The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations. It’s cyclical.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For this edition of Product in Practice, were not talking with a product manager, a designer, a UX researcher, or even an engineer. Eva Spexard is the Head of Operations and People at Passion.io , a mobile app builder for creators. The opportunity solution tree related to a lack of role clarity at Passion.io.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

So I’ve been on the hunt for a framework that actually helps you measure and increase your velocity. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

Product teams respond best when coaching is positioned as a growth tool, not a fix for poor leadership or lack of clarity. Cross-functional participation improves outcomes : Involving engineering and design early in discovery fosters shared understanding and reduces rework. External coaches provide neutrality and outside perspective.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. Below the solution space are assumption tests. Next is the opportunity space.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. Let’s call it a “solution.”. Market research. The Jobs To Be Done framework has a whole methodology for finding unmet needs of market segments. Design, both visual and technical.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

A PM may receive help from specialists in the organization such as Researchers, Project Managers, Product Marketing etc. As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. A Platform PM also concerns himself with stability and safety of the platform. Specialist PM Roles.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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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. This opens up opportunities to integrate smarter, smaller models into products.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

There’s a lot of discussion around conversational computing these days – at Intercom, we talk about our conversational relationship platform , conversational support and conversational marketing. But what makes software conversational? In software, gaps in understanding can be relatively small (“How do I filter by location?”)

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

To fully understand what such a change in thinking requires, we’ve realized that it’s important to understand what we call the “product impact framework” – the steps of cause and effect that culminate in positive outcomes for the business. Back in 2013, our head of engineering Darragh coined this mantra: Shipping is our heartbeat.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

CaaS platforms function similarly to e-commerce marketplaces, but for automobiles. Enter CarFYAI, CarFY AI is an AI-powered system for streamlining car discovery in Car-as-a-Service platforms, providing a personalized and enhanced user experience for customers. Image Credit: Karena E.I Image credit: Karena E.I

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. Rich: Today I’m the Senior Director for Foundations Engineering at Intercom.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What product managers need to know about the Targeted Innovation Process Watch on YouTube TLDR The Targeted Innovation Process is a practical framework that helps product managers drive innovation in their organizations. This framework has five key steps: Step Description 1.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 18, 2021

He is Professor of Technology Management and Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD. His research centers on innovation and how organizations innovate. His recent book, Built to Innovate , shares a proven system for building innovation into an organization’s DNA. . Ben Bensaou.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Building the ODI Framework After the PCjr setback, Ulwick moved from engineering to product planning at IBM. His early research involved a simple but powerful method: asking customers to compare products. This framework made innovation more predictable and effective. He started exploring what makes innovation successful.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Most of these projects are framed in the solution space—they take the form of “build this feature” or “launch this program.”. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project. If we do, it’s usually in the form of project-based research. Most of us grew up in a project world.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

But figuring out which sales tools you should buy and invest in – let alone what each tool even does – can be a daunting task. This is especially true when you consider the seemingly endless list of sales tools to choose from. Before we begin: how to choose your sales tools. Better tools, not more tools.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The realization of simplicity is built on our belief in recognizing the interactions between multiple systems of an environment/ situation. Similarly, service designers are trained to navigate through complex systems of an environment/ situation by leveraging their system thinking capabilities. Let deep dive into 4 Ps.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2020

The Most Trusted Custom Software Development Companies in Poland Are you looking for a reliable software development partner for your business? Hopefully, this list of the top leaders in the software development industry in Poland will help you make the right choice. The modern world is now built on software. Boldare Min.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

But not every problem is created equal, and their solutions shouldn’t be either. Aligning on three things before diving into a solution can help ensure teams spend the right amount of time and energy solving every problem. Some problems need a straightforward solution, while others require more innovation. Investment .

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2020

In Part 2 of our Coping Through COVID series , we learn how the team at Springer Nature Experiments quickly created an interface, packed with vital information on Coronavirus detection protocols for the scientific research community. As the world went into lockdown, the challenges for researchers became even bigger still.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 5, 2020

People spend over two hours a day browsing the web using conventional app interfaces, and despite the rise of mobile and mobile-first design, desktop audiences are still significant. So, which platform should you adopt for a new digital service, mobile app or the web? You can spend your marketing budget to drive app downloads.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions. Good product discovery requires discovering opportunities as well as discovering solutions. This helped as most teams can articulate how to connect the dots between opportunities and solutions. – Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 8, 2022

She is leading product and engineering teams to develop a platform for embedded integrations that quickly connect various software applications. I was always interested in people, how they use tools, and the problems being solved by businesses. I moved away from the classroom into product technology.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Just as the standardisation of brands through corporate brand guidelines once signalled the end of exploration in advertising agencies, the standardisation of user interfaces through unified patterns and design systems now marks a similar trend in digital product design. Designers have designed themselves out of the equation.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. The sooner you adopt these steps, the faster you’ll see growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Developers building on the Intercom platform rely on the current existing functionality of our APIs, and potentially backwards incompatible changes might break the flows in which they are used. This ends up being a no-go for us in most cases because it’s not a reliable, safe solution. A fix could break their apps.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 23, 2022

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem. This is writing code and/or using tools to automate the testing of mobile software?—?either either mobile versions/renderings of websites, or native mobile apps, for example on iOS or Android specific phones/tablets. an app or website. What to automate?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Are you searching for the tech and design partner you can trust while building your mobile app together? As a consequence of this, the mobile app development industry is on the rise now. Probably, you look for a research-based recommendation of a reliable app development service provider too.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2022

If you’re looking to present your hard work to stakeholders, justify a product decision, or check the health of your app, you’re in the right place. Learn about the importance of mobile app KPI dashboards and copy dashboards from real mobile app product managers, engineers and designers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 26, 2021

It gave me literacy in technology-related topics that enabled me to understand what different companies do. Science and engineering are at the heart of a lot of great innovation. [4:00] The book also includes some new tools and frameworks including how to apply Jobs in strategy, as well as product development and innovation. [7:18]

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