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martinmichalikCollaborator

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Updating stakeholders monthly on the product progress

Hi all,I am in the middle of preparing a new monthly report format for the executive team that would briefly update them on the roadmap progress/development org. The goal of the report is to provide them with high-level information (sync) that are relevant for other departments (sales, marketing, customer success) without going unnecessary deep, but detailed enough to trigger action in their departments if needed. It is going to be a complementing update to a quarterly roadmap/direction/objectives update.My requirements are:5 slides or less (<15 min of time to go through) 2 hour or less to prepare understandable for all rolesDoes anyone have any experience with similar report? What did (not) work for you in the past? What information did you include, what information was unnecessary?Thanks a lot.

18 hours ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

Product Makers Group Leader: Catherine Carney

Meet @ccarney who’s one of our Product Makers Group Leaders. 🎉We’re excited to have Catherine helping us out with our Product Operations group!Get to know CatherineI was a Product Manager and Product Owner before moving into ProdOps at data access and data security company Immuta. Now my goal is to set up processes and practices that will help Immuta’s product management team scale up and work smoothly with the rest of the organization. I think a productive and smooth-running process is a beautiful thing.Why did you want to get involved as a Group Leader?ProdOps is a relatively new function, and I have spent some time puzzling over what should be the scope of my role and how to do it well. I would like to help provide a supportive community of people facing similar challenges.Where do you hope to contribute? One of my first tasks as a product operations manager was to implement Productboard, which was a great introduction to the ProdOps world. I hope to share lessons learned and get p

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22 hours ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in Talk product

Featured Maker: Viktoria Davidova

This is part of our ongoing series profiling some of our community members at Product Makers. If you’re interested in reading others, check out our previous Featured Makers.This week we’re featuring @vvdavidova, Product Manager at Hello Retail.Starting in ProductHow'd you get started making products that matter?Funny enough, I didn’t know what career path I wanted to take. I studied programming for eight years and dreamed of either being a developer or a 3D artist working in the animation industry. After I graduated, I was saying ‘YES’ to any internship or job I could get my hands on. As a person who relocated from abroad to chase a degree, I wanted to find my place and try luck in a foreign country.When I finally got a full-time job I ended up in Marketing, climbed the ladder there, and eventually took on project management. Around that time, I got a taste of product management and decided to move into that role as I absolutely loved it. Like most people new to product management, I d

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3 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

This week in the community - Sep 25, 2022

Here’s what’s happening this week in our Product Makers community:🤞RememberGet registered for our Product Excellence Summit happening Oct 4, 2022 online and in-person in San Francisco Share your thoughts on compensation and take our 2022 salary survey Take our 2022 Product Excellence Survey and get a free ticket to INDUSTRY virtual happening on Oct. 18, 2022.📆 MondayRead our latest Featured Maker profile featuring @vvdavidova👉 TuesdayJoin our weekly Productboard 101 training (Europe and North America)🐋 WednesdayJoin our academy session on how to roll out Productboard to other teams (Europe and North America) - great for admins and folks working in Product Operations roles.💬 ThursdayJoin Matt Wallaert, behavioural scientist at frog, for a discussion on science, pressures, and the structured processes that redefine what the product discipline is and can be in this colorful talk full of real-world examples from a variety of industries. Register now. Join our weekly Productboard offic

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3 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

This week in the community - Sep 18, 2022

Here’s what’s happening this week in our Product Makers community:🤞RememberGet registered for our Product Excellence Summit happening Oct 4, 2022 online and in-person in San Francisco Share your thoughts on compensation and take our 2022 salary survey Take our 2022 Product Excellence Survey and get a free ticket to INDUSTRY virtual 📆 MondayIf you’re in Cleveland, come say hi at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference 2022 👋 Our team will be there, make sure you stop by our booth in the expo hall.👉 TuesdayCatch Anthony Murphy’s webinar Prioritization is not the problem; your product strategy is Read a great product article, book, or listened to a product podcast episode that you want to share? Add a new topic to Reads & Listens and let us know. Catch our weekly Productboard 101 training (Europe)🐋 WednesdayJoin our book club discussion for Marty Cagan’s Inspired.💬 Thursday Join us as Katia Suchkova and Daniil Pavliuchkov will share a scalable leadership framework they've built and ste

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4 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in Talk product

Register today for Product Excellence Summit - Oct 4, 2022

Register today for our 2022 Product Excellence Summit happening on October 4, 2022.This year we’ll be both live streaming virtually and in-person at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. Catch keynotes from top product thought leaders over two session tracks, learn best practices, and hear firsthand stories and insights into how others are creating products that customers love.Not able to make it? Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording post-event.

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6 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

posted in Reads & listens

Emoji’s in product communication

Adobe released its 2022 emoji report today. 😂 took first place followed by 👍❤️🤣 and 😢 Apparently 🤠is the most misunderstood and many don’t see themselves reflected in emoji. How do emojis show up in your work as product makers? Are they part of your communication toolkit? An embedded part of your culture? And do they help you more effectively communicate?

