Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2018

Growing up, I was surrounded by video games. In my house, we had the NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy and a bunch of PC games. I would play video games for hours on end, only stopping for the odd toilet break. But as my love of gaming grew, it became obvious that I wasn’t drawn to the typically popular action or racing games. Instead of Half-Life or GoldenEye, I was drawn to simulation games such as SimCity , The Sims and Theme Hospital – titles that rewarded strategy over speed, patience over practic

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The Product Bistro

AUGUST 13, 2018

One of my more popular posts has been on the unwritten truths of Product Management. Originally written over 5 years ago, that post covered many observations and self evident truths. Fast forward to 2018, and there are some additions to this list. Without further ado, I offer these observations: Whiz bang tools don’t make up […].

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 13, 2018

There are lots of different frameworks for how to run projects so they are ‘agile’. Tim Beattie takes us through some principles that will help you no matter which specific ways of working you choose to implement. Don’t Make Assumptions of Simplicity. When working through a Discovery phase, you’ll be doing activities such as empathy mapping, scenario plotting and user opportunity spotting.

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First Round Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

While leading engineering at Instagram, James Everingham spotted a problem: the inevitable dip in transparent decision-making and communication as teams scale. Drawing on three decades of experience, he shares how to operationalize transparency during hypergrowth.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2018

Guest Post by: Mark Jones (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Shelley Iocona]. Product people usually like to start with the problem. One problem many are familiar with is being the requirements resource. You know the scenario; “Oh, we need a BA to figure out how these two internal tools should integrate, and you’re great at this, could you give us a hand?

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 13, 2018

Sometimes marketing relationships just don’t work out Image Credit: Always Shooting. As a product manager, you want to be able to get your product out in front of as many potential customers as possible. However, this is something that sometimes your company can’t accomplish all by themselves. When you realize this, you often start to look for a partner – somebody who can help change your product development definition and introduce you to more potential customers.

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Dear Strategy

AUGUST 13, 2018

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “How realistic should a strategic target be?”. Read The Full Blog Post. The post Dear Strategy: 056 Setting Realistic Strategic Goals appeared first on Dear Strategy.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 13, 2018

The cost of tracking every event in a sophisticated analytics tool can be prohibitively expensive. If that is not the case now, it will be as your company grows. We are no strangers to this issue here at Amplitude. We often witness companies dealing with large volumes of data, some generating as many as 100 billion data points per month. So how do you run large-scale analyses without throwing away your entire budget?

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Dear Strategy

AUGUST 13, 2018

Dear Strategy: “How realistic should a strategic target be?”. . Way back in Episode 009 , I tackled this topic from the standpoint of managers setting unrealistic goals. What I didn’t do in that episode, however, was to answer the question of how realistic your strategic goals should actually be. So, let’s dive into that now. To begin with, let me reiterate that there is a difference between what I refer to as a “strategic objective,” and what some people will refer to as a “strategic target.

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