Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 9, 2017

I studied computer science in the engineering school and ultimately settled on finance at Wharton. While I may have been better served studying marketing or management, I did learn some important finance principles that I still use day-to-day in my product management role. When evaluating a channel, how saturated is it?

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) Finance One of my favorite teams to partner up with is finance.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? I examined the first screen that loaded in 25 popular iOS apps across a variety of use cases (such as social media, retail, services, personal finance, and more). Measuring the letters.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

But in the consumer finance space, sensitivity towards personal financial data makes considerations around product experimentation all the more delicate. On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2021

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework is a customer-centric tool for product development and innovation, focusing on understanding the specific tasks or “jobs” customers hire products to do, providing insights into customer motivations, guiding innovation, aligning product features with real needs, and aiding in market segmentation.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Developers tend to overcomplicate code when they don’t have enough experience or want to show off their skills. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. Context: the most important tool to empower your team. All without their manager.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So  After all, we're smarter than other teams.    Once we start, we incrementally discover the next issue or dependency or complexity. and then the next.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. It often includes researching customers, researching the market, developing mockups, prototyping and sometimes developing rough working products. Some teams do this continuously, and others do it more like a project. Less likely to waste budget on bad ideas.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Pivoting done well means the team doesn’t lose direction and can build on the insights for new product development. In finance this is known as a “stop-loss order”. The product team discovered that visitors mostly used the video upload feature and stripped down all other features over time.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

Weak Development Team 40

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

Weak Development Team 40

Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback 40

Department of Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If you’ve not heard of Celonis before, it’s a SaaS company that focuses on one thing product teams tend to either love or hate: process map diagramming. Essential reads for product teams New from the Department of Product this week: ? Enjoy the rest of your week! That’s the first big difference to note.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.    And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.  ” What To Do?   No magic bullets. 

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

I did what I should have, and was not bad at it, as numbers and analysis are not hard for me, but besides, I couldn’t say that I really enjoyed it. My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. It’s a tough job, but worth it!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This is simply bad return on effort. If it sounds too good to be true, there is often a catch (or two).

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. 5-Second summary. What is psychological safety?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2019

We have to take care of our product, our team, perhaps our finances. And these things invariably drive emotions; we care passionately about our products, we can love and loathe our stakeholders, and we feel an almost parental-like responsibility for our teams. Our days are filled with these emotions, good or bad.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Once this is completed, get in front of key executives from all areas of the company – from customer experience to accounting and finance. Strengths/Weaknesses).

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

The service lets customers manage their finances with their mobile phone. Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari. Be Passionate. It’s a simple as that.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! Product Manager’s roles is the stage in the product development process where each is involved.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 13, 2021

In a Cambridge career spanning 25 years Gareth has, at one time or another, managed every part of a software business: HR, sales, product development, engineering, marketing, finance, and IT. Trust in your leaders, teams, and peers. But you don’t have to do it alone if you can find and develop trust.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again. Take Stock Regularly.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 29, 2018

The Case for User-Centered Design in Product Management Over 75% of data involved with Texas’s pregnancy death statistics is potentially flawed because of poor product design. What does product management have to do with finance and healthcare?” User experience testing can help teams identify intuitive design elements.

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