⤴️ EVO1: Product Insights Radar ∙ Steve Jobs on Product Teams ∙ Pop-up: North Star Activity Library
Discover new ways to level up your Product team.
Hi everyone,
For the first edition of the Product Evolution newsletter, I’ve selected for you:
A visual tool for making better Product decisions, as a team;
Food for thought from Steve Jobs, about Product teams;
An invitation to a pop-up sharing on the North Start Activity Library.
Keep on evolving,
Bülent
Product Insights Radar
One of the tools we’ve been using to amplify the collective intelligence of Product teams is the Product Insights Radar.
The Product Insights Radar is a shared visual space to collect product insights from the whole Product team and other contributors (Sales, Customer Support, Social Media etc.)
The purpose of having such a radar is to enable the Product team to make better Product decisions based on all the insights that are explicitly shared and updated, continuously.
Check the explainer article for:
An overview of the 3 areas and 3 layers of the Product Insights Radar;
Creating and adjusting the Product Insights Radar; How you can use it with your Product team;
Types of Product Insights;
and a bit about the origins of the Product Insights Radar.
Steve Jobs on Product Teams
Steve Jobs made it clear during one of his interviews that Product development:
requires a tremendous amount of craftsmanship;
is based on products and ideas that evolve, change and grow;
is alive, as the team constantly discovers new problems and opportunities to fit things together;
is really a team effort;
is done better when a team working really hard on something they're passionate about polish each other and polish their ideas;
unlike most things in life, software product development has a huge dynamic range: the difference between the average and the best is 50 to 1;
accelerates towards success by getting enough A players to work together.
We’re building on all these ideas with Product Evolution. After working with tens of teams, we believe that:
Great products are created by great Product teams, not by individuals;
Any Product team can level up, to become world class;
To level up a team, it's not sufficient to level up individual team members;
The investment to develop a team has a much better ROI than any individual investments.
Food for thought:
What are you actively doing to level up your Product team?
Read the article with all the selected quotes from the interview:
Pop-up Sharing: North Star Activity Library
If you are familiar with, or curious about the North Star Activity Library (recently shared by John Cutler here),
Join this 1h informal pop-up sharing in which:
We'll explore together some of the 17 activities shared in the library;
Figure out together how and when these activities can be used by Product teams
Discuss facilitation tips & tricks if you want to run these activities with your Product team.
Friday, September 2nd, 9-10am CEST, 12 seats only.
Thanks for reading the Product Evolution newsletter!
See you again in two weeks. ✌️
This newsletter is written by Bülent Duagi,
Sr. Strategic Adviser and Founder of Product Evolution.
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What is Product Evolution?
European business focusing on helping Product teams level up.
The operating model of Product Evolution is simple:
We're working with a small cohort (6 teams) each season;
Each team that is selected goes through the Team Assessment (survey + deep dive workshop);
Based on the fresh insights from the Team Assessment, we co-create the Product Evolution Program as a series of practice sprints;
Each sprint focuses on the areas the Product team needs the most, in order to level up (e.g crafting a better Product Strategy, refining the Product Metrics dashboard, setting up and running Product Discovery experiments etc).
Find case studies and more details on: productevolution.eu