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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. “The customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems we use. It’s a B2B SaaS application, think of it as a CRM.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. 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).

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower - Product Management

Similarly, in customer support , AI-driven chatbots and automated response systems are taking over routine support, effectively handling common issues such as account inquiries or basic troubleshooting. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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New Course: Mastering Product Management

Sachin Rekhi

Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.    It’s hard for product managers to throw themselves in the way of potential 6-figure revenue.