Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. Let’s make this more concrete by looking at a popular product discovery tool, Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree (OTS). [2] Before I proceed, let me point out that I am neither

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. At some point, the results you expected and even produced in the past aren’t replicating. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. The motions reflect a need for leadership change as organizations struggle for higher performance while supporting employees.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Subway product managers have to come up with a comeback plan Image Credit: Mike Mozart I’m pretty sure that even if you didn’t know it, there are more Subway sandwich restaurants out there than there are McDonald’s restaurants. With the chain being that large, you would expect that they must be doing quite well. In the past that has been the story.

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the first post, How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1 , I explained how centralizing even relatively small decisions to centralize has high costs. Why do organizations centralize? To supposedly capitalize on “economies of scale.” That's the problem of understanding the cost of work—but not the value of that work.

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TurnKey Labs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“Why did the spreadsheet apply for a comedy club membership? It wanted to excel in humor! Now that we’ve cracked a joke, let’s dive into a topic without any punchlines – Workforce Mobility in R&D. In a world where offices are becoming as outdated as floppy disks, workforce mobility is reshaping how we innovate.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 4, 2023

From your website to the in-product experience, there are countless CRO metrics to track. But you will get confused trying to keep tabs on everything. This article provides 12 of the most important CRO metrics to help you measure growth at every step of the customer journey. For each metric, we explain what it means, why it’s important, and how to measure it.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome back to creating your strategy stack. In Part 2, we dive into establishing your organization's strategy and goals. If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. Summary of Part 1: The Mission is an ambitious and unchanging statement reflecting the company's purpose.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Data mining is the practice of sifting through large datasets to find insights you wouldn't otherwise have access to. It uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to comb through data.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Predicting results is extremely difficult in any environment, and Adam and Dave sought to acknowledge this difficulty while providing real advice around how to pivot and respond to market changes

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Today, I am excited to unveil a significant development in Modus Create’s commitment to open source — we have established Tweag as our open source program office (OSPO). Tweag is a cross-functional group to research and develop open source ideas, which ultimately inform and improve the engineering platform we offer our clients as we help them improve the developer experience.

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