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jenn.smith
Productboard
jenn.smithProductboard
published in Talk product

Register for the May 25th Fireside Chat: Roadmap Fails

For product managers, it can be a daunting task to maintain a 24/7 up-to-date roadmap that enables teams to have the right level of visibility into what’s being built next (and why). During our next fireside chat, we’ll share all the secrets you need to know to create a jaw-dropping, dynamic product roadmap! Register for the fireside chat series today!

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jenn.smith
Productboard
2 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
posted in Talk product

Techniques for finding user interview participants?

In last week's community event, Michele Hansen shared tips for conducting customer interviews, including how she finds participants and what incentives to offer. Do you have a go-to technique for finding participants? What incentives do you find to be most enticing for your users?

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 days ago
Alistair
AlistairQuestioner
posted in Talk product

"Designing" connectors

Hi, I’ve been asked to Spec/Design a connector between our product and an external system.  Put simply, it’s an API-API connector.The complication is that the configuration on both systems could be different for each customer.We work in an agile development methodology, so I don’t want to write a 100+ page spec that nobody will read.If this was a more typical area of the product, I’d start by identifying users and jobs to be done, and then creating some wireframes.In this case, there are no users (System-System), and there are very few screens beyond the configuration screen, I guess. Even if I did spec/wireframe these, I’d only be covering 5% of the functionality.I’m a bit stuck TBH - looking for ideas for how to start.Thanks

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
3 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
published in Talk product

Featured Maker: Mike McClain

This is part of our bi-weekly 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 @Mmcclain, a Product Manager at Prime Technologies.Please say hello to Mike in the comments section below! 👋   Starting in Product ManagementHow'd you get started making products that matter?Our company started a new architectural initiative and I was the acting Engineering Manager doing code. There was a role called "product owner" and a title they thought of as "product manager" and right there I was hooked! What's one piece of advice you wish you'd had when you started working in product?(a haiku) One piece of advice? That there will always be more Pieces that you need.  Product management todayWhat do you like the most about your work?(another one) Variety is A joy of both work and life. Something new each day!What do you like the least about your work?(Ok maybe the last one but I ca

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abourjaily
3 days ago
JoW
JoWQuestioner
posted in Talk product

Please share your experiences working with marketers :)

Hi Product Makers! I’m Jo, an academic researcher studying product design from Australia. I’m excited to meet all of you! Could you share your experiences of working with marketers? When do you usually work together? How do you exchange information and opinions with them? Much appreciated! Jo

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Robert Smit
4 days ago
Tessamondria
TessamondriaQuestioner
posted in Talk product

Industry-focused product or general training?

Hi! I am just starting in this product ecosystem, and even though I am interested in the media industry, I would like to know if it is better to get general training in product or directly get specific training in media products.   In any case, do you have some recommendations to start?  thank you! 

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Michel Hauzeur
4 days ago
jenn.smith
Productboard
jenn.smithProductboard
published in Talk product

Free event: Top roadmap mistakes & PM best practice tips

Discover all things roadmaps on Day 1 of our virtual Sprint Break event. On May 16th, our three sessions will reveal the top 5 biggest roadmap mistakes, product roadmap best practices, and how to create a customer-centric roadmap with Productboard. Register for free today! 

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
5 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
posted in Talk product

What’s one interview question you are always prepared to answer?

Lend a helping hand to your fellow Product Maker community members by answering this question: What’s one interview question you are always prepared to answer?Best of luck to all of you who are interviewing in this hot job market! 💥  

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
5 days ago
jenn.smith
Productboard
jenn.smithProductboard
published in Talk product

Free event: Building team efficiencies

On our third and final day of our virtual Sprint Break event, we’re going to explore how to build team efficiencies. On May 18th, our last three sessions will uncover product discovery best practices, how to adapt the right tools that empower product teams, and the top reasons to graduate from spreadsheets to product management software. Register now!

