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How Simply “Playing To Win” is a Losing Business Strategy

Instead, adopt an infinite product mindset, every time. — During the past 12 months, I’ve been struggling to reconcile in my mind whether I prefer designing product strategy within a business environment of uncomfortable uncertainty or relative stability. I previously wrote about how to create product strategy from scratch, referencing Roger Martin’s Strategy Choice Cascade. …

Product Management

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How Simply “Playing To Win” is a Losing Business Strategy
How Simply “Playing To Win” is a Losing Business Strategy
Product Management

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Tactfully Rejecting Feature Requests

Master the art of communicating a “positive no” — We’ve all seen this: a backlog composed of at least 2 to 3 months of commitments, and a seemingly endless supply of issues and requests coming in from internal and external stakeholders. You then receive one or more “urgent” or “high priority” issues from your CEO, Sales, or Leadership team…

Product Management

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Tactfully Rejecting Feature Requests
Tactfully Rejecting Feature Requests
Product Management

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Product Coalition

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Creating Your First Product Roadmap

There is no single template — so where do you start? — Suppose that you’ve just joined a company or launched your minimum lovable product to market. You’re beginning to receive fantastic feedback and validation from your clients. Congratulations! You are now being bombarded with feature requests your customers, partners and suppliers. They are all asking you when you can deliver their…

Product Management

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Creating Your First Product Roadmap
Creating Your First Product Roadmap
Product Management

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3 Skills Setting Apart Product Leaders From Product Managers

Don’t wait for leadership to happen. Self-lead instead. — Newer product managers are often given a specific set of scope to navigate with a focus on product delivery and execution. Tasks usually centre around empathising with customers to understand pain points, specifying product requirements, and hustling and doing whatever necessary to implement to plan. There comes, however, a point…

Leadership

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3 Overlooked Product Skills That Set Apart Leaders from Managers
3 Overlooked Product Skills That Set Apart Leaders from Managers
Leadership

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UX Collective

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How to choose your Product Prioritization Framework

I’ve made a framework for choosing frameworks. Inception much? — Many product managers “don’t know” or “don’t have” a process for planning and prioritizing initiatives, according to ProductPlan’s 2020 Product Management report. There are a few reasons for this: Many managers simply want to focus on creating value and solutions to problems faced today, not tomorrow. Many managers focus on…

Product Management

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How to choose your product prioritization framework
How to choose your product prioritization framework
Product Management

12 min read


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Product Coalition

·Aug 17

The Daily Dichotomies of Product Leadership

Practice holding opposing views to make you a stronger leader. — Product leaders are empowered to take on a lot of responsibility for the feature, function or domain area assigned to them. Yet, it is far more common for Product Leaders to doubt their own capabilities and decision-making skills. Some reasons discussed previously include: PM skills are usually developed on the…

Product Management

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The Daily Dichotomies of Product Leadership
The Daily Dichotomies of Product Leadership
Product Management

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Product Coalition

·Mar 28

Make Motivation A Daily Priority: How to Empower Teams To Thrive in Turbulent Economic Times

In today’s unpredictable business world, companies are often faced with volatile economic conditions that can affect their growth and profitability. …

Product Management

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Make Motivation A Daily Priority: How to Empower Teams To Thrive in Turbulent Economic Times
Make Motivation A Daily Priority: How to Empower Teams To Thrive in Turbulent Economic Times
Product Management

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UX Collective

·Updated Nov 26, 2020

The dangerous game of product backlog Tetris

Sometimes you shouldn’t play as a Tetris world champion would. — The product backlog is a list of the features, fixes, infrastructure changes or other activities that a team may deliver to achieve a specific outcome. It is known to be the single authoritative source for things that a team works on. Managing a backlog is often compared to playing the…

Product Management

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The dangerous game of product backlog Tetris
The dangerous game of product backlog Tetris
Product Management

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UX Collective

·Oct 18, 2020

Building executive consensus & buy-in

Know your audience and prepare a compelling narrative — Have you ever found yourself feeling like you’ve been trying to gain agreement on a significant decision, but you’re getting nowhere? Have you ever sent communications about a significant project or initiative, with limited to no engagement or reply to your emails or messages? Have you ever held a meeting…

Leadership

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Building executive consensus and buy-in
Building executive consensus and buy-in
Leadership

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ILLUMINATION-Curated

·Sep 29, 2020

How To Rapidly Overcome Anxiety Through Behavioural Experiments

A simple system to change your relationship with anxiety forever. — In the first half of this year, I found myself with a multitude of life changes that caused a great deal of anxiety. I was unable to sleep on hot, restless nights, and I often had a mind racing with a wide variety of unhealthy thoughts: I worried about the…

Psychology

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How To Rapidly Overcome Anxiety Through Behavioural Experiments
How To Rapidly Overcome Anxiety Through Behavioural Experiments
Psychology

8 min read

Andrew Quan

Andrew Quan

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VP of Product @ TIER Mobility | Memos on Product, Leadership, Startups, and the Mind | andrewquan.net

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