The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While strategy, vision, and execution are critical, there’s a powerful leadership principle that’s frequently overlooked: gratitude. Strengthening Relationships Through Gratitude Product managers work closely with engineers, designers, and various other stakeholders.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. When people see the vision, they align faster. It aligns quickly.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. Include Engineers in Product Decisions.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

A common question I am asked is, How can an organization speed up its product development? One way is what our guest is sharing with us today, the 3 Ps of Lean Product Development—Pipeline, Practice, and Process. His name is Steve Stucky, and he has over 25 years of experience applying lean product development. . 6:50] Pipeline.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. We can’t just build for the good path.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Devoting 4 hours a month in Customer Support for each member of the team (PMs, PDs, developers). As part of the Product and Engineering team our shared mission is to make Mr Jeff successful by making our end-customers, franchises, and internal stakeholders successful.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

Developing your product design career as an individual contributor. As a designer on the management path, a large part of my focus has been to help individual contributor (IC) designers to develop in their role. Results: The main ingredient of career development. Behaviors: The secret sauce of product design career development.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A Fresh Perspective on Product Development Anya challenged common assumptions about product development strategy. Anya’s development of Taelor offers valuable lessons in how to validate and expand upon initial product insights.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. Here’s the honest truth.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Lilac has over 20 years of product development experience in the telecommunications, consumer electronics, and medical devices industries where she has led cradle-to-grave product development efforts, and she holds 19 US patents. The engineers can’t design to every possible use case. At Kymeta, we have written use cases.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Replit has 34 million users globally and is one of the fastest-growing developer communities in the world. Prior to Replit, Amjad worked at Facebook, where he led the JavaScript infrastructure team and contributed to popular open-source developer tools. Train yourself to generate lots of ideas.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. Hot Tip: At one acquired company, Brian discovered they used a rare programming language (Clojure) that none of his existing engineers knew. Technology and processes?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. They need to shift their focus to leveraging teams to execute their vision and it is up to you to help with this transition. Start at the Top. In most companies, this process is ongoing.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. A production release was a distant vision. At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. Similar, right?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I would never have thought that my role as a product engineer would include being a bit of an amateur historian. We make a living selling leaders and teams on what the future can look like, and then do our best to meet and exceed that vision. Technologists are, by our very nature, forward-looking optimists. The more I read about Web 3.0

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Unpacking the BRIDGeS framework for product managers Today we are talking about strategic product planning, which involves decision-making, problem-solving, feature prioritization, and product vision creation. I first heard of Railsware when the founder of Calendly talked about the group that developed Calendly for him, which was Railsware.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Previously, he spent nearly eight years at Palantir, working as a forward-deployed engineer. Nabeel was also a founding employee and VP of business development at GoCardless, a leading European fintech unicorn.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? Who are the right stakeholders and partners to work with as you are setting your vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

To create value for customers requires a series of conversations with customers, sales, marketing and their marketing goals, clients, engineers, and designers. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled. The cycle of creating a great product begins with listening.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Simplify security • Loom —The easiest screen recorder you’ll ever use — Karina Nguyen leads research at OpenAI, where she’s been pivotal in developing groundbreaking products like Canvas, Tasks, and the o1 language model.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

The expanding market for augmented reality app development services enables the company to explore novel methods of maximizing this technology’s potential. It is a developing trend among organizations engaged in mobile computing and, in particular, commercial apps. What is augmented reality app? By 2024, there will be 1.73

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

While still others may focus on data analysis, customer research, project management, or even engineering. A company that practices aspirational product management is one that values experimentation and customer research, and continuously integrates those learnings into the product development process to create a valuable product.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

I oversee product planning, product roadmap, vision, and strategy for our products. We look at technology that has already been developed to know what our capabilities are. Work collaboratively with engineering teams, quality teams, your DevOps organization, etc., At Wind River, we focus on software and tech for edge devices.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

Think of your product management career development as a new product that is going to be released into the market. In product management you’re schooled to, identify who your customers are; identify a value proposition strategy and to persuade stakeholders of the vision you want to achieve. What is your product vision?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. I realized we need to change how we build products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 26, 2023

He has also been a long-time supporter of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research, which is creating cures and solutions everyone can afford for vision diseases. Innovation is people, culture, vision, and execution. Never give engineering a flat list. 26:45] Tell us about setting vision.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. A well-defined problem space with success criteria will be much more beneficial and often more natural to get buy-in from your engineering team. Simple task, right? Lessons Learned.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Larry Page, a close friend of Elon's, said more people should have the kind of inter-disciplinary skills that Elon possessed: a broad engineering and scientific background, MBA training, knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. Even within engineering, Elon distinguished himself with a very broad set of skills.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. We can all work to develop our own habits. When I say product team, I mean product managers, designers, software engineers. Discovery is a team sport.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

We help external engineers understand the product requirements and user needs and rely on their expertise. We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. When we came out with the $19.99

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