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. Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now. Sound familiar?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

From the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and in collaboration with Laura Tacho and the team at DX , I’m excited to introduce you to Core 4. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout).

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

It’s hard to imagine a more intense time to be working in technology, so Noam and I wanted to capture a rich picture of tech workers’ sentiment—at this moment, and going forward. A widespread gap in career clarity: Many tech workers don’t know what they should be doing to continue developing in their careers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management. But it’s not the job of the Scrum Master.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research. These tiers correspond closely to an organizations research maturity.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Most of us have become product managers and then moved on (or will move on) to product leadership based on our experiences and knowledge. We encounter tools along the way—some that are helpful and some that are not. Later I founded a startup and then worked in business development at Microsoft.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

As a product leader, what qualities do you need to cultivate to be able to ensure your team performs to the best of its abilities? Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about teams – what is a team, team formation and development, cross-functional teams , and leading teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 2, 2018

However, they can also pick up some bad habits along the way. Some bad habits may be from a lack of knowing better but others come from routine and a “this is how we do it”-sort of mentality that too often develops over time in many organizations. 11:03] How did you begin working with bad habits?

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So  Knowing that someone else will clean up our work can drive bad behaviors.  In

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? Salesforce Field Service is a market leader with customers including many Fortune 500 companies. Through millions of appointments on billions of pieces of equipment, Salesforce Field Service powers the worlds mobile workforce.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Im looking at you, in-house enterprise solutions. As a result, it often becomes easier to defend a solution whose benefits are visible in the short term but may prove less suitable in the longterm.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. You’ve generated interest in your software.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. There are also questions like, “How do you maintain or create diversity within your team?

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Centercode

JUNE 27, 2025

Platform Scalable, Automated, Real-World User Testing Centercode is the leading platform to manage impactful in-the-wild user tests. Platform Overview Managed Services Compare Plans What's New? AI-driven user testing, video insights, plus seamless app distribution and expert resources— discover Centercode 10x.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. It’s a two-level processing system: Do we know “Who” is giving us this feedback and why? A further step into this is to actually be part of those teams sometimes.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After more than two dozen conversations with product management VPs and SVPs, I’m happy to report the market-facing, customer-value-driven product management I’ve long known is alive and well. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! The Feel-Good Story That Sealed the Deal.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). The team won’t respect me if I’m not technical”. Leading Smart People. I’m an imposter here”.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here, replatforming is about replacing the computing platform on which a number of other products or systems are built. It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. This gives each platform a unique twist and makes each replatforming project unlike any other.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

After all, almost any product or service can be replicated by a competitor. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. When people detect a bottleneck in the system, the operational cadence of the company starts slowing down. Paul: Yeah.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Product management intuition is still a great thing to develop, but statistics and analytics will help you hone your product sense and justify your decisions to stakeholders. Plus, there’s no shortage of tools to help us quantify seemingly everything. You Are Not in Sales, So Stop Reporting Metrics Like You Are.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There’s an increasing number of research tools, analytics providers and general reading material available, all pointing to the need for more evidence-based decision making. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. Decision Making: Data vs Gut Feeling. CEO vs Product Management.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2021

John mentions the upcoming product release and says, “You really must add the enhanced reporting feature. You know, though, that it is impossible to add the feature to the development effort. The dev team is struggling with the current workload, and moving the date is not an option. Don’t Feel Bad about