The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

to run its Product organisation. Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016). Listen if you’d like to learn more about: When should you hire your first product manager?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Usual Benchmarks to Measure Product/Market Fit.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

Five factors of successful product managers. Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:50]

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

Increasing the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work is my North Star metric. My goal is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Discovery Coaching Doesn’t Scale. Understanding Impact vs. Outcomes. Tweet This.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In the field of UX research, Systems Thinking can bring many benefits to strategic planning, allowing for a broader and more integrated view of the user ecosystem. Feedback loops: a system’s outputs affect its inputs, creating loops. Considering the broader social, cultural, and environmental context of product use.

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Top Challenges for Product Management. At SiriusDecisions, we’ve recently been conducting research into the top priorities of product management leaders. We’ll be sharing more results from the survey in the “Priorities for Product Management Leaders for 2015″ webcast.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. 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.

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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? This blog looks at what actions product managers can take to ensure their teams are investing their time wisely. “If Taking an evidence-based approach to building product is, I’ve found, the only way to avoid this trap.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 21, 2015

One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to decide what features and enhancements should be added to an offering. It’s fairly common for product managers to come up with their own spreadsheets or formulas to do this evaluation. Three Questions About Product Management. SiriusDecisions Summit 2015.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Jon Noronha joined the product team for Microsoft’s Bing search engine in 2011 when the product, as he puts it, was “in a big hole” As the years went by, however, that turned around, and in late 2015, Microsoft reported that Bing had become profitable. Experimentation Pitfall #1: Testing With the Wrong Metrics.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

The customer onboarding process is a vital stop on the path to customer happiness and product success. In This Article: Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding? 5 Easy Ways To Collect Feedback During Onboarding. The TL; Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding?

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

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. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket.

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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. Research in the Beginning. The Growth of the Research Practice. By 2015, Material Design had attracted many thousands of users.

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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. Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen. Quantifying Qualitative Research by Leisa Reichelt. Marty Cagan.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2017

YouTube, for example, failed as a video-dating site and succeeded by pivoting to video-sharing site; and Google Glass failed as a consumer product and was recently re-launched as a B2B product. As individuals and businesses, we should therefore appreciate failure—product success would otherwise be impossible to achieve.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I believe the future of product management is product thinking. And product coaching is how we get there. I have worked with in product for most of my career. Building products for big corporates, small startups and scale-ups. Just adding more product managers, is not the answer. The Hypothesis.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 10, 2019

In this ProductTank London talk, Claire Parker describes how the Financial Times built internal tools for editorial use by using a product development approach. Claire outlines the key milestones of the Lantern journey by detailing aspects of the product development approach. User Testing.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Martin Eriksson opened #mtpcon London 2018 – the world’s largest conference for passionate product people – by telling us that despite all he’s achieved, he feels like a fraud. Imposter Syndrome isn’t unique to product people, but we suffer from it more than most because we are generalists in a world full of specialists.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

million in 2015 (see footnote). Consumer adoption of voice-based products has grown to the point where businesses need to understand what voice-based experiences can mean to them. But, as I’m sure we’re all aware, exploring new business models such as voice-based products and experiences doesn’t always come naturally to big companies.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But in product management, there are several horizons that need to be considered—how many depends on the product planning model you use. 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

APRIL 6, 2018

Once upon a time I believed that to be a successful product manager, I simply had to create great products. For years I’ve helped my clients create new digital products and services for their customers. We threw terms like product/market fit around, without ever really giving a thought to what they meant. Sound familiar?

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Understanding Buyer and User Needs: A Short Survey. One of the key elements underpinning any successful product, service or solution is that it addresses buyer and user needs. At SiriusDecisions, we are focusing on this area in our research and would like to hear from you. Please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Understanding Buyer and User Needs: A Short Survey. One of the key elements underpinning any successful product, service or solution is that it addresses buyer and user needs. At SiriusDecisions, we are focusing on this area in our research and would like to hear from you. Please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Collaborating on digital product design with engineers or managers follows the same principles as the prisoners dilemmaboth of you can either cooperate or defect. For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Of course, the latter are rarely product designers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Jamie Levy, the main tenets of a UX strategy are business strategy, value innovation, validated user research , and frictionless UX. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. A UX strategy is a plan that guides product design and development.

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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. The company has kept up the momentum in sports nutrition and hydration research.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 1, 2020

Instead, and as part of Mind the Product APAC, I want to talk about leveling up product culture in your region – wherever you are in the world and regardless of the product community you find already to be in place. My hope is that you’ll find something in our story to inspire you as you grow your own product community.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tomoko Yokoi, researcher and advisor in digital transformations at the IMD Business School in Switzerland. Karen Church, Intercom VP of Research & Data Science. Back in 2015 or 2016, I was studying in London, doing a master’s degree in business psychology. Keith is the Editor in Chief of emojipedia.org.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2021

It’s such an integral part of a Product Manager’s job description, that it’s just kind of a given that everyone knows what it means and how to do it well. In 2015 it was discovered by Harvard Business Review that 75% of cross functional teams were dysfunctional. What Do Cross Functional Teams Look Like in Product Development?

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s a product unto itself. And just like a product process, you need data to create something great. From customer research to monitoring and iteration, good copywriting is rooted in data. Start with customer research. You wouldn’t build a product without doing customer research and validating your idea.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 17, 2017

Gadi Weiszlovits Lahav (Head of Product at FT.com) and Richard Still (Technology Director at FT.com) tell ProductTank London how to scale quickly and successfully. In 2015 they had a team of 6 people – they are now at 80. Set up Engineering Teams That Support Your Products. Take Your Tech and Product Debt Seriously.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Product design is one of the main differentiators in the digital competition. Great digital product design must be functional and convenient, first of all. A human-oriented product should address the target user’s critical problems and provide inclusive, user-friendly solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

. “Our growth is not just in our office, but growth in customers, revenue, people, dinners, lunches, lines of code, bugs, features, tests, everything” A lot has changed in the past six years across the board, but looking at technology, the web, JavaScript, there has been huge change. Intercom has changed massively too.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. Certainly improving technique will have an impact on product management performance, but often product management leaders focus on upskilling on technique and neglect the strategic elements. and the SiriusDecisions Product Ownership Decision Framework.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2020

This 2015 post by former senior product manager Hugh Durkin highlights how early we were thinking about the practicalities of building a developer ecosystem , pointing out how the first developer APIs and first developer hub had already generated the first shoots of a budding ecosystem. Building a developer economy around Intercom.

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