Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Technical Aspect Throughout my career as product manager I have talked with many product managers from different companies, seen a lot of product management recruitment ads, and followed many product management discussions and lectures. A company can exist and ship a product without a product manager. None of them define your role.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It is one thing to wax philosophically about “translating strategy”, “using data”, and “aligned autonomy”, and another thing to make it happen in the real world at a rapidly growing company. You’ve got to remember, I was new and in this new, undefined role. You’ve got to remember, I was new and in this new, undefined role.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

. “At startups, you get to be hands-on in almost everything that’s needed for the company to succeed,” she says, “and so I started software development, learnt animation, offered IT support, and customer service.” Support From Within. ” Overcoming Challenges. ” Stewart Livingstone.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2018

However, you probably don't want to stay with a company if you have doubts about cultural fit. Product and engineering are at the heart of the company. Product managers are typically trying to ship a reasonably good product in a reasonable amount of time, not the perfect product at an undefined point in the far future.

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Modus Create

APRIL 16, 2020

Companies have devoted millions of dollars and entire products to solving it. Or they do so haphazardly, expecting engineers to reach out for design QA at some undefined time. It requires us to cross the great divide: the chasm between design and engineering’s understanding of the solution.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

The candidate was a senior designer who’d managed teams in very difficult large-scale companies and managed to generate great results. For a time, culture fit helped companies to improve their bottom line. Ethnically diverse companies are 35% more likely to outperform their peers, according to Deloitte.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

With time and experience in companies of different sizes, I have come to the conclusion that there is no universal solution. Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented. Your employees will be massively influenced by the actual structure of your company.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: To establish a stronger brand and protect the company from competition, Steli recently rebranded Close.io So it was a branding perception: what does our domain communicate to the world in terms of what kind of a company we are and what kind of a potential partner and vendor we could be? Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

Everybody in the company should understand the business model. It’s in contrast to a really broad and undefined definition. I don’t know if you want to call it a business model or a behavior model or an interaction model, but you understand the way your system works as a company. It’s a super open question.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

When to run them deserves a separate blog post, but there are few options to consider depending on the workflow used in your company: After every commit. Still, as more companies migrate to infrastructure as a code, they may need initial help from DevOps to comply with existing standards. After / before every merge. On feature branch.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The vast majority of responses were for things that would help their company succeed versus enrich them personally. By far, the change product managers want most this year was a clearer purpose and company strategy (37% of respondents). Far too often, product strategy remains undefined. Purpose and Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. But after having had a closer look at their vision of the product, it appeared there were a lot of undefined elements.

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