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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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A Leader's Guide to Metrics Reviews

Sachin Rekhi

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. LinkedIn had two such meetings: the first was a member value meeting focused on the consumer experience, and the second was a monetization meeting covering each of the company's business lines. Why metrics reviews matter.

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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data. The pressure of meeting my deadlines while maintaining my daily tasks became daunting.

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Setting up Product Teams for Success

Roman Pichler

Which roles and skills , both task-oriented and social, are required to meet the goals and fulfil the responsibilities? Youd be forgiven to think that the launch essentially consists of the kick-off meeting. Do they meet regularly, and are the meetings effective? What are the teams purpose and goals ? Has the team jelled?

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These “Best Practices” Are Slowly Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

If your meetings are full of nodding heads and no pushback, youre not making progressyoure just circling the familiar. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. Innovation thrives when teams feel empowered to say, What if were wrong? and pursue the answers.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. This could be due to lack of product, domain, system understanding and action should be taken to address such instances soon. This could also be due to stringent processes or lack of the same. Soft Skills Required for the Role.

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Three Reasons to Insist on Outcome-Based Planning

The Product Coalition

When I was Head of Product at eBay, one of my primary responsibilities was to lead and build eBay’s new catalog system. We spent months defining how the new catalog system should work. I’ll just say that it was a totally different concept than the existing system’s one. That’s just one of the challenges we had.