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The Strategy Stack: Connecting Business, Product, and Technology Strategy

Roman Pichler

Instead, they provide a product portfolio, think of Microsoft Office/365 as an example. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy. Let’s take Microsoft as an example again. Similarly, the technology strategy is directed by the business strategy.

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Tools of the Trade: Finding People to Interview Before You Have Customers

Product Talk

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. For this Tools of the Trade , I spoke with several members of the CDH community to learn how they have approached recruiting customers or users in the very early stages of a product or company.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. During the project, teams were organized by platform (web, iOS, Android, etc.), In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year

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Tools of the Trade: A Look at Pendo’s Discovery Tech Stack

Product Talk

For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. But again, there’s no rule that requires you to use the opportunity solution tree. Tweet This.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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How to Become a Platform Product Manager Without Experience

The Product HQ

People from several different backgrounds decide to become platform product managers and follow a rich and rewarding career that is varied, fulfilling, and well-paid. To thrive in the role, budding platform PMs need to learn technical and softer skill sets, such as effective customer research and road-mapping a product’s route to market.

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13 Product Mmanagement Tools the Best Product Managers Use

The Product Coalition

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.