The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

After a long product career and founding multiple companies, Christian now spends his time working closely with product leaders at companies big and small to implement and improve their discipline of product management. Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. The Problem.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

Efficient data analytics allows e-commerce companies to gain valuable insights into customer behavior, optimize their operations, and make informed business decisions. Understanding Customer Behavior Data analytics enables e-commerce businesses to gain deep insights into customer behavior and preferences.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

From improving customer experience to streamlining operations, technology has revolutionized the way hospitality businesses operate and given companies access to extremely valuable insights. By embracing mobile check-ins, digital concierge services, and personalized recommendations, hotels can create seamless and memorable experiences.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I decided on the same approach this time around – take the opportunity to learn something new, state of the art, and very different. The Cloudflare experience solving this issue was really good – a lot of capabilities, a well-crafted interface, for $0. New needs This time around, my requirements were a little broader.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve ever watched the show Ted Lasso , you’ve noticed that it is in many ways a tale of two coaches: Ted Lasso and Coach Beard. . Coach Beard is focused on data and results, using his expertise in the game to push the team toward winning. The art and science of CLV. Putting it all together in a PQL strategy.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Doing so provides enough time to for your brain to discern what to say next as the words come out of your mouth. Experiment the next time an unexpected question is placed your way, and let your brain do its thing. Keep repeating the experiment, and you’ll find it gets easier and easier over time.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He’s someone you’ll certainly have come across if you’re at all interested in any of the discussion around the thinking and theory behind product management. “So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. “Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” It certainly feels that way.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

But in all likelihood it causes those teams to groan, and not just because it’s a management buzzword. If teams can do that they have a chance at meeting their customers’ changing needs and generating a return on investment for the business. Empowerment. It’s a word that business leaders often use to fire up their teams.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

In some organizations, the role of a product manager can be a murky one. Product managers don’t have full authority over all of the aspects that make products a success, such as user and data research, marketing, sales, or support. Here are the skills you need to be considered a great product manager: Core Competencies.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. It’s becoming the bare minimum. Start early.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). hitting a specific metric (revenue/users/conversion, etc). Research into Approach goals and Avoidance goals shows that if we frame our goals as a positive (Approach), we have a better chance of success and feeling positive about the experience.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

This is especially true when your product team is composed of different roles such as product management, product marketing, and product design. I actually took a lot of time to hire my teammate to make sure I chose the right one. how to create tech products customers love,” by Marty Cagan. Here are my 4 key takeaways: 1.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2019

We often think of our biggest blockers being external: a crazy CEO, recalcitrant CTO, surly engineers, or designers who just won’t do what we want them to. Product managers tend to have strong inner critics. We’ve established that imposter syndrome is common for product managers. We all have negative thoughts.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience. And the timing couldn’t be more urgent.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Or they may decide to move into management later in their careers. To make things even more confusing, junior or first-time developers may not understand the terms used at different companies to describe software engineers.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. 3) Start with customer needs. (4)

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