Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. It’s not that different from the current design.

User Testing 149

User Testing Weak Development Team Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience 149

Bain Public

JULY 14, 2021

Bain Public acted as an Exclusive Product Advisor to OnDeck Canada in defining their roadmap. Since 2007, OnDeck has delivered over $2 billion to businesses all across the United States in more than 700 industries and has been lending in Canada since 2014. CLIENT ANNOUNCEMENT. Contact us. 514) 442-8487.

Strategy 52

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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. The pandemic’s influence on product strategy. Slack response to the pandemic.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software Product Strategy 52

Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017). Most recently Jeff co-founded Neo Innovation (sold to Pivotal Labs) in New York City and helped build it into one of the most recognized brands in modern product strategy, development and design.

Research Software 89

Research Software User Testing Customer Experience Workshop 89

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. Are there any solid steps for creating a product-led strategy?

Analytic Tools 118

Analytic Tools Customer Experience User Testing B2B 118

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

According to Lynch, by 2014, the product team was getting increasingly frustrated with its inability to get time with the CTO for feedback and approvals on decisions. At this point, another product manager at Dropbox, Anand Subramani suggested a basic framework for reviews during each stage of a project.

Software Review 84

Software Review CTO Feedback Software User Testing 84

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? At the time, back in 2014, this was so much easier than having to navigate around using Google Maps.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback 52

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

It’s your responsibility to build the product roadmap. Product School's Product Management Certification Founded in 2014, Product School boasts a community of 1 million+. Industry leaders from Microsoft, Google, and Airbnb (to name a few) will teach you the basics of product management.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

Interestingly, features and components can become products in their own right. The messenger feature used to be part of the main Facebook app until it was unbundled in April 2014. Take the Facebook Messenger app for example.

User Testing 241

User Testing Customer Experience Product Research Agile 241

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. Otherwise, the roadmap will become overly detailed and volatile. This way, they are not forgotten or lost.

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Roadmap Customer Experience Messaging Product Goals 215

Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

no longer aligns with company strategy and direction example: Dropbox’s 2014 foray into photo sharing, through their Carousel product. Roadmaps are developed around ‘quick wins’ encouraging immediate, incremental movement in metrics. Multi-week product features are usually deprioritized.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Analytic Tools Customer Experience Software Review 144

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The product’s appeal may fade over time without a clear purpose that continually motivates and attracts customers. Conveying purpose through your product roadmap Some recent conversations highlighted for me the need to state that product roadmap is not a plan, but a vehicle for communicating purpose.

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Weak Development Team Customer Experience Technical Review Customer Feedback 148

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. It started in our R&D team using it for roadmap planning and goal tracking. Tell me, though, what’s the underlying product strategy at play here? I worked on Office, then Windows, then SQL Server.

Feedback Software 171

Feedback Software Reporting Tools User Testing Data Visualization 171

The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2018

The Trends and Benchmarks in Product Management Report states that most PMs are only 3–5 years in their present positions even if they have around 10–20 years work experience. But some of these tasks could be taken on by other roles such as marketing, project manager, business analyst, technical product manager, etc?

Reporting Tools 60

Reporting Tools Technical Review Systems Review Leadership 60

Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rich Mironov: Answering Your Audience’s Roadmap Questions. Talks from BoS USA 2014. Des Traynor: Product Strategy is About Saying “No” Revisited. Talks from BoS EU 2014. Bob Moesta: The 5 Skills Of An Innovator. Jared Spool: Design Metrics That Matter. David Cancel: Leading A High-Growth Company.

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Weak Development Team Data Visualization Customer Feedback Customer Experience 70

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 19, 2020

And in the 2014 version there was only like 400 companies on it. But the basic point here is that software is just you know exploding because it’s easier and easier quote unquote to build a product hard to build a great product still. And then sometimes that works.

Analytic Tools 52

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