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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

He is the founder of OKRs.com, which provides resources and coaching services. The beauty of this system lies in its flexibility and focus on outcomes rather than activities. He co-authored Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement and authored The OKRs Field Book.

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518: The non-obvious way to gain organization support for your ideas – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

Ranch and Dexter Bourbon Distillery, Hall discovered that successful innovation requires a bottom-up transformation focusing first on empowering frontline employees to fix inefficiencies (“stop the stupid”), then enabling middle managers to improve systems, and finally allowing leadership to pursue bigger strategic innovations.

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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. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. 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. These system errors increased our backlog and costs, and delayed enrollments.

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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 includes Tech estimates (at least T-shirt sizing) and resources identified for the projects. This could be due to lack of product, domain, system understanding and action should be taken to address such instances soon.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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How To Create A Powerful Product Experimentation System?

The Product Coalition

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. Allocate time regularly- The only way to get enough ideas to run a high velocity testing system is to set aside time for it. How to prioritize the ideas for maximum business value?