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jenn.smith
Productboard
5 days ago
jenn.smith
Productboard
jenn.smithProductboard
published in Talk product

Free event: Achieving product excellence

Find out how your product team can achieve product excellence during Day 2 of our virtual Sprint Break event. On May 17th, our three sessions will explore the seven pillars of product team excellence, how to ruthlessly prioritize, and tips for harnessing the power of user feedback. Grab your spot today!

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jenn.smith
Productboard
8 days ago
ashivory
ashivoryProduct Makers Ambassador
posted in Talk product

Your go to app for inspo

What product do you love and look at when you need a little inspo? We use uber a lot in terms of user flow and simplicity.

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ashivory
8 days ago
R
RabiyaMQuestioner
posted in Talk product

Course: Learn product management

Hey there!Qureos has launched a product management fundamentals 6-week learning path where you can learn from top mentors. Learn more: https://cohorts.qureos.com/product-management 

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ashivory
8 days ago
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Anonymous
asked in Talk product

How to attend events??

I signed up for an event which is supposed to happening now but there doesn’t seem to be a way to actually JOIN the event. All I get is this page. Disappointing. Will be deleting my membership. 

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A
9 days ago
jenn.smith
Productboard
jenn.smithProductboard
published in Talk product

Download the eBook - The ABCs of Product Management

Brush up on fundamental product management skills, including achieving deep user insights, building an excellent product strategy, and defining a cross-functional roadmap! Download The ABCs of Product Management eBook today.

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jenn.smith
Productboard
9 days ago
sebad
sebadQuestioner
posted in Talk product

How are companies testing new products in development?

Hi Product Makers!My company is developing a new product that needs a lot of testing to be done with all the different features and modules. We currently use JIRA for the engineers to communicate with the dev team. With all these different features and modules we are finding it hard split up tasks to also have a sequential order. At the moment, I am using Microsoft Teams Tasks to keep track of each feature/module being tested. What kinds of techniques are companies using to have a seamless process to test without being counterintuitive?Looking forward to everyone's responses!

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sebad
11 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
posted in Talk product

From 6 product makers: what do you wish you had known?

What's one piece of advice you wish you'd had when you started working in product?Today we’re highlighting six answers to this question from our Product Makers community. The answers were pulled from our Featured Maker series, so be sure to explore the posts for more words of wisdom. 💡 Pieter Strouven“Don't productize until you've walked a few miles in your customers' shoes. It's so tempting to fall in love with your first - abstract and technically beautiful - solution. Don't build it right away. There's no shame in acting like a service company until you've mastered the problem. Be a human solution first before engineering one. I guess this corresponds to Ries' fail fast mantra or some of Ash Maurya's teachings. A starting PM should look closely at those works.”  Gavin Guest“Execution is far more important than ideas. As a young, new product designer, it seemed like everyone else in the world was making bad products because they simply didn’t have good ideas. Eventually, I realized

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david.morgan
12 days ago
Niels Vynckier
Niels VynckierCollaborator
posted in Talk product

Reforge and On Deck experiences?

Hello fellow Product people,I’m looking to take some form of “baseline” training in Product Management. I know, you can learn a lot from books, blogs, podcasts, … But I feel the need to have a proper foundations training from someone experienced in the field. I asked a senior PM in my LinkedIn connections, and he referred me to Reforge and On Deck as the go-to training resources in Product Management. Do some of you have any experience with one of both? Or other “Product Schools” I should look into? For the record: I’m not looking for a fancy LinkedIn Certificate, I just want to do a better job and feel confident about it! Thanks for any insights on this. 

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Niels Vynckier
12 days ago
ddoylesf
Productboard
ddoylesfProductboard
posted in Talk product

Digital sausage

Catch your attention a little? It's never a pretty sight- making sausage that is, but maybe there are sausage machines out there that get things done in a way we’d want to see??I started my career in tech in the early 90s and didn’t know anything about digital product management. In fact, I completed my formal education in the 80’s and wrote my college senior thesis long hand, pecking it out on typewriter after. Through many years at Oracle I sold code made by people working their black magic in the ivory towers overlooking the Redwood City lagoon not fully appreciating what those teams were doing or what was happening in the world of business software. Those product people were icons who would come in and present to our prospects and customers on what they were building in the future and why large companies should partner with us to deliver better business results. Further down the road, I started to realize the value of customer feedback and the interest represented from users that w

