The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

No, this is not a bad joke. Once you discover what the root problem is, you lead a team to making the solution a reality. It’s important to continually question priorities, identify solid wins, and develop a realistic timeline. There was no way that I could have done this just my original team in the initial time asked.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2020

What high performing Product Teams actually look like This is something that comes up often for me?—?I They are all coming from an individual perspective, not a team one ?—?I’ll As a team you're now faced with a hard decision, do we start again or continue forward knowing that there is now a large gap? Who does what?” “But

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. This will help your PM’s understand the way they should position themselves within the company. It’s a very positive shift, for feedback is essential for growth and development.

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svpg

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. And ultimately, should more product teams work harder to actively bring in women product managers?

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Most likely, you even found yourself in this position right from the get-go; you probably didn’t cause this. The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. Soon after, an email arrives. Another email.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Feedback: You are able to offer constructive feedback so that the other person can receive it and benefit from it.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Product managers are often called in late in the selling cycle to address specific customer demands/requests or to position our product against competitors. Why Does It Matter? Our word is our bond.

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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.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

And I’d like to think that product people are among the more open professionals out there: we can be honest about our struggles, face up to our fears, and seek wisdom for our weaknesses. Therefore it’s how we handle it which matters – and we do well to remember that not all conflict is bad. So what are these fears?

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Every team has a valuable mix of strengths, and varying levels of skill and expertise in different areas across its members.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In this episode, product managers and innovators will learn: the difference between product portfolio management and Agile portfolio management, how to create Agile portfolios, how to navigate some of the common issues encountered with Agile portfolio management, and the importance of keeping high-performing teams intact.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

Thus, it’s crucial to track your churn rate to develop strategies to improve engagement and reduce churn. Churn impacts SaaS companies in a number of ways, including the spread of bad reviews, reduction in the overall market, and poor brand image. Bad user experience. Bad customer support. Product price.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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. How do we build and position a product that is nearly irresistible for the people we want to serve? Why does this happen?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 19, 2019

It means more firepower is required, as the current team (or lack thereof) is no longer able to adequately handle product management as is. This moment also represents an opportunity to determine what an ideal product team would look like. A key question here is: what is the ideal product team size?

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anyone in Product Ownership related discipline or those affiliated with Development, need to be aware of the time it takes to go through Research, Ideation, Iteration, before the subsequent steps of the Design Thinking process can occur (this impacts sales strategies, go to market strategies, communication outreach, just to name but a few tasks).

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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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Usersnap

JUNE 24, 2022

Positive review response examples provide proof to the entire audience that your business is reliable. If you only reply to negative reviews, that’s all prospective customers will see and it will give them a bad first impression of your company. This leads to the positive reviewers feeling a bit neglected. Final Thoughts.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

From the outside, a Product Manager (PM) is a resolute individual responsible for completing a product’s development. Product management leadership requires an ability to support their teams to victory! What are the 4 Phases of a Successful Product Team One-on-One? That’s a sign your team needs better communication.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 28, 2019

UX issues may be overlooked, business concerns might be missed, customer relationships can suffer, and the rest of the team will be forced to scramble and pick up the slack. This is why product manager turnover is an essential concern for any product team leader. Why Product Managers Leave Their Jobs.

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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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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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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. I take the position that categorical imperatives are always wrong.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 14, 2024

It can also come from experts in your professional environment and developers after a round of handovers. Simply put, it is a concise, constructive criticism with the goal of improvement. Constructive: Useful and actionable for the receiver, supports the goal, and nothing else. It can be positive, negative, or neutral.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The good news is that SEO can help make that process much easier by giving you the insights your team needs to pick a profitable niche and scale your business. Finally, once you’re done with keyword research on finding a niche, share the results with your team for further brainstorming. But how do you find that niche? Let’s see how!

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). Maybe this is about a member of the team who’s been passed over for a promotion. The position was advertised as exciting and strategic and heroic, but turns out to be as unsexy as other jobs. A clumsy way of voicing real concerns. Sounds very serious.

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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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