The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning? necessary execution power).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

Monitoring and alerting systems aren’t perfect, and it can take some time for the customers to notice problems and report them to the support team. We all deal with business-critical legacy systems from time to time. Even the simplest change to those systems could be risky because of your lack of context and the potential blast radius.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

At Proscai, I had the task to build a new Point of Sale (POS) solution for our clients and these three phases along with its corresponding documents helped me plan the development process and make sure all the team and stakeholders understood why, how and what we were building. Define Product Vision and Strategy. Focus on the bigger picture.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

A warehouse management system will help to organize the workflow effectively. What is a warehouse management system? A warehouse management system combines software, specific devices (for example, data collection terminals with a scanner), and IoT sensors to track inventory information.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2023

Now that the COVID pandemic is over, travel management systems are valuable because business travel is back on the table. Consequently, travel software development companies come up with a solution called travel management system. What is a travel management system?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Image by Cody Cai Design system governance models help organizations manage and maintain design systems across teams and products. There are three popular models —  Solitary , Centralized , and Federated  — each offer different approaches to how design systems are governed within an organization. Image by Nathan Curtis.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This article reviews 3 popular contribution models: 1. It uses the hybrid model of contribution where the central design system team is responsible for the overall direction. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

When proposing redesign to stakeholders, you should prepare a document that will create a proper context for them and provide answers to the most common questions they likelyhave. Note that you dont have to provide an in-depth explanation of the reasoning right in the introduction; you will do it later in the document.

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NextBigWhat

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

How Jeff Bezos evaluates ideas (while reading the 6-pager documents): he assumes each sentence he reads is wrong until he can prove otherwise. A common question asked by executives when reviewing the product features in the PR is “so what?” Before you can improve any system. On PR / FAQ Process. On Output Metrics.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We introduced regular alert review sessions for teams dealing with frequent alerts. Each alert review session starts with an ordered list of alerts that fired in the previous period, ordered by frequency of their firing. fire most frequently) are reviewed first. . 8 questions to ask when assessing your team’s alerts.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In reality, due to rapidly changing consumer preferences and shifting stakeholder priorities, roadmaps need to be one of the most fluid, unreliable, and ambiguous tools to clean up the stakeholder communication mess. I’ve used a few additional supporting communications + documentation that help. Adding the objective + goal.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

This fragmentation occurs when critical business information becomes scattered across disconnected systems, creating dangerous blind spots for product managers trying to make informed decisions. Instead of feeling understood, they feel like just another name in the system. Sound familiar? Personalization also breaks down.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The effectiveness of a design system cannot be assumed; it must be actively measured and optimized over time. A robust design system should not only streamline design and development processes but also ensure scalability as the organization grows, adapts to new platforms, and handles diverse product requirements. Image by Steve Dennis.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2025

We also emphasized the importance of well-defined product requirements documents (PRDs) to ensure everyone was on the samepage. Managing the Legacy System A complete feature freeze on the legacy system was not feasible due to ongoing business needs. You can read more about how we built our team processes in[ Link ].

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

It underpins a whole host of core Intercom features – Inbox Views , API , Articles , the user list, Reporting , Resolution Bot , and our internal logging systems. To provide the needed level of this “invisible” management, we utilized a combination of two technologies – Chef and AWS Systems Manager (SSM). Architecture of the system.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

But what’s cooler is that you can use these tools to build functional prototypes from a Figma design, convert a rough hand-drawn sketch to a working app, translate a PRD document into an interactive prototype, or even build a usable internal tool for your team, with no coding ability.

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UX Planet

MAY 1, 2025

Below are the principles that help me avoid getting overwhelmed by Figma files, deadlines, and reviews, and instead focus on the essence: creating valuable products that userslove. Naming conventions: Organizing your design system 5. Its easy to make wrong decisions due to a lack of information.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents. He shares that product managers are reporting efficiency gains of around 50% when using AI to assist in drafting these important documents.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself. “Fairness” isn’t coming.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Exploring How AI Will Revolutionize Design System Creation, Maintenance, and Usage Design systems are an important part of every product app or website. Apart from the use and growth of design systems, the revolution of AI technology is here, and it will affect many places in our design process. But how will it be affected?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. Then draw a coordinate system that takes into account time, captured as sprints, and effort in the product backlog, which might be expressed as story points. It documents the progress to date and the effort remaining.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Set up a product manager/sales buddy system that allows product managers to get invited to live customer calls a few times per month. Product managers were also documenting the process itself and then looking for a place to put the documentation.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2025

How to tackleit: Push for documentation: If the employer delays sending an offer letter, follow up with urgency but professionalism: Im excited to move forward. Could you share the written offer so I can begin reviewing and planning? Get legal advice: Dont sign restrictive terms without a lawyers review. Figma,Asana).

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

?. Manual document collection is not exactly what you would call a seamless process. Over the years, he collected his fair share of documents – photos, bios, logos – from speakers and partners alike, but he quickly realized just how much time he was wasting sending reminders for missing documents and gathering everything before the deadline.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Things can get really messy in a traditional file system. In my previous company, we even had to create and maintain a formalized system for our working directory. Figma, on the other hand, gives you a transparent and almost flat document system. Document organization. The absence of files.

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Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

A resume can be created in many forms like documents, videos, web pages, etc., Because this headline is so different than the typical headline, “Experienced Product Marketing Leader,” the resume reviewer is more likely to pause and read your resume because it engages them. Is there any technology company that doesn’t want that?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

AI powered systems are adept at reading 1000s of documents and automatically classifying them into the right categories. Sorting through and organizing high volumes of unstructured documents can be time consuming and painful. Organizations that receive documents from multiple channels (paper, email, electronic fax, FTP, etc.)

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Whether observing people using a technology or system in the workplace, at home, or out in public, it can provide insights not available in quantitative data. We listened and diligently documented how they created and captured series and episodic metadata, and how it flowed through the ecosystem. 3 Document Behaviour.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2018

You’ve carefully justified your choice of programming language and why you just need to use a complex gossip protocol to build the system – it is theoretically the “best” language, but it’ll be tricky to get right (and yet really fun to build). Write/update your documentation. Brainstorm potential solutions with them.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The research process for even small purchases can be long and difficult: there are reviews to read, content to consume, docs to check, and questions to be asked. ” Since switching to Intercom for live chat support, Disqus can handle 179% more cases than they could with their previous ticketing system.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. As we previously reviewed, interviewing helps us build empathy for the people who might use our products or services. The sound system was set just right, enveloping me in the atmospheric soundtrack of “Stranger Things.” The goal is the process.

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2023

What factors should you consider when choosing a SaaS learning management system to support your customers and employees? TL;DR A SaaS learning management system (LMS) is a cloud-based solution for delivering educational experiences. They should also support mobile learning and integrate with other organizational systems, like HR.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Moreover, have you ever considered that informal agreements, those made in the hallway or over coffee, might be more impactful than formal roles written in a document? A few years ago, the company faced significant challenges due to role overlap. Harvard Business Review also highlights its importance in business management.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2021

How our core technologies were being used was also diverging, leading to needlessly increased complexity in our systems. To achieve this with Elasticsearch, we worked through these steps: Understand and document how we are currently using Elasticsearch.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

Waterfall project management is ideal for consistent and reliable results on software development projects or systems that don’t need rapid changes. Due to the covid-19 outbreak, remote work becomes normal. It’s essential for custom software development teams working on various aspects of a system.

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