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ddoylesf
Productboard
15 days ago
e_jenkins77
e_jenkins77Questioner
posted in Talk product

Crowdsourcing for Product Makers Presentation- Competitive Intel for product management strategy

I always enjoy crowdsourcing workflows and sharing tips and best practices.  You may be given a shout out during Building Products that Matter, together mini-conference!  Thank for you the responses in advance.What ways to you source intel on direct competitors product offering?  (I have lots of strategies so suggest but I’d like to hear from you on yours). Resources such as Gong, Slack, RFPs, Win/Loss on opportunity notes.How much time do you invest in keeping up on latest and greatest competitive releases? (Check for Blog updates, ask sales to share what they are hearing…)Where do you collate all of this information to keep track and stay sane?! 😉 (Spreadsheets, platforms like Productboard, Jira, Zendesk tickets, nowhere in a black hole…)

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e_jenkins77
17 days ago
Alison_G
Alison_GQuestioner
posted in Talk product

Fun ways to do prioritization

Hey there -  I just got finished running a gigantic prioritization exercise, classic situation of a start up with a million ideas and great momentum now needing to scale and really dig in to what to do next for product value and acquisition.I wanted to share one fun trick I used and see if others had cool tricks they do to help make these things more interactive and less painful.As we know no one thing ever really “wins” in prioritizations so there are usually 5-10 things that no one will relent on and someone is digging in on importance while someone else is digging in on capacity.  Here’s my solution:Write down each competing feature on an envelope Give each member of the meeting 1000 dollars in play money (varying denominations to force people to think where they want to put 100 dollars vs 20). Everyone puts money in the envelopes based on what they think the importance and value of the feature is (using their lenses). Then the order of importance of the features is ranked by which

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Alison_G
19 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
published in Talk product

Video interview with John Henwood, VP of Customer Success

Welcome to Coffee and Community, where we chat with Productboard executives and leaders about product management, alignment within organizations, and more.In this first episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with @JHenwood, VP of Customer Success at Productboard, about how a close relationship between customer success and product managers can assist in creating products that matter.What are some ways that you have improved alignment with your customer success team?  Do you have any key takeaways that you want to implement in the future? 

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
24 days ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
posted in Talk product

How do you structure your product org and why have you chosen that structure?

I get, and see, a lot of questions from other folks in product around how others have structured their product teams. Curious how your team is organized. What roles have you added/changed as your organization changed and grew? What resources have inspired some of your thinking on this topic?A few resources I’ve enjoyed:The book Team Topologies which covers a lot of ground on the organizational design aspects and considerations when structuring teams Adam Calica had a good article on this as well last year in BuiltIn Jens-Fabian Goetzmann has also written on this topic of establishing a product organization structure

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
25 days ago
hannahzhang
Productboard
hannahzhangProductboard
posted in Talk product

What are some your favorite Product Growth resources (blogs, Twitter, influencers) that you follow these days?

Curious to know what everyone in the community are following these days? Any cool and newTikTok stars I should also watch out for? Here’s my list: Lenny’s community and twitter  Reforge Arcade’s Guide to PLG  Elena Verna  OpenView newsletters  Segment’s Growth Masters webinars  What’s yours? :) 

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
25 days ago
jenn.smith
Productboard
jenn.smithProductboard
published in Talk product

2022 Sprint Break Virtual Event

Level up your product management skills in just 15 minutes! Uncover the top roadmap mistakes, tips for achieving product excellence, product discovery best practices, and more with this virtual crash course series. Sign up for free today! 🌴

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jenn.smith
Productboard
26 days ago
darren.smith
darren.smithCollaborator
posted in Talk product

SAFe methodology

Hi,I am interested in learning more about SAFe and what it could do for us, can anyone suggest any good books, or point me to a good source of information? I have “googled” it but I don’t know what is good or bad in the responses.ThanksDarren

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craig.foot
26 days ago

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