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  • Kirk saying "Opinion Noted" to Uhuru

    What Product Feedback To Get

    Every day is feedback day for a product manager! It’s a firehose of meetings, articles, documents, and JIRAs. But some times you need that feedback to drive a decision, the anecdata frosting to your data cake, and that’s when you’ll want some structure. Here’s a few examples to use with the “how to get product…

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  • Do You Like My Hat from Go Dog Go by P.D. Eastman

    How To Get Product Feedback

    This is a pattern that works for early access to a software project or for making a big decision (deprecating a feature for instance). As a product manager you’re going to treat your own requirement as a project to bring to resolution. First, why get feedback? You had data to drive your decision before right?…

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  • Gru shows his roadmap for world domination

    How to Run a Customer Roadmap Call

    What is your goal? Depends on the stage of the company… you might be working with a five year roadmap of value extraction activities, but if so I can’t really help. I’ve always left companies when they hit that stage. What I’m much more used to is active value creation. That will translate to a…

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  • Captain Haddock exclaims "What a week, huh?" and Tintin tells him "Captain, it's Wednesday"

    Building The Habitual Year

    As a new Product Manager, you’ve got a huge increase of demands on your time. You’re now the person responsible for answers about the product, and if you’re selling it globally or developing it overseas, that means you’ve now got a never-ending day. Additionally, it’s not just those tactical questions of “does it compete with…

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  • Banksy rat with a paint brush, saying "so little to say... and so much time"

    How to Run a Standing Team Call

    A standing team call is any call where a group of people meet regularly.  Every time you notice that it’s coming up, try to take a few minutes to do these things: Figure out what type of call it is, then ask, does this call still need to exist? Some possible answers: The call provides…

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