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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. Trial and error: adding sales input to the product roadmap. The same goes for your sales team.

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Maximize Engagement as a Remote Product Leader

ProductPlan

And crowdsource ideas for future activities and let the team vote for their top picks via a poll to ensure that as many people as possible are excited about participating. Roadmap-level conversations can take things to a whole new level. In ProductPlan roadmaps, people can now ask questions and add comments within the roadmap.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do. 3 characteristics of great product managers. (1)

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Another reminder why new products need a workable business model. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third.

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

In an effort to get closer to Amazon’s benchmark of having 70% of the information needed, some product managers even go to nearby Starbucks to generate feedback from random patrons. And finding those are easier when you crowdsource that versus trying to talk to 10 or 20 people. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.

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My framework for Machine Learning Products — Part 1 of 3

The Product Coalition

ML is a creative process, and Product Managers can add value For the sake of my sanity and for better readability, I’ll split this post into three parts. Further, the roadmap is super useful for defining processes and flows that need to be modified for your ML solution to work in the first place. Here goes step 1!

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

In an effort to get closer to Amazon’s benchmark of having 70% of the information needed, some product managers even go to nearby Starbucks to generate feedback from random patrons. And finding those are easier when you crowdsource that versus trying to talk to 10 or 20 people. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.