The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Today we wrap up the three part series on creating your strategy stack. Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 2, we continued the organizational journey by defining the Strategy and Goals.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. We just execute differently, and sometimes we have a bad day or week.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. There are multiple dimensions to product strategy that need to be considered and validated.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. There are multiple dimensions to product strategy that need to be considered and validated.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

In a sustainable way, without falling into the ‘build trap’ – churning out new features based on feature requests, diluting the product vision, and wasting your company’s resources. This can make your product and team slower, make your UX more complicated, and overall – add little value for your customers.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. Context: the most important tool to empower your team. All without their manager.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. 1:37] Why should UX (user experience) be part of product strategy? There’s no better way to provide customer value than aligning your organization and product team with the voice of your customer. Take bite-sized pieces.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom. In today’s episode, we sat down with Sanj to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. After all, a platform exists to help teams build better products faster and cheaper. Assign a Platform Owner.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

The framework is a roadmap for creating a winning product marketing strategy that drives effective resource allocation and provides a flexible foundation for growth. A good product marketing framework has three main components: a go-to-market strategy , a product marketing strategy, and a growth strategy.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) Finance One of my favorite teams to partner up with is finance.

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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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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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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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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. This kind of serendipity is not a viable career strategy! It wouldn’t happen, because we all realise that serendipity is not a viable product strategy. Just as with a product, you should start with a vision. Find a Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Next, let’s talk development hours. If you’re a tech-savvy DIY enthusiast, you might spend less on development hours. However, if coding and blockchain sound like alien languages to you, hiring a professional developer is the way to go. Plus, if you’re tech-savvy, you can save on development costs.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. That’s why product teams must invest the time and energy to build trust with the rest of the organization.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. I realized we need to change how we build products.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity. What is the problem?

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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. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Average ships per person in the team. How to upskill as a product manager.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

maybe not such a bad thing in this case. In mature companies, roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty when you are early on in developing a product. To be clear, the slide isn’t useful for product teams or planning purposes. The value of the roadmap increases exponentially based on the number of engineers and executors (e.g.,

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

And every major business school now offers an innovation class that leverages the business model canvas and other lean principles for developing a new product idea. A bad plan is better than no plan." This contrarian question helps you identify the unique insight from which you can develop a compelling business.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. There has to be cross-departmental and cross-functional cooperation between product, sales & marketing, customer success, and customer support to implement a successful customer retention strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects. What it does well: With a slogan like “Teamwork without email,” Asana is just that, a good collaboration tool for your team that is intended to reduce the number of back and forth emails about what needs to be done and when.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. 1:37] Why should UX (user experience) be part of product strategy? There’s no better way to provide customer value than aligning your organization and product team with the voice of your customer. Take bite-sized pieces.

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