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515: Case studies of organizational growth through successful product launches – with James Whitman

Product Innovation Educators

James shares insights from his research studying companies that consistently launch successful products. James describes working with one organization that had five different sales leaders in 18 months due to these pressures. Making Better Launch Decisions James points out common decision-making problems in product launches.

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Establishing Customer Advisory Boards for Product Managers

The Product Guy

Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. It allows you to tap into the most influential customers.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

The criticisms raised in the article—many of which stem from anecdotal frustrations and surface-level observations—overshadow the reality of a role that has become indispensable in delivering value to customers and businesses alike. The reality of product management is far from the commanding caricature the title suggests.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. Marketing technology is now the largest portion of total marketing budget (29% on average according to Gartner ).

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

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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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.