The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Meet the mentors…. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

Research Software 148

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations.

Research Software 98

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We were a team due to a shared mission, vision, strategy and goals - not because of where we physically sat.

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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Meet the mentors…. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

Analytic Tools 142

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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. About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors…. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

How product managers can challenge ideas to achieve long-term success. We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople. Ways to form the vision for a product.

Analytic Tools 58

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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. About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors…. View the live stream….

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. There are seven key areas where I see that product managers can benefit from acting techniques. Business is as unpredictable as life itself.

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All About Product Management

JUNE 5, 2013

As a product manager I need to tackle objections before they arise at the product steering group meeting so that key decisions are made in a timely fashion. For example, leading up to my last product launch the Head of Communications was invited to attend so we could discuss the communications plan.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land.

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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. About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

Analytic Tools 60

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Meet the mentors…. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

Analytic Tools 60

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Join us for an interactive online Q&A on 11th March 2021 with Bruce McCarthy (Founder of Product Culture and Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched ). “In In just 30min Bruce helped us make the optimal choice that had kept us in meetings and agony for 3 weeks. Find out more and register for FREE.

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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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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Product development is exhilarating. There is something special about a team rallying around a vision and creating a product that users love. . However, it isn’t fun to redo a product every three years. Every product has a backlog of features that are important to meet the organization’s revenue goals.

Reporting Tools 91

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Meet the mentors…. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

Analytic Tools 60

Analytic Tools Research Software Customer Experience User Testing 60

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Meet the mentors…. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

Analytic Tools 60

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. But what if the manager role is not for you? Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In the opening keynote at this year’s London #mtpcon, Silicon Valley Product Group’s Marty Cagan shared his latest thoughts on what makes a great product manager by looking at the people behind some great products. But no one knows Jane Manning, the product manager who was asked to get it off the ground.

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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.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

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. See the end of this article for more information on how we helped bring these companies and their product management to the next level. In fact, 83.9%

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Create your vision and positioning 4. Now let’s look at the three product-led growth go-to-market types for SaaS companies. Each has a different approach to SaaS growth and will significantly impact your company’s product vision and revenue strategy. Create your vision and positioning.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Meet the mentors…. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

{img:left} Eric Wang {/img}When you start a new job, the first week or so usually involves meetings with HR, your direct managers, or coworkers in roles similar to yours. There’s a design team, a product-management team, an engineering team, and so on. Learn more about the Engineering team at Amplitude.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting executive-facing roadmaps and receiving those presentations. They’re the capstone for a product manager’s vision and strategy. Mistakes I’ve Seen When Presenting Executive Roadmaps.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

Understanding the product. After the initial kick-off meeting , which served to establish the scope and general objective of the project, we had a series of stakeholder interviews to better understand the context of the project. Moreover, these interviews provided us different perspectives on the product and the market.

User Testing 74

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UX Studio

APRIL 29, 2019

We worked closely with the CTO, the Head of Product, and an in-house designer. User tests and numbers helped us convince our client and form their vision. On the second week of the project, we took a business trip to Berlin for a real kick-off meeting. Our researcher, Mia, at our kick-off meeting in Berlin.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Meet the mentors…. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

Analytic Tools 90

Analytic Tools Research Software Product Strategy CTO Coach 90

Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable!

Research Software 52

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. Sponsorship vs. mentorship.

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Engineering Leadership CTO Coach Feedback Software 141

Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Bianca Starling Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Bianca Starling Bianca Starling is a Senior Product Manager at Voxy, a global language teaching platform that uses AI and machine learning technologies to provide adaptive, real-life learning experiences to learners.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

With that understanding, our focus shifts to the landscape for product-led organizations in 2023. Specifically, we’ll employ the help of the recently published 2023 State of Product Management Report. The data from that report has some interesting implications for companies that are on their own product-led journey.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

As a product manager you’re the monkey in the middle. You have multiple stakeholders, all with different and sometimes competing demands, and it’s your job to manage these. A successful product manager will remove themselves as a barrier, and bring people to a shared understanding through a customer mindset.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A product manager asks Jared, “With regards to the UX journey of Canvs products, what were your biggest lessons learned as you were building out these services for your key users?” Co-Design With Your Customers With the Canvs Surveys product, Jared admits that it was not his idea.

User Testing 145

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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