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ashivory
ashivoryProduct Makers Ambassador
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Adult ADHD - Super relevant to Product Managers!

Recently I’ve been going through the process of being diagnosed with adult ADHD, it seems off topic at first but a lot of quirks from having ADHD are also what make me a great product manager, interesting listen all round, especially if you are also working on products that help people focus!  https://www.alieward.com/ologies/adhd 

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ashivory
16 days ago
magalipelissier
magalipelissierCollaborator
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Working with legal counsels

If you're already a PM, then you may have experienced this.Waiting on your legal team to approve T&Cs, a disclaimer, a screen or a functionality... or worse: not being able to release because your legal counsel says your feature poses a legal risk 😫 As product managers, we often leave legal reviews to the very end of the development cycle, resulting in frustration for both product and legal teams. What if we could partner with our lawyers and collaborate to design better products? Listen to this episode with Gabriela Porto, Head of Compliance at Flo health, a women's health app. I am curious to see if this resonates with people in this community. Have you had challenges as a PM with your legal team? Has the episode inspired you to work better with them?

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magalipelissier
17 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Listen: How a twitter edit button might change the way you tweet

I listened to this entertaining NPR interview last week and it's even more relevant after yesterday's news that Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's offer to buy the company. So, where do you stand on editing tweets? Yay or nay?

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e_jenkins77
19 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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6 actionable tips for better product prioritization

Want to continue to explore the topic of prioritization after last week’s event with @Andrew Fragias? Read these tips from Productboard Group Product Manager @Sophie Lalonde on how to create a strategic and systematic approach to prioritization. 📖

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VojtěchBruk
21 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Post: Product management conferences to check out in 2022

In this new blog post, Melissa Suzano shares a list of 51 product management conferences to check out in 2022. Are you considering attending any product management conferences in 2022? Please drop a comment below and let us know where you are heading! 

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ashivory
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Podcast recommendation: Acquired

Looking for an informative and entertaining podcast? Check out Acquired. Acquired shares how some of the great companies in tech were founded, grown, and in some cases, acquired. My favorite episodes have been The Atlassian IPO and The Complete History and Strategy of DoorDash.Are you a fan of Acquired? Please let me know what episode to check out next!

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Find the expert six levels down

Michael Lewis’ podcast Against the Rules, had a great episode recently on how Athenahealth truly got to the root understanding of a problem by recognizing the overlooked experts.This story about “finding the L6” (the real expert) is gold. True product excellence is about truly understanding the problem and getting to a great solution.

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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How 383 used Productboard and Mixpanel to enable Busy Bees to develop an industry-first digital platform

I enjoyed reading this post, which shares how 383 used Productboard and Mixpanel to help their client generate 1.2 million content views and 10,000 downloads in the first two weeks of launching their app. It's inspiring to read about teams coming together to make a life-changing product for families worldwide.

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Kate Leto on imposter syndrome

Kate Leto has a great two-part series of blog posts on imposter syndrome. Worth a read, especially for product leaders.Part 1: https://www.kateleto.com/articles/imposter-syndromePart 2: https://www.kateleto.com/articles/impostor-syndrome-2

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
2 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Podcast: Product thinking with Melissa Perri

Last week I listened to several episodes of Product Thinking with Melissa Perri. I enjoyed her perspectives on when to ship a product, career advice for new PMs, and her conversation with John Cutler on product education and career challenges. Have you listened to Product Thinking? What other episodes should I be sure to check out? 🎧

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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'Flexible Hours' often mean more work—especially for women

Here's a fascinating interview with sociologist Heejung Chung, author of The Flexibility Paradox. In her book, Chung shares that "when workers are given flexibility, they generally work harder and longer—and they think more about work during non-work time.""One analysis of 32,000 German workers found that those with control over their schedules logged four additional hours of overtime a week compared with people on fixed schedules."The interview has some insights and recommendations that are important to keep in mind as so many of us remain working from home and enjoying flexible hours. 💼

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Tuesday reads and listens - Mar 8, 2022

A few things I’ve stumbled on this week and loved ❤️ Joey Banks’ Figma training keeps coming in handy for little things, especially since I don’t use Figma every day. An old one but still interesting is Steven Sinofsky’s post on reaching peak meeting efficiency. Brad Dunn has a fun side series on how to be a human. This Notion page on writing without bullshit was helpful. Listened to Rick Neuman talk about the value of great teams having clear communication and focus in this episode from the Product Science podcast. 

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
2 months ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Tuesday reads and listens - March 1, 2022

Here’s a few of my favourite reads and listens this week:This oldie but goodie on decision-making roles came up in my bookmarks this week after a friend called me looking for some resources. The RAPID framework -- recommend, agree, perform, input, and decide -- can be super helpful in resolving conflict and bottlenecks. I also like DACI (which you can learn about in this article from Atlassian’s team playbook) if you’re looking for another perspective. I wrote previously about the first 90 days for product managers, but have been re-reading Will Larson’s book’s — An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer and was drawn back to his excellent article on the first 90 days as a CTO or VP of Engineering which still has a lot of crossover with what it takes to be successful as a product leader as well. This article on how big tech runs projects without Scrum was fascinating as a read. I’ve worked for a few organizations now where the rigour of Scrum has been eased and I liked the focus here on out

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
2 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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8 empowering reads on diversity

This week I’m making my way through this reading list recently shared by the Productboard team. 🤓  The list highlights eight reads from women leading the crusade for more diversity in product management. If you have a chance to check it out please let me know which piece resonates with you! 📖

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Tuesday reads and listens - Feb 22, 2022

A short week this week with the holiday here in Canada and the US, so just a couple things to share:This article from Teresa Torres dives into her perspectives on who’s responsible for what in the product trio. I particularly liked that she called out that the whole team needs to be responsible and the example of the risks of putting roles at odds with one another when we don’t consider all the risks collectively. I enjoyed this blog post from Atlassian’s Work Life site on psychological safety including some of the tips for creating safety in the content of remote teams.What are you reading or listening to that’s you can share with our community?

