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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. “The customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems we use. It’s a B2B SaaS application, think of it as a CRM.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s  (See this 2015 talk and supporting blog series. What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A  And very few companies can balance the two.  (See

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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. We use a multi-touch attribution system. We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. We actually have a bit of a system.

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Lessons from LTP Digital 2022: Adopting a Product-Led Company Culture

ProductPlan

With this in mind, companies rush to transition to being product-led without establishing clear-set goals. The Harvard Business Review concluded that it takes at least 5 to 10 years for change to manifest itself throughout an organization entirely. Frankly, this is the wrong way to make the transition.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. solves a customer problem that was important, but is no longer significant example: Apple launched the butterfly keyboard in 2015 to provide thin, stable keys for typing and thinner laptops. But, it is very difficult to actually execute upon unshipping. O bsolescence.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

If you’re a fan of the kanban system , this will become your go-to method of organization. If it’s still unclear to you whether you should or should not delegate tasks, Jeff Lash at Good Product Manager suggests asking yourself a series of questions: Is this helping to advance the product strategy?