The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Well, before, product knew what was going on and engineering didn’t.” and one engineer in Iceland. And what can I do about it?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

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. Agile teams start small and move fast, collecting and incorporating feedback to iterate their way to bigger and better solutions quickly.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

When you have one team learning Agile, another learning Lean, and yet another learning Design Thinking, how are you supposed to get to alignment? Jeff takes us through the basics of the three main frameworks – Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking – and then gives us a set of principles that can help us effectively meld them together.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

But Sergio at Ramsey Solutions encountered resistance from the engineers about working this way. Sergio shared his story about rethinking the role of engineers in the product trio. The engineers at Ramsey Solutions feared that agreeing to participate in the product trio felt like an irreversible, one-way door decision.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. I used to be a QA engineer. I thought it would be better, coming from engineering, to start as a product owner. Certainly, there are many ways to achieve this. Conclusions.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. However, both the need and the sheer number of developers and technology consultants have made the challenge of sourcing reputable, professional, and capable software engineers even more difficult. Let’s dive right in.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It’s always better when we’re together Photo by henry perks on Unsplash When I entered the wondrous world of product & engineering for the first time, I did not understand why there was a split between Product & Engineering. Engineering decides how and executes. One cannot exist without the other.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. Here’s the honest truth.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The product and the engineering team did not get the opportunity to conduct a feasibility study. The engineering team is a valuable resource for determining product feasibility and timeline.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

We’re not designers (except when we are) or engineers (unless we can code) or anything actually, y’know, useful. Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. We were Agile, with daily standups, two week sprints and detailed estimations. I knew that I couldn’t look into the code to see that our engineers had built what I was looking for. We were doing Agile.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Each major release deadline created a high pressure environment with engineers working overtime in the weeks prior in order to meet delivery dates. THE CHALLENGE.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." We still haven't quite gotten down "outcomes over outputs" yet, but it's moving in a better direction. -- 2013: "What is this Agile thing? How do we write hypotheses well? How do we run it in B2B" Managers are less afraid of experimentation.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Drew is the Director of Strategy at Modus Create, a digital transformation agency that focuses on product strategy, CX, cloud, and agile development.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. She has co-facilitated and led Agile training sessions for students in Master of Engineering in Silicon Valley. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Why does product vision matter to your engineers? What is “Product Vision”? Directionality. Point your tickets. Sprint planning. Write code.

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Centercode

JUNE 11, 2025

Learn about delta testing Resources By Type  Blog  Ebooks & Guides  Events & Webinars  Case Studies  Podcast  Community Featured Content The Definitive Guide to Delta Testing What is delta testing and how are tech leaders using it to deliver customer insights throughout agile development?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer. The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery: A Quick Recap Back in the ’90s, a lot of times these decisions came from executives, from business stakeholders, and we treated our engineers like they were IT order-takers.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In a traditional company, a product manager sits in the middle between business stakeholders and the engineering team. 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. Tweet This. We don’t want that.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 13, 2019

Keywords: Agile, Media, SDLC. Keywords: Agile, Culture, Cutting Edge Technology, Data, Ownership. Keywords: product marketing support, product support engineer, product support specialist, Technical product support, technical support. Technical Project Manager @ Everyday Health – What to Expect (NYC).

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 8, 2019

Many of the companies I have worked with this year want to make their product development and management capability more agile. Most often they are using something that is of a stage-gate nature, but being more agile doesn’t mean throwing away a stage-gate framework. However, it does mean adopting agile philosophy and processes.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

But instead of inheriting or installing a cookie cutter process (Read: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall) a better approach is to take a variety of solutions and unify them into one that works best for your organization. . Product management comes down to discipline and process. The goal of a feedback loop is. One pager or Amazon style memo.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 5, 2025

Building Alignment: How to get buy-in from engineers, designers, and executives. If you’re looking to enhance your communication skills as a product leader, this episode is essential listening. What You’ll Learn: The Underrated Superpower: Why communication is the most essential skill for product managers.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Agile + DevOps West Conference. European Product Owner & Requirements Engineering Day. Agile on the Beach. June . Design Thinking and Innovation Week. London, UK. Las Vegas, NV. La Product Conf. Paris, France. Zurich, Switzerland. MTP Engage Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany. ProductCon. Cornwall, UK.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 13, 2018

With passage of time it becomes more and more challenging to make the transition from traditional waterfall method to agile practices. To make things worse either they don’t know about agile or they don’t really care about it. One option is to use the best of both worlds by applying (most of) agile values on waterfall approach.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

Cross-functional participation improves outcomes : Involving engineering and design early in discovery fosters shared understanding and reduces rework. Continuous Discovery Discovery should be part of the work, not an extra layer : When treated as a side activity, discovery is often rushed, deprioritized, or ignored.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Agile UX is a design methodology based on the principles of Agile software development. Agile is a proven software development approach that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration and efficiency. Agile UX adopts the same values, reframed in the context of digital design projects. What is the Agile UX Process?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

My student Eric Ries became the first adopter of Customer Development and recognized that in the 21st century, people were starting to adopt Agile Engineering, where you build products incrementally and iteratively. Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and the Business Model Canvas became the Lean Startup.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In the old way of working, a business stakeholder communicated a need to a product manager, the product manager wrote requirements , handed them off to a designer, who then created designs, and then the requirements and the designs were handed off to engineers to implement. With each hand-off, we lost context and nuance. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. The Market Requirements Event involves customer-facing people like sales and marketing, and it’s led by product management with developers and engineers present. One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. 13:40] Practice.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

The engineering team works on progressing the product but doesn’t communicate information back up to product management or executive groups. When I was the director of engineering, I often saw that what I understood the product to be was different from how directions of other departments in the organization understood the product.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned. Strategies for Maintaining Product Vision Without Losing Adaptability Use a structured prioritization framework (e.g., RICE scoring) to balance long-term vs. short-term needs.

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