Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. Why are emails crucial to closing the deal?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space. What can be cut first?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Frameworks have drastically improved the capabilities of small teams to produce amazing experiences for people in very short periods of time. We have a small but really great infrastructure team who help maintain fast development environments. This is the “ship every day” for a framework.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

.” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. In Scrum—the framework that gave birth to the product owner—the role is responsible for maximising the value a product creates for the users and for the business. That’s usually challenging enough.

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Mind the Product

JULY 25, 2018

One prevalent theme that came up in all the interviews was how, when trying to find a solution to a challenging problem, you should try to leverage all the diverse skills available in the team. Encourage the team to think of at least four solutions to the problem being presented, if not more. engineering, commercial, design etc.)

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I think one of the first challenges that new product leaders face is understanding exactly the division of labor between themselves and their team members. While you are largely given sound advice to focus on driving results through your team, it doesn't mean that when done right you are shirking all individual responsibility.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation. Who was on time?

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy. As I considered the merits of each possible option to build a user base, I weighed them against the product strategy framework, the pros/cons, coherence, and value. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Let’s explore and discover how we can take the Jobs To Be Done framework to the next level and beyond. But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. It seems so simple!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. OKRs are a goal-setting framework individuals, teams, and organizations use to define measurable goals and track their outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. The framework provides clear boundaries, accountabilities, and do help with commitments. to draw inferences to the question my friend asked.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. They work with major companies like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé, who want to anticipate consumer trends to shape their product development. But we also have a research consulting team. While flying from the U.K.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. If they don’t match the persona market, these contacts are not likely to offer constructive criticism given they may not even relate to the pain you are seeking to address.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Value stream mapping is even more critical if you are implementing SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). .

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. Product Frameworks Can Become a Crutch. As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. How Useful Are Product Frameworks?

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

. “Scaling product and go-to-market efforts make data reliability and product delivery speed more important, while a growing team makes data reliability more difficult to manage. ” According to Gartner research , “organizations believe poor data quality to be responsible for an average of $15 million per year in losses.”

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their way to good processes and collaboration, rather than “best practices” folks who believe there’s a fundamentally right way to do things. Is this leading to bad software, or just additional conversation?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . What does your team and company need?

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Let’s look at the practical side of developing a full blown strategy for each product. This is the biggest part of product strategy that never gets talked about, and it just might be the biggest hurdle every product management team and every organization faces. The best sales teams on the planet can’t absorb that much.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 9, 2017

For example, Atlassian was successful early on in going directly after developers in driving their initial acquisition via free/cheap open source editions that could be installed on dev boxes. And I imagine many product teams justified the approach based on Facebook's usage of it. When evaluating a channel, how saturated is it?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2021

You’ve probably also been asked “what’s your greatest strength (or weakness)” once or twice while interviewing for jobs. You may have also read the famous article ‘Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager’ by Ben Horowitz. Maybe it’s a new framework, a new product, or even a new industry altogether.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful. Pain points 2.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. Product Manager VS Product Owner: A Side-By-Side Role and Responsibility Comparison The Scrum Framework and How It Is Associated With Product Owners and Product Managers Can a Product Owner Also Be a Product Manager? Some of what you can expect ??

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

That meant we had plenty of money to run experiments and invest in high-quality work, as well as in developing the next generation of creative talent. It’s a very “data poor” environment where the stakeholders you are engaged with themselves have a limited exposure or understanding of data. greatest strength and weakness.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

We’re going to go all inception on this and I’m going to present it in the way I often do when getting teams to do this for the first time?—?a What would usually happen is as a commander you would develop your initial plan, once done you will present it to a group, usually your commander, peers, other impacted parties and your team.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

But small teams also have less to lose. But when left to their own devices, early adopters can create some bad precedents. This can both create bad habits and turn people off to the tool before it’s spun up. Executives frequently don’t have much insight into the day-to-day operations of various teams.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. We were faced with a lot (!) and trust me on this?—?it’s

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 29, 2025

Top tech companies like Meta , Amazon , and Google consistently look for analysts who can: Think critically about business problems, Communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, Use tools like SQL , Excel, dashboards, and statistics to uncover insights. Our dash-boarding framework was developed by real analytics and dashboarding teams.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The construction and reconstruction of these pillars must be done continuously, in tandem, and requires effective dialog between all stakeholders in an organization. How do you define those pillars for your company and turn the metaphorical into the physical, and actually construct them?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution. It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

They might suddenly fall in love with shiny objects, new technologies (like AI or blockchain) or the R&D team might have come up with something they wish to commercialize with no valid market. In doing so, CEOs dilute the product mission, strategies and tactics beyond recognition, causing product teams to lose control.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

Scrum masters play an important role in the success of any Scrum team. They keep the team members on track and ensure that they collaborate and communicate effectively to achieve success. They help the team adapt to changes that may arise and help them adopt the Agile methodology to optimize success.

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