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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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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

Becoming a product person seems to be easier with access to clear guidelines. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall? To take a step back, it is also beneficial to develop the thought process in understanding the product.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

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. Step 1: Understand the strengths and weaknesses in your product management skill set. Creating the Learning Roadmap.

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Why Product Operations is set to be the Backbone of Product-led Growth

Mind the Product

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Maintaining templates, guidelines, how-to references and resources.

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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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A Leader's Guide to Implementing OKRs

Sachin Rekhi

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. I've seen teams define new OKRs every month, every quarter, or every year. Writing Effective OKRs. Quarterly OKRs.

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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.