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Mergers & Acquisitions in Product Management: How to Navigate Growth & Integration

Productside

In this edition of Productside Stories , we dig into Brians 30-year legacy of building, integrating, and supercharging product portfolios across healthcare, software, media, and government. The pivot to customer list acquisition worked out eventually, but only because they discovered the real story during diligence, not after.

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Treat Your Product Team Like a Product

The Product Guy

With the engineering team being offshore and no group touch points outside of the daily standup, there was little in-depth conversation about implementation or actual scope of work. Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. Long standups.

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476: Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews – with Wayne Fisher, PhD, and David Matheson, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

This discussion is with two speakers who did a joint session, Dr. Wayne Fisher and Dr. David Matheson, whose session is titled “Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews.” He cofounded SmartOrg, which provides software and services to support decision-making and managing uncertainty. But that’s not all.

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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Treat the team as a valued partner and recognise the effort the group made.

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Identifying Stakeholders for Product Success

The Product Guy

Maybe you have already experienced large meetings with a lot of people who are considered stakeholders which results in managing complex communications due to the number attendees (20-25+). A small group helps to explain the situation to your stakeholders and leads to better communications in both directions.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit.

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Bought-in and paid for: how Atlassian bridge the gap from freemium to enterprise sales

Intercom, Inc.

Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales. The beauty of the freemium model in an enterprise setting is that the supplier due diligence process is already much further along. Listen to the full episode above or check out Kristen’s key takeaways below.