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410: Getting attention for a product launch – with Ken Babcock

Product Innovation Educators

When we met, we kept talking about team performance. The emotions associated with teams creating documentation, which is a conduit to sharing knowledge, were very negative. We thought about how we could shift that to a more positive experience and cut down on pain points. It takes a long time to create documentation.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

As you become more established and comfortable navigating in your position, consider trying out your solution to problems that arise. Focus on empowering your reports with the context and even provide feedback on recommended phrasing so the contributor on your team can successfully influence and navigate solutions.

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How Our Cross-Functional Teams Decide What to Build at Whispir

The Product Coalition

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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Starting A Growth Team: Ten Key Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

I hope you find this helpful: Digital product development presents incredible opportunities for us to help our customers and our colleagues. The project launched to realize his vision and his team went to work diligently. However, his team interpreted agile as implementing agile project management and development methodologies.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?