Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Talk to us.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Freelance or Contractor Finally, software engineers can also choose to go the way of freelancers or contract workers. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? We've got your covered.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! They were awarded a province-wide contract consisting of 23 cities, which is the largest project of its size awarded to a single vendor in Canada.

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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. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Management to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required Who is Lenny Rachitsky?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! A number of our customers love this feature and have had great success with it so far: “Intercom’s new Expand feature is a game changer for me and my team at Kala Burdo Consulting. Great stuff!”

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Feature flags provide so much for software organizations: they allow teams to separate code deployment from feature release, test in production, run experiments, and more. If you’re using the flag to run an A/B test, your product manager should manage it. This idea is called the expand-contract pattern.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. In other cases, we made our best guess based on the product area.

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eG Innovations

APRIL 22, 2021

In a recent survey of 1,050 digital workspace professionals, eG Innovations and xenappblog reported that 34% of respondents were already using Microsoft WVD. Click here to see the results of this survey. At the same time, Microsoft WVD is a relatively new product. Ryan Mangan, CTO at Systech IT Solutions. Article / Blog.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

The other group (product, engineering, design, long-term support, product marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on overall impact for the whole installed base, long-term investments, and the need to support every line of code that any user has in production.  In Get it done, and move on.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology. We then review the answers with the technical and product teams.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

Additionally, there were several consulting and agency teams supporting all sorts of applications and building proof-of-concepts. Each team had its own interpretation of the brand’s digital guidelines to support their business, product, and user needs. “In This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

As a product manager you’re the monkey in the middle. A successful product manager will remove themselves as a barrier, and bring people to a shared understanding through a customer mindset. With so many directions and demands, a product manager can feel stuck in the middle. Start With a Customer-first Approach.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If running the cargo cult agile survey is the ‘inspection,’ then consider adapting your approach to being agile by kicking-off a discussion among the stakeholders of your organization’s endeavor. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.)

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This article summarizes companies that offer product design services and the most frequent questions to help you pick the best web design company in Sacramento, California. Our independent research ranks design companies based on their portfolio, skills, capabilities, and pricing. How to choose the best Sacramento web design company?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Companies share they are only “marginally effective” at converting R&D spending into product advancements. Customer feedback is an important source of ideas for product managers.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Responsibilities of Product Management.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. No market need for the product or service. During the initial ideation of the startup life cycle, it is imperative to spend whatever little funding you have to validate your idea and test the market to see if customers will actually pay for your product (and how much!). But not only that.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Userzoom

MAY 10, 2017

This includes technology and operations executives at our clients who purchase UX consulting services, but also people like the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer at ZS. Fixing the appearance of a solution doesn’t do that! Only then can we truly deliver on the value of UX.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

How product managers can challenge ideas to achieve long-term success. We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople. Ways to form the vision for a product. 1:48] What is Badger Maps?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams. I suggested that as someone in a position of leading a digital product team, you should always strive to make your team feel like they are in a band and not an orchestra. I’m now Chief Product Officer for FutureLearn.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

From major players in the field such as Delphix and ADP to Okta, Lumen, and Glint, get ready to hear about Customer Success Operations, CS at Scale, CS Strategy, Human First Customer Success, and Product Experience. Focus on the people behind your product. Product Adoption and Experience. How clean is your data?

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Innovatemap

JUNE 9, 2020

The last thing we wanted was for patients to go to an urgent care facility, where they might contract COVID-19, only because they couldn’t reach their primary care physician virtually,” said Sherry Slick, CTO and COO of OurHealth. They had to juggle going as fast as possible while also providing a solution that was right for them.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Customers look to Atlassian for innovative products that take the “work” out of teamwork, and we’re committed to coming through for them. We’re building a cloud platform that lets us ship new capabilities and products quickly, as we’re beginning to see with Point A. Solving them takes cross-functional collaboration.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. And at their essence, they have a collaborative product, which makes things much easier.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 2, 2019

Customers want guarantees regarding the quality, scope, schedule, and contract. Among those can be tools for unit tests, continuous integration, and regression automation, static code analysis, product metrics in mobile for released projects, crashlytics and firebase, amongst others. The tools help the product from the inside.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In Japan, the food tech and nutritionally balanced food product industries didn’t exist and consumers weren’t familiar with the concept of the industry. That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

We know that trying to take in over a dozen talks all at once isn’t easy, so we’ve broken them down into easy to digest groups: Product. 1 // Product. Watch What to do about your audience's Product Roadmap questions. Watch the Product Roadmapping Q&A. Culture & Teams. Leadership. Innovation.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. So the iPhone was a 2G product. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. So where have I been since school and dreams of being the Fresh Prince. Mainly in the Pharma game.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you have an internal development team, ask them to estimate how long it would take them (in hours) to build the product. We’ve rewritten a number of software products and internal tools over the years and learned that they are uniquely challenging. Build the Smallest Possible Product that Delivers Value.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 14, 2019

But as a software consultant, I need to be flexible, and I’ve done my fair share of Android development as well. The ViewModel doesn’t contain any UI framework classes, which makes it easy to instantiate it in tests. Over the past six years, I’ve done a lot of iOS development (and written a lot about iOS ).

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

In this talk, Peldi and Natalie discuss the aspects of remote worklife that are different now for working at home in result of Covid-19 including productivity, schedules, prioritisation, focus, and much more. So I think one of the biggest question that people keep asking a lot is around productivity, and like how do you stay productive?

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