Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As Kristen says: She predicts that this strategy of letting the product guide the sales process is the future of tech: “I think that’s where a lot of the future of sales and tech in general is going to go to some extent, which is to really let the product guide the people. Crowning the customer.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like that soccer team, products can fall apart when the team doesn’t work together toward a common goal following a roadmap. Soccer is a perfect parallel for product management and roadmap development. While they might seem worlds apart, they share common core principles for success — especially when it comes to roadmap development.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Instead of staying in the zone of most competence, divide your attention across all aspects of the product, like the business, tech, and UX. Let’s dive in!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

Have you been intrigued by the position of Technical Program Manager? But this doesn't mean you can't prepare for and ace your upcoming technical program manager interview. The best way to get ready is by reviewing some real TPM interview questions from some of the top tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and more.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. The path and the steps to reach the destination is defined through a product roadmap. Product Roadmap.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

From my experience of working directly with and solving problems for product management and delivery in a Fortune 100 financial services organization, I’d like to share my list of top grievances against bad product management, from an engineering perspective. Vision: The art of Seeing What is Invisible to Others.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

Funding your Product Roadmap How do you ask for funding as you scale your product & team You have a product roadmap (annual / multi-year) in front of you, crafted by you after months of deliberation, discussions, conversations, stakeholder and leadership feedback and reviews. If not, what can we do now to remediate it?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 9, 2023

However, even if you’re sick of hearing about this already notorious artificial intelligence tool’s strange adventures, it’s likely here to stay, and we’re only scratching the surface of the impact of this cutting-edge technology. powered Bing search engine. And roadmapping is no different.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Challenges due to hypergrowth. Onboarding: A huge number of hirings, from C-Level to PMs and Tech lead Process-oriented, not mission, not goals Purpose lost: make new employees impact the team as soon as possible No feedback-loop with new employees. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Low transparency.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. Ensure that the Platform is User-Led, Not Technology-Driven. Treat the Platform as a Product. Start Small.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

Similar to tech debt, there will be undesired consequences later on. For existing employees, when conducting performance reviews, consider if they listen with patience and go into situations seeking to understand or is their style to belittle, intimidate or control. Identify opportunities (innovations, products, processes, etc.)

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. I will mention these patterns separately unders each dimensions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. These should be the basis of your product development technical practice.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. On one hand, this entails coming up with possible design concepts that capture the vision, mission, and goals of a given product.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Product leaders must influence and engage all stakeholders, from sales and technical support to client success, design, research, marketing, and engineering. Rule 2: Communicate Product Strategy and Roadmap Every organization and product leader handles the communication of product strategy and roadmap differently.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. People stuff!

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

A product manager’s responsibilities include evaluating ideas, setting product strategy, building and sharing product roadmaps, prioritizing features and documenting requirements, defining product releases, and analyzing and reporting on progress. Building and sharing strategic roadmaps. Sample product roadmap from roadmunk.com.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 11, 2024

The success of products that combine utility and delight is partly due to the innovative and fearless cross-functional team that developed it. Before engineering teams start work, product leaders and their partners conduct discovery and research, seeking customer feedback to inform their decisions.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. The plan, often depicted in a UX roadmap, outlines the work necessary to achieve the goals. Include the desired outcomes in the roadmap along with who will realize them and roughly when.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Internal Sales and Customer Success/Relationship Management Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Retrospective meetings with the engineering team. Daily Stand-up meetings with the engineering team. Engineering Demo Review Meetings.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to. Just as with a product, you should start with a vision. Once we’ve got our vision, we can begin to formulate a strategy that begins to bring this to life. The Roadmap.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Avoid vanity metrics.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2020

Your roadmaps aren’t for everyone. It’s essential to tailor your product roadmaps for your audience. Your Roadmaps Aren’t for Everyone. While you might think you want to share your roadmap with everyone possible (except your competitors), that’s not the best strategy. Everyone doesn’t need to see your roadmap.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. They enable PMs to apply their hard skills effectively.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering amongst other options. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software. What do you do everyday?

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

These professionals come from various backgrounds, such as communications, engineering, and marketing, to name a few. That said, this position demands proficiency in both technical and social areas within the role. By enrolling in a product manager course, you have the opportunity to learn fundamental technical skills.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Having said that, I always find it useful to review the points below when I am in an objective state of mind in order to ensure the team is on the right track. Be concise about what the squad objectives are and how they align with the company vision. It’s your job to communicate this regularly and to tailor the roadmap accordingly.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software. The day-to-day for a PM and engineer are drastically different.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 23, 2019

Each day, I’d plug a destination into Google Maps and it would give me the fastest route there, but as I drove, it would change that route due to traffic, weather, etc. Between short-term roadmapping and long-term expressions of product vision exists a gap in shared understanding. Sales, project management, support, etc.?

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

My hope is that this will provide you with moral support on your uncertain journey and serve as another data point to empower your vision. Without a unified design library, it was evident that there was no front-end kit or library capable of effectively supporting the engineers. Sound familiar?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. users hate a concept – or it's not technically feasible).

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Whether it’s in product management, product engineering, or any other relevant field matters little if you have a decent amount of experience backing you. At times, tech companies that require a master’s degree also accept people who are in the process of completing their master’s program. If you don’t, you need to start with one.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 17, 2020

Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap , which challenges product teams to present their plans grounded more in strategic vision – or by themes – rather than a laundry list of specific features. How to Decide on Roadmap Themes that Produce Meaningful Outcomes.

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