The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues. Similarly, the design of accessible technology, such as screen readers for visually impaired users, emerged from asking, What barriers prevent equal access to information?

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This guide breaks down the essentials: Customer Insight, Market Analysis, Organizational Impact, and Technical Mastery. You can develop your product instincts through hands-on experience and practice: Always learning: Stay updated on industry trends, user behavior patterns, and emerging technologies. Share People-First Leadership 2.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Satisfaction leads to positive reviews, recommendations, and increased user retention. Develop theapp Build the educational app using the latest technologies and frameworks. Online Education Web Platform by Conceptzilla Design for educators Not every teacher is experienced with smart algorithms or other cutting-edge technologies.

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UX Planet

JULY 2, 2025

It sparked itself due to repeated occurrences of utilizing some applications that produced substantial frustration on my part, and that propelled this reflection on what it means to respect your users, cultivate a positive customer experience, and why some brands don’t care in the least about digital commitment levels with their users.

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Modus Create

MAY 20, 2025

It involves manually reading many posts or reviewing searches tied to multiple keywords, sifting through numerous irrelevant posts, creating Jira tickets for relevant issues, and ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. I decided to face it head-on by putting myself, the least capable technical talent, on the job.

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Arkenea

JUNE 28, 2025

The space available above the fold is limited due to the screen dimensions; the question that most frequently arises is what elements should be included above the fold? It should be accessible to the customers as soon as they land on your website. No scrolling should be necessary to reach this info.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 1, 2025

My advice is to approach the interview as a game with clear rules rather than a casual conversation, and spend the first minute making a handful of assumptions at the start of the interview that narrow the scope to a manageable exercise without prematurely limiting the solution space. Focusing on the U.S.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 17, 2025

IBM is a deep-rooted global company in the tech industry, having been around for over a century. IBM also hosts a range of entry-level opportunities, so it can be a great option for starting your career in tech.  Technical roles get a short coding challenge—typically a two-question, 30-minute assessment on HackerRank. 

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Reviewed by Deeptaanshu Kumar, a VP of data engineering (ex-Capital One, Freddie Mac). This guide breaks down the data engineering interview process into digestible sections—from recruiter screens to technical assessments. Mock interviews, technical deep-dives, and practice questions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2025

Data Analyst Interview Loop Most Tier 1 tech companies follow a structured loop when hiring data analysts. Technical Round: Can include asynchronous SQL tests or live coding challenges. ” Excel & Google Sheets Even at big tech companies, spreadsheet tools matter. Layer your practice.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But synthesising information into insight is an art form and an exercise in restraint. For product managers standing at the intersection of business, technology, and user experience, it’s a screaming match from functional teams fighting to be heard. When knowledge is power, information retrieval is the road to a coronation.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. Ex: Backlog grooming/refinement, Requirements review etc.

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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). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Like many aspects of continuous discovery, there’s no single right way to build your tech stack. The benefit of using tools like Pendo and Intercom is that they make it quick and easy to set up intercepts without any technical involvement. But they can help make your life easier as you adopt these continuous discovery habits.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

Sample goals include acquiring new users, increasing conversion, reducing cost, and removing technical debt to future proof the product. But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. Carry out this exercise together with the development team.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Paradox: Technological Progress vs. Social Development Before considering solutions, it’s worth examining a paradox: Why have we made such remarkable progress in technology while seemingly stagnating in our ability to work together effectively? Consider the rapid advancement of technology in recent decades.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

These exercises with your report on handling situations and identifying phrasing that will be well-received will pay large dividends in the development of your report and save you time in the long run. I am working on a fairly large scale project with my manager that touches multiple tech teams. We’ve all been there.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2019

We had many experienced engineers who had been part of on call rotations at other companies, we ran basic postmortem exercises and overall our frequency and duration of outages was pretty good for a company of our size. For example, a relatively common type of incident might be a brief outage of Intercom due to a database failover.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely. Remember that we are still in the nascent stages of generative AI technology. The risk of falling behind is real.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

On the other hand, there are all kinds of new technologies like AI, biosciences, and new opportunities in the medical field. These technological possibilities should generate all kinds of new product opportunities. [7:38] Often, when projects go through gates or portfolio review, the only criteria for go are “Is it on schedule?”

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

What problems are you trying to solve by doing this product envisioning exercise? I stuttered – currently our company goal is to increase marketplace liquidity, but this exercise is not directly tied to the goal. I think technically, defining success measurements is not the most difficult task.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. The influence you exercise should therefore be a positive one, see my article Should Product People be Servant-Leaders?

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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.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These visual exercises facilitate the work of discovery. These exercises result in visual artifacts that are easy for other people on your team to understand. These exercises result in visual artifacts that are easy for other people on your team to understand. And use assumption maps to get clarity on their priorities.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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? However, if the competition is fierce, technology is advancing rapidly, and big players are investing large amounts, there is no way to avoid becoming a learning organization.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership. This is a relative quick exercise and the matrix can be adjusted over time. Draft procedures to get commitment. Educate stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. it is the same as a car manufacture ally with software startup working on AI tech to develop autonomous eclectic car AI-based apps. Hence, it is good to opt for “ally” or “make”.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Warm-up exercise (3-5 min).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Without going into actual project-related detail, any sync I have in the AM would fall in the “catch-up,” “quick sync” or “review bad livesites” category. I’ll make my last cup of joe, visit coworkers in their offices, or review personal items like emails or messages from friends. If I went into the office: 8:30 AM is when I wake up.

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Roy Madden

JUNE 15, 2021

Steve, a long-time tech executive (Disney, Nike), is an engineer with a passion for streamlining his workflow and feeding his mind. Back in the day Steve, a tech old-timer, stayed up to date via blogs. “The process has kept me in tune with what’s going on around me with technology. It’s good mental exercise. ”.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. That’s the job of the development team.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 7, 2024

DESIGN WORKBOOKS How to put design theory into practice in an efficient way My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice.

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