Productside

APRIL 9, 2025

In this post, were exploring the conversation we had in one of our Productside Stories episodes this season with Joeri Devisch , a veteran of product, technology, and transformation work at global companies. Strong product teams blend analytics, field insights, and deep user empathy to understand whats worth solving and why.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. These moments can be politically challenging, as they require balancing the immediate demands of stakeholders with long-term product goals.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Yury Oleynik , the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ , who has managed to make continuous interviewing a reality on his team. Like many of the stories we highlight here on Product Talk, Yury’s features a few false starts and frustrations.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Chief Product Officers (CPOs) have many responsibilities, such as mentoring product managers, defining product strategy, leveraging cross-functional resources, developing products to meet an expected schedule, and more. They use tools to help them with these responsibilities. What is the solution?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system’s constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. It pushes us to look beyond individual features or departments and focus on the larger systems that shape these elements.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

These are stronger indicators of interest that tell you they really want your product, versus general positive feedback. Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" Product Strategy = Company Strategy in this case.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product. Lead the Product.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

To achieve this, perform a stakeholder analysis using a tool like the Power-Interest Grid shown in Figure 1. [2] 2] Figure 1: The Power-Interest Grid The grid divides stakeholders into four groups: crowd, subjects, context setters, and players depending on how interested they are in your product and how much power they have.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Feedback: You are able to offer constructive feedback so that the other person can receive it and benefit from it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While it would have been easy to blame the product strategy, marketing, or any number of other potential targets, they weren’t at the heart of the problem. The product strategy was sound, but we hadn’t translated it well. For example, an outcome might be a faster login to an app for a specific feature.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies 1. Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

The solution requires companies to institute two parallel career growth paths — one that focuses on people management and another that focuses on leadership as an individual contributor , often titled as staff or principal designers. Senior designers create design solutions that drive customer satisfaction and strategic outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A key ingredient to build a better product is customer feedback. There are various ways to collect customer feedback that include customer surveys through sales executives, feedback forms, focused interviews, etc. The same approach with a few alterations can be replicated for B2C SaaS products as well.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2017

Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. The thinking is that you should integrate with products such as Salesforce and Slack, because you never would want to try to build those sorts of products by yourselves.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

The responsibilities I share below are based on my work with product leaders and product practitioners. To make the duties more accessible, I have grouped them into four sets: people management, processes and tools, business strategy and organisational development, and self-leadership. Processes and Tools.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Productive work environment : Help set up an environment that is conducive to creative teamwork and encourage people to practice sustainable pace —to do a great job without getting overworked, losing motivation, and falling ill. Ensure that people have the infrastructure and tools they need to do a good job.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Product management varies depending on your industry, company stage, company leadership, or teammates. But one thing is consistent across every product management role – a deep focus on the customer. . You always want to build for your desired future customer, whose characteristics align with your product strategy. .

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Their customers rely on their offline-first mobile app to guide them through complex fieldwork. They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

Product teams struggle to drive business outcomes because many companies haven’t taken the time to define their strategy. Marty Cagan highlighted this in his recent post “ Product Strategy – Focus.” But what about a product team with longer renewal cycles, perhaps a B2B SaaS product on annual or multiyear contracts?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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Business Acumen Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2023

According to research done by Business Acumen Institute , 62% of people who work within the information technology ecosystem are working on projects that don’t contribute to the business goals of the company. These issues appear when people acquire systems that don’t meet the needs of a supported operating department.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

This can be caused by an intense focus on execution and delivery—being so concerned with adding features and running sprints that tracking the product’s overall performance is neglected. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.”

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Third, the team observes sustainable pace. Thank you for that.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Use your background in developing digital products, encouraging collaboration on growth projects across departments, ensuring product quality, and demonstrating effective leadership to support Firefox’s growth. A product leader ready to take on a challenge to grow a long-standing underdog product.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. Argentine philosopher Mario Bunge holds that everything is either a system or a component of one. This is how we did it.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

But provide clear feedback and do not allow people to sidestep or ignore shared goals. Let the Team Own the Solution. I commonly find that product people believe that they must precisely describe the product functionality and spoon-feed their development teams with detailed user stories.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap. 4] Benefits and Challenges of Having Stakeholders on the Product Team Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, and that’s no different for extended product teams.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy. What is product management?

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