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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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. But again, there’s no rule that requires you to use the opportunity solution tree. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. For this Tools of the Trade , I spoke with several members of the CDH community to learn how they have approached recruiting customers or users in the very early stages of a product or company.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When it comes to continuous discovery , there’s no such thing as “the perfect tool.” Instead of seeking the best tool out there, it’s much more effective to look for the best tool for your team. Teresa often says, “The best tool is the one that your team will use.” Today, we’re taking a slightly different approach.

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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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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. Then when Tali moved to her current position, she brought her opportunity solution tree knowledge along and adapted it to the new setting. It was a great experience,” says Tali.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Previously, he spent nearly eight years at Palantir, working as a forward-deployed engineer. Their model involves solving one customer’s (very big and valuable) problem, then abstracting that solution into a product you can sell to everyone else.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Productboard —Make products that matter • Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Keith Coleman (VP of product) and Jay Baxter (founding ML engineer), the minds behind Community Notes, reveal how (..)

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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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Product Talk

JUNE 1, 2022

There are several ways to do this, whether you rely on existing tools or build something into your product. For this edition of Product in Practice , we caught up with Dan Clem of Zonar Systems to learn how he set up user interview recruiting and began interviewing customers weekly as a result. and “Who else was there?”

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. In this episode, Chip Chonym explains why market research matters throughout the innovation process, discussing both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. After researching the problem with my team, we came up with a solution.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2025

In the retail industry, customer feedback is your early warning system, your innovation engine, and your most honest performance review. But this system only works if you take action on the feedback collected. Build a foundation that drives action Use reporting tools to translate feedback into trends.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 20, 2020

Unpacking this central conundrum is at the heart of Alex Wolf’ s work – the self-described “consumer-facing anthropologist” has made a career by thinking deeply and talking widely about issues related to the pervasive role of technology in modern life. She asks what are the risks involved in “outsourcing” so many of our skills to technology.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

No matter what kind of product you have, the first order issue you’ll need to address as a product manager is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We need to know what job they are doing, what problem they are solving, and what words they use to describe those things… before they know that the solution is out there.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders.

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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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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. The reality of product management is far from the commanding caricature the title suggests.

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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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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. As a business engineer, just like a Product Manager, you’re trained to perform different key roles in an organization.”.

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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. Adopting the “best tools”. Don’t use the best tools for the job. Sounds counterintuitive, right?

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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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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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Centercode

JUNE 11, 2025

AI-driven user testing, video insights, plus seamless app distribution and expert resources— discover Centercode 10x. Platform Scalable, Automated, Real-World User Testing Centercode is the leading platform to manage impactful in-the-wild user tests. Platform Overview Managed Services Compare Plans What's New?

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2024

Amanda Wernicke and Craig Fogel are product managers within the Product R&D department at Convo , a Deaf-owned sign language interpretation services and technology company. That means we had to test how the user would behave both with our app and Zoom,” says Craig. Jason Ruzicka is a product designer.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 18, 2022

Today we are exploring technology-driven vs. market-driven innovation. There are times that a technology comes first and later a problem associated with a market need is found that the technology addresses. 3:21] How do you view the value of pure research and market-driven research?

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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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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. A lot of our product work requires discovery, which is why the Opportunity-Solution-Experiment concepts in Teresa Torres’ tree are ideal. However, other types of work don’t need that.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives.

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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.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

At Intercom, we have taken advantage of these technologies relatively early. So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked”.

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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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