Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

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. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. You are only as strong as the weakest link in your privacy ecosystem.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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svpg

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. And ultimately, should more product teams work harder to actively bring in women product managers?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. You started with a small team, and your way of being agile seems to start working. There seems to be a belief?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A cross-functional?—?be

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Atlassian

JANUARY 28, 2022

It also shortchanges your team by denying them opportunities for professional growth. That means they’re missing out on the tremendous value and opportunities that delegating would provide to them and to their team members. When you fail to delegate, you’re not only cheating yourself, you’re cheating your team. 5-second summary.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  Project teams that ship v1.0  Yet somehow we don’t see this waste, or mis-attribute it to engineering process problems.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

. – Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. I’ll do my best to update it as the technology evolves. I recommend teams conduct story-based customer interviews to discover opportunities and run assumption testing to discover the right solutions. Take a minute and suppose you were on the search team.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. And they’re right.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2020

What then are the implications of ML products for team structure, focus, and hiring? Or maybe your core product is the machine learning, making recommendations and predictions for healthcare, security, ad tech or other applications. Whether the data is good or bad, once interventions are made a counterfactual problem arises.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? This can help in gauging software adoption , detecting shadow IT, and optimizing the tech stack for better ROI. WalkMe offers a drag-and-drop editor for non-technical users and supports both mobile and web applications. Or bad, because it adds unnecessary complexity? WalkMe Pricing.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These business applications include everything from education, e-commerce, travel, communications, healthcare, job training, and data visualization, to almost anything else you can imagine. NASA is using VR to train astronauts and technicians as well as for planning missions and simulating life on Mars.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Without training, it’s like being a trash collector sinking in quicksand, with lunatics lobbing stuff at you.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. It’s not just about adopting the latest gadgets, but about using technology to drive meaningful change and achieve specific business goals. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Today, there's a rather substantial talent gap in the tech industry. As the 21st century continues to roll on, an increased need for tech and computing professionals will continue to grow, widening the tech talent gap even further. So this begs the question: is Lambda School worth the money, in the end?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s not just that more diverse teams are more effective and more profitable ( though they are ); but, as Karen Peacock, our CEO, says , “It’s just the right thing to do.”. We all know that it can be incredibly difficult to call out microaggressions or biases when you see them, particularly when you believe they weren’t meant in bad faith.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. It turns out that hypergrowth is less about hiring people and more about creating onboarding and training processes and opportunities.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Expect account-level distrust, bad blood, and a search for who’s to blame.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

QA specialists face more and more challenges during the work: the volume of tests rises while technologies dynamically change. To optimize the workflow and keep up with the changing technologies, they need to apply completely new methods, such as testing automation and go deeper into programming.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again.

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Product Management Unpacked

JUNE 23, 2020

A look into cloud-based technology product management and what it takes to build products that customers value. If something bad happens locally, like an office losing power, having a copy of important data somewhere else isn’t enough. Grone highlights how he’s working to help make jobs easier for different teams.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

It’s driven by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, and nothing has captured attention quite so effectively since social media hit the scene promising free technology to get closer to their customers. Right now, enterprise companies are thinking about how they can scale proven use cases with less technical knowledge to drive business goals.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

I teach teams that business outcomes are derived from your business model. My business model formula looked something like this: # of teams in my coaching program x price per team. Increasing the number of teams that I coach would increase both revenue and impact. I can only work with so many teams at once.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2018

Sue is an engineering lead on a team and Tom is the product manager. Not surprisingly, Tom, Sue and team are under a lot of pressure to get this world-changing product out the door. In today’s team meeting the debate escalated into an argument. Meet Sue and Tom. The potential is HUGE! It can happen so easily.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Commitments from Product/Development are assumed to be on schedule.  Custom

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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