The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

At TechEmpower, we’ve done over 50 technical reviews for budding startups, scaling enterprises, discerning investors, and ambitious companies seeking investment or acquisition. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Do I really know what’s going on under the hood?

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Build persona foundations from research In the spring of 2022, I had recently joined Mixpanel and was tasked with solving “our enterprise adoption problem.” For even more qualitative data here, we use an automated enterprise Slack channel.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our first track, Planning Your Route from PM to Product Leader, is all about helping you fast track career success. You’ll hear from the best leaders in Product Management. Now at ThoughtSpot, he is at the forefront of leading companies to incorporate state-of-the-art search and AI-powered analytics into their product strategy.

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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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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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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.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

When the CTO and CPO find alignment in their strategic goals, it becomes easier for the team on the ground to prioritize issues in their sprints. . Product managers often have a better understanding of the UX side of the product compared to engineering. If you would like help with managing technical debt, talk to Modus.

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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). The product backlog I managed grew daily. That’s typically enough for any product manager.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

Product managers and their more recent Agile brethren, product owners, hold one of the most demanding positions in an organisation. As the crucial nexus in the product development framework, their plate is all too often full with business demands, technical requirements, and marketing concerns. Be Proud of Your Product.

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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. And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests.

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Revulytics

JUNE 12, 2019

Unlike traditional enterprise software projects, the engineering and product management organization can be the toughest to sell on compliance. The compliance program is most often led by “the business” (often the sales or finance organizations according to data from a KPMG survey). Here’s some advice on getting broad support.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO. I would then convey them to the CTO and discuss the proposal with him further, noting this was done in collaboration with the team to add more weight. I would then work with the CTO to incorporate their suggestions and improvements.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Dharmesh Shah , CTO of HubSpot, encourages startup SaaS businesses to pay attention to what their customers are doing and cater to what can make them successful. Creating a customer base that loves, and trusts, your product and company enough to leverage their word of mouth is the golden nugget to SaaS growth. Porter’s Five Forces.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Each department wants to hire in its own image.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. hours of networking time.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One  I hear this every day, in every sector, at every stage of growth.  So

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Despite general happiness with their jobs , many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want to change this year. That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Mind the Product. Enterprise UX.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Mind the Product. Enterprise UX.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Mind the Product. Enterprise UX.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The team grows, roles shift, output increases, and many other pivotal changes happen within the product team and the organization as a whole. At the same time, rapid growth can present some challenges for product management. These are all valid questions for product people at high-growth organizations.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Radical Focus is about a management method called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR method has its roots in HP’s Management by Objectives (MBO) which seeks to achieve alignment through a cascading set of objectives through the enterprise. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Product management used to be a “fuzzy” discipline within an organization, without a ton of metrics and scrutiny directly applied to it. Products operations is to product management as marketing operations is to marketing. Product ops are better suited to handle those issues and give time back to product managers.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And then we, we started to sell like big enterprises. We’ve always tried to be pretty engineering and product heavy, just because we are, we’re, we’re built for developers and product managers. I always think there’s a couple different products, right?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? If you need help with product design or user experience research, contact us at UX studio. Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. ” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

So, you know, my question was, how much of that is, is I guess, based on or the fact that your product tends to be a lot of newer a lot of users but lower cost, right, as opposed to like our model, my company’s model is we sell an enterprise system, right? So it’s expensive. And how do we structure the teams?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

You know when you look at the trajectory of high growth companies especially in B2B enterprise, I think we rank up there pretty much at the top of them, the top right. We had one of our execs in our New York office. So it was really low friction to bring people into the funnel, convert them, and scale the revenues from there.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2024

  An enterprise software company with $150,000 average sale looks and behaves very differently from a music stream service or consumer finance app charging $8/month.    So it’s very rare for the CEO to buttonhole the CPO/CTO/Head of Design with a single user’s complaint. 

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