The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? THE CAUSE.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Now hold on a minute you might say, isn’t product failure just the inevitable cost of product innovation ? Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. A product or product improvement needs to provide genuine benefits to a customer.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. So here are a few tips for product managers who may be pulling data science – and data scientists – into our product processes.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

But how much do bugs cost product managers in reality? Software bugs can be really costly, but surely there’s a way to make them cheaper? Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08 trillion in 2020.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. When I was at Hutchinson Telecoms, I was a Product Manager within the Marketing function. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Value Proposition.

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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 On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. It’s a relative term?—?some

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2022

Let's see how Whatfix compares to other software applications for user onboarding and on-screen guidance for employee training! Code-free onboarding flows and a lot of native integrations + employee onboarding features for 3-rd party tools are the biggest upsides of Whatfix. Whatfix for product analytics. What is Whatfix.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. with this focus. with this focus.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

Data has fundamentally changed how we design and develop products, but there’s a difference between simply reacting to data points and applying the level of analytic rigor needed to yield meaningful results. There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity when it comes to developing products. Here’s how.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 30, 2019

What is the one skill that all product manager needs? Weeks ago I wrote about a product manager does not need to know how to code. During a conversation with a friend, he asked: “if it is not coding skills, what are the one skill a product manager must have”? Why Leadership?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a product manager, you’re more likely to find yourself embroiled in these events since you sit at the nexus of so many activities and constituencies. We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Then things break.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 7, 2022

Writing a great product manager resume helps you stand out when recruiters or hiring managers start to interview candidates. Given the often ambiguous nature of product management, it may feel pretty challenging to write an effective product manager resume.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Their core product offers instant voice communication like a walkie-talkie, but reinvented so it can be integrated with other web services and offer more context like location and online status.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

I’m sure most of us Product Managers are not evil by nature, but there is inevitably a dark side of product management too. Sometimes the same psychological devices we use to make our SaaS products engaging can also make the products really…addictive. Product Management & Psychology: Contents.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If your customer engagement levels are not where they need to be, maybe it’s time to look at the customer success software you’re using again? Without a top-quality customer success platform at your team’s disposal, you’ll struggle to help your users get maximum value out of your tool. Customer success teams don’t have time to waste.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

Product consolidation refers to combining several products that sell separately but have overlapping functionality or user personas into one product. Note: product consolidation has different definitions in different industries. Why Would You Want to Consolidate Products? To reduce product cannibalization.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

Claire Lew // CEO, Know Your Team. In this BoS Talk, Claire discusses how n o one sets out to be a bad boss, but it’s easy to become one. She is often cited as an expert on the topic of creating more open, honest workplace environments, and has been published in Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Inc, and Fortune among others. .

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. That was my first real product management role.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2021

Put simply, good product marketing software helps your SaaS solve two fundamental problems: Build a product that users love on the basis of customer feedback Acquire and retain users of that product. But how do you choose good product marketing software? What is product marketing?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. Take product managers.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. My productivity suffered. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. For teams that I’ve been a part of, the frequency hovers somewhere around 10%.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Key Skill For Success In Product Management SUCCESS TAKES TIME Product Management career entry and long-term success can be challenging. Building endurance across each role was the key skill that helped me to develop my career in PM. ENDURANCE FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS Endurance matters when you hit resistance.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact. State of Product. Typically this would be a cross functional team of C- level and director-level people. Product Definition.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

How to better manage internal and external interfaces when leading machine learning products In the last few years AI invaded our life in many ways through many products. In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability.

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