Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Sarah: Of course. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2018

But, you do need some level of financial help from an expert, someone who can cast a trained eye on your cash flow, margins, key performance indicators, and overall profit picture while you concentrate on your team, your products, and your strategies for growth. If you run a midsize to middle market business, you probably have a CFO.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies. What is Alternative Futures Analysis?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm. Of course, investors also fear user churn rates, or how often people use the product and never come back. We do a lot of due diligence around founders. …

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

Development. Known for data visualization & hosted by maestros Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner, Data Stories hosts discussions on the latest developments in data analytics, visualization, and other similar topics. A large part of the reason is due to the fact that not everything is measurable. Start the course. #2

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 12, 2020

This is a generalization, so it won’t apply to every company or every team in a company, but it’s generally the right idea. Teams at startups are smaller, so you might be pulled to help in different departments. This allows you to develop skills you might not otherwise get to experience. Ask why the position is vacant.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” Of course not. These teams work towards business goals?

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. User behaviors changed a lot since January, so many of the key metrics companies and product teams care about have also been impacted. Regular roadmap reviews. They might have some powerful and valuable insights to share with the product team. Were KPIs met?

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Gainsight

MARCH 15, 2023

With economic uncertainty in the air, SaaS and Customer Success teams want to be more efficient and build durable businesses that withstand the market. With a digital-led approach, of course. Now it’s much more collaborative across the board to ensure cross-functional alignment, especially with the revenue team.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Does your management team appear to occasionally have the attention span of a fruit fly in a farmers market? When SOS sets in, it creates a cascade of chaos, unleashing all sorts of problems for the product team. They don’t always have the same drive and commitment to the current strategy as the product team.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2016

Most teams make one of the following two mistakes: They either gate releases with an A/B test trying to understand whether or not the feature had the intended impact or they test variables blindly hoping to stumble upon a better variation. Dewey would advise us to diligently assess a collection of facts. – Tweet This.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

You will encounter numerous escalation, blocker, and air cover situations throughout the course of working on projects in product management, especially when a manager is accountable for the end result and the direct report is doing much of the heavy lifting and nitty-gritty work.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Numerous articles and even courses are about it.

Technical Review 60

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

According to Pragmatic Marketing’s research, Product teams spend 73% of their time on tactical activities. Loop In the Teams Who Will Use Your Data. While this is a no-brainer when it comes to managing product development, make sure you take the same approach for customer testing. There’s also the issue of time.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. If you don’t know where the ship should end up, it’s hard to plot a course to get there. Gather consensus around goals.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 25, 2010

Though full scale development is usually left for after the EIR period is over. EIRs typically bring these companies in as potential deals for the VC firm and spends their time doing due diligence and vetting the startup as well as deciding if its a good fit for them. EIR serves as part of the investment team.

Development Team Review 60

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a genuinely worthy lesson about willingness to learn, the ability to adapt successfully, the power of motivating team leadership, the benefits of making data-driven decisions from product usage insights, and the results produced from commitment. So I went from running product to running product and development.”

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Think back on some past professional development courses you’ve participated in… did you apply all (or any) of the concepts into your daily work life? Chances are this isn’t the first class or workshop you’ve taken. If the answer is “no”, you’re not alone.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. Alex: I don’t know.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. And then, of course, the speculation too. Should we sink bigger? Should we plan bigger? Like, scarcity of resources is a good thing.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Corporate forces deserve just as much attention and diligence as you would take to developing a Value Proposition or a Business Model. The tool had to be analysed by legal; he had to say what he was going to put on the web, and procurement had to get involved due to data privacy needs. like existing businesses?

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. The Product Team’s Role in Customer Experience Strategy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These are: Influence: As a TPM, a crucial aspect of the position is influencing and persuading the relevant teams and stakeholders to take the necessary actions to accomplish certain goals. As such, a TPMs program sense entails the ability to manage and navigate through technical dependencies and work alongside the engineering team.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Have you ever wondered why, despite listening intently to your customers and diligently building the features they ask for, your product still struggles to gain traction? In product development, the type of evidence we rely on to build our products can make or break our strategy. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle?

Product Research 52

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2020

I pulled a few that I thought were interesting of course 60% of companies that have some sort of customer centric program are more successful. The first thing is of course be data driven. And then of course like try to think of things more broad based. How do we get into the minds of the customer?

User Testing 69

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? Though this is not a complete list, of course, you’ll ha. Team messaging and collaboration.

Research Software 52

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

JJ is also a serial entrepreneur, co-founding a healthcare technology company as well as a product development and talent management consultancy. It’s my job, of course, so I want to keep up with what’s happening in the PM world. Kanban boards, scrum masters, story points, development velocity, and so on. . I find it fun. .

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

And I think the similar kind of analysis you can do for B2B companies is for products that have different sized teams using it. If you have a really large team that they are all using a product, well, are they all using the product more as a result? I mean, of course, you wanna grow your customers.) Jeff: Yeah.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 10, 2020

Many times data scientists are charged with communicating their findings with several other teams, many of whom may be as technical as they. For example, imagine our Amazon data scientist has collected their data, built a model, and has developed some predictions and forecasts using it.

Data Visualization 52

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Why the best SF companies work with remote UX teams. These teams like to write about how they do design and hate to do music video–style showreels.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

One of the themes that emerged over the course of the conference was the importance of understanding the needs of customers and the metrics you can use to better understand and act on their real, rather than stated, needs. Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Over the course of the event, we explored our vision and beliefs for the future of customer engagement and communications, and heard from Intercom leaders like CEO Karen Peacock, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor, and Chief Product Officer Paul Adams, as well as some of our amazing customers. We’re here for you.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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