Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. Botify’s technology helps identify technical problems on their websites and implement corrective actions.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

They equate “white” with “good” and “black” with “bad.”. So Sam wrote an open letter to our Research & Development department at Intercom, stating what the problem was with these terms and that we needed to address them immediately. This was going to be a team effort. And the response was overwhelming.

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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

15 years ago we founded a product development studio, Mint Digital, and we’ve launched at least 100 MVPs since then. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. This concept split the team. Looking back, this was a bad MVP. We had 12 half-completed new products in development.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champions at Ramsey Solutions The product team at Ramsey Solutions is 40+ squads strong.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

How do you foster productive discussions about uncertainty that 1) don’t end up in analysis paralysis, and 2) don’t end up making you appear “weak” or “unprepared”? Product teams are particularly prone to it. Product teams are particularly prone to it. Why did I resist this ask from the CTO? I resisted. Why did he insist?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Reveal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If you’re a Product Manager or a CTO, you may already know how challenging it can be to select the right tools to build these dashboards. So, instead of building a custom dashboard from scratch, your developers can use these libraries and integrate dashboarding capabilities into their applications quickly and efficiently.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Understanding how user personas, department personas, and buyer personas impact each other will help you develop a better product and a better marketing strategy for your products. And finally, we’ll look and B2B buyer personas and the role they play in product development. What is a User Persona? Types of User Personas.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. Before even considering a project for building in an upcoming cycle, the Basecamp team always shapes the work.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. ” However, as the teams work together and explore the product, they assume they can decide on the designs and architecture. Product leaders assume they can plan and replan the product backlog, based on the team's learning.

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Modus Create

APRIL 10, 2024

Welcome to Conversations with Chief Innovators , where our CEO Pat Sheridan discusses innovation in business with transformational leaders across industries. In the seventh episode, we bring you Larry Fitzpatrick , Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial. It exhibits behaviors we might label as bad in humans.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A cryptocurrency project is a venture or initiative that involves the development, launch, and management of a new cryptocurrency or blockchain platform. A typical cryptocurrency project will have a team of developers, economists, investors, and advisors who work together to bring the project to fruition.

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Marc Brown, HealthTech Founder and CTO with 20 years of experience building products and leading engineering teams talks about agentic workflows in healthcare, staying curious to foster innovation in tech teams and qualities that make a successful CTO. Connect with Marc on LinkedIn here.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He has global responsibility for developing cutting edge technology and competitive advantage for Ford by developing relationships and collaborative projects involving universities and partner companies. My team is responsible for our global R&D alliances with universities, national laboratories, and a few companies.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. That’s Jared and his teams focus on identifying the core emotions that people use when they express how they feel online.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 29, 2024

It is not an understatement to say that the success of a new digital product launch is largely determined during the product development process. But for many products in the marketplace today, it is no longer enough to incorporate AI into the product development process. AI can help your employees be more competitive and efficient.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Many product teams know this feeling: mobile user retention is dropping, even after big updates and splashy feature releases. Complex onboarding: 74% of users abandon an app after a poor onboarding experience. Poor UX: If your app is difficult to navigate or lacks a clear layout, users wont hesitate to abandon it.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  (Hint: replacing everyone on those teams doesn’t seem to fix the problem.)  When prospects say they need something, sales teams mostly take them at their word.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! How Much Does a Chief Product Officer Earn? What Is a Chief Product Officer? . of a Chief Product Officer.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. When setting up a new team, the person responsible for the technical implementation?—?the Working with a Software Vendor Outsourcing to a vendor means hiring a team for a specific task.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.)

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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. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. What does your team and company need?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. ” Recently, myself and the Content team were discussing the different ways we could approach this important topic.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

What I did need to do was to find out what their product development definition was and launch a new product. Along the way I meet and made friends with the engineering team. I was placed into an office that I shared with the company’s CTO and their head engineer. The CTO decided that I was not working as hard as he was.

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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. . Unfortunately, technical debt can do that to your team. But technical debt isn’t always bad, and some of it is unavoidable. And that’s on a good day. .

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2020

They also know how to motivate the team and help them adapt and look for better ways to build the product. The success depended on us being a team way more than on each of us being a great dancer. A few years ago I used to work very closely with a CTO on building a SaaS product. The same goes for PMs.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 17, 2019

While too many files are bad because of the extra overhead of opening & closing files, too few files are also bad because it makes our event time index less effective. The development phase started in late Q3 2018 and took us approximately 6 months. More on that in a separate blog-post. Amplitude Customer Success Manager.

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