Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . Learn how to set up your roadmap for success: Building New Habits and Breaking Bad Ones. Develop effective atomic roadmapping habits can allow your team to develop a clearer product vision. Imposter syndrome.

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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

It sounds weird at first but wait… Trick 2: Bad ideas don’t always turn out that bad. For one, we automatically exclude a lot of ideas because we find them bad or useless for some reason. Re-evaluating these bad ideas can open up brand new perspectives. How To Create A Convincing Product Vision To Guide Your Team.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Phyl was on the founding team of the first company Amazon acquired back in the ’90s and then was CEO of pioneering product consulting firm Creative Good, with companies like Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft as customers. First, this process helps you develop insightful interview questions.

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

Picture this: you’re working on a project with a team of people located in different parts of the world. Even though you’re all working towards the same goal, it can feel like you’re in your own little world, disconnected from the rest of the team. Why are information silos bad for business? Another downside?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Userpilot’s feedback and analytics features allow teams to conduct concept tests and analyze data.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

Even if your product is not affected by any deadline, it may be helpful to consider dates or timeframes when developing a product roadmap, as this allows you to understand if the plan is realistic. Dates on a product roadmap are neither good nor bad in my mind. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. I hope you find this info both thought-provoking and useful. Customer focus. Communication skills.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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nulab

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Once you’ve gathered as many ideas as you can, the team works together to narrow it down until you have just the best remaining. Ideation will help you with the following things: Overcome analysis paralysis and help you and the team enter a creative mindset faster. Help the team both work and think together. Brainstorming.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. Empower teams so they come up with solutions. Develop Your Pieces. Identify and focus key weaknesses.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . What would a better option look like? Stage 6: Review the decision.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Furthermore, in order to ensure that product teams don’t become too risk averse to learn from their failures and iterate their way to success, a few cautions are warranted in evaluating product teams. The last thing that product teams need is a leader who tells them: “You either succeed or you’re out.” Watch What You Measure.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. If you’re. Storytelling.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Harvard Business Review emphasizes the importance of purpose in leadership, stating, “Leaders who are genuinely connected to their purpose can create deeply engaged teams and ignite a collective sense of purpose.” I share my answers why with my team even when it feels childish or sensitive, and encourage them to do the same.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. The best roadmap is worthless if the people required to develop, market, and sell the product don’t buy into it.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

For more: Best of Lenny’s Newsletter | Hire your next product leader | Podcast | Lennybot | Swag Subscribe now In my quest to develop a comprehensive benchmark to measure progress toward AI replacing PMs, I teamed up with full-time prompt engineer (and past collaborator) Mike Taylor on a piece that will surely blow your mind.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As guides, we want so badly to steer our teams in the right direction and toward the best possible outcomes. Other times it means you’re starting from scratch and need to move the team into alignment. Activities to try: If you need to focus or align the team, I recommend starting with this Playing Field exercise.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Get ready for a fantastic new year with my quick goal setting and year-end retrospective exercise designed specifically for product managers looking to grow their careers. That’s why I’ve put together this quick goal setting and year-end retrospective exercise specifically for product managers looking to grow their careers.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Tversky and Kahneman developed the idea of anchoring bias in their research – we know that how you set it up when communicating is how people will interpret it. Many leaders of product teams I’ve met also focus on their version of a faster elevator. You are biasing explicitly when sharing clarity of purpose.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. Teams must carefully consider if product operations solve the core problems and challenges.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs. Instead, run beta tests to be sure.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 12, 2016

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

My main purpose was to walk the manual QA testing team through Java basics so that they could continue with QA automation engineer tutor. In addition to monitoring the quality of the product on different stages, they also writing some scripts (which are codes by definition) to check the product code the developers have implemented.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . Applying this approach designed for Kanban can dramatically accelerate the forming and improvements of a Scrum team. How does work flow through the team/system? .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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