Did you just get a promotion? Did your product peers go from friends, to being part of the team you now lead? Have you ever done this before? It’s no wonder why the sense of achievement you’d expect to feel might be missing; leading humans is hard, can be terrifying, and if you get it wrong there are big consequences
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Having worked with hundreds of product teams in organisations of many shapes and sizes, we’re in a unique position to understand many of the challenges teams face, as well as the ways they might improve. One of the tools we use to identify how teams are working and what might be holding them back is the Competing Values Framework.
As a Product Manager, I delight in how the collaboration of a product brain and a design brain will always give a better outcome than just one of those brains going solo. However, the reality is, sometimes product peeps have to go it alone when doing user research. I want to reassure you that as a product person, you can do this and get some really valuable insights by following these basic rules.
Welcome to the Cogent Crew series, where every month we’re inviting you to get to know a little more about the people at Cogent. This month, Liz caught up with Mario to find out how he got into design, and what sparked his passions for preserving and Louis Pasteur…
Great product teams understand and solve complex problems in innovative ways, and great user stories help them remember the people they’re building for – the consumers of their product experience.
Approximately 1 in 5 Australians have some form of disability, and making sure website design is inclusive is critical. Change your approach from “does it look pretty?” to “can the user access the information they need?”.
Welcome to the Cogent Crew series, where every month we’re inviting you to get to know a little more about the people at Cogent. This month, Mario caught up with Liz to discuss her first months at Cogent, and dig into her passions for cooking, connecting with friends, and the epic feeling of drinking wine and eating cheese at the end of a long day of hiking.
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which our offices stand and we pay our respects to elders past and present. We acknowledge the sorrow of the stolen generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We also recognise the resilience, strength and pride of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
We are inspired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait entrepreneurs, past and present.
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