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Sustainable Pace in Product Management

Roman Pichler

I find that many product people are so busy with urgent tactical work, such as refining user stories, working with the development team, or answering a support request, that they neglect important strategic tasks like regularly assessing if the product strategy is still working. Consequently, make enough time for strategic work.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

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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What Questions Should you ask Your Product Manager Interviewers?

Mind the Product

What are the improvements the product needs in the next five years? The goal here is to learn about the product vision. What is the most contentious feature the product team currently debates building? For more on the process, here is a sample model our CEO put together in 2014 for a role at delivery company Postmates.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

As a communication tool, use roadmaps to: Convert your strategy into a tangible product, taking an essential yet abstract concept and giving it form. Foster mutual understanding by painting a shared vision of the future and the results achieved. Narrate the product’s story and journey, illustrating how it evolves.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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How bots, messengers and apps will define 2019 with Des Traynor, Paul Adams and Emmet Connolly

Intercom, Inc.

I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. I don’t know when Stripe was founded, but in 2014 they weren’t very mature. Google Now looks a lot like it did in 2014. Again, that’s something I would have thought in 2014 was happening imminently. But it exists now.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. The vision? This idea of “not now” is really powerful because saying no is critical to any kind of product strategy and product execution. Here’s Rachel.

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