The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. The result of it were clearly scoped versions, that last about 2 weeks for development, testing, and validation. After going from a long development process to a shorter cycle, we have managed to resolve our most glaring problems. Was the problem Agile?

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

My blog post on the Top Challenges for Product Management in 2015 shares some of the high-level findings from our research, specifically around the top priority areas for product management leaders as well as the specific skills they are looking to develop in their teams in 2015.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 21, 2015

Don’t Prioritize Features Based on Development Cost. I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds, of different ones, and nearly all of them have one thing in common – there’s some input for development cost. SiriusDecisions Summit 2015. There’s plenty of more information on our SiriusDecisions 2015 Summit website.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Engaging end users in the product development process has become a textbook truth, hailed as the surefire way to build solutions that solve real problems. If the developer of the product is the intended user, they may be the only one involved. All those come from the producer, not from the customer.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The podcast started in January 2015, and we have not missed a week. Only then, flesh out the canvas and begin to development. If product managers are involved in development, they must also be preparing for launch and market. Release is the end of development, but launch is the beginning of marketing. The magic wand.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2016

A release plan forecasts how a major release is developed. In the chart above, the vertical axis captures the remaining effort in the product backlog required to create the next release, and the horizontal axis captures the number of sprints necessary or available to develop the release. What is a Release Plan? for example.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this 2015 post, Jason Burke, then VP of Product at a Boston-based start-up called clypd, offers some advice on how product managers can prioritise when they’re faced with endless lists of work to be done. You can’t do it all, says Jason, and there’s the problem. Included on the lists are features that someone [.]

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists, and a host of other experts every single day. In 2015 Ken Norton spoke about how product managers can learn a lot from how jazz musicians approach their craft – like Jazz musicians we have to get uncomfortable.

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UserVoice

JUNE 21, 2017

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in December 2015 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Photo courtesy of r2hox.

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

In February 2015, a small group of enthusiastic Auckland-based product managers got together to hold the very first Product Management Auckland Meetup event. Now, 59 events and nearly 3500 members later here we’ve marked this milestone with five lightning talks on the theme, “How I’ve grown”. Here you can watch the talks in full or [.].

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

It was meant as a counterpoint to the Nimby (not in my backyard) movement, which opposed development in local areas, because we wanted to position the product as a tool for local people looking to make a difference. We could all attend sprint planning, non-developers could come to standups, and we shared release notes among the whole team.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Ken developed his product management career over nine years at eBay in both Sydney and London, where he became Head of Product Management for the European Product Development Group. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian. Find out more!

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2017

David is a Partner and Development Manager at CitrusByte, working with both large corporations and startups to develop innovative software solutions to challenges they may be facing. In 2015, the worldwide spending in IT was 3.4 trillion dollars that was spent worldwide in 2015, about 2.4 trillion dollars.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 15, 2015

Creating Effective MVPs Full Day workshop is coming to NYC on July 16, 2015! Full Day Workshop on July 16, 2015 in Manhattan (9:30am - 5:00pm). How product development teams, marketing, and the business can work together in this process. Only 20 tickets available! Buy Tickets Now. How to align product experiments with your KPIs.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

Product Development Tools by Ryan Singer. Lean Product Development by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits. What games can teach us about product development by John Earner. The Psychology Behind Successful Products by Nathalie Nahai. Why We Need Product People to Save AI by Ashwini Asokan. Product = People by Nilan Peiris.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Even when an initial concept isnt fully developed, the other side remains open to refining it, contributing their own expertise, and sharing it back for further iteration until itmatures. When a collaboration is a collaboration Gaps of ignorance The key principle of creative collaboration is building upon each others ideas.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2015, Martin Eriksson wrote an article about the history of product management. Our understanding of our craft has come a long way since 2015. Being agile is now also something not just a handful of developers can be, but a state that every organisation and team aspires to be. The Hypothesis. It’s simple.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

We’re interested in hearing from anyone actively involved in product development. other 46% are from a wide variety of roles including development managers, engineers, project managers, UX professionals, and more. We’re interested in hearing from anyone actively involved in product development.

