⤴️ EVO5: Product Field ∙ Decision Stack ∙ Network Effects ∙ Sharing session: Product Career Map
Visual nuggets for your Product team.
Hi everyone,
For this edition of the Product Evolution newsletter, I’ve selected for you:
A handy tool: Product Field for aligning with your team and stakeholders about and around your product + visual example from our last meetup.
A visual knowledge map about the Product Decision Stack, based on a recent slide deck shared by Martin Eriksson.
A visual knowledge map about Network Effects, based on the recent masterclass shared by NFX.
And an invitation to a pop-up sharing session about the visual Product Career Map on Oct 28.
Keep on evolving,
Bülent
Practice with your Team
Hands-on activities you can do with your Product team.
The Product Field
Promising tool that we played with during our last community meetup - saw usefulness both for existing and new products.
Helps frame, map, find and check coherence between Product elements like: users, user motivations, user problems, solutions, solution enablers, solution production, customers, alternatives, distribution, product goals, drivers and uniqueness.
Check overview Product Field here, 12 min intro video here, quick start guide here, detailed reference guide here
You can also check the example Miro board that we worked on (the actual mapping part took about 30 minutes):
Understand Better
Visual explainers of useful Product tools and concepts.
Slides Map: The Decision Stack
Want to make better Product decisions, faster?
The Decision Stack, created by Martin Eriksson, offers some useful insights about:
Reducing decision overload
Creating better alignment through a stack of decision-making enablers: vision, strategy, objectives, opportunities, principles
Zooming in on Product Principles: what are some good practices + examples
Navigate the slides map that I've created or go get the slides directly from the source (you need to sign up for free to get the slide deck).
Knowledge Map: Network Effects
Really enjoyed going through this high-quality masterclass 💎 about network effects that was published last week by NFX.
It's a must watch for everyone interested in Business Ecosystems, Business Models, Business Strategy, Growth, Startups and Product (and it's free, courtesy of the NFX team).
The main highlights for me were:
Episode 3 - detailing the 16 types of network effects
Episode 6 - case studies of how Trulia, Facebook, Bitcoin and Uber have been using a mix of network effects to achieve massive scale
Shared Knowledge Live
Join the next small group session.
Sharing: Product Career Map
Join an 1h informal pop-up sharing session, in which:
I'll share with you the sneak preview of the Product Career Map (mini-map + full map), created to help orient people in their Product career paths
We will discuss based on the Product Career Map: when it's useful, what is useful, what else could be useful
The session might be relevant especially if you:
Want to grow in your Product career
Want to help others grow in their Product careers
Friday, October 28th, 4-5pm CEST, 12 seats only.
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This newsletter is written by Bülent Duagi,
Sr. Strategic Adviser and Founder of Product Evolution.
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Product Evolution is a business focusing on helping Product teams level up:
Develop capabilities needed in Product Discovery, Product Strategy, Product Metrics, Product Mindsets, Product Insights and Product Marketing;
Make higher quality Product decisions, faster;
Make better use of the limited resources the Product team has.
Find case studies and more details on: productevolution.eu