The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

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? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. Source: [link] As such, computer science and coding bootcamps have emerged as a popular choice for those seeking to enter the tech industry and obtain one of these open positions.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Software, to the average person, is pretty boring. How to Write Copy for Your Software Company 1. Search Amazon for customer reviews on industry-related products or books. One study tested how bottled water brands can use personality in their branding to improve consumer brand recognition and preference.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. And that’s why localization testing exists: to prevent these very situations. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I An outcome-oriented approach helps teams remain focused on the bigger picture, ensures efforts go toward delivering meaningful value to customers, and gives them the freedom to figure out the best way instead of having ‘the way’ committed well before discovery.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the required skill level is not clear, it’s often also not clear what and how to test when interviewing a potential hire. My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. What are the upsides and downsides? The correct answer is always C.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 3, 2023

MQL is a potential customer fit for your business, reviewed by the marketing team. The marketing team reviews and confirms the MQL before sending it to the sales team. A potential customer shows a more definite intent to purchase the product in SQL than in MQL. Let’s dive in!

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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. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. Interactive help centers enable your business to support more customers and improve customer satisfaction without having to rely solely on your support team. Segmentation features aren't very intuitive and may require additional help from a developer. UserGuiding reviews.

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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. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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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 Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom.

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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. Having the right software at your disposal can make product marketing significantly easier, especially if you’re new to the profession.

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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. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. If you’re looking for quality customer analytics software for your business, you’re in the right place. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. It definitely doesn’t delight users or reduce friction. Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Full, thorough code reviews rarely occur anymore.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Definition of user onboarding. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. That is how EveryPig evolved to an AI-based solution and became a vet tech software product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. and Facebook.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. From selling bikes to software. And I got it.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. So if you’re a mobile app team, consider using a mobile-first analytics platform. Best for AI-powered future outcomes predictions.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a trader of spices in 500BC, you most definitely had to consider customer expectations, profit margins, and the emergence of new techniques for preserving your product. So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Google uses specific internal tooling to analyze and review resumes to rank their scores–unfortunately, this changes rapidly and is nearly impossible to predict other than the basics of what make an effective resume. After an interview loop, Google's hiring committee reviews the entire packet of a candidate, including their referrals.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? This trend has supported the emergence of the Data Product Manager as a role on the product team dedicated to the process of collecting, organizing, storing, and sharing data within an organization. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2018

Tactically, you want to ensure your Agile team is following the roadmap and delivers as expected. And it seems all you need is to prepare the backlog, prioritize it, push into development and regularly follow up on the status and results. Set into the habit of constant review of where you are going and what to channel your efforts on.

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Usersnap

APRIL 25, 2019

Countless times projects progress so slowly only due to poor ticket management. If you are using Usersnap, your team, clients or customers definitely are submitting more bug reports due to the convenience of capturing screens and annotating in-product. This could then be used as a development roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

You also have to gain the confidence of your product team, since they are relying heavily on you for the success of the overall product. By definition, you aren’t an expert initially. Years ago when I was working with the Money Markets and Liquidity team at Goldman Sachs, I knew very little about the products and environment.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

And what about the product team?? They were using the same manufacturing techniques that Henry Ford created at the beginning of the 20th century: waterfall “assembly line” development cycles packaged up onto physical disks. And the marketing team? And now we could measure things. And this isn’t just in tech.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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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. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

This acronym popped up a while back in Organization Development circles and when I heard it the first time I thought… uh yeah, that’s all high-tech. Extreme ownership (highly applicable) Summary Leaders are ultimately responsible for the failure or success of the team, and need to take full responsibility. Usability is bad.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2019

A product manager isn’t writing code, testing products, creating marketing pitches, buying advertising or actively selling their product. Sloppy programming could sink usage while an overachieving sales team could goose adoption. Quantitative measures of product manager performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. Des Traynor: Let’s do some quick definitions to ground everyone. ” But it’s similar in terms of capability.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

If you’re looking for a customer service gap definition, you are at the right place. Customer expectations are beliefs and thoughts about a product or a service before accessing and testing it out. All of this is code-free. What is a customer service gap and how do you close it? 5 strategies for closing the customer gap.

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