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Bryce York

JANUARY 12, 2015

A lot of e-tailers discovered CRO in 2015. 2015 will be the year where most people know what CRO is and the way to differentiate your store, will be to actually start doing it! Customer acquisition costs and traffic generation will be the biggest challenge for most eCommerce stores in 2015.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015. Through conversation, talent reviews, and direct experience leading large organizations, I’ve developed a few key principles to help new skip leads better understand and perform their role.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 18, 2019

So what’s the key to having happy developers? A joyful, transparent development experience. As we keep building out our own platform so teams can customize Intercom for their own needs, we’ve loved getting to know the great group of developers and partners building apps for our customers and for themselves.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Therefore, before determining timeframes, make sure that you have a suitable model in place like the one below, which I developed while writing my book Strategize. The product backlog contains the details necessary to develop the product as outlined in the roadmap including epics and user stories. Take the Apple Watch as an example.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Product Development Tools by Ryan Singer. Lean Product Development by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits. What games can teach us about product development by John Earner. The Psychology Behind Successful Products by Nathalie Nahai. Why We Need Product People to Save AI by Ashwini Asokan. Product = People by Nilan Peiris.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2020

To help you make a better-informed decision about your future technology partner, we’ve conducted market and industry research in order to define the best cross-platform app development companies. why cross-platform app development? It is an established boutique design and software development house based in Warsaw, Poland.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2020

Over the past few years, we have given a lot of thought to the ingredients of a successful app ecosystem, the effort involved in developing a thriving platform, the consideration required to build fruitful partnerships. Building a developer economy around Intercom. Infrastructure is usually a good place to start.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

How do you develop an understanding of what will set a product up for success throughout your organization? You have to do this at the very outset of product conceptualization and design, with refinements throughout development. Why do I push to build this shared understanding throughout the organization?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

After benchmarking nearly 100 startups in his customer development survey, Ellis found the magic number to be 40% – that is companies that struggled to find growth almost always had under 40% of users respond “very disappointed”. Companies with strong traction almost always exceeded that threshold.

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Product Management Unpacked

JUNE 23, 2020

There’s a scene in the Steve Jobs (2015) biopic, where Steve Wozniak asks Jobs, “What do you do? On a typical day, Grone meets with leaders of the support team, works with developers and answers questions from individual salespeople. These products make it easier for companies to bounce back after encountering big problems.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2020

in neuroscience and a background as a quantitative analyst on post-crash Wall Street, Carl has been identifying the major trends in the subscription economy and predicting what’s to come ever since he joined the company in 2015. With a Ph.D.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The drawback is that I don’t develop and grow, avoid challenging projects, and miss new opportunities. Innovation Lab : A dedicated research facility that is tasked with new product development. If I identify myself with what I know and do, then failure jeopardises my sense of who I am and how others might perceive me.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JANUARY 1, 2016

In my last post I reviewed the topics we covered in 2015. I will develop a set of these small product management activities to practice, and then determine the forms that the practice will take. And I suspect my skills will be much more developed at the end of the year. It should be very interesting.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

At #mtpcon San Francisco, Elizabeth Churchill , Director of UX at Google tells us how research can work in product development to help us make useful and usable interactive experiences. Google Material Design, she shares how research was initially used in development, where the research practice is today, and where it’s going.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 8, 2019

So when sports fuel producer Gatorade was looking for a way to develop its core product, my company, strategic design consultancy Smart Design, helped it to create the Gx Platform, a service that brings biometric data and electrolyte-enhanced fluids together. Stay True to the Company’s Purpose. We’re all familiar with sports drinks.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Chaos Report 2015. Finding this match is the ultimate challenge in innovative product development, and it’s nearly impossible to plan this entirely in advance. Technical Feasibility.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

That means that they’ve worked closely with different cross functional teams, and have at least a broad understand of each stage of product development. As CEO of YouTube, she has been described as ‘the most powerful woman on the internet’, and in 2015 she was recognized as one of Time’s 100 most influential people.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2021

This week we’re rewinding all the way to 2015 and a classic #mtpcon San Francisco keynote from Kathy Sierra — Badass: Making users awesome. Kathy argues that every experience has the potential to be transformative if we just build them the right way and she provides brilliant, at times laugh out loud funny, examples to [.]

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source In the expansive universe of software development, few platforms have wielded as much influence and innovation as GitHub. The Origin: A Fun Weekend In 2008 The GitHub saga commenced in 2008 when three men envisioned a platform that would democratize software development and foster collaboration on a global scale.

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