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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Without well-researched facts that are based on reality for your company and customers ( insights ), you won’t make good decisions. He asked quite innocently in front of my new team, “what’s the product strategy?”

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Userpilot

APRIL 27, 2021

Companies need a stack of SaaS onboarding tools to create personalized experiences and bring users to their “Aha! They needed a combination of their own product for personalized video onboarding, Intercom for email automation, a tool for customer segmentation, and another tool to measure the results.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team? What is the best way to work with cross-functional teams?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. To evaluate your in-app messages, use flow analytics.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. Jen Murphy – Senior Product Researcher. Maria Gutierrez – Senior Director of Engineering. In London, we focus on improving our support solutions. How we get feedback.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Read on as we explore client onboarding and how to combine creativity, thoughtfulness, and the right onboarding software to help customers ‘get’ your product. Polish your in-app communication: Use UI elements like tooltips, modals, etc., Invest in the right tool: Not everything can be done manually. Use automation to save time.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They effortlessly traverse different platforms and ecosystems, opening up a world of opportunities for creators and collectors alike. You can choose to paint on the digital canvas with a variety of tools, from digital brushes to 3D modeling software. Next, let’s talk development hours. But here’s the flip side.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These days I look forward to starting research and discovery with nothing but a hypothesis. Throughout my experience, I’ve used many frameworks and tools to support the research and discovery process. It’s possible there isn’t a solution to these problems on the market today.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Figure 1: FRAMEWORK OF METHODS TO CAPTURE AND DEFINE PRODUCT FEATURES. A separate set of both written and visual techniques can be used to define solutions that should be implemented in software to address the pain points.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Let’s explore and discover how we can take the Jobs To Be Done framework to the next level and beyond. But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? What colour should our homepage CTA buttons be?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2019

The most popular frameworks, like agile, are more about the general approach your office takes. Team structure, work patterns, timing, tool deployment… They are holistic in the way they seek to address your overall operations. The Jobs To Be Done Framework (JTBD, for short) is different. Anything else is just a hobby.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

And so, many business leaders find themselves not quite sure how to start, how to leverage it, or what to do when all the dashboards and tools seem to be pointing at different solutions. I started in the policy world as an economics researcher at a think tank. However, we’ve had a great team. Benn: For sure.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

Along with fostering a company culture that’s widely adopted and understood, smart product experimentation is about prioritizing drivers before solutions, taking a measured approach, and experimenting with purpose. On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap. So what can you do?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Frameworks like Jobs-to-be-Done are extremely helpful in determining exactly what the product is supposed to be doing for its customers — that is, the needs it serves.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In this #mtpcon London talk, Kate Leto examines the importance of emotional intelligence in individuals and teams and asks how it can be used to make better hiring decisions. If we want to build greater emotional intelligence into our product teams, then we need to design our hiring processes to look for it. Key Points. Hire people.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

With over 17 years of experience as a designer, he primarily assists others in their career growth by providing thoughtful, concise tips and tricks, whether related to tools or any form of communication. You have surface level: you’re completely dir ected, you are given a solution and you design the solution.

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Userzoom

APRIL 17, 2018

We KNOW that a good UI is based on research, testing and slow, methodical improvements – not looking at a competitor’s site and saying “ooh, that’s pretty, I’ll steal that!”. How do we build an app for multiple use cases? In terms of visual design, we’ve already polished the popular apps to the moon and back!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy. As I considered the merits of each possible option to build a user base, I weighed them against the product strategy framework, the pros/cons, coherence, and value. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni This book is all about the fascinating and complex world of teams.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. You may be an entrepreneur creating SaaS platforms or a product manager for an enterprise. The data backs it up. 4 One Door at a Time.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . I could use this same sentence for a product, scrum master, or engineering manager role.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I worked in healthcare technology at the time. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. Why was this prioritized?”

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Product Talk

MARCH 8, 2017

One of the best signs of an effective product team is a regular cadence of customer interviews and product experiments. Without a strong background in research methods, it’s hard to know how you are doing. I’ve developed a simple framework to help teams evaluate the effectiveness of their methods.

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