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Mar 9, 2022

Growing Product Ops Teams

Antonia Landi, Chris Butler and myself discussing Product Ops team growth and focus areas with Anabela Cesário for Outsystems’ Product Ops Unwrapped Talk Series. We share our experiences and top insights on growing the Product Ops team beyond a team of one. Thanks to Patrícia Cadete for inviting, organising and supporting.

Product Ops

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Product Ops

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Jan 31, 2022

Myths of Product Operations

Dispelling some of the myths around the role of Product Operations. This is from my perspective and other Product Operations teams may operate differently. Seeing something different? Comment below or join our Global Product Operations Community and open up the discussion! Myth 1: We focus on Product Management only While the Product Operations discipline does have the word…

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Myths of Product Operations
Myths of Product Operations

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Agile Insider

·Oct 29, 2021

Product Ops is building your car

Ever wondered how Product Operations fits into the world of Product Management and Strategy? The need for a product operations person or team is growing in many organizations. Those that are looking to scale and need their product people to think less about the ‘how’ and more about the ‘what’. …

Product Management

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Product Ops is building your car
Product Ops is building your car
Product Management

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Sep 20, 2021

The Golden Questions of Product Development

The most successful product development teams not only have great experience and capabilities, but the deep understanding of what customer problems they are trying to solve and why that is important to the business. Teams should be able to work with a level of autonomy that allows them to solve…

Product Management

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The Golden Questions of Product Development
The Golden Questions of Product Development
Product Management

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Sep 10, 2021

Pillars of ProductOps

This week I was very kindly asked to be part of an amazing panel at the ProductOps Summit to discuss the pillars of ProductOps. The panel was hosted by Chris Butler of Cognizant and I was lucky enough to be alongside Victoria Wood of Shopify and Wafic El-Assi of Uber …

Product Ops

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Pillars of ProductOps
Pillars of ProductOps
Product Ops

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Agile Insider

·May 17, 2021

The Invisible Product Strategy

How often have you heard: “But we have no strategy!” or seen teams working independently on initiatives that have no real strategic impact? Perception is reality and when individuals or teams perceive that there is no product strategy, then there isn’t. That is their reality and it is in every…

Product Management

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The Invisible Product Strategy
The Invisible Product Strategy
Product Management

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The Startup

·Nov 16, 2020

Change Management: Learning the Hard Way

Introducing new process and team structure at a large scale, and continuously operating, organizations are always going to be a challenge. The number of people involved can range in the hundreds to thousands. …

Change Management

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Change Management: Learning the Hard Way
Change Management: Learning the Hard Way
Change Management

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UX Collective

·May 17, 2020

Books that make better designers

A list of books that, as a designer, you may not have come across but that contain potentially career-defining material. — This isn’t your usual list of design books. You won’t find anything by Don Norman, there’s nothing here about mobile-first design or usability testing, there’s nothing about UX strategy — if that’s a thing at all. What you will find are indispensable books with topics on creative and innovative thinking…

Design

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Books that make better designers
Books that make better designers
Design

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The Startup

·Mar 25, 2020

A guide to effective retrospectives

Organising and facilitating retrospectives for realistic positive change. The purpose of this article is to enable truly effective retrospectives by highlighting the often missed, but truly important, aspects of a successful reflective and contemplative team session. The intention of retrospectives is to ensure continual improvement. Ongoing discussion is essential for…

Retrospectives

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A guide to effective retrospectives
A guide to effective retrospectives
Retrospectives

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Agile Insider

·Jun 27, 2019

Reframing Product Versions

Moving teams from output- to outcome-focused requires a step change in understanding and internally publicizing what product versions mean — “The biggest lie in software is Phase 2.” — Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden Version 2 is now live! Have you ever heard of customers talking about Version 2 of a new software? Most likely not. …

Product

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Reframing Product Versions
Reframing Product Versions
Product

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