ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Coping mechanisms that we use for the product systems we operate in. We ignore the changes in the system and ourselves. . And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . And that requires establishing a system that looks at who you want to become. . Why Do We Form Habits.

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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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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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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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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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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. But coming up with ideas is the easy part. There are no guarantees.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

They represent the customer’s voice and collaborate with product teams and stakeholders. The RICE framework evaluates features by weighing their Reach, Impact, and Confidence against the Effort required for development. A product manager or owner is responsible for prioritizing product features.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Great teams assemble individuals with differing skill sets, perspectives, and experiences. For example, Iron Man and Captain America leading the Avengers or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman teaming up as the Justice League. Many product teams now have their own team of super-powered individuals banding together for a common cause.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. Have a good data system. You can create a computer simulation or animation.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Regularly testing and monitoring your systems for vulnerabilities. Social engineering is a threat because it is a way for criminals and bad actors to access sensitive information by tricking people into revealing it. Poor Cyber Hygiene. Keeping operating systems and software up to date. Poor DevSecOps Practices.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability. They articulate the value of the product and make it compelling to prospects through messaging and positioning exercises. What are some key differences in priorities between PMs and PMMs?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

Myth #2: Creativity is a solo act History has done a bad job when it comes to crediting breakthrough inventions and striking creative works to a single individual, greatly neglecting any support systems or collaboration that influenced these great minds. Being creative is not about churning out new and unique things every single time.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Velocity?—?the

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

You need to understand the strengths of your team members. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Therefore, for you to be successful, your team needs to be aligned with your goals.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

The time to fix these issues could’ve been used to build new features or optimize the existing system. Bear in mind that fixing bugs without running tests could also introduce new bugs into the system. Any developer can quickly look at your tests and know the purpose of your functions. It simplifies the debugging process.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This article will teach you how to analyze qualitative data to inform product development and improve the product experience. Once you have developed a coding system, content analysis is relatively quick and easy because it’s a systematic process. Suppose product teams want to understand the reasons behind the high churn rate.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. We also use that time to work on an incubator project in small teams comprised of offering managers, developers, designers, and researchers. How did it go after you submitted your digital exercise?

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 28, 2023

Knowing a good structure is necessary, but you also need to avoid filling the good template with bad content. It isn’t obvious to many people that too much of a good thing is in fact a bad thing. If you have a team who is new to customer-facing interface design or ecommerce, they won’t know how to begin.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and Nice try #1.)

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. They include: Close.io Speed is everything.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

It is usually up to the product manager to develop this strategy for their product, because they know the most about the opportunities and threats that are present for their particular market. Weaknesses: This is usually the hardest section to fill out. Answer here: Apply Porter's Five Forces Model to a Product you have worked on 2.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. 3: Work with your AppDev team on chaos engineering and game days to simulate edge cases. Some issues such as memory leaks do not become apparent until the system has been running for a while.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 22, 2019

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. How bad would it be if this fear were realized?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 22, 2019

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. How bad would it be if this fear were realized?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. Moreover, they boost employee engagement and nurture strong team collaboration. Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. Meeting your team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. Thus, rethinking the initial identification of a key problem area with more than one response to the stated problem is of utmost importance to those doing strategy work (a form of systems thinking).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The one thing an MBO system should provide par excellence is focus. The exercise of backlog prioritization forces us to diverge and analyze all the ideas and stories to achieve our objectives. It also gives visibility to the team and internal stakeholders nurturing our view with theirs. It’s extremely easy to say yes.

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iTexico Design

JULY 16, 2019

Creating a structure that caters to the needs of the user while fundamentally exercising a fluid, supportive structure that exercises the best aspects of an app may sound challenging, but the process itself is deceivingly simple. If you’ve ever used a ruled notebook in school, then you have firsthand experience with a grid system.

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