The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? Customer advisory boards arent just for updates – they should be used to test ideas, validate direction, and catch misalignment early.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“I soon noticed that while many companies have embraced agile execution, fewer have adopted a truly continuous approach to product discovery. It’s often more common to see project-based user research rather than an ongoing, iterative discovery process.” I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Free trial?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Businesses and individuals are increasingly making SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications their choice software platform for their business needs. The increasing popularity of cloud computing indicates that the importance of SaaS will only increase in the future. SaaS products already have these integrations.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. This evolution offers valuable insights for product managers at all career stages.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Lastly, to make the most out of this framework, it’s best if your organization has already implemented some variation of the Agile Methodology. Themes, Epics, User Stories. To start, break down any incoming feature requests into Themes, Epics, User Stories using the following suggestions. Enough talking. Show me the money.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. It starts with describing the customer experience through user stories.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users. ” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the previous article, I discussed in detail about Agile Product Life Cycle and its different phases and outcomes that allow an organization to function end to end in an agile product life cycle. These tools and practices are standalone sufficient and they can be picked as what fits best for the team and organization.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Below is a preview of key insights. Customer feedback is overwhelming , making it hard to separate signal from noise. Communicate trade-offs clearly by tying product decisions to business objectives and user outcomes. Lack of habit formation Users dont build a routine around the product.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

With Scrum came the POs, and with the new POs, came the interest for real Product Management. -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. 2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers. 2019: "How do I write a good user stories that can get into Jira correctly?" It is too risky. We will get sued.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome. These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

How do you foster a team culture that focuses on delivering value to your customers when you have limited resources? Agile principles can be a North Star for time-strapped support teams, helping them to keep the customer’s needs at the heart of their decisions so they can provide fast, personal support at scale.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

In an era defined by relentless innovation and unprecedented customer expectations, the nature of financial services marketing has changed. Todays customers expect financial brands to deliver deeply personalized, seamless digital experiences at every touchpoint, consistently reinforcing what they stand for.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

We like to get painful user problems to solve. You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The product manager is working with them to turn those decisions into viable software. The product manager gathers requirements, documents them, a designer creates a design based on those requirements, and the engineers build software based on those requirements. Every business wants high-quality software. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Every great solution starts with finding the real problemand often, its not what it first seems. A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Wouldn’t it be great to see all user interactions with your product as they happen? Think about all the insights you could gather to improve the user experience. Session recordings are digital recordings of user interactions with a website or app. Every click, scroll, hover, or keystroke?

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

When you think of Whatfix, your mind probably goes to a digital adoption or an employee onboarding platform. But for mobile, youd want to invest in a solution that truly gets the job done, aka one that improves user engagement and retention. The question is: Can Whatfix mobile give you what youre looking for? moment faster.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. But there’s a better way now. Short on time?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. It is hence in your best interest to help the team get back on track.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

One company I worked with, for example, assigned developers who had worked on enterprise systems using an ancient programming language to develop a brand-new, embedded product with the latest technologies. No wonder that the individuals struggled and the product suffered. 2 Don’t Scale Prematurely. 3 Build an MVP. 3 Build an MVP.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. I regard a (digital) product as an asset that creates value for a group of users and for the business.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company. The wondrous product was used by less than five percent of our entire user base. As we neared our deadline we failed to come up with a better solution. Today the product is very successful.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. The role isn’t well defined, and processes and tools are evolving too. These tools mostly show initiatives.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

This article provides an in-depth and honest review of the platform. We covered everything from features to pricing, along with insights from real users. Youll also see where WalkMe performs best and when another tool might be a better fit for mobile app engagement. Lets dive in! What is WalkMe Mobile?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Is it worth developing an Instagram-like app? Read this article to learn how to build an Instagram-like app in five steps. billion are Instagram users. Instagram is a unique photo-sharing platform that has no comparable clone app in terms of popularity. Why develop an Instagram-like app? How do you do it?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

SaaS tools are the industry's biggest open secret. Wondering what type of tools you should have in your stack? Then read on to discover the top 20 cloud-based apps that will help streamline different parts of your business. TL;DR SaaS tools are applications that users can access through an internet connection.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

Knowing what your customer does at different stages of their relationship with you can help increase engagement, loyalty, and customer retention. You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. However, it’s not easy to pick a tool among the many suitable options in the market.

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