Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ????? Business Competence ? ??(business

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Market research techniques, like industry-specific surveys and customer segmentation analysis, can help you find underserved user groups in the market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. It’s a very positive shift, for feedback is essential for growth and development. Lead by example, and demonstrate the skills and behaviors that you want to see in your team members.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! My favorite feel-good story comes from a VP that recently inherited a new product/platform that was built with more of a generic cross-industry approach. Your development process is only as successful as your market-facing feeder systems.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. Other data sources include product analytics, asking customer-facing teams, competitor analysis, and industry events.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The digital revolution is no longer a distant wave on the horizon, but a powerful tide reshaping every industry. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. But where do you start? What is the importance of digital transformation?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses. Please put data in a tabular format.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

Personally, I think being open in realising when a feature has taken a toll is an art and unfortunately few teams depict the benefits behind it. Are you also one of the product teams where 80% of your roadmap or sprint is a stakeholder wishlist? Team member idea This one is a tricky one and I will explain why.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But I’ve been working with several clients who build long-lived industrial hardware — and whose core operating assumptions can make it difficult to add revenue software products to their portfolio. Serious industrial companies build serious long-lived industrial equipment.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. Too many responsibilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. I had previously worked in the television and film industry, where there was an entirely different metric – either I delivered high quality work on time or I didn’t, and I was out. What KPIs should you track?

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Indicative

JANUARY 14, 2021

That follows years-long trends toward healthy living, fitness, and overall wellness that yielded an explosion (upwards of 300% growth) in the sheer number of users and apps at play in the industry. . However, improving retention is an uphill task because retaining users in your app is rarely a singular team’s effort.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

No matter the industry, product experimentation should always be done with your customers top of mind. 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. , and make smart money moves (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. Teams may struggle to decide about the product’s features or design, potentially leading to waste.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. There’s no better way to provide customer value than aligning your organization and product team with the voice of your customer. Pull cross-functional teams into the research and synthesis of concepts. [10:15] user interviews.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I believe we have the same problem in the tech industry, but perhaps amplified to 90% or so. In the tech industry, we seem to believe that we are so smart that no complex idea should be hard to understand and implement for us. I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? These are generalities and we all know how bad generalities are at describing the skills of any one person. The more collaborative your team, the more everyone can gain both kinds of expertise.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. As an industry, we've tried tons of things. AI to take the place of humans in product development. And I don't want to return to the bad old days—I much prefer where we are now.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Case Study: How Pets.com Failed Product Development. Many of these are cases where products were developed with little or no understanding of the actual market demand for them. Many of these are cases where products were developed with little or no understanding of the actual market demand for them. By NICK COSTER.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. Artificial intelligence-based education apps are fulfilling an essential role in developing the process of education and preparation methods. We have previously explained how automating organizational businesses can lower down the activity of the office team.

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Centercode

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Why does AI that performs so well in a lab underperform when it’s out in the real world? Earlier this month, a team of 40 Google researchers published a study about just that — and their investigation returned some vital insights into the challenges of developing machine learning. So what can you do about this?

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BrainMates

JUNE 30, 2019

In this sense, they have developed a superpower, and extra sense – a ‘spidey sense’ Spiderman is known for his spidey sense. But how do Army, Navy and Airforce folks develop their spidey sense? Over time experience and learning from mistakes can slow help develop this intuition, experience alone is not enough.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

In the past five years, Sean’s team has grown Duolingo’s daily active users from 5 million to nearly 30 million today (over 6x!), Including development time, experiment rollout, and running the experiment for two weeks to get data, they ended up launching the port of Feature A 82 days later.

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