Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2019

We have to take care of our product, our team, perhaps our finances. And these things invariably drive emotions; we care passionately about our products, we can love and loathe our stakeholders, and we feel an almost parental-like responsibility for our teams. Our days are filled with these emotions, good or bad.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Your new book, Conversational Design , is out on abookapart.com on March 6. Erika: Absolutely.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. If my product needed a better value proposition, I worked with customers to invent it and finance to determine how much new value we could capture. When I was at HERE Maps, working with various teams to implement things, they didn’t just “do it.” My teams move markets.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. There seems to be a belief?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2023

Opening the Blockchain Pandora’s Box: From Miners’ Reward to Global Revolution It all began with a mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto. Beyond Bitcoin, it’s becoming evident that blockchain development applications are as diverse as the stars in the sky. This tag team ensures that data breaches become a thing of the past.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? While Dual-Track Agile is my recommended way to develop products, it’s not very clean. Now Things get Messy. Can users use it? Usability).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This is simply bad return on effort. If it sounds too good to be true, there is often a catch (or two).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

But in the consumer finance space, sensitivity towards personal financial data makes considerations around product experimentation all the more delicate. On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. 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. Paul: Yeah.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way. What is a product owner?

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I see much broader wins: Our technical teams often make the “I am the user” mistake: we unconsciously assume that the people at the other end of our software are just like us. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. Bonus points for clarity. Sound Byte. Clarity is free.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

When working on mass consumer products (think FitBit or Facebook or teach-your-kid-to-code toys ), we will have large numbers of small purchases — too many customers to know each by name. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In this Professional Spotlight interview, Zoe discusses her journey at Splitwise, the future of the finance app category , and the current growth challenges that mobile apps face. What are some key features that differentiate Splitwise from other finance/billing apps? What do you use to help yourself and your team stay on track?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

Ideally, with a great onboarding flow, when someone asks one of your customers what their favorite part of managing their finances is, they hold up their phone and say “the app I use.” Some ways to do that include: Using validations to prevent users from entering bad data. Don’t let your users make a mistake if you can help it.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. But metrics aren’t generic.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. The company has 14 partners, and at any point in time, each one curates a separate project with its separate team. and Facebook.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. Because I think it’s an area that’s lacking in literature.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

However, if we run out of time, please be sure to leave your name with your question, and we will follow up with you directly with any answers that we have to your questions. During the webinar, you can engage with Team Apptentive by chatting along, I hope you do that. So make sure you do that. I just heard Lola make noise.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. Companies like Canva, Grammarly, Figma, Notion, and Dropbox are excluded because they are considered B2B SaaS businesses since they have sales teams and sell to both prosumers and enterprises.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Wade Foster (CEO/Founder, Zapier) – Building Operating Cadence with Remote Teams from Business of Software Conference. A little bit about how to build an operating cadence and a remote team. The good news is this talk is not just for remote teams. Make sure you stay for the whole video. Video, Slides, and Transcript Below.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

After thousands of conversations with product teams evaluating Mixpanel, we sifted through the data to identify the questions that we see come up again and again. Here’s a summary of exactly what teams and objectives are best served by each: Marketing analytics (e.g. Product analytics (e.g. Source: Semetis.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. As a design agency that works with NYC companies , we have developed an effective remote collaboration process that helps us stay in touch with our partners despite time zone differences. Is there anything we can help you with?

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So  CRMs need to manage identically named people and handle multi-tiered organizations owned by other multi-tiered organizations.  The " issues.  CRMs

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. Instead of saying “name” with an input field, the bot would ask, “What’s your name?” We’re going to invest and invest and invest in the developer side of it and help external developers get value from building an app in the Intercom ecosystem.

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Amplitude

MAY 30, 2018

A career in finance, another in consulting and a stint in freelance laid the stepping stones for David to find product. Name: David Packles Current role: Senior PM, Peloton Location: New York City. “As I heard of Peloton through a friend, and at the time they were just building out their PM team.

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