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
2 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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2022.1 Product Release: How I Built This Webinar

For this week's Reads & Listens share, I want to highlight an upcoming Productboard webinar that you won't want to miss.In this first ‘How I Built This’ webinar, the Productboard team will share all the new features they have launched this quarter to help you synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights faster and make better customer-centric decisions.If you're a product maker who wants to grow faster and go faster, this is the webinar for you. See you there!

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Tuesday reads and listens - Feb 15, 2022

A few of my favourite reads and listens for this week:We hear a lot about PMs being busy, so I really liked this article on calendar reviews from our friend Rich Mironov and the value of playing some calendar tetris -- blocking out time for recruiting and interviews and dedicated focus time. I’ve been a long-time fan of blocking things out in my calendar, but also liked the advice around taking a meeting a week to improve on. I came across this article in my travels this week about how to master pre-mortems. Gary Klein, who is known as the inventor of these things, but they can be a great method for removing bias and how these can help folks improve their ability to correctly identify future outcomes by up to 30% I really enjoyed this episode of Brave New Work podcast on conscious leadership and the value of being responsive vs. reactive, present rather than in the past or future, and just a better all-round leader. I’m still distilling the many ideas and insights from it into my role

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
3 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Post share: Storytelling techniques for product leaders

I loved all the actionable advice in this inspiring blog post by Petra Wille. It was such a great reminder of the power of storytelling when you need to stand out in the crowd or inspire people to take action. It reminded me of Hook Point by Brendan Kane, which I have wanted to read for some time. Do you have a favorite book or resource on storytelling that you would recommend? 

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
3 months ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Tuesday reads and listens - Feb 8, 2022

Here’s a few of my latest favourite product reads and listens this week:Deb Liu shared a great post on making your first 90 days in product count - I particularly liked the structure of the template shared with a mix of learning, aligning, and executing. What have you used for your 30/60/90s when joining a new company in a product-related role? I recently discovered that Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz have a podcast around design leadership (they were two of the co-founders at Adaptive Path back in the days) and I love it. p.s. there isn’t a published version in your podcasting tool of choice, but there is a URL you can use to add a direct feed on this page. Our Head of Strategic Partnership @Billy.Robins recently shouted out this talk from Max Yoder, CEO and Co-Founder of Lessonly (who’s also published a new book Do Better Work) I found this collection of therapy phrases super helpful in improving my conversations and I can totally see how they could help in our product context

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
3 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Post shares: Value and Viability by Marty Cagan

I really enjoyed this thought-provoking post by Marty Cagan in which he explores the popular adage about product managers, "When the product succeeds, it's because everyone on the product team did what they needed to do; but when the product fails, it's the product manager." And….for those of you exploring educational opportunities, Carnegie Mellon launched new stackable credentials in Product Management and Innovation. 🤓

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
3 months ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Tuesday read and listens - Feb 1, 2022

Happy Tuesday Sharing a few finds and reads:As we step into the start of Black History Month, empowering diverse teams and creating opportunities rather than barriers for under-represented groups such as black youth and womxn is critical to product being more representative. I’ve been supporting a local program here in Vancouver for the past couple years (Productboard matches our donations) called Ethos Lab but also encourage folks to check out organizations like Black Product Managers who offer and support diverse product leaders in advancing in their careers and improving representation. This article on no-code tools being the product management super power not enough people are talking about yet was really interesting. The pace and ease at which product companies are able to prototype, work with and involve their customers, and make data-informed decision-making continues to accelerate. And no-code approaches are really good to think about as part of your toolkit. This GTP-3 powered

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
3 months ago
danieltuohy
Productboard
danieltuohyProductboard
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Outcomes over output & metrics - Do you have any book or resource recommendations?

Hey all, I recently finished reading a very useful book called ‘Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success’. This book was very very useful for me and sparked off a whole host of more questions around outcomes & metrics that product teams use. Would you recommend any books / resources that talk about this topic? Cheers,DanielCSM @ Productboard Ps. I have another book on my desk here called ‘Lean Analytics’ which I heard was good but I haven’t started that one yet. It’s 300+ pages so I’d appreciate any suggestions that might be in the more ‘light reading’ category :-)  

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
3 months ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Tuesday reads and listens - Jan 25, 2022

A few fun reads that I wanted to share this week:Kate Leto, who’s a EMEA-based product coach, wrote a great article about how to raise your organizational awareness. I’m always cognizant that I need to do better here and grow.While out of date, I was energized by the idea in this article about how to drive more scale and learning in customer interviews. These folks ended up using mTurk to interview 100 customers in 4 hours — pretty impressive effort and outcome. The methods here would probably need to be updated and the alternate option they noted is no longer around, but I’m always interested in ways to automate some discovery.I’ve been enjoying the podcast StaffEng from David Noël-Romas and Alex Kessinger. It has some great conversations with software engineers who have progressed beyond the career level, into Staff levels and beyond. And what sets them apart from other individual contributors. If you’re working with a Engineering leader in your team, it’s a great way to get into the

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
3 months ago
jamesqhr
jamesqhrQuestioner
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Lean UX AMA

Are the recorded events available to view after? Missed the fist half of the event – wasn’t emailed a zoom link.

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
3 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Blog post: Mapping your product management career path

An interesting read, especially for those of you who are new to product management! https://www.productboard.com/blog/product-management-career-path/Last week’s poll is related to this topic if you want to share your thoughts. 

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
4 months ago

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