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. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. We were Agile, with daily standups, two week sprints and detailed estimations.

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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

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 Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints. The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. Resource, technology and poor planning impact a product’s functionality.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data. She has co-facilitated and led Agile training sessions for students in Master of Engineering in Silicon Valley.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Shift from fixed yearly planning to rolling quarterly reviews to allow flexibility in roadmap decisions. Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned. Translate technical details into user-friendly language using real-world analogies.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

In today’s competitive business environment, technology is increasingly shaping the strategies that companies develop to try to outdo their competition. To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. This is precisely what we’ll be looking at in this blog post.

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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.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

From my experience of working directly with and solving problems for product management and delivery in a Fortune 100 financial services organization, I’d like to share my list of top grievances against bad product management, from an engineering perspective. Product managers are at the driver’s seat, not engineering teams.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question. Rightpoint.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. The same is true in software.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. With Dual-Track Agile, the development team participates in the discovery track – often led by the lead engineer, the UX designer, and the product manager.

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Centercode

JUNE 11, 2025

Delta is the next generation of beta testing, leveraging Centercode technology to automate time consuming tasks while increasing user engagement and test results. In this post, you’ll learn how to tailor customer insights for three key groups: product managers, engineers, and executives. Schedule a demo to talk with an expert.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Due to stay-at-home orders enacted across the globe in response to COVID-19, the mobile channel has seen particularly extreme changes in how companies leverage it to support their broader business goals. Q: What’s your best tip for staying agile when implementing changes to your mobile digital transformation approach?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 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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UX Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

At this point, the designer’s job starts to feel more like either engineering — where we assist developers in mapping user interfaces — or product management, where we contribute to shaping the roadmap through user research. However, if the flow is technology-heavy and intended for engineers, a designer’s contribution can become tricky.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 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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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Regret, sorrow, disappointment – not all team check-ins and spec reviews end like this, but for a while, most of mine did. It wasn’t like we actively distrusted each other – more so the fact that we rarely saw each other in person – we had a wee 4,225 mile gap between myself in Brooklyn, NY and my engineers in Poland.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

SSAI Server-Side Ad Insertion technology allows content owners to integrate ads into the stream avoiding buffering, ad-blockers, and watching experience interruptions. The technology is used to identify ad breaks within the streaming content and place and renew targeted advertisements with no interruptions.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . But SpaceX has shown impressive progress leveraging an Agile production methodology that could compete with and even replace NASA’s waterfall processes. . The NASA waterfall model includes System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Decision-making had become nearly impossible because no one saw the bigger picture , and cross-functional projects were more about navigating through outdated technology than delivering value. Tech organizations are complex by nature, and you will always need to make some trade-offs. Put the engineering structure aside for now.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. ??

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Review design. 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? Review sprint work in retro. Write spec. Create ticket.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2021

One of the many Agile myths is that it is difficult to manage evolving requirements. However, veterans of the software testing world know that agile development is a superior method to manage the constantly changing needs that many software development projects encounter. New and improved technology is now available.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems. Engineering had a lot of power.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Folding Burritos

JULY 5, 2015

We gravitate towards a list probably because of Agile methodologies, or maybe because that’s the natural way to think about work to be done. There’s a single development backlog list, which is fed from the Epics and Engineering boards, after negotiation between the team and myself. Then, there’s the issue with how we structure it.

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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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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 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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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable. We work in cross-functional teams of both TAB and client product owners, engineers and designers.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

Unfortunately, the “product manager” (often called “business analyst” in such a setup) does not have the authority to push back on such requirements, but rather focuses on translating the business requirements into a detailed design that software engineers can then implement. Bridge the Gap Between “Tech” and “Business”.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Use Lean Startup practices and be as Agile as you need to be in each learning phase—the customer value preposition, the business model, and the model to scale. At the end of each stage, have a deliverable that’s reviewable so people can decide to proceed or not. Have periodic portfolio reviews. Innovation Quote.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2020

Every day I experience how working in channels makes information more transparent, lets our teams be more agile and helps me stay connected with my coworkers in real time. Every department across the organization uses channels, not just our technical teams. Once I got up to speed, it was rewarding and fun to see how Slack uses Slack.

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