Roman Pichler

AUGUST 13, 2019

If that’s the case for your product, then reduce the product backlog size by unbundling one or more features and releasing them as products in their own right, like Facebook did with Messenger in 2014. Your third option is to structure the product backlog in order to make it more manageable thereby hiding detailed items.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

Smart candidates know they need to prepare thoroughly for their product management interviews. Do not go into a product management interview without preparing questions for your interviewer. Winging it or asking generic questions here can kill your chances at landing a product management job.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Since its establishment in 2014, the company has been delivering full-stack product development services for businesses globally. Besides app development, the company offers strategy, consulting, design, and product development services.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the past 7 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco and #mtpengage in Hamburg – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha. Building Products AI-First by Aparna Chennapragada. by Jon Kolko.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. Where does sales fit in at a company driven by product strategy?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. This helped me better understand which strategy and roadmap-related challenges product managers commonly experience and which advice is helpful for them.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For the past 6 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha. How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow. Marty Cagan.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

Revenue-generating products typically become profitable when they have achieved product-market fit and start to grow. A product manager’s (or owner’s) job is therefore different from a project manager’s: product people are in it for the long run—assuming that the product prospers and grows.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In 2013/2014, the company began scaling rapidly and moved to India to accelerate its growth. is the umbrella organization for 5 successful enterprise products: BizTalk360, Document 360, Severless360, Atomic Scope, and Cerebrata, which the business acquired in 2019. In 2010, he decided to build a product to solve these issues.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

So, when you make your roadmap, make it clear to the team who your user is, the value they’re getting, why they should care about what’s being delivered, and where, how, and when they’ll use the product. If you’ve spent time on your product strategy, this should come from the user-centered value story.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP). Shipping product to real users. So how do you decide?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2017

At the same token, you must invest enough in new product development initiatives to generate new question marks—assuming that you want to grow organically. Your product portfolio therefore requires regular adjustments, and portfolio management should be a common activity. Product Portfolio Matrix and Product Life Cycle.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Here, I’d like to share the lessons I’ve learned from my years working as a product manager, focused on growth. In modern tech companies, growth teams and growth product managers are becoming common, although all product managers aim to deliver business growth within their sphere of influence.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There’s no better conference to attend if you’re working in product management, digital, or marketing in or near Manchester. Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles. Gabrielle Bufrem – Pivotal Labs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2018

Every now and then, it’s interesting to ask: What does a Product Manager (PM) do? The answer of course has some take on: They juggle managing products and people. That is the product manager in a nutshell. it depends on how the company has structured their product organization.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The digital website design agency specializes in solving complex digital product challenges and driving outstanding results. Their expertise lies in accelerating product growth, enhancing team culture, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Their services include UX/UI Design, Product Strategy, and Full-Stack Development.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017). Aparna Chennapragada, Director of Product Management, Google.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Creating a sub-brand also meant that if the product never took off, it could be quietly discontinued without harming the parent brand. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. We were growing, able to show user need and demonstrate the product’s potential, so the board agreed to further investment. The Yimby homepage, 2013.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For product managers, this means evolving to build for upmarket companies while ensuring Intercom’s long-standing customers remain at the center of what we do. Product management varies depending on your industry, company stage, company leadership, or teammates. This approach was crucial to designing our Articles product.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. Let’s explore the company’s product strategy to see what makes it different. Product strategy: slip into the customers’ shoes. Of course, Slack uses its product to manage and prioritize customer feedback.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

The team consists of experts in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation. The team of Studio Graphene set off in London, where they are still headquartered, in 2014. The three main services they can help their clients with are strategy, design, and development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

When I first joined Apple Maps in November 2014, I was handed the feature list for the year. Prioritization: better than business metrics My favorite framework for prioritization involves rating features against their ability to impact weighted goals that relate to product strategy. Why are we doing feature [feature name]?”

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Gainsight

JULY 7, 2021

The result, as Moore explained, was that “Customer Success Management would soon ‘cross the chasm’ as a mainstream discipline across all businesses and industries.”. With the free ticket, you had access to all of the sessions, booths, networking, and keynotes.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. I had this crazy theory around doing level-independent performance management, so we did that in a completely different way with a big network of spreadsheets. I worked on Office, then Windows, then SQL Server.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

This allows you to find out how you have to evolve your practices to succeed with the distributed setup, including collaborative product strategy review and product backlog refinement sessions held via videoconferences. 8 Consider Unbundling Features and Creating Product Variants. Growth is a funny thing.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Arguably, killing portions of a product is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. Even the most experienced product managers have little to no experience and craft in reverting decisions after a feature has already made it live into production. ” Neil Rahilly – VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Talks from BoS USA 2014. Des Traynor: Product Strategy is About Saying “No” Revisited. Talks from BoS EU 2014. Michael McDerment: A litany of product management mistakes at Freshbooks. David Russo: Why culture matters and how to manage it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. This month, we have passed the three million download mark for the show. That just blows my mind.

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Tyner Blain

JANUARY 8, 2017

When it comes to developing a product strategy – or even making decisions about how best to create a product, one of these assumptions is likely to be what causes us to fail. Laura Klein spoke at the Lean Startup Conference about identifying risky assumptions and her talk was published in Dec 2014.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2023

With a background in computer science and a knack for building products, Mickey co-founded Insightera in 2014, a real-time targeting and personalization platform that was later acquired by Marketo, where he led the global engineering team as a GVP for almost three years. Liam: Where does the B2B customer journey come into this?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The team grows, roles shift, output increases, and many other pivotal changes happen within the product team and the organization as a whole. At the same time, rapid growth can present some challenges for product management. These are all valid questions for product people at high-growth organizations.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Marc: I’m one of the founders of Hotjar, and we started back in 2014. And more recently, maybe just over a year ago, I started slowly moving to product. As the team started to grow, there was more of a need to have some structure and product management. Marc: Initially, our plan wasn’t to have a freemium.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

We looked around and didn’t really see anything, apart from a lot of prior arcs and existing systems that were what we really came to think of as content management systems for ML or UIs for training an ML. I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. I do think it will continue.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 19, 2020

Because it’s a free product, we measure our success a little bit differently. We’ve about $9 billion ARR under management. And in the 2014 version there was only like 400 companies on it. Basically, this is the ARR of all the fun companies that are using ProfitWell.

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