The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. ” and “What?” and “What?”

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? How can product trios adapt to remote work and distributed teams? Do product teams really work this way?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. The pitch went well and I was assigned a budget plus a single resource in a graduate named Venus (aka ‘the navigator’).

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

Christina Wodtke’s path to her current standing as an established authority on the attributes of high-performing teams and the use of OKRs has been a roundabout one. She’s also due to deliver a workshop on how to design product teams with intention at MTP Engage Hamburg. So what about high-performing teams?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Your new book, Conversational Design , is out on abookapart.com on March 6. Erika: Absolutely.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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nulab

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In cases where an employee is being let go, properly documented offboarding can help minimize the legal and financial risks to the company. A well-executed offboarding process can help the company retain top talent and prevent bad blood between departing employees and those who remain. Notify the team. It’s good business.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. My name is Jacob. It’s from another team, so you can be completely honest with me. However, not all methods are equally effective when deciding what is valuable. I think it is a very good idea.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

While I thought it was an absolute, for a micro-second, I questioned it, and then the floodgates of doubt opened — maybe not such a bad thing in this case. When you are early on, your goal is to learn not to document. Especially in mature companies, roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty when you are early in developing a product.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. We can create empathetic, intuitive systems When everyone on the team is empowered to understand data, they can make more informed decisions and measure their own success. He’s been conditioned to not bother the data team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. How many times this month would you say you used the [insert name] app?” How should I change the UX of [feature]?

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The power of product analytics becomes apparent when any team at a company—marketing, product, design, engineering—can quickly ask and answer questions about user behavior and customer journeys. That way, when teams access the data through product analytics, they have a high degree of confidence in the insights they uncover.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this article, QA engineer on the release team at inDriver Ivan would like to allow himself to freely speculate on the similarity between cognitive activity models in software testing and criminal investigations. Poor problem formulation. An insufficient amount of time allotted for testing and development purposes.

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nulab

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Tips, tools, and methods for developing ideas fast can be a real lifesaver when you’ve got to be creative on tap. The same is even more vital when you’re working as a team. Product names. Then they, in turn, can add their own comments for you and the team to read back. Panic ensues. What are idea boards for? Moodboards.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Let’s discuss these benefits in detail: Improve business decision-making : By tracking how customers interact with your software, it becomes easier to spot which features are resonating with customers and which ones are underperforming. This allows you to prioritize product development efforts and improve product performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. That was just a transformational experience.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Commitments from Product/Development are assumed to be on schedule.  Custom

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. from marketing and sales to product development and community building. Plotting their strengths and weaknesses (and your opportunities and threats).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It will also help you develop intuition , which has a bad name in a data-driven world but is actually a super important tool for you to use. Define Tangible Goals This method which I developed years ago proved itself again as I was onboarding my new COO recently. What worked best so far? not just learn.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. You can also use it to craft engaging blog posts, write simplified product documentation, etc. Please put data in a tabular format.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

A friction log is a document capturing the challenges and frustrations a customer might face using your SaaS. Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Inconsistent data formats and different terminology (definitions) between teams or analytics tools can also result in discrepancies. First, data discrepancies can lead to poor decision-making. Given the negative impact that data discrepancy may have, SaaS teams need reliable methods to spot them.

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UserVoice

MAY 4, 2018

And while Scrum has this function built in on the team level, the sprint retrospective is insufficient to serve the needs of continual improvement of the organization as a whole. We need to extend the culture of continuous improvement beyond the development teams, and inure it as part of the entire organization.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? The metric was developed by Bain and Company in 2003 and has since been adopted by millions of businesses. Some industries like SaaS will have an average NPS of 30.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anyone in Product Ownership related discipline or those affiliated with Development, need to be aware of the time it takes to go through Research, Ideation, Iteration, before the subsequent steps of the Design Thinking process can occur (this impacts sales strategies, go to market strategies, communication outreach, just to name but a few tasks).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. I think this is important for product teams for two reasons. ” Des Traynor: Yeah.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But so many other areas of product development are prone to this same problem. Many times it’s not even a bad way of doing things. So how can we get out of some of our bad habits? The connotation of it implies a rigidity that simply doesn’t work for modern product development. But we (and our organizations) can do better.

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Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

A big part of that is making sure your users know how to get the most from your application (and in the modern world, that means more than creating a page with a load of support documentation). Today, Userpilot is used by multiple roles in my product team and covers analytics, building guides, and creating product communication.

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