Lightowler’s Advice: Use a Diagram to Demonstrate Value Meet Sam Lightowler, Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sam Lightowler , Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stepped in to share her experience. and CBC Gem. and CBC Gem.

Research Software 319

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2021

” The managers decided on the first 15 projects within 30 minutes. One of the portfolio managers asked, “How long do you need? That works best when the managers have an overarching goal. However, even if the managers don't have a common goal, most people know the most valuable work. I don't know that we can.

Leadership 125

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As product managers, we often focus on the development and success of the products we bring to market. Why Your PM Brand Matters Your personal brand as a product manager is essentially how others perceive your skills, expertise, and leadership. Define Your Unique Value Proposition What sets you apart from other product managers?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to become an emotionally fit product leader We are talking about mental health for product managers and leaders—specifically product managers moving into leadership roles and those who are already in leadership roles. We’ll call this emotionally fit leadership. ” There’s no shame in that.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers’ meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing. Jared Spool NPS article.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made.

Leadership 131

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 3, 2017

Digital Transformation, it’s all the rage, and doing a simple Google search yields a plethora of hits, from training to consultants, to the big market research companies, all weighing in. They will report to the customer’s leadership team, and provide concrete evidence of the efficacy of the solution.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Nobody rants quite like Laura Klein. Nobody rants quite like Laura Klein.

Product Research 38

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

One career path leads to management : to running teams and projects, to managing people, to creating impact through others. As a designer on the management path, a large part of my focus has been to help individual contributor (IC) designers to develop in their role. It involves hiring, retaining and empowering a team of people.

Development 223

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Productside

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Productside Stories S2 Ep4: Katheron Garcia In this episode of Productside Stories , we’re joined by Katheron Garcia, the Senior Director of Offer Management at Schneider Electric, the World’s Most Sustainable Company in 2024.

Leadership 156

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 18, 2021

People have grown jaded by claims about “ email, reinvented ”, “ project management, reinvented ”, and the like. Commissioning Forrester Consulting. Get your copy of the thought leadership paper. They want to hear it from a qualified and objective source. Enter Forrester. Ready to get started?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.].

Product Research 167

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers’ meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing.

Product Research 178

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? How do you promote gender diversity in the product management field? I’m a product manager at Dropbox , and I have been a product manager now for about just under 10 years. I’m a product manager at Stripe.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this episode, sponsored by Pendo , listen to learn about: * Product Management in transport tech. * Georgie’s ‘Product Culture, Leadership and Fintech’ feature at Mind The Product. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

Startups 185

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers’ meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing. Nick Christakis research.

Artificial Inteligence 166

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers’ meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing.

Agile 190

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A good manager balances being involved in the details and giving their people more freedom. was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. When I hired him I already had a lot of experience in people management.

Product Management 127

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2021

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, Product Leadership Consultant Anthony Marter shares with us a three-step guide for getting product discovery right, which can lead to highly motivated teams that build great products. Watch the session in full or read on for the highlights.

Product Research 174

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If If software is leading the world, then product managers are the modern-day businessmen and women,” says Brian Crofts, Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Pendo. Discovering product management. That’s a big part of my day.”.

Analytic Tools 185

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

With over 10 years of experience in product development, previously at both Elsewhen and ustwo , he has build product for both big corporates as well as startups, and he brings insights into what he believes is the future of product management. Quote of the Episode. Sebastian’s Product Coaching Framework piece at Mind The Product.

Product Research 157

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Like numerous users, I first became aware of Miro via a consultant and this channel has been really important to their growth story. Especially those who are in design, product management, etc. Designers are a good example of those and product managers. Andrey: We bet on consultants. Andrey: Exactly.

Research Software 249

Research Software Data Visualization User Testing Customer Experience 249

Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? What does it mean for us as product managers? Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. It’s a combination of user research and expert consultation.

Artificial Inteligence 184

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference. Read more » The post Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

How 6 seasoned managers tackle the biggest challenges of teamwork. In Leadership. We are so busy managing impressions that we don’t contribute to creating a better organization.”. The new manager doesn’t raise concerns about a product roll-out because he’s the newest person on the team. Related Article.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Tips for managing global innovation projects Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I speak with Jack Hsieh about successful product development strategies. Jack brings 20 years of experience managing innovation projects at companies like Sony Ericsson and Logitech.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. The people in these roles don’t always come from a product background, so they may need guidance to understand the essentials of product management and what best practices look like in the real world.

Feedback Software 219

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

As the situation escalated a few weeks ago we consulted our business continuity plans and thought hard about the challenges our business would face. The results showed that many senior engineers, engineering leadership and technical program managers felt that their productivity was negatively impacted.

Software Review 223

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2023

It was an email from Frank Maene, managing partner at Volta Venture, who had reached out to me on behalf of Thomas, the CEO of Nodalview. At the time, I had already decided to pivot my career and become a product coach, with the intention of launching a consulting firm. Hey are my eleven key takeaways from this experience.

Customer Experience 126

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. That's why I wrote a chapter about meetings in Manage It! What should the Scrum Master do?” My final problem was this: Why did anyone allow hours of discussion? These are regular facilitation skills, nothing fancy.

Leadership 89

Leadership Agile Product Goals Consulting 89

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team. Share Leadership and Credit. These are team goals that get shared across the company.

Engineering 166

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. One of these managers said, “I have so much uncertainty and ambiguity. However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. That's why a manager's decision time matters.

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