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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. As you learn more about your users, your product vision should evolve in tandem. This is why… You Are Not All That. Many organisations, large and small, get along fine without a Product Manager. Recognise When It’s Your Fault.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Ben Horowitz touched passively on “micro-managing” in Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , reminding us that Product Managers should be more vision-focused than execution-focused : “Good product managers crisply define the target, the “what” (as opposed to the how) and manage the delivery of the “what.”

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Why Gender Diversity Leads to Better Products

ProductPlan

Unfortunately, in 2005, women only earned about one in five CS degrees in the US, which continues today. The organization’s vision is to ensure that “all people in product have equitable opportunities to build rewarding careers and shape the products of the future.” . Salary Earnings for Women in Product.

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The Product Manager vs. the Strategist

Pragmatic Marketing

Both turn grand visions into tangible goods and market realities. The direction can come from the top (product executing on executives’ visions) or from the bottom (product weaving features into marketable stories). To put it simply, both product and strategy aim to fulfill a company’s why. Scaling Success.

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Top 7 UX Research Agency in 2023

UX Studio: Product Management

AJ Davis, a user experience strategy expert, founded Experiment Zone in 2017 in Austin, Texas. Before starting the UX research company, she led optimization strategy projects and was the lead UX researcher on the Google Optimize product. . Conversion Strategy & Testing. Product Vision & Strategy.