Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. 2023 Work in America Survey: Workplaces as engines of psychological health and well-being. The Adecco Group.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 6, 2018

A lot of times, what we see for new product companies are you’ve got a couple of founders where one knows the product well because that started the idea, and then one knows how to market and sell the product. Many times as companies grow quickly, the sales and marketing of those products quickly outpaces the operations.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Below are some steps project teams can take to understand what goes into a site assessment and prepare for a productive location visit. Mobilize internal subject matter experts, from production line supervisors to maintenance personnel and engineers.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be done faster.” That's because product development is a system of work. If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2023

Thanks to the increasing availability of AI, including machine learning algorithms, deliberately creating customer data feedback loops is now possible for most products and services. For some products, it is easy; for others, one needs to find more creative ways to engineer the data feedback loops.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 12, 2022

One of my fellow participants was Dianna, a quality engineering consultant who seemed like she already knew me when I met her. I could tell from meeting Dianna how brilliant she is as an engineer. She coaches product development engineers about awareness and use of quality and reliability methods during the design development process.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The allure of building indoors in a controlled environment instead of in the mud, muck, and maelstrom of a conventional site has made prefabrication a strong candidate for the future of construction for architects, engineers, and construction futurists. But time and again, the revolutionary potential of the approach has failed to materialize.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. The post Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

ATMs include engineered cell therapies that reprogram cells to fight disease, gene therapies that involve replacing or editing dysfunctional genes, and nucleic acid therapies that promote or shut down production of a protein.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 29, 2018

Quietly, over the last thirty years, engineering has become dramatically more efficient and effective. Insulated glass, cars that don't break down, keyboards with just the right feel to them… Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are all moving faster than ever.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

In that case, you have a low need for product innovation. Products that keep the lights on or extend a product's capabilities, but do not transform the organization's capabilities. Low Need for Product Innovation and Change. I have not worked on many of these products over my career. We know what we have to do.

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Strategy+Business

APRIL 23, 2017

Are the bells and whistles on already highly engineered products just decadence, or are they a small price to pay for the gadgets we need?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. The various development directors correspond to the various horizontal layers in the product.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. In this article, we’ll explore the most significant digitalization challenges that aerospace engineering companies face and outline the ways to address them. Digital twin.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

Morieux gives an example of a car manufacturer that threatened to move its production engineers to the after-sales warranty department after a car went into production. By forcing the engineers to understand the problems faced the warranty department, car designs became more reliable and cheaper to fix.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2020

I had a conversation with a hardware engineer whose organization got the mandate, “Go agile or bust!” And, they're trying to show finished product , not simulations. If you have a software-only product, you can minimize the cost of delivery and change, once you create this environment: Short build times.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Sanctions or not, NASA uses Russian-made engines to propel rockets. Yesterday, just seconds after takeoff, a NASA Antares rocket with a Russian-made engine exploded on takeoff. Orbital is under particular pressure to explain whether its use of ageing Russian rocket engines to power the first stage of the Antares rocket was a factor.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 4, 2024

Example: A blog that hasn’t been updated for months or product information that doesn’t reflect the latest features. Ineffective SEO Strategies: Description: Poor search engine optimization (SEO) practices result in low visibility on search engine results pages (SERPs).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2023

LLMs are closer to prediction engines rather than AI, but I digress.) I didn't give them permission to scrape my site and use the results in their product. Product Development Implications If you write and integrate words from LLMs, make sure you verify each and every “fact.”

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. The collected information is then taken into product development meetings, focusing all future engineering efforts on addressing the customer pain points in a way that can be monetized. Instead of asking “do you like this logo?”

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.). Previously, Epicflow only united project resources into resource groups (like Engineering, Software Development, Assembly, etc.). The Epicflow team keeps on working on updating and improving our product and making it maximum applicable to our customers’ needs.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 16, 2019

Their organizations treat the software people (IT or Engineering) as a shared service. While the organization might use products and product lines, the software people work in projects. I've said in the past that as soon as we have more work than teams to do the work, we need to switch from one product to another.

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Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 12, 2009

Engineers as Rock Stars. Productivity. (6). Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Who cant love this ad? Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:37 AM. Related Posts. 1 comment: Cory.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

Project management in aerospace engineering deals with large-scale complex initiatives that require perfect coordination between all the parties involved. Read further to learn about its potential to simplify aerospace engineering project management. . Challenges in Aerospace Engineering Projects. also remain in place. .

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Business Consulting Agency

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

From user experience to search engine optimization (SEO) and beyond, every aspect of a website plays a crucial role in attracting and retaining customers. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Enhancing your website’s visibility on search engines is paramount for driving organic traffic and increasing conversions.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 1, 2024

SEO Strategy Implementation Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for increased online visibility. Business consultants craft and implement SEO strategies, ensuring that websites rank higher on search engine results pages. According to Statista, global e-commerce sales are projected to reach $6.4

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

The left-most, column includes primarily code- or product-based leadership. People can advance based on how much influence they have with the team and the product. Instead of your initiative for your achievements, you use an overarching goal to support the team and the product. We can start with teams and the product.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Victims of a media regime where they are both the user and the product. Hence a middle class, millions of people who would be as rich in kings in any other time or place, that's angry and disappointed and feeling left behind. Every time TV and social media become significant time sinks in a household, pleasure goes up and happiness goes down.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. Even 20 seconds googling will provide you with images of linear progression, mathematical equations etc when thinking about productivity.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2021

If you design for resilience, you’ll be better able to navigate disruptions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

The problem with this engineering marvel? The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. No, the problem was with the internal clock. It’s with the simple synching of front line workers with the leadership.

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