Listen to the first round of “Dear Melissa” answers here, and hear some exciting news!
Back in October, we asked our community if they had any product questions for Melissa, and we received an overwhelming amount of thoughtful, complex questions. So, drumroll please…
Read MoreHow can you stand out in a larger pool of candidates, now that geography is no longer a factor? How can you make a strong impression when interviewing from your living room? When you do land a job, what is it like to be onboarded entirely via Zoom? And how can you be a productive PM on your new, fully distributed team?
Read MoreFor me, it always felt like there was never enough time in the day to focus beyond work, family, friends, etc. before the pandemic. Any window of potential free time was filled with commuting, face to face lunches, IRL standups and sprint planning. But now, many product managers are finding a silver lining in the days of Covid- there’s actually MORE opportunity to pursue professional development.
Read MoreWhen news of the novel coronavirus started spreading as fast as well a virus, many businesses were not prepared to run with distributed or remote teams. But they didn’t have a choice. Though many successful companies are full distributed (Invision) and most big companies have offices around the globe, this shift was sudden and shocking. Some organizations stepped up to these challenges and others had a few blunders but figured it out in the end.
Read MoreAre you part of a company that has grown through mergers or acquisitions? Does your company have a portfolio of products they’ve built? If there is a horizontal strategy at play, then the executive leadership probably has intentions of integrating the different products to create a competitive advantage with a “best in suite” angle.
Read MoreHow can a new CPO approach building solid relationships within the leadership team? How can you gain your board’s trust? What does a strong CEO/CPO partnership look like?
Read MoreBrian Bhuta, CPO at Signify Health, has a knack for getting the toughest critics on his side. We’ve watched firsthand as he’s joined organizations and come up against tons of intense resistance. Then, within a month, not only has he accomplished what he needed to get done, but he’s made friends along the way. He uses this superpower to transform teams into product management machines.
Read MoreAs a leader in product, you have likely come across situations in which your hunches or intuition weren’t enough to guide your team or company forward. Whether its due to pushback from other stakeholders, increasing competitive pressures, or a changing technology landscape - high growth tech companies require us to constantly be collecting data and insights around our product, our market, and problem-solution fit.
Read MoreRemote onboarding completely changes your first month experience. You have no natural way to meet coworkers. There are no first week outings or get-to-know-you coffee chats. Most of your video call interactions are with your direct superior. While all of this makes it particularly nerve-wracking to start a new job virtually, I promise there are also wonderful aspects about your situation.
Read MoreWe’re tapping into our CPO Expert Network from our new CPO Accelerator Program and learning from the best product leaders out there. Abbie Moore, CPO of non-profit organization Adopt-A-Pet, tells us what her company values most, how she measures impact, and why testing ideas and building products is just as important in the non-profit world.
Read MoreSo what does it take to become a CPO?
Let’s start by exploring what a CPO does. Though this varies in each organization, the role centers on setting and leading the company’s product strategy. As a C-level position, the person who holds it should have authority to make decisions. They should be viewed as a partner for the CEO to execute on their grander vision for the company.
Read MoreDigital Transformations are plentiful across the enterprise world, but it’s not often that we hear of their success stories. That’s why I was excited to sit down with Siamak Khorrami, Product Operations and Governance Lead at ATB Financial, as he reflected on their digital transformation.
Read MoreIn this new talk at Mind the Product, our CEO Melissa Perri describes how you should start investing energy in “the product of you” and plan your career ascent to product leader. This includes not only developing the skills you need as a product leader, but also deciding what type of product leader you want to be.
Read MoreA friend told me about her company’s staff meeting today. As the ~75 people joined the Zoom call, there was some casual talk among a few staff about working remotely; a few comments through chat about the lead engineer’s impressive pandemic beard. Staff members…
Read MoreAs a product leader, you have the responsibility to plan strategically for your company to grow its customer base and revenue. Thanks to years of other people growing companies, there are standard playbooks for how to accelerate your company’s trajectory. Simply because they are standard doesn’t mean that you can’t execute them in your own special snowflake way, but it’s relatively hard to reinvent the wheel.
Read MoreAs CPO in Residence at Insight Partners, I have access to career operators who have managed many companies through crises. The managing directors and operating partners at Insight each have decades of experience helping tech companies thrive…
Read MoreI started consulting in 2014. It was supposed to be temporary, a way to pay the bills as I figured out which company I wanted to join next as a VP of Product. As I got more and more calls from ex-colleagues and those who saw my talks, I started to consider consulting…
Read MoreMany product teams struggle with a deluge of requests from customer support and product teams. Figuring out which of the items to have your engineering team build is the reason you have a job as is disappointing your coworkers when their requests don’t make the cut.
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