Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

To adequately cover this topic, we are going to get into the nitty-gritty of the technical underpinnings of APIs. If you need help getting up to speed on these technical details, be sure to read last weeks article. If that language is not well documented, then engineers wont know how to construct requests or interpret responses.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

One effective strategy to boost your confidence in your report managing these situations is to spend time roleplaying certain scenarios and provide immediate and constructive feedback. I am working on a fairly large scale project with my manager that touches multiple tech teams. Obtaining extension on stakeholder requests.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. Align your vision and product strategy with the strategic direction of your customers business. Welcome opposition : Encourage constructive criticism. Setting it up.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Paradox: Technological Progress vs. Social Development Before considering solutions, it’s worth examining a paradox: Why have we made such remarkable progress in technology while seemingly stagnating in our ability to work together effectively? Consider the rapid advancement of technology in recent decades.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If you can’t explain what makes your favorite apps great from a technical, marketing, and product perspective, chances are you have some learning to do. Due to its murkiness, there are a few common myths that plague product management across industries and company size. My technical skills aren’t advanced enough (15%).

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. For example, an internal product like a platform is likely to require in-depth technical skills—unlike an end-user facing offering, which is likely to require a thorough understanding of the market and business model, for example.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. For example, an internal product like a platform is likely to require in-depth technical skills—unlike an end-user facing offering, which is likely to require a thorough understanding of the market and business model, for example.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

I’ve already written about outcome-based objectives , and in this article I want to talk more about product vision, and especially how important the role of product strategy is in delivering on the product vision. Strong technology people are drawn to an inspiring vision; they want to work on something meaningful. Product Vision.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What are the strategies adopted to drive certain visitor behavior? Landing Page Constructs We examined a combination of popular landing page building tools and the templates they offer to arrive at a set of eleven common elements which current websites employ. Why do landing pages look relatively similar everywhere?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Developing a successful digital product requires more than technical knowledge. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article. How frustrating would that be?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy. a product leader.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Drew Forward is the Team Lead, Solution Design at PCL Construction, Ltd. where he oversees the development of internally developed applications to help execute construction projects and occasionally acts as an additional senior product manager. Let’s meet them first before we dive into their experience with Miro.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 17, 2019

These technical problems, also known as email screeners or, as we call them at Intercom, take-home tests, are a useful way to initially evaluate the technical ability of candidates applying for engineering positions. Through the looking glass – empathy for the reviewer. What are interview assignments and why do they matter?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Design After the requirements are established, the developers are responsible for designing technical solutions to the product requirements.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2021

Jaime DeLanghe’s secrets to bring cross-functional teams together for optimal performance Before my career in tech, I worked in food service. Restaurants showed me the ropes of what it takes for cross-functional teams to succeed, and I still draw on the same strategies as a product manager in tech.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2022

CDP software is among the most valuable digital tools available due to its capacity to integrate with a wide variety of external sources and piece together data across a large number of touchpoints. Any department across your company can use these insights and analytics to inform their strategy. .

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. A good Scrum Team pays attention to preserving an application’s technical health to ensure the Scrum Team is ready to pursue an opportunity in the market. Learn more on Retrospectives.)

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Machine learning models and feature selection play pivotal roles in constructing reliable predictive tools. To achieve this balance, consider leveraging cloud computing and distributed processing technologies to speed up computations. Implement a transparent content review and moderation process.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

They work at the intersection of the User Experience, Business, and Technical teams, and have the opportunity to tap into the collective knowledge of these teams, in addition to their own interactions with the market. Product managers have a unique view on what’s happening across the business, provided the relationships are working well.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. The company and/or product strategy are only sometimes openly shared.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] Over-allocated product managers are forced to cut corners, usually on direct customer validation and on product strategy. We could split out roles: strategist, researcher, growth, technical analyst, pricing. Hiring strategy. 2] Driving Outcomes, Strategy, Tools.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The growing number of public vertical SaaS winners worth billions of dollars, such as in health sciences (Veeva), construction (Procore), restaurants (Toast), and banking (nCino), demonstrates how cloud-based and mobile app development specialized to certain industries can become giant businesses. The result is a more efficient workflow.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Wikipedia defines Production Artists as: “…a technical and creative position in a creative profession. The degree of technical knowledge required for some production art work may be comparable to higher skilled engineering, especially with computers.” Where Does Deliverability/Production fit with Templates, Automation and AI.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Most companies fail in execution, not strategy. Defining strategy the right way can close the gap. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast.” In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 23, 2017

In tech, we’re always thinking about the future. As practitioners in growth, marketing, entrepreneurship, and tech, we’re looking for the edge that’ll give our products a chance to succeed in an extremely competitive and dynamic environment. Technology, products, growth, and marketing don’t exist in a vacuum.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

Leverage user research , conduct interviews, and track reviews for this. Leverage user research to learn about your customers using tools like customer surveys to collect constructive feedback directly. Track user reviews on search engines and review sites to find out more about their needs and pain points.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2021

Effective Documentation Strategy for Product Managers Photo by Daian Gan from Pexels It takes me five days to come up with a fifty- pager Product Documentation and ten for a six-pager! Examples include your stories, and your requirements for your Technical teams. Constructs Constructs are one abstraction level above UX.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

” So the way this would’ve worked in the past, years ago, where we didn’t have these principles, there might be a design review or product review in a project and we start asking questions like, “Have we shown us to customers? Microsoft is a good example – they’re the company who made this strategy famous. Avoid truisms.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

That means you shouldn’t aim for zero churn but to drive revenue up to a point where it surpasses the amount you lose due to churn. Thus, it’s crucial to track your churn rate to develop strategies to improve engagement and reduce churn. Customer and revenue churn are the 2 types of product churn. What is a good churn rate?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. So I assume that roadmap reviews will surface deeper concerns like…. “Why aren’t we getting more done?”

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The topic for this article came about recently, since one of the applications I worked on 13 years ago (technically speaking, I started working on it 13 years ago, and that particular engagement continued for 2 years), is still actively being used in a facility that I go to almost on a daily basis.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

These leaders are passionate and curious, which inspires their teams and motivates the entire organization to support their product vision and strategy. Culture-driven product leaders recognize that for their organization's product strategy and vision to be transformative, they must communicate it through storytelling.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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