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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

90% of executives say they prefer visual storytelling over dense reports. Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. When people see the vision, they align faster.

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11 Best Customer Success Tools in 2024 (for Startups to Enterprises)

Userpilot

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. That’s where CSM tools come in, to proactively manage all of the above and more. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. But that’s okay, because once we know where the weak spots are, we can fix them. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Moving from Solutions to Problems

Folding Burritos

What we want is to create a culture where stakeholders come to us with problems, rather than ready-made ideas and solutions (i.e. Yet, I wanted to dig deeper into this issue by focusing on: The reasons why a Solution-first culture makes your life harder; A “framework” to drive stakeholders to think in terms of Problems. features.).

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5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

Roman Pichler

John mentions the upcoming product release and says, “You really must add the enhanced reporting feature. You know, though, that it is impossible to add the feature to the development effort. The dev team is struggling with the current workload, and moving the date is not an option. Don’t Feel Bad about Saying No.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software?

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Treat Your Product Team Like a Product

The Product Guy

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.