The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. 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. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

Feedback Software 148

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Learn how to go from “gear head” to “group head.” That is where I spend much of my time helping product managers and teams. It is this sphere that many people find more difficult to master, especially those of us from technical backgrounds. The idea is to transform gear heads into group heads.

Technical Advisors 65

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

Weak Development Team 52

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of? It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. Others will fail. It’s impossible for one person to do.

Technical Review 52

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

Research Software 52

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Finding this match is the ultimate challenge in innovative product development, and it’s nearly impossible to plan this entirely in advance. Technical Feasibility. Chaos Report 2015.

User Testing 99

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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.

Books 98

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs.

Technical Advisors 120

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. But they are good examples of what my team and I have developed together over the last four years at Zalora. Retrospectives. Release Notes.

Research Software 84

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

One of the rules, written by Lawley, advises to work on problems you are passionate about. Lawley notes that passion is infectious and spreads across the whole team. It’s critical for product managers to explicitly spell out their positioning and review it with the entire team.

Technical Advisors 48

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

Engineering 141

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them.

Analytic Tools 98

Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience Data Visualization 98

Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Software is incredibly competitive and developers cope with that by zeroing in on very tight niches. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up. Heap is also designed for teams. The best user retention tools…for you?

Analytic Tools 105

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

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 ). Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. obviously most people skipped that part! names look familiar, anyone?

Product Management 92

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Software is incredibly competitive and developers cope with that by zeroing in on very tight niches. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up. Heap is also designed for teams. The best user retention tools…for you?

Analytic Tools 65

Analytic Tools Feedback Software User Testing Data Visualization 65

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. I felt this incredible intense pressure from the team and also from within myself to launch what we had built. I did not believe that we had Product-Market Fit, but I couldn’t just say that to the team. Step 2: Segment.

User Testing 103

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