280 Group

JUNE 24, 2021

Does ProdOps get involved in any due diligence for M&A? Due diligence should be comprehensive and cross-cutting. The best due diligence practices evaluate the PM practice as a whole, including the ProdOps function. 280 Group is the world’s leading Product Management training and consulting firm.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Focus on Relationships That Matter. Here's the story of the consulting book. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. So several people asked me how I had become a successful consultant. See Manage It!

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In the waterfall approach, there are no explicit review processes for catching and reducing mistakes, but continuous reviews occur within each phase and must pass a “gate” prior to proceeding to the next phase. When it comes to setting up an expensive new manufacturing line, be sure you’ve done your due diligence before committing.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap.

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280 Group

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These two-day events bring all stakeholders together to review progress, discuss market trends, and strategize the roadmap for the future. I believe SAFe often gets a bad rap due to the perception that it must be followed rigorously, which isn’t true. Additionally, he holds several Product Manager/Owner certifications.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Tech assistance for seniors is a booming business Image Credit: Province of British Columbia How do you feel about using your computer? Tech Creates New Product Opportunities Product managers realize that some tech savvy is required for the activities of daily living. The idea of providing a tech concierge is new.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The world of consulting is often associated with truckloads of jargon. Similarly, the world of technology is no stranger to its own stream of techspeak. Today, let’s simplify one such concept – digital transformation consulting. What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Is Digital Transformation Consulting?

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Solutions Consulting (SC) team is a vital part of that vision, and I’m thrilled to have a hand in making it come to pass. Sales Team: I was mightily impressed with the Sales/SC Leadership I met during my due diligence. This is a team full of outstanding sales and technical sales athletes. I’m so glad you asked that!

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2020

Diversity in Tech. BDD vs TDD vs ATDD feature. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Building quality products. Getting your team to work together.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

They received a lot of pushback from the engineers initially because it created complexities around code reviews, tech debt management, release processes, etc. The top diagram is how the team was structured to complete the technology transformation project mentioned earlier. Expose tech and organization dependencies early.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit. Here's the story of the consulting book. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. So several people asked me how I had become a successful consultant. See Manage It!

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freshtrax

JUNE 11, 2019

According to an article by Tech :: Note , the Japanese tech industry has grown as a whole with continual increases in the total revenue of the industry, from 14,380 billion yen (approx. Top 10 Japanese tech companies by capital value (November 2018). Top 10 Japanese tech companies by sales (2015-2016). Revenue in Yen.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 25, 2021

I like systems thinking , the ability to solve technical problems for customers, and leading teams. I liked working with the customer and solving challenging, complex technical problems… like building electronic countermeasures and radar warning receiver systems for military aircraft. We need more diversity in the technology space.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Digital technology has inadvertently become a significant contributor to the growing carbon footprint of the tech industry. That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. During Definition you want to focus on moving past the discovery concepts, making detailed choices (about tech, design and requirements) and obtaining enough clarity to start developing solutions.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Slightly less useless are the case interview formats used by many top-tier consulting firms. Unfortunately, despite their effectiveness, few employers make use of cognitive tests, maybe due fear it turns them off, or sensitivity to accusations of systemic bias. That is, unless the product job is decidedly non-technical.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this episode, sponsored by Pendo , listen to learn about: * Product Management in transport tech. * The different stages of tech companies. * Is technology consumption sustainable? Technology potentially can keep up, but humans can’t. Sustainable Technology piece at ByteAnt. Quote of the Episode.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As technology continues to reshape consumer behaviors and preferences, some have begun to question the value of personas as a tool in the product manager’s arsenal. Consider the case of Pat, a diligent product manager who struggled to get their development team to empathize with users.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Let’s dive in!

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Product Manager should be meeting with the Product Owner on a regular cadence, separately from sprint ceremonies, such as standups or sprint reviews, and should always be available to quickly answer Product Owner questions. What are you more interested in: Solving business problems or solving technical problems? VIEW THE COURSE.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

become a professional services/custom consulting company. Or partner with a real professional services firm which explicitly sells the time and expertise of its technical staff.  When   Hiring an outside team for a little while to build out test coverage might be smart.  But  We can accidentally (but rapidly!)

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2018

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 4, 2022

Technology gets old. Here's a story about how technology changes one day at a time and everything is okay—until it's not. ” I had to hire someone to move my Blogger blog and HTML site from old technology to new technology. I wait to make sure the new technology works and I think it will stick around.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Employees routinely say that the best places to work are some of the big tech companies. To help figure out which internship program (and workplace more generally) is right for you, we created this list of the 8 best tech internships in 2022. Together, they contribute to the technical or business projects currently underway.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company? Brian: Super.

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280 Group

APRIL 8, 2020

As a follow up to our Trailblazing Women in Product Management: How to Blaze Your Own Trail virtual panel last month, we invited Linda Lubin Thompson , Executive Coach and Consultant with L2T Leadership Development to dive deeper into the topic of how women can excel in the career of Product Management. Overcoming Gender Bias. Women leaders.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability. Defining strategy takes time and should be reviewed multiple times. Avoid writing tasks or steps while defining strategy.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 13, 2021

Diversity in Tech. The People Of Color In Tech article, Networking For Introverts. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode.

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Gainsight

MARCH 1, 2024

As we stand at the cusp of technological advancements and evolving consumer expectations, it’s imperative to glean insights from those at the forefront of driving CS forward. There are a lot of customers who can miss out on customer success due to the capacity the CS team might have. This is, in essence, Digital Customer Success.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

I like to consider the future not in design or architecture, but in technical excellence. If not, the team becomes hostage to the technical debt. We call it technical debt. Technical excellence in a previous version allows us to move faster on a later release. In reality, it’s unfinished work. I’ll stop there.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

We can use TDD, BDD, ATDD and get feedback before we write code. I happen to like David Bernstein's book, Beyond Legacy Code (Amazon) and on the Prags , as a way to integrate reasonable technical practices into your work now. When they realized they had a problem with this checkin, they started to write tests and do a code review.

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