Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

Similarly, the opportunity solution tree can be an incredibly powerful tool for keeping track of your desired outcome , the opportunities you learn about during discovery, the solutions you’re considering for each opportunity, and the experiments you’ll run to assess your ideas. Tweet This.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. Roger : Absolutely.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Pillars to a Proto-Strategy. Lessons Learned.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. Why Storyboarding Works A storyboard is just a sequence of visuals that shows how a user moves from a problem to a solution. Example: Why: Remote teams waste time switching between disconnected tools.

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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. Yury shares a few of the tactics his team tried to automate recruiting before they came across the tool they’re currently using, Orbital.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

quickly adopted curbside services during the coronavirus pandemic and launched in-app surveys to better understand the customer experience. leading the company’s customer experience platform by gathering feedback from customers in-store and online for the portfolio of brands. In 2020, Gap Inc.’s For example, Gap Inc.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

A successful outcome for a negotiation is finding a solution that is mutually agreeable and sustainable and addresses the needs of the two parties. Roman’s site also has a ton of incredibly useful tools – Randy’s favourite is the Decision-Making chart. Quote of the Episode. Being empathetic. Quote of the Episode.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Every great solution starts with finding the real problemand often, its not what it first seems. A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

What’s the smallest thing we can deliver to test this idea? Collaborate transparently —show your reasoning and invite feedback, but be firm when needed. Invest in the Right Tools and Resources No one succeeds in product management alone. The tools and resources you use can make or break your ability to deliver.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Clear feedback loops. The PM Role: Strategic, Not Administrative In one of the most eye-opening moments of the episode, Guy shares how an internal platform team once assumed they didnt need product management. Thats why we test. But thats not true. Engineers are more excited when they know what theyre building matters.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

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.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Two Ways to Define Innovation Jerry and Terry shared how they think about innovation: Terry: Creating a better mousetrap: This means making meaningful improvements to existing products or creating new, viable solutions that add real value for customers. Generating ideas Using various techniques to produce potential solutions 5.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints. The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. As we neared our deadline we failed to come up with a better solution.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 18, 2023

And using tools like the opportunity solution tree can help you visualize your thinking so stakeholders better understand what you’re focusing on and why. Helena is a product and project manager at Singularity Creations , where she wrangles a few different apps while wearing different hats. Continuous discovery can help.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. So If you’ve ever asked yourself – how does my feedback add up to the features and updates that we build? Customer feedback is a big deal here at Intercom.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. A product leader with 7+ years of experience in product management or a related field who has successfully built and scaled complex systems at a global level. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

How do managers monitor and provide feedback without dictating and controlling? When we ask our teams to build an Android app or to develop a subscription offering, we are also being output-oriented. Or they prefer a mobile web experience to an app experience? So I started to wonder: How do we empower product teams?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Quality assurance supports software companies to meet their client demands and expectations. And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. It involves testing requirements during the development process until the project is completed. Extensibility?—?the

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

. – Tweet This And while you technically don’t need permission to get started, at some point, you will need buy-in and support from your leadership. They’ll place more trust in you to pursue the opportunities and solutions you believe will have the most impact on your desired outcome.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Established organizations are seeing a lot of external change—new technologies, new behaviors among customers and employees, and digital change. Digital transformation is not, at its heart, about technology. Lack of change in capabilities: Your technology stack may not have been brought up to the present era.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

I mean obviously no… But it turns out that when you start looking into it, that this one freaking little icon that looked so “Oh it’s 5 seconds, we’ll just draw it in there”… it turns into you’re going to have to hire more people, write a policy guide, and create an entire admin system for [it].

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Then we think about potential solutions or features. Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. If the wider strategy is unclear, high-level outcomes should be discussed with leadership first. What may help is to think about how we can test our assumptions.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

Product leadership. 13:52] Customer feedback: We surveyed attendees, including All-Access Pass customers, after the Summit. 14:24] Other decisions we were happy with: Pre-recorded sessions—technology worked. We need to test it better across many platforms. [22:27] Customer research. Communication. And more. [9:30]

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ You also have a mobile app that sends similar messages via push notifications.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

This includes establishing psychological safety, fostering collaboration and trust amongst the product people, establishing clear roles and expectations, which I’ll discuss below, and ensuring that everyone has the right infrastructure and tools available. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t. These metrics focus on software delivery capabilities (deployment frequency, lead time to change, change failure rate, and time to recover from a failed deployment), but they can often be misapplied.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The automotive industry’s entrenched methods focused on optimizing these ICE systems, often at the expense of innovation in alternative energy sources. Under Musk’s leadership, Tesla adopted a first-principles approach to rethinking fundamental aspects of the electric car. So imagine what first principles can do for your roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like? There are essentially two different types.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2017

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests. Prioritise your A/B tests.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

And sure enough, the feedback was that things were starting to slow down. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. So, naturally, we hatched a plan to hit the gas. We learned a lot.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2019

This is a story of climbing uphill for Product Tours , our recently launched onboarding tool. It is a story of how we went from a broad problem to a validated concept through various twists and turns, and how we used feedback loops along the way to course correct our approach. Starting in broad strokes.

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