Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Unfortunately, product leadership culture can get a little messy.

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. While FullStory works for mobile apps, the web/mobile hybrid platform doesn’t cover every framework, particularly with non-native tech stacks (e.g.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Partnering up with adjacent teams to improve continuous discovery.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s one of those facts of startup life that is easy to overlook, but the success and growth of companies can be deeply intertwined with the technology they use in their stack, and I’d like to explain how that has been the case with Intercom and Ember. This is the “ship every day” for a framework.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful. Pain points 2.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

Due to this increased communication overhead, we needed to re-think how we could improve communication, product workflows and handover documentation across our ever expanding teams. Taking onboard our product principles, I created a template that would work for our Product Managers and our remote development teams. Side note: ??Drift

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. That’s because it wasn’t a normal meeting room.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

This is sometimes referred to as "GCA" by Google. If you're applying as a Google product manager , this means you'll need product management experience with leading user research, implementing features, and working with software teams to build deliverables. What are your strengths and weaknesses? Leadership.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. Let’s get to it.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

Liam: Was it challenging to get to this point with Mode in the startup journey? Every startup is going to be a challenge, and Mode is no different. However, we’ve had a great team. Liam: For startups out there, how can data be used to drive growth? Benn: For sure. Mode has had plenty of ups and downs.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The growth rate is an indicator of two things: How well (or poor) investors’ money is being spent. Such a trend gives SaaS providers a chance for sustainable development and fast growth. If you want to measure your SaaS growth, consider using Pirate Metrics , a framework invented by Dave McClure. billion in 2021 and $145.4

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2022

UX design was first developed by Don Norman , who was actually working at Apple at the time. He first referred to the discipline as "user-centric design," but the overall concept and goal was the same. You'll typically find a UX designer working with or acting as members of a larger product team at most companies.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

We’re going to go all inception on this and I’m going to present it in the way I often do when getting teams to do this for the first time?—?a Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels Step 2: Wargame it with a Pre-mortem Wargaming is something I learned in the army (not the computer game). a simple four step plan to planning?—?hurts

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly’s focused approach to experimentation and learning—what Holly refers to as “product science”—has gained a lot of popularity internally here at Amplitude. Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Feature Development: For B2C products, you’re likely to only develop those features that affect a majority of your customers. It can sometimes be a bit different in B2B where even if 20% of your customers strongly desire a feature, it is likely that you will consider developing this feature. Any frameworks I can leverage?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. A lean product discovery framework can help make it all of this so much easier. To help you see the benefits of having an infrastructure in place, this post is broken down into the three key pillars of the framework.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. We were faced with a lot (!) and trust me on this?—?it’s

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Feature Development: For B2C products, you’re likely to only develop those features that affect a majority of your customers. It can sometimes be a bit different in B2B where even if 20% of your customers strongly desire a feature, it is likely that you will consider developing this feature. Any frameworks I can leverage?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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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. What can be cut first?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over 90% of SaaS startups fail, only 35% get past the 10-year mark, and only 40% of these ever become profitable. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX. Use customer feedback and requests to inform product development but not before you validate them. What are the top challenges in launching a new SaaS startup?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our previous conversations with Bob have covered how to unpack customer motivations and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework (of which he was one of the principal architects). While at the same time, the fact this is that every startup and every, almost every company struggles with sales in one way or another?”

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

But when the first storm subsided, and the company stabilised, I looked around at our Growth team working with a large tech squad and wondered… “What the hell are we going to do for the next six months?” By this point, the team were getting on perfectly well without me. Each decision we made affected thousands. Life had other plans.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

That’s why we distilled the essence of all that we know and created the EMBED framework. What’s the EMBED framework? The EMBED framework is a distillation of all that we’ve learned. We’ll cover a light overview of the framework here, but if you want to dive deep, check out the Appcues User Onboarding Academy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Big companies have the resources to access the best minds, leading thinking and proprietary data in ways that a startup often can’t. Big companies will bring the latest in new venture frameworks research, they’ll have excellent trainers involved, and they’ll tap people that have done it before.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. Instead, it was an MMORPG called Glitch.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 5, 2021

The best product teams have strong cultures based on discovery and delivery. These teams value and practice experimentation, risk mitigation, compelling product vision/strategy, and collaboration. Many chapters of the book can serve as team-assessment checklists. Key concepts for modern product teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. In my experience, the former is often the case for high growth startups.

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