Product Talk Daily: Product in Practice: Creating Opportunities for Deliberate Practice at BBC Maestro
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"I’ve been the sole product person in most companies. I don’t have the benefit of learning from other product people in a big team. I think there are a lot of other people in this situation." - @lilylimpet
Product in Practice: Creating Opportunities for Deliberate Practice at BBC Maestro
Worthy Read
Coaching Tools – The Assessment
Great resource from Marty Cagan. Marty outlines several dimensions where product managers should have competence and offers a framework for assessing them using the gap analysis technique (where you'd like them to be vs. where they are now). Definitely bookmark this one so you can refer back to it often.
A Key Concept from My Book
Continuous discovery is about more than just tactics. It requires that we adopt new mindsets. We need to be:
✅ Outcome-oriented: We need to shift from valuing outputs to valuing the impact those outputs have for our customers and our business
✅ Customer-centric: We need to remember that the purpose of a business is to create and serve a customer.
✅ Collaborative: We need to embrace a model where we make team decisions leveraging all the expertise and knowledge that we each bring to those decisions.
✅ Visual: We need to step beyond the comfort of spoken and written language and tap into our immense power as spatial thinkers.
✅ Experimental: We need to learn to think like scientists, identifying assumptions and gathering evidence.
✅ Continuous: We need to move away from a project mindset and realize digital products are never done.
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