8 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

posted in Talk product

Crowdsourcing: Getting started in product

Crowdsourcing for a friend. If you were new to product, where would you direct them to start their journey? What resources would you suggest?

12 days ago

Andrew FragiasProduct Makers Ambassador

posted in Talk product

Who internally are you more inclined to source feedback from?

Both Customer Success and Sales have roles in gauging what the market is asking for and needing. But before making key decisions and conducting research do you tend to turn to Customer Success or Sales first? Why would you turn to this group first and what weighting do you value their feedback over the other?

12 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

This week in the community - Sep 11, 2022

Here’s what’s happening this week in our Product Makers community:📆 MondayMeet a Maker marches go out today. Share your thoughts by taking our 2022 salary survey Get registered for our Product Excellence Summit happening Oct 4, 2022 online and in-person in San Francisco Take our 2022 Product Excellence Survey and get a free ticket to INDUSTRY virtual👉 TuesdayCatch Christina Wodtke’s session on how to make OKRs effective in your organization at Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley (this is an online event and Productboard is a sponsor) Join our weekly Productboard 101 training (Europe and North America) Read a great product article, book, or listened to a product podcast episode that you want to share? Add a new topic to Reads & Listens and let us know.🐋 WednesdayJoin our monthly Product Makers Roundtable for September (space is limited) Our academy will be running a session on roadmaps for Sales and CS (Europe and North America)💬 ThursdayJJ Rorie will be joining us to chat

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12 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in Talk product

The dangerous animals of product management

It’s a zoo out there! Find out how to influence without authority and manage the challenging stakeholders in your life in Productboard's new ebook and video series.Get your copy of our updated ebook and check out the five new animals we’ve added.PUFFIN (Plans Unending Feature Factory Initiatives) GOOSE (Guesstimating Overly Optimistic Scheduling Estimates) PUMA (Promotes Unusually Meaningless Assumptions) CoBRA (Cognitive Bias Related Assertions) YAK (Yet Another KPI)Which dangerous animal do you come across the most?

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12 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

posted in News & announcements

Today's event with JJ Rorie

Unfortunately, Zoom is currently experiencing issues globally. As such we’ll be unable to run today’s webinar with JJ Rorie and will re-schedule. For those that registered, we will loop back over email with further guidance. Our apologies.

13 days ago

jenn.smithProductboard

published in Talk product

Product survival kit - roadmap prioritization

A poorly-constructed roadmap leads to team misalignment and costly product delivery delays. Get the product survival kit on roadmap prioritization to learn how to develop a winning roadmap and strengthen your overall product development process.

13 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

This week in the community - Sep 5, 2022

Here’s what’s happening this week in our Product Makers community:📆 MondayShare your thoughts by taking our 2022 salary survey👉 TuesdayJoin our weekly Productboard 101 training (Europe and North America)🐋 WednesdayCheck our our Academy sessions on quarterly planning (Europe and North America)💬 ThursdayChris Daniel joins us to talk about Wardley Maps and how to use them to quickly identify points that derail your short and long-term strategy Join our weekly coaching office hours (Europe and North America)📌 FridayWe’ll wrap things up, say hi to our new joiners

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19 days ago

dottieProductboard

published in Talk product

Take the 2022 Product Excellence Survey & get a free ticket to INDUSTRY virtual

Calling all product managers! 📣 Let’s learn from each other. Take a 5-minute survey from Productboard and Product Collective to help define the state of modern product management.What are the biggest challenges faced by the product community? How are product managers and leaders dealing with current state of the economy and other macro forces? Share your thoughts and receive a free ticket to INDUSTRY Virtual: The Product Conference (a $99 value)! Take the Survey We’ll email a copy of the comprehensive report when it goes live!

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21 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

Maker Matters - Sep 2022

Welcome to the September edition of Maker Matters, a monthly digest about our Product Makers community.Product thoughtSeptember often feels like the official start of the year. There’s a lot of looking back and looking forward that starts around here. Inevitably these will include the final push for sales and product growth over the remaining months of the year; as well as the real conversations about what the year ahead will look like, who you need in your team, and conversations cross-functionally on where or where not to play.Product strategy has got to be one of the most important, yet misunderstood topics in produt. Perhaps some of that comes from there being so many different ways to tackle this effort. The basics are grounded in knowing the needs of your target market intrinsically sets you up to create a product that can meet those needs and will help you establish your product’s vision and a roadmap of how you’ll get there. A product strategy is a key tool and sets a direction

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22 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

This week in the community - Aug 28, 2022

Here’s what’s happening this week in our Product Makers community:📆 MondayOur Meet a Maker matches go out. Keep an eye out and make sure you book time to connect with your match.👉 TuesdayTake a moment and share some of your favourite product-related reads and listens that you’ve come across recently. Join our Academy team for Productboard 101 training (Europe and North America)🐋 WednesdayLearn everything you need to know about making data-driven prioritization decisions with Productboard (Europe and North America)💬 Thursday@Michel Hauzeur joins us to talk about how a go-to-market strategy affects your product lifecycle Join our Academy coaching office hours (Europe and North America) Keep an eye out for our salary survey that we’ll be running over September as we help you get insights in the changing job landscape for product and product-related roles.📌 FridayIf you’re in our book club share your thoughts on our weekly discussion topic and get registered for our September wrap up

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26 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

Take our 2022 Product Makers salary survey

What does a good salary look like in product? How do you know if you are being paid a reasonable and competitive compensation? We’re looking to better understand the product landscape from a compensation perspective so everyone can make informed choices when having those discussions. Let’s work together to find out.Survey closes November 30. We’ll make the results available in early 2023!Take the survey

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27 days ago

Parveen DownerQuestioner

posted in Talk product

How to get developers excited about product work

Hello lovely product community!I am currently at a point in some medium term product planning that provides an opportunity for developers to get involved in (voicing tech work that needs to be done alongside feature work, aiding in the sequencing and estimation and prioritisation of these pieces of work).Our developers have been asking to be more involved in the planning process and we as a product team are taking every possible opportunity to do this in an organised manner.However, this is resulting in developers not voicing their opinions or gripes in an open (safe!) forum, and a huge lack of engagement.I would love to know what techniques folks here use to get development teams more engaged in the planning phases of the roadmap and sequencing of work.Happy to provide more context (but don’t want to write a blog post 😂)

30 days ago

MmcclainCollaborator

posted in Talk product

Small team with a SaaS web app - when to hire a designer? / another role?

Hi! I work at a pretty small SaaS software company with long experience with our legacy Windows-based app in an industrial space. Currently, we are working on this B2B / Enterprise web application as a next-generation system for the same market. Not exactly a startup, but this is a big next step for the company to stay relevant.🤔 I was inspired by a recent post about PM:Engineering ratio from @rajiv.tanna Our company is less than 30 people including two marketing people, a handful of salespeople, a very small customer success team (focused on the legacy product), and support and engineering teams (again, the legacy product). And then the 4-person Executive team.So our team is:1 PM (me) who is doing Roadmap Backlog authoring (Product Owner-type role) “Business Analyst” work (?) Sprint demos to Sales and Exec team All the stuff you do in Productboard Authoring more of the Help Content A bunch of the testing 1 Director of Engineering AKA Engineering Lead Architect, Pull Request r

30 days ago

vvdavidovaQuestioner

posted in Talk product

Opinions on pre-mortem meetings

Hi Product Makers! I hope this is the correct place for my topic, if not- please let me know 😁Anyway.. as the name of this discussion topic suggests- I am interested in hearing your opinions on pre-mortem meetings. Feel free to share your experiences: the good and the bad. Has it been helpful? How? Did it fail in any way? Why? I am interested in learning more, and if not here, with so many talented people in the field- I don’t know where! 😊Let’s discuss!

30 days ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

Maker Matters - Aug 2022

Welcome to the August edition of Maker Matters, a monthly digest about our Product Makers community.Community updatesI just got back from vacation, so this issue of our monthly digest is a bit delayed. August tends to be a quiet month in product (and communities) as many folks take time off, but here’s a quick look at what happened in July and what’s coming up.Maker MentorWe launched our mentoring program in July. We have over 40 folks matched for July, August, and September as part of our first cohort. We weren’t able to match all mentees with a mentor though and would love to see more folks get involved in this opportunity to help build the capabilities of others working in product. Our second cohort kicks off in October with an even bigger group, so there’s still time to get involved as a mentor or mentee. Learn more about the Maker Mentor program.EventsMake sure you check out some of our September community events: September 1 - How a go-to-market strategy affects your product life

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1 month ago

Andrew FragiasProduct Makers Ambassador

posted in Talk product

Attention Boston Product Makers

Come and join the new Product Makers Boston Community group so we can share thoughts, experience and get to know everyone https://www.productmakers.com/groups/boston-bos-181 plenty of special events soon to come and would love to have you all apart of it

1 month ago

scott.baldwinCommunity Lead

published in News & announcements

Product Makers Group Leader: Ashley Vetter

Meet @Ashley V. who’s one of our Product Makers Group Leaders. 🎉We’re excited to have Ashley helping us out with our Product Operations group!Get to know AshleyAshley is a Senior Product Operations Manager at Bloomreach. Originally from California, Ashley relocated to London, UK, in 2018. During the last ten years at Bloomreach, she has served in several roles, including QA, Product Analyst, Documentation, and Program Management, but it wasn’t until she stepped into Product Operations that she found her calling. Ashley is passionate about creating and nurturing efficiency, process, and organization among teams, and through Product Operations, she can do just that. When she’s not creating new processes, Ashley can be found traveling and exploring new places, working out in the gym, or reading self-development books.Why did you want to get involved as a Group Leader? I was recently introduced to the Product Makers community when my company rolled out Productboard. I was immediately draw

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1 month ago

rajiv.tannaQuestioner

posted in Talk product

Product:Engineering ratio

Hi All,I am looking to validate our Product to Engineering ratio - could people share any data point they have from their startups?Raj

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