The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. Have you ever had to talk a difficult customer down from the ledge?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. We can’t just build for the good path.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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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. A Growth PM is also part of Platform team as the focus is to improve the experience to increase top of funnel and optimum onboarding experience. QA + Rework.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. Doing so will help you better support your team, but also identify and improve on the skills and areas you personally excel, helping you choose the right career path, strengthen your reputation, and building your brand and narrative.

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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.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. Learning the Basics.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

A widespread gap in career clarity: Many tech workers don’t know what they should be doing to continue developing in their careers. We then dug into people’s work experiences, including enjoyment, burnout, quitting intentions, career development thoughts, and manager effectiveness. AI) and specialized sectors (e.g.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. When data collection is messy, product managers lose visibility, teams waste hours chasing answers, and user experience suffers. This is where tools like Userpilot come in, providing product teams with comprehensive analytics that bridge these dangerous data gaps.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 20, 2024

how AI is getting closer to replacing PMs , which parts of the job are most likely to be impacted ), so I wanted to take this week to share an important message: I believe that product managers are the best -positioned role in tech to thrive in a world of AI. In fact, many jobs will start to look more like product management. Read more

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. My team’s lead engineer stopped what he was doing and announced to the all-male room, ‘Looks like the token female engineer has arrived.’ How we rethought our terminology.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. It’s a performance study comparing factors of product teams that excel versus those that struggle.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Similar to Kubernetes, unless your team already has a lot of experience with microservices, most startups shouldn’t go near them.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Strategic Product Management: Sunset Decisions, Platform Benefits, and Team Structures Introduction Strategic decisions around product lifecycle management, platform integration, and team structures are critical for product managers in established tech companies.

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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. Their story isn’t uncommon. Leadership is a mindset, not a title.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Poor stakeholder management is one of the leading causes of failed product launches, often leading to misalignment, unexpected delays, and increased costs. Speak their language.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. Engineering managers are tech experts and great leaders. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager. So let's get to it!

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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

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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Product management is concentrated on the creation of customer value from which you’re then in a position to derive business value.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2020

What high performing Product Teams actually look like This is something that comes up often for me?—?I They are all coming from an individual perspective, not a team one ?—?I’ll As a team you're now faced with a hard decision, do we start again or continue forward knowing that there is now a large gap? Who does what?” “But

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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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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Organizations are developing robust data science capabilities, adding the role of “data scientist” to their ranks. You have to consider edge cases and problems that might occur if the software makes a bad recommendation or data is missing. Engineering teams tend to understand a lot about the application and who is using it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Given that we have finite engineering and product resources, what is the path forward?” Should they/you evolve the features of the core value prop for existing customers or invest in and develop new value props and features for new, adjacent customer segments? Perhaps the sales team isn’t trained adequately.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I found myself in a position that many people may find themselves in—you’re in a rush and trying to clean your teeth and flossing is just taking too long. That was a problem we ran into in the development. We had to develop into the UX a way to let people know the floss is over and they should stop.

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The Product Bistro

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Cloth bench seat, no extended cab, an 8 cylinder engine, and none of the modern amenities (such as adaptive cruise control, lane assist, parking assist, entertainment console, etc. Truth is, that these are usually the teasers that are used to get people into the dealership, and give their sales team the opportunity to up-sell.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. Engineers were stuffed into a back office far from the main office in central Hong Kong. The Results.

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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. Organizational silos exist for many reasons, but they particularly affect Product Managers because they are the engines of the cross-functional process that defines and ships products.

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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. Setting up developer guidelines will help current and future collaborations and integrations.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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