The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

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 Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research. These tiers correspond closely to an organizations research maturity.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build. Teams working on products for consumers can recruit survey participants or interviewees online by running ads on their social media channels or ordering results from a survey panel. Three tactics help your team navigate these situations.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. A startup, finding its feet and learning how to stand, should by certain logic be less wise, less capable and less developed than its older, wiser counterparts. I once heard an anecdote about a very young child being told a story about a very old man.

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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. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2018

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? In both cases your software product is used by humans, but an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Product management intuition is still a great thing to develop, but statistics and analytics will help you hone your product sense and justify your decisions to stakeholders. The right product metrics give us a read on the health of our product, help us identify strengths and weaknesses, track improvement over time, diagnose problems, etc.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

That happens because they are not include on the day-to-day routines of each squad that manages that product (obviously), so in many cases the most important channel they have to access that kind of information is through direct or indirect communication with the team, usually docs and presentations written by the PM. The Problem.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges. It thus becomes less a matter of “Can we do it?”

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges. It thus becomes less a matter of “Can we do it?” Time to market.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to our recent State of UX in the Enterprise survey , ‘including research within the product development process’ is now the #1 challenge faced by UX teams in 2019. For me it is crucial to be part of the roadmap creation when developing the UX strategy. Lucía Martin Garcia , Sr. Much of it goes hand-in-hand.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? In this role, you will define and execute the mobile product strategy, enhancing the user experience for field service professionals while driving seamless integrations with enterprise systems. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? Its features include funnel analysis , session recordings, AI-powered predictive analytics , and custom reports. WalkMe’s pricing is available upon request, with reports suggesting it starts from $9,000 per year. Or bad, because it adds unnecessary complexity?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. It’s the stuff that your engineering team has since learned could have been done a lot better. Nobody’s ever received a call from a big enterprise customer asking if your team is planning on moving towards more of a microservices architecture anytime soon.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Im looking at you, in-house enterprise solutions. Last but not least, in customer-oriented and agile teams, decision-making criteria are often narrowed down for efficiency to a single question: What business value does this bring to the customer? Which, for some products, can be an extremely costlyif not impossibleendeavour.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Competitor analysis reports often include data on audience, pricing , features, marketing strategies , and SWOT. Conduct a SWOT analysis Perform a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis for each competitor. Create a competitive analysis report template. Competitor analysis for Slack.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. FullStory is used by enterprises and large organizations but the platform has a few shortcomings: Mobile integrations. What is FullStory used for?

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Reveal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So, instead of building a custom dashboard from scratch, your developers can use these libraries and integrate dashboarding capabilities into their applications quickly and efficiently. To do this, your developers and product teams will have to consider several factors when evaluating potential libraries.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Feedback management tools : Apps for organizing, categorizing, and analyzing feedback from multiple sources to guide decision-making and product development. Sentiment analysis tools : Software that analyzes customer feedback, reviews, and social media mentions to determine public sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral).

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? It provides features such as (custom) event tracking , customer segmentation, and multiple analytical reports, for example, funnel and cart analysis. There’s a free Starter plan, a Plus plan (from $49 a month), and custom-priced Growth and Enterprise plans. What’s Amplitude tracking?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

For more from Jacob, check out his free LinkedIn profile analysis tool , which just went live on Product Hunt today, his interview preparation report service, and his individual consulting services at ThinkWarwick Global. Start demonstrating how you’ll solve their specific problems for the company/team. G: Gather intelligence.

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Userpilot

APRIL 2, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. You may not understand someone else’s definition or report. We can create empathetic, intuitive systems When everyone on the team is empowered to understand data, they can make more informed decisions and measure their own success.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2019

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. If you had bad data or too much data in the source application, you’ll now have bad data in the target application. Integration Practices. But simply put, your API is not enough.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. Best for: SaaS product teams who want a powerful but easy-to-use platform to improve onboarding, increase product adoption, and drive user engagement.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Mixpanel’s A/B testing features are only available on the Enterprise plan, which starts at $1,667/month. The platform also has a heavy dependence on code, which can prove challenging for non-technical team members. You might need a Mixpanel alternative due to how expensive the product is and the lackluster support experience.

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