The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A Product manager tasked to lead and manage her team while still providing product management capabilities; that was my position when I was selected to be part of the product mentorship program and paired with Amanda Ralph, my new mentor. This is a relative quick exercise and the matrix can be adjusted over time. Resource management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life. You can read more reviews and even buy the book with my affiliate link: [link] 1. I hardly imagine Product Managers with autocratic leadership thriving in this environment.

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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. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2024

Then more tech layoffs were announced and performance reviews kicked in, all leading to stress levels creeping back up. I also try for focus time at the end of each work day to review documents and prepare for meetings instead of working late. Here are two exercises to help identify commitment to change.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

Or at your performance review, you might wonder what you should start doing to get a promotion, what is blocking you and what you are currently doing that works well. I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. These two leadership approaches couldn't be more different from each other.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

Or at your performance review, you might wonder what you should start doing to get a promotion, what is blocking you and what you are currently doing that works well. I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. You should customize the content of your resume to match the requirements of each position you apply for. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills.

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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. The number and style of behavioral inquiries will differ per position, but expect a lot of them!

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a tech journalist, Kevin has been witnessing the evolution of the tech industry for more than 20 years. Once you know that, you can easily align around that and position yourself as the solution to that problem. And one of the biggest advocates behind the movement is author, columnist, and advisor Kevin Maney.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

This internal meeting encourages host company attendees to arrive on time and is the final opportunity to review session content, facilitation plans and any other meeting notes before presenting to the members. Finally, the meeting facilitator should review of the participation guidelines and ground rules to encourage member participation.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . The Agile Leadership Team. HBR article setup. Balance from the Top.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. Create the User Interface Design (UI) on top of reviewed and green-lit wireframes.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

You must elevate these business-critical strategic components of your product leadership role into your schedule on a regular–even daily–basis. Before we go any further discussing the activities of a strategic product manager, let’s review the key parts of developing and implementing a product strategy. Positioning.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2018

They all have their own agenda’s and pet peeves e.g. engineers want to build things the right way without tech debt even if that takes longer, some designers are hesitant to put a stake in the ground without a bunch of research and testing, data scientists don’t like agile etc etc. There is a long game and short game here. For me at least?—?this

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

Recently I worked with a product manager who was in a very dry, technical position in an aggressive organisational culture that he was very unhappy in. In one session we did a values exercise to better identify his key values (five or six values that resonate with fundamental, core beliefs). Have Regular Check-ins With Yourself.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. That team, to me, has gotten a lot more interesting over the last three or four years because of that explosion of automation technology. You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

Leadership books for PMs, installment 1 When I first became a manager, I was exposed to leadership training for the first time. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. I just said that leadership applies to PMs. I have yet to see a company figure this out.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. Let’s take a look at them.

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StubHub

MAY 30, 2019

While the planning can be a daunting and arduous exercise, it doesn’t have to be if you break it down to these five questions every professional should ask themselves to take charge of their careers. Those in senior positions have had these same conversations with managers and mentors throughout their careers. What Is My Real POV?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And just relabeling the positions of the old middle management rarely works. Therefore, the first question any aspiring agile startup should answer for itself is simple: is it a sales-driven, product-driven, or tech-driven enterprise? The exercise works for everyone?—?sales, Start with customer care, and steal from Zappos.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. So, when people are asked, especially from a leadership team or an exec team, “Hey, we need to accelerate,” I think what they mean is accelerate business growth, which usually comes down to revenue. Hello Paul. Paul Adams: Hi, Des.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

Patrick: So it’s like exercise and dieting: everyone agrees it’s a great idea, and we all want to be healthier, but it’s really difficult to actually do it. Our starting position was actually very big and ambitious. But then when we reviewed the proposal with leadership, we actually got pushback.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  At almost all of my clients, I see major product waste: products released on time/on budget that don't deliver positive business outcomes.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

They could be inspired by new technology, a new business model gaining traction, or a competitor’s differentiating capabilities. They bypass ROI calculations, due diligence, prioritization exercises, and customer validation. They bypass ROI calculations, due diligence, prioritization exercises, and customer validation.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Or is it like, “Hey, if this is a consistent pattern then we need to make sure no one ever repeats, we’ll have a principle about the positive behavior that we want.” It’s the predictability of the leadership team, it’s the predictability of you, of me. .” Is there a principle to be found in that? Paul: Basically, yeah.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Open 24 hours a day, the site was user-friendly, encouraging browsers to post their own reviews of books and offering discounts, personalized recommendations, and searches for out-of-print books.”. Amazon is a multinational technology company known worldwide as a mega e-commerce marketplace. Britannica.com ). to get a feature done.”.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The value of this approach is that rather than having all of the decision-making power come from the leadership team, it gets diffused to the teams closest to your customers. It’s important that outcomes be set by a two-way negotiation between leadership and the product team. This leads to better decisions. – Tweet This.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As you can imagine, being one of the biggest tech companies, this engineering internship program is a favorite for many students. BOLD stands for Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development. There they can contribute to solving the business challenges facing the tech giant with real Googlers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time.

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