The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. Investment & Resources. The goal of a feedback loop is. Better Products.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

A company that practices aspirational product management is one that values experimentation and customer research, and continuously integrates those learnings into the product development process to create a valuable product. A company that does it right will have lots of experimentation built into the development process.

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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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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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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Given that we have finite engineering and product resources, what is the path forward?” Should they/you evolve the features of the core value prop for existing customers or invest in and develop new value props and features for new, adjacent customer segments? Perhaps the sales team isn’t trained adequately.

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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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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2020

These resources mentioned them. The Product Group helps young product people develop ways to maximize their learning; during a time when a young product person is way outside of their comfort zone. Thinking through problems for the users, while anticipating developer push back taught me to take a step back.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. But as it started selling more and more into the enterprise, it staffed up with a deep and strong one. The first stage is building an organic growth engine.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. I kept meeting with every team in the company to learn more about what my business was good at, even if it didn’t involve direct contact with the products that I was building. When I was at HERE Maps, working with various teams to implement things, they didn’t just “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?”

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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.

Analytic Tools 130

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Product operations (more commonly known as product ops ) is where product management becomes a scalable resource and function for companies instead of a made-to-order one-off. Forming the Team. What is Product Ops, Exactly?

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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. This should avoid any costly mistakes and ultimately save the company money, time and resources right from the discovery phase.

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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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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. It is an actual team effort involving all stakeholders to foster diverse expertise and unique perspectives.

Product Research 52

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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.

Data Visualization 252

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Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

Best interactive user guide tools at a glance Tool Standout features Best for G2 rating Trial/Demo Price plans Userpilot No-code WYSIWYG builder Multiple UI patterns Advanced segmentation Flow analytics and experimentation Mid-sized to enterprise SaaS 4.6 UserGuiding Ease of use Resource center Basic targeting Small to mid-sized SaaS 4.7

Analytic Tools 52

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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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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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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2017

Perry Timms shares powerful stories of innovating enterprises that will leave you enthusiastically letting go of what’s blocking your route to innovation. They were flawed ultimately, not because of a poor product, but by an inability to let go of that certainty. This helps to make the most of people as a dynamic resource.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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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.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way. And if you throw even a small amount of resources at retention – say, 5% – research from Bain & Company makes the case that the effort could increase profits as much as 95%.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

The WMS integrates with other systems (for example, enterprise resource planning software), runs in the cloud (software as a service) or on-premise (a logistics company maintains the platforms itself). The type of application is negotiated with a logistics software development company before the start of the project.

Analytic Tools 147

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. It also doesn’t offer a resource center.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. You started with a small team, and your way of being agile seems to start working. There seems to be a belief?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These are our improv techniques for conducting user interviews, consolidating user pain points to create solutions, humanizing your customers, and working with your team to bring it all home. We hope they come in handy for you and your team. Find ways to connect your team members to their end audience. Becca, back to you.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? While Dual-Track Agile is my recommended way to develop products, it’s not very clean. Can users use it? Usability). Can we build it?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. This means that product managers are thrust into developing a product or service concept they had no part in creating. A product manager is the leader and glue for the development team, from concept to launch.

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