…or chief of stuff. someone to come in and fix things Creating new names is something startups and innovators do often. Chief of staff is: the only role other than the COO that’s really cross-functional an enabler for the CEO “helicoptering” into whatever needs to be done and helping to solve problems —that don’t necessarily [...]
A process for collecting the valuable qualitative data from my organization’s functional teams, enabling us to regularly synthesize and prioritize insights, folding the top opportunities into the product roadmap, and eventually the backlog. Origen: How do you Build a Qualitative Data Lake? - Mind the Product Data Lake Process in 3 Simple Steps: Functional teams [...]
In the tech world, there are really three distinct types of, loosely speaking, “product teams.” Origen: Product vs. Feature Teams | Silicon Valley Product Group …while this article might be painful to read, if you’ve been frustrated with the contradictory and confusing messaging from people in the product world, if you bear with me here, [...]
Everyone has their view of what the perfect product manager should be doing –it’s helping them do their job! In truth, Product Management should be greasing the wheels of all business functions because they put the product's holistic success at the centre of what they do. Origin: Stream 121 product management – How everyone else views [...]
Origen: How to Avoid Tool Overload and Apathy | Product Focus Communications overload Research shows that communication overload is a significant source of productivity loss. In this study by software company RescueTime, their analysis of 50,000 workers showed that, on average, workers checked their emails and messages every 6 minutes, and 40% never managed more [...]
Not only are you now responsible for making strategic decisions about what to build and why, but you feel you are forced do so in an alien environment Origen: It’s Product Management; not Software Engineering… - ProductCoalition.com How could I possibly lead product design, when the very products themselves consisted of a complex network of [...]
3 important ingredients to making remote work, well, work: Team Tools and Process. Team 1. Hire Doers 2. Hire people you can trust 3. Trust the people you hire 4. Hire people who can write 5. Hire people who are ok without a social workplace Tools 1. Slack 2. Async 3. Trello 4. [...]
Super interesting post for G Suite (AKA Google Apps for Work) users. Origen: How to Set Up G Suite to Share Calendars, Contacts, and Documents with Your Team
How To Create A Career Plan For Your Employees. A really interesting study by a company called EdAssist explored the perceptions of both employees and managers of whose responsibility it is to drive career development. The results were very interesting: 74% of employees say managers should provide professional-development training, 71% say managers should identify job [...]
…a person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable)… For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value. Believing that your qualities are [...]