The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To And what can I do about it?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. To learn more via video, watch below. Develop the Right Skills Certification in data PM develops the right skills. Otherwise, skip ahead. The more you study, the better.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

Product Management vs Product Design To those outside of tech, and even to some within, the meaning of different job roles can be confusing. That’s the magic of product development! Designers typically tend to care less about numbers and data compared to engineers. it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a bad designer.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Little would my professor know that three years later I’d build and publish an iOS application on the App Store and would be interning as a Front End Engineer at Modus Create. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business.

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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. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2020

What then are the implications of ML products for team structure, focus, and hiring? Or maybe your core product is the machine learning, making recommendations and predictions for healthcare, security, ad tech or other applications. Whether the data is good or bad, once interventions are made a counterfactual problem arises.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Expect account-level distrust, bad blood, and a search for who’s to blame.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 18, 2018

One of the larger themes that you’ll hear in ad tech circles today focuses around transparency. With the abundance of ad tech players regularly added to a brands’ media plan, understanding exactly where your ad budget is going is nearly impossible. One of the biggest challenges we had to overcome was from our internal teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this episode, we sat down with Rebecca to talk about her mission to make mental health care scalable and accessible for all, and how the pandemic and technology are radically changing the way we think about mental health care. We’ve gathered a list of articles, videos, and podcasts you can check out: Back to school mental health toolkit.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. Find a Mentor.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you. Days where we’re B or C players.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. Cyber security and compliance, it turns out, is in demand. Less than a year later, Drata was launched.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. What does good, actionable feedback look like?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. Leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 12, 2022

We sat down with designers from some of the top tech companies including Meta, Google, and more to understand what you actually need to prepare for UX and product design interviews. Be prepared to answer basic questions like: “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” " “What are your salary expectations?”

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad. Problems with Customer Development. Early numbers indicated that our growth predictions were very wrong.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2020

Instinctively, we all know what bad design looks like. Which mean your customers know what bad design looks like. Here we’ll go over the history of Product Design, the fundamental elements of good UX, and a who’s who of the design team. Whoever created your favorite video streaming app? A product designer.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Working at Google is one of the hardest-to-get positions in the tech sector. Google engineers and product managers practice a combination of product sense, analytics, and cross-functional communication to ship products that impact millions of users at scale. So, how do you actually get to interview with Google's roles?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

Due to this increased communication overhead, we needed to re-think how we could improve communication, product workflows and handover documentation across our ever expanding teams. Taking onboard our product principles, I created a template that would work for our Product Managers and our remote development teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. We’ve gathered a list of articles, videos, and podcasts you can check out: Planning for hypergrowth in EMEA with Mark Rudden of Browserstack.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

Working at Amazon is an extremely coveted role in tech. Amazon employees work on some of the largest scale problems in the entire technical sector, and have an opportunity to change millions of people's lives. Team : If applying to a specific team it helps to have someone from the team refer you.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his 2010 talk, Smart Bear and WP Engine founder Jason Cohen talks about the proverbial ‘rules of business’ and many varying pieces of advice founders get – often from well-meaning mentors and experts. For a full version of this talk, including a video recording and transcript, click here.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth. But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. If you’re a mid market company with a product team you’d probably go for ‘the Product Growth Tool for Product Teams’.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

He also encourages us to let go of the need to be right (difficult for many product managers) and enlist our teams to help us answer: What problem are we solving? We always talk about the “Build – Measure – Learn” loop of lean product development. Review your progress before it is ready. Who are we solving it for?

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world. But first, let’s review what tailoring your resume implies. Mistake #2: Inappropriate language: Everybody knows that tech is different. This is exactly what you do to avoid the following mistake.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. As a successful product manager reading is a must.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Jeremy Toeman is VP of Product at CNET, the world’s largest and most trusted online source of consumer technology news and reviews. Toeman also runs CNET’s audience development, engagement and social media teams. Toeman is responsible for building CNET’s multi-channel products, including web, mobile, OTT and apps.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Let me set it up in a few bullets: Many of tech industry’s most valuable products — Slack, Zoom, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, and others — are at their core products that connect people to each other. These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. I hope that’s a good teaser :).

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