Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. Unblock bottlenecks?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. It’s not just about adopting the latest gadgets, but about using technology to drive meaningful change and achieve specific business goals. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. 6 ways to improve your product experience. Measure your progress.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. Good product team, bad product team Click To Tweet. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Especially if your SaaS company originated as (or still is!) Sometimes accruing UX debt is the only way to go: when time-to-market is of the essence, you have to launch quickly with limited resources to stay competitive: “We are not here to craft the perfect UX, but survive in the SaaS space first.”. Let’s dive in! In a hurry?

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Technical Skills As an AI product manager, not having a strong command of the technical aspects of product development is out of the question. It also requires you to have a sound foundation in the technologies that developers use to build AI products. Consider our Product HQ Technical Product Manager Course.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Growth is arguably the most defining and sought-after trait of technology companies. It fluctuates, plateaus, goes up and down with each new round of funding, new competitor, new technological leap – or even a global pandemic or economic downturn. However, growth is seldom linear, as is all too clear in the current economic climate.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

This article is part of our series on Solutions Architect interviews. If you're interviewing for solutions architect roles, don't miss our Complete System Design Interview Course. Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. 💡 Hey there!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate. Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning.

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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. The most important tool empowering leaders can use is context.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team? What is the best way to work with cross-functional teams?

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. We just execute differently, and sometimes we have a bad day or week.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Yet most of the product community’s dialogue centers around the relationship with product and engineering. I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ).

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right?

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth. Their job is to sell prospects on the vision of your company. vs. A Product Onboarding Tool for Startups. Eden Bidani.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Here’s 3 steps you can take to start tackling your to-do list: Step 1: Get Organized With the Right Tool(s). But if you’re looking to mix up your day-to-day task tools, here are some suggestions. Task Management Tools for Product Managers. What it does well: It’s an extremely basic, simple solution.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Rather, everything is an iterative process of building the service, rolling it out to users and keep improving it as you get new data and feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. Nico: Exactly.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They are based on blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. These currencies can be used as a medium of exchange for goods and services or traded on various online platforms. Poor management: A cryptocurrency project is only as good as the team behind it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The 10 Thorniest Problems In Product (And The Solutions That Successful Companies Are Using To Tackle Them) As research for my upcoming fourth book, I’ve been interviewing dozens of product leaders and creators. Request: Obviously every company or product team will have context-specific factors that make their situation a little different.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. I think it makes sense to hear that opinion and factor that into the product development process. Of course?—?the

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, value to the user, how to win in the market, metrics, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and how the product delivers results for the organization. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. They also ensure it fulfills the business’s wider objectives, do the initial research, user interviews, and collect user feedback and data. TL;DR – Post Summary. Product Managers are a relatively new role.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Throughout my experience, I’ve used many frameworks and tools to support the research and discovery process. Start with your company and product mission and vision. ProductPlan is the product management platform that operationalizes product strategy and execution best practices and drives innovation, trust, and accountability.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

His product journey started with the discovery that his wife (and, by extension, many women in rural India) couldn’t afford commercially available sanitary products, and was having to resort to dangerously unhygienic homemade solutions. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs. User Feedback is Essential. Product Management Takeaway.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . I could use this same sentence for a product, scrum master, or engineering manager role.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. But with machine learning the solution itself is so exciting and novel that it’s tempting to forget to ask yourself why you need it in the first place.

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