The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch.

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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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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. Discovery is a team sport. We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer. Week over week.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. A decision making framework that I use is. One pager or Amazon style memo.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

Scale through platform investment: Rather than custom solutions, Revolut builds scalable platforms that enable a team of 300 people to ship credit products monthly across 50 countries—a function that typically requires 2,000 to 3,000 employees at traditional banks.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly. Even better, if these criteria stayed the same over time, we could use them to guide long-term product development. Building the ODI Framework After the PCjr setback, Ulwick moved from engineering to product planning at IBM.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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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. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Poor strategy is everywhere?—?you

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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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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” You’ll likely burn fuel, time, and goodwill without achieving anything meaningful.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s even harder when product managers and engineers are bogged down with work that distracts them from their highest leverage activities of identifying problems and building products people want to use to solve those problems. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. What Is Product Operations?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 9, 2017

If you manage a digital product that end users employ, such as a web or mobile app, then you usually do not require in-depth technical skills, such as, being able to program in Java, write SQL code, or know which machine learning framework there are and if, say, TensorFlow is the right choice for your product.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2020

The Product Group helps young product people develop ways to maximize their learning; during a time when a young product person is way outside of their comfort zone. Going through the early stages of being a PM with a mentor, have helped me get the most out of being outside my comfort zone, by introducing zone of proximal development.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

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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. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Yet, I wanted to dig deeper into this issue by focusing on: The reasons why a Solution-first culture makes your life harder; A “framework” to drive stakeholders to think in terms of Problems. You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve.

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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 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. What can be cut first?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. Two colleagues and I built a framework that translated our intuition into steps for building world-changing products systematically. A vision with this level of detail gives teams enough direction to make decisions.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

When companies do not have cross-functional teams, they become siloed and progress slows down. [13:40] It usually starts in the product or engineering teams, but there’s an increasing interest among organizations trying them out and adopting a top-down approach. 13:40] Who creates the OKRs? 13:40] Who creates the OKRs?

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. I think it makes sense to hear that opinion and factor that into the product development process. Of course?—?the

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Know your own systems. Track and reduce access to data that is not needed.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Frameworks have drastically improved the capabilities of small teams to produce amazing experiences for people in very short periods of time. Then we have our engineering principles. We have a small but really great infrastructure team who help maintain fast development environments.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As an engineer by training, in pressure situations he tends to “lean to the quant.” It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . A data-driven framework for scaling.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

my manager came to me and asked to train a group of manual testers to update them to QA automation engineers. My main purpose was to walk the manual QA testing team through Java basics so that they could continue with QA automation engineer tutor. How to Effectively Upgrade QA Team to QA Automation Engineers?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich: Today I’m the Senior Director for Foundations Engineering at Intercom.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. What makes consumer subscription apps unusual is that most don’t have sales teams, which means the product must be able to sell itself organically and through paid advertisements.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

The rollercoaster ride that is product development is inherently chaotic and ever-changing. Sure, there are semi-quantitative ways of estimating uncertainty for each assumption (for example, the RICE framework for prioritization), but as with many things in product development, these are guess-based models that help us to compare options.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. However, selecting a framework or creating one from scratch can be very confusing.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

8 AI trends that will define product development By Greg Sterndale Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: February 12, 2025 Last update: February 10, 2025 From modular architecture to agentic AI How product development will evolve in 2025 & beyond In product development, change is the only constant.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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