The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

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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. Design Disputes.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

After creating your product manager resume , it’s well worth writing your product manager cover letter if your prospective employer wants one. The proper format for a product manager cover letter The last thing you want is your cover letter to look just like any other.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? Why Voice of Customer Should be Included in Development Process. Let your customers make product development decisions for you!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The upstart positioned itself to capitalize off of these forces, while Blockbuster ignored them at its peril. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. As you assemble your team, take special care to select a diverse group of subject matter experts.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Hire from diverse communities so your teams and organization can represent your customer segments. Use your position to lift others up as others have done for you. Make sure you are giving back to the product community by helping to shape the next generation of product leaders. Always say thank you.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The product backlog I managed grew daily. Feature request? Add it to the backlog.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This article is based on information provided in our webinar, Customer Validation for Product Managers , with Centercode CEO Luke Freiler. If you are reading this, it probably won’t surprise you that 47% of product managers have run Beta Tests as part of their job. Loop In the Teams Who Will Use Your Data.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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Roy Madden

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

With more than 1,000 organizations relying on Feedly Teams for connecting to the content they need to accelerate research, marketing, and sales, we are growing our customer success team to continue to deliver a 7-star onboarding and support experience. Feedly is uniquely positioned to seize this opportunity. WHY FEEDLY?

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important. VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2016

Most teams make one of the following two mistakes: They either gate releases with an A/B test trying to understand whether or not the feature had the intended impact or they test variables blindly hoping to stumble upon a better variation. There is no other book that has had such a big impact on the way that I think about product management.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Decide whether it’s increasing a positive (growth, revenue, page views, etc.) Don’t out map your team’s capabilities.

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Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

” Without clear growth goals, your team can’t stay in sync or work at their best. The biggest cost of an out of sync team – wasted effort. Imagine you ask someone on your team to build an email campaign to promote a new feature. Saw the same paid channels grow 100x with a positive ROI (even at $1,000,000+/mo!).

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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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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing.

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only about five years ago that I had an important epiphany that would alter the trajectory of our company’s product strategy and my career. Or, while most of the customers raved about our support team, others expressed frustration around how long it took to get a response to their support requests.

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Product Management for Non-Software Products. JJ Rorie is a thought-leader and practitioner who has spent her career helping companies optimize their product management and marketing functions. Listen to Masters of Product Management Podcast Episode 067. I am a product management junkie.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle? Our marketing strategies, positioning, and pricing all play a pivotal role in how our product is perceived and experienced.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. Therefore, they need to have a thorough understanding of the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. It can be used for the entire building process at engineering and even product management.

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Amplitude

MAY 17, 2017

Your web analytics team comes to you with a surprising revelation. In a career that spanned from the 1950’s to the early years of the 21st century , Twyman contributed to the technical and methodological development of the field for both TV and radio measurement in the UK. If it isn’t wrong, you probably knew it already.”.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

Hired as external consultants, researchers, and product designers, sometimes we are asked to join an existing product team and help in transforming an organization from the inside. . Sadly, delivering great design doesn’t automatically translate into successful products. Find purpose . Balance structure and flexibility.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Eighteen months ago, I was part of the founding team at a cutting-edge technology start-up. During the first few weeks, as I lined up and conducted dozens of prospect, industry, and expert interviews, the founder hired a talented senior engineering team, and the company was formed. It’s all about the team.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2019

Product managers interact with many parts of the organization on a regular basis, but it’s usually either asking for specific information or soliciting input on very discrete items. All of this while aligning the strategy of the executive team with specific product releases and features.

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Roy Madden

OCTOBER 2, 2016

We are a small team of passionate engineers, designers, product managers and customers success heroes, where everyone has a voice and an impact. We take care of our team. Work closely with the feedly product and management team to identify pieces of content that can help serve the community.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. He says, Product-Market Fit… You can always feel it when it isn’t happening. Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. Step 2: Segment.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Paul Adams shared three incredible new products that will take your Intercom experience to the next level: Surveys, Switch, and our next-generation Inbox. We are dedicated to building the best, most innovative products on the market to drive the most impact for you, our customers. We’re here for you.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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