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. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”. This line of thinking is where success at achieving the First Opportunity and the BigVision begins to get derailed before you and your team have even started working. We’ll come back to these.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

The story of how the first product of the information age was created and found product/market fit. Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Many considered lenders vile.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. Your audience has extremely high expectations and you’ve got more than a million other apps competing for your users’ time and attention. As many as 69% reported being responsible for organizing customer interviews?—?an

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? Bank customers’ requests are rapidly changing. We identify opportunities. We execute.

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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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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Ethics: The discipline of dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty and obligation Miriam-Webster Dictionary. And while the medical profession pioneered the concept of professional ethics, other industries have also developed ethical codes. Great Power = Great Responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

There’s much uncertainty, but it’s likely that for a number of years markets will cool down, investments will dry up, customers will clamp down on spendings, and lots of people will be unemployed. For most companies it’s bad news?—?the We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Remember, they’re dealing with board members, investors , and customers who may be applying pressure. Even the boss has a boss, not to mention demanding customers. Sympathize.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2016

I love that A/B testing has become so popular. 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. I might also test my first meaning.

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ProductPlan

JULY 11, 2019

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. To avoid an unsuccessful launch and weak usage, product teams and their product marketing counterparts must be in lockstep.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

I did what I should have, and was not bad at it, as numbers and analysis are not hard for me, but besides, I couldn’t say that I really enjoyed it. My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. Excited about this finding, I started to apply for product manager jobs.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or  Or by hiring outside experts to teach them prioritization.

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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. ” Similarly, I see managers on Twitter saying, “Oh, that’ll make performance review season so much easier.”

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Why offline products are so compelling for acquiring customers. Cohort analysis and looking for “smile curves” The Power User Curve aka L28. Part 1: User Acquisition. Yeah, so when you look at a large aggregate number like, you know, total monthly active users, right, or you’re looking at like — .

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or  But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Big companies will bring the latest in new venture frameworks research, they’ll have excellent trainers involved, and they’ll tap people that have done it before. Corporate forces deserve just as much attention and diligence as you would take to developing a Value Proposition or a Business Model.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit. ” Very disappointed.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of? In a product development context, and particularly with reference to technologies, this can be problematic. Others will fail.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2020

Ayat is a ‘queen of CRO’ with over ten years helping companies create websites that customers love, and that result in increased sales and retention. Most marketing talk, or business strategy meetings, emphasizes the importance of ‘customer first’. Customer First fails? How do we get into the minds of the customer?

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Amplitude

MAY 17, 2017

When there’s so much data to work with, it’s easy to get careless and assume that the numbers right under your nose are always telling you the truth: A new piece of code breaks your homepage , but after looking at your analytics you see that users are spending more time on it than ever —and therefore must be more engaged.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Something your customers will love. Why the best SF companies work with remote UX teams. But take care – you can easily get burned.

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UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago. User expectations.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Daniel Scrivner believes the answer lies in asynchronous tools that allow people to get their work done without bottlenecks: send off a product at the close of play, get feedback overnight, apply revisions, and ship the next day. When most people think of product development, they imagine an in-person experience. billion in 2015.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

We were joined by more than 2,500 customers, partners, and others who wanted to learn more about our product, goals, and the path ahead. You’ll meet some of our customers, including Wayne Stewart from Atlassian and Brian Lederman from Coda, as they explore the ways Intercom is helping them scale their businesses.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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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. But customers want to know about themselves. Rewrite your first call deck.

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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. But customers want to know about themselves. Rewrite your first call deck.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It’s an online website which is really a catalogue for cloud services and products and consultants and developers to build Government digital and cloud implementations and I think it’s transacted over £3 billion since it started. Whether you’re going to pick customers by size. Which is more recent 2012 to 2018.

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