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Setting up Product Teams for Success

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Teams: Benefits and Challenges A product team is a group of people who collaborate effectively, have ownership of a product , and are responsible for achieving product success. 2] Unfortunately, its not uncommon for product teams to struggle.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

The second line names the skills areas the learning goals belong to, which I’ll cover in more detail in the next section. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Close the meeting.

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app. Are there any bloggers or journalists whose names keep coming up? RESEARCH APP SUBMISSION GUIDELINES.

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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. Negative motivation : explain to them that if they don’t grow, something bad will happen. don’t always find it easy to try new things or challenge themselves.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Offshore Development: Pluses and Minuses for Product Managers

Mind the Product

As a product manager who has managed offshore development teams, I’ve learned that it’s not easy, and that having engineering teams on the other side of the world is not always congruent with delivering great products. This is a 12-and-a-half-hour time difference between the local office and these teams.