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. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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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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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, we chose Aptrinsic because their product, team, and message is something we want to amplify, not change. As we completed our due diligence on Aptrinsic, we were blown away by the quality of their team and product. Listen to the Aptrinsic team (about the buyer, market, technology). No, it’s not.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Amanda Renteria , CEO for Code for America. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience. Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America, is a firm believer in this idea.

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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

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. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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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. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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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. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 23, 2019

When evaluating custom software development partners, it’s important to know if your potential partner has a track record of success with companies like yours and projects of similar complexity. This is the third post in a four-part series aimed at helping you select the best software development partner. Great people.

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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. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

The move to the cloud and to software-as-a-service (SaaS) models changed a lot of things about business. Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. ” When I dove in with Product Managers and Engineering leaders on my team, every presentation seemed to have a different method of measuring adoption.

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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. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

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. Take product managers. But you know, it’s not just them.

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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. And of course, to help you deliver a better product to your customers. It will help you to have a seamless review and approval process.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. When you have no idea how to fix your problem, you shouldn’t even bother coding. In product development, the tracer bullet is a technique for situations where: you know you have a problem. kept, not thrown away.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

The products they develop will eventually solve some problems and make people’s lives easier, and there is nothing wrong with this approach. However, I want to present a different perspective, Testimonial Driven Development (TDD). It will let you see further into the future, beyond just product outcomes.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

Two years in, I’ve learned a ton , and the podcast is consistently a top 10 technology podcast globally , with a 5.0 average star rating across nearly 4,000 reviews. For my podcast, you might think: how many nerds would listen to a podcast about product management? AI + product management?

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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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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   Engineering-grade testing and code re-use are often discussed but almost never put in place.  And

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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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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Feature flags provide so much for software organizations: they allow teams to separate code deployment from feature release, test in production, run experiments, and more. If you’re using a flag as a release toggle, developers should manage it. If you’re using a flag as a kill switch, your Ops team should manage it.

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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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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

About Blaise Transit Blaise is an AI-based software platform that allows transit operators to run on-demand bus services using their existing vehicles. They helped me and my team reduce a lot of our workload on the product management side, but obviously you still know your customers and industry best, so earmark some time to review things.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). How did that product manager get access to those end users?

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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. Our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers love, value use, etc.

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Gainsight

JULY 1, 2022

Chief Technology Officer of PX, Gainsight. 17% of respondents reported tracking time-to-value (TTV), 26% track activation rate, and 24% track product qualified leads (PQLs). . 36% of respondents use product usage data to predict churn. The post Product-Led Growth Index 2022 appeared first on Gainsight Software.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We all know how it works…a fledgling SaaS company releases a minimally viable product and starts bringing on customers. Early customers help shape the direction of the product and before you know it, a Customer Success team is created. Watch the Webinar: How to Build a Data-Driven Product Your Customers Love.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. Peldi Guilizzoni (CEO/Founder, Balsamiq) – 10 Years Of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned from Business of Software Conference. Oh yeah I guess there is such a thing as product manager and I guess I was doing it without knowing.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. And so every product is three products, you multiply five times three got 15 code bases to deal with and it’s like quickly, you can’t do it as a small company. And it was a mess.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In this cathartic talk from Business of Software Europe 2018, Tim talks about some of the lessons learned he learned during some very, very tricky days for DataSift. Tim Barker (CEO, DataSift) – “It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times”: Every CEO Ever… from Business of Software Conference.

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