The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Now, how do you do that?

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Remember that meetings will be ongoing as the project develops – so make time to meet with key stakeholders several times throughout the process. Try to think of the process as an agile development project. IT Administrators. Business Process Analysts.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In some other companies, product management (along with project management), roles up to the CIO (Chief Information Officer). This guide can also help in planning your career development plan as a Product Manager.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. Assuming you do decide to improve the Proof of Concept, then typically you iterate using an agile process. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. A technical HiPPO, such as an architect or CTO, might overrule a design or architecture. They do have some constraints, such as “this kind of customer” and “these kinds of problems.”

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. .” In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Can they create an agile transformation?

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Atomic Spin PM

JUNE 18, 2019

I’ve also found it’s one of the top five topics to cause a developer to cringe. If you’ve used a waterfall software development process, you’re all too familiar with documentation. There is a common misconception that documentation should be done away with entirely in Agile development. Agile Documentation Basics.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. One of our clients is a deep believer in agile and that agile teams are self-determining. So why does something that is supposed to be good go wrong?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The mission of the Intercom Information Security (InfoSec) team is to foster and safeguard customer trust – and we think a lot about how we preserve Intercom’s agility while also recognizing and mitigating the highest-rated security risks. . Investing significantly in safeguarding our customers’ trust. Intercom is no exception.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

With the majority of our product & engineering teams furloughed and operating with a skeleton caretaker team only, here’s my top 10 learnings from recent experience of this crisis: A crisis calls for pragmatism and being truly agile. its a lighter, rapid development that’s needed. Tear up the roadmap & OKRs. Have a co-captain.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 2, 2019

In software development, and specifically in the outsourcing business, transparency is a good added value for your company. Staying transparent and reliable for several decades is a serious competitive advantage not only for a software development company but for any company. It is not about software development projects.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

The Basecamp team does a fantastic job of thinking from first principles, questioning the status quo, and coming up with novel practices that they've carefully battle-tested on their own team over the last 15 years of developing Basecamp. Jason Fried says so himself in the foreward: For one, we’re not into waterfall or agile or scrum.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

3:23] What stage was the company in when the product was developed? I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. 16:38] What was the product development team like in the beginning? We hired contractors for a few specific things and eventually brought in Agile and Scrum.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust. As a direct result, I became Head of Product.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

While Gainsight and Aptrinsic both see an opportunity for something greater by coming together, we’re keeping the teams structured in a way that the encourages the same agility and agency that got Aptrinsic to where it is today. As a multi-product company, we’re excited to develop seamless integrations between both Gainsight and Aptrinsic.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have helped shape the landscape of product management in the 21st century. Uber has a fleet of Product Operations Managers that are responsible for getting out of the office and talking with as many customers and users as possible. And the landscape continues to change at a rapid pace.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. Mind the Product published this article on why prioritizing is one of the most critical aspects of your product development.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

Product managers and their more recent Agile brethren, product owners, hold one of the most demanding positions in an organisation. As the crucial nexus in the product development framework, their plate is all too often full with business demands, technical requirements, and marketing concerns. Work on Your Eloquence.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. CEOs need to change too. The move to the cloud and to software-as-a-service (SaaS) models changed a lot of things about business.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. When your team is trying to build something that doesn’t currently exist, the development process is full of moments of uncertainty. Hand it off to your developers and design team, and let them execute on it. Make some mockups.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Knowing when to pull the trigger on a product release is a necessary, albeit tricky, skill for PMs to develop. So Shopify’s Director of Product, Brandon Chu, developed a framework to streamline that decision-making process. Dear PMs, it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups. A tactical and handy post!

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. Shape Up occupies the same territory, serves the same function, as Those Various Agile Methodologies. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Atomic Spin PM

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

As noted in this post , it’s a good idea to establish team norms at the beginning, rather than letting them develop over time. Have the Development Team Invest Time in Their Own Practices. Depending on the various skill levels represented in your team, some developers may be more or less used to Agile processes like pairing.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Introduction Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate by increasing agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. In this blog post, we will delve into the world of cloud computing, exploring recent trends and developments. It allows developers to focus on writing code without worrying about infrastructure management.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you have an internal development team, ask them to estimate how long it would take them (in hours) to build the product. This will give you a useful point of comparison when talking to outside developers. Our budget model also expresses cost in terms of time, given an ideal team made up of developers, designers, and delivery leads.

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