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Product roadmaps are powerful, but only when designed for clarity and easy understanding. A clear product roadmap serves as a project plan and teams use it to make all of their product decisions. When the product roadmap becomes the focal point for making business decisions, organizations become successful.

What is a Product Roadmap?

A product roadmap is a is a high-level summary of the project plan. It defines where the product is headed. It is a critical project management tool that helps communicate the overall product strategy. Product roadmaps explain how a product will grow over time. It includes features and other technical specifications. Product managers use the product roadmap to communicate the product vision to both internal and external stakeholders.

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One on one meetings is the best way for a manager to build trust, motivate and improve his team’s performance. It is the best tool for discussing sensitive issues and ensuring that the employee’s goals are being met. One on one meetings not only benefit the manager and other employees, it also has a positive impact on the bottom line. According to a study by Workplace Research foundation, employee engagement programs such as one on one meetings can increase profits by $2400 per employee per year. All of these benefits accrue only when this meeting is used effectively.

Problems with One on One Meetings

It’s easy to cancel. Most often, managers cancel these meetings. They involve a significant time investment and other priorities seen more important.

Nothing to say. After several sessions of one on ones, the direct reports may feel that there nothing new to discuss. Engaging one on one meetings are replaced with awkward silence.

No structure. These meetings have the most impact when conducted as informal sessions, but no structure can cause these meetings to become ineffective. The rules that apply to other business meetings are often abandoned, such as taking notes, following an agenda and ending with action items.

Status updates. Instead of discussing issues that concern their direct reports, managers often use the one on one meetings to understand what his direct reports are working on and status of projects. Read more...

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Define Sprint Retrospective

The Sprint Retrospective provides an opportunity for the scrum team to inspect its way of working, determine what needs to be improved and plan to include these improvements in the next sprint. The sprint retrospective is based on the principles of the Agile Manifesto -“At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” The sprint retrospective takes place after the sprint review and before the next sprint planning meeting . For a four week sprint, this meeting may last for about three hours. It is attended by the entire scrum team along with the scrum master and product owner. Most sprint retrospectives focus on these four important questions:

What went well?

What could have been done better?

Is there something new that the team wants to start doing?

Is there something that puzzles us?

Sprint retrospective goes by many names -post mortem meeting, project success meeting and after action review. The purpose of the meeting, however, remains the same-to implement continuous improvement by learning from the success and failure during the recent sprint or project.

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What Happens in Your Marketing Meetings?

Blank expressions, people checking their emails on the sly or a never-ending argument that gets you nowhere. Do these behaviours dominate your marketing meetings? In the 2014 Wasting time at Work Survey, having too many meetings was the second biggest time waster. Time is not the only asset that’s being wasted, even the organization’s dime is wasted.

Now let’s imagine the ideal scenario, all meeting attendees are attentive, they contribute to the discussion and marketing strategies and marketing plans are drafted. Next steps are assigned, a system for tracking progress and follow up is set in place. The meeting draws to a close and everyone leaves with a defined purpose.

Does the ideal situation sound incredulous? It doesn’t have to be. It’s simple to turn marketing meetings from time and money sucking events to productive and effective sessions. Whether it’s traditional marketing or digital marketing, here are the ingredients to create a perfect marketing meeting. Read more...

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The Structure Of SWOT Analysis

SWOT helps understand both internal and external factors that contribute to success. It unearths opportunities that you can exploit based on your strengths and exposes your weaknesses so that any threats can be neutralised. Read more...

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How To Conduct One-On-One Feedback Meeting With Employee

Listening is one of the most important skills yet often neglected. Employees feel disengaged when their opinion is not heard, which in turn leads to lower productivity. Richard Branson, Founder at Virgin spends time talking to employees and customers and listening to them. This principle permeates the entire organisation. Incorporating such a culture does not call for major policy changes, just initiate meaningful discussions with your employees through the 1 on 1 meeting. Read more...

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Running A Sprint Meeting With A Distributed Team?

A sprint planning meeting is conducted before the start of a sprint. The purpose of this meeting is to determine the sprint plan and set a sprint goal. This meeting is split into two sessions. In the first session, the product owner reviews the list of features and defines what needs to be built during the next sprint. The next session involves identification of tasks that need to be executed, in order to complete the build. Read more...

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How To Conduct Daily Scrum Meeting

Scrum meetings are an essential part of the agile methodology. They are used to define the work for the day. Also known as daily standup meetings, they are conducted in the same place and at the same time, every day. These are short meetings, where team members talk about what has been done since the last scrum, what needs to be done and what problems need to be resolved.

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Retrospective Meeting Template

Looking at the past can provide clues to improve the future. This is the essence of retrospective meetings. Retrospectives have become the mainstay among teams using agile and scrum methodology. It involves reflecting on the latest sprint or project, what went well, recognise what needs to be improved and celebrate the team’s success. It can also be used to review status or a problem scenario. Retrospectives meetings direct attention towards a few key questions, these are:

What went well?

What didn’t go so well?

What have I learnt?

What still puzzles me?

https://meetnotes.co/article/retrospective-meeting-template/

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We just released the following meeting templates. Would love if you can give them a try.

Standard meeting

Retrospective

SWOT

1:1 Feedback meeting

These templates are designed to help “Project Managers” organise and run meetings with ease. You can use them for your next meeting. 

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5 Tips From MeetNotes Launch On Product Hunt & Hacker News

Last week, MeetNotes was submitted on ProductHunt by @charlieirish. We were working on our PH launch playbook when we saw incoming traffic from there. Our planned launch was a few weeks ahead, but we decided to roll with it anyway. And within a few hours, our blog had made it to the front page of Hacker News. It seemed luck and timing were in our favor.

We tried to make the most of the traffic we got. Our new sessions increased by 62% and we received Signups from 26 countries & Traffic from 93 countries. Looking back, we could have planned few things better.

Read on to find how you can script your own ProductHunt and HackerNews launch success.

Setup a Google Analytics Alert. You can set it for referral traffic from ProductHunt or Hackernews so that you don’t waste the crucial first few hours like we did. These hours can mean the difference between trending or going unnoticed.

Create Exclusive Offers. Everyone loves offers and the PH and HN community are no exception. You should be able to launch a new one quickly. Since we had setup Google Tag Manager, we were able to launch it quickly without any code changes.

UpVotes. Don’t link directly to the post. Ask your network to go to the homepage and look for the post. Upvotes are important to stay on top, but avoid creating a voting ring. Get the word out on social media. Don’t forget LinkedIn (we did) and emailing all contacts in your gmail address-book (we did).

Engage on PH and HN. Thank the Hunter. Talk about the product. Ask for feedback. When someone provides feedback, thank them and respond. For us, HN drove more conversations than PH did.

Enjoy the attention. The HN and PH community love new products. Positive feedback and attention is guaranteed. Bask in the glory while it lasts and take it for early idea validation. However, this is not an indication of Product Market Fit. You still have to work on improving your product.

Finally, engage those who are interested. 10% of our signups continued to be engaged. Some are even giving us advice and helping with beta testing.

We will be compiling and sharing some metrics and traffic comparisons for PH and HN. If you are interested, subscribe by submitting your email and we will keep you posted once that comes out.

MeetNotes.co was launched to the public on Hacker News and Product Hunt. The launch was successful. This post analyzes the launch strategy and provides some tips to launch on Hacker News and Product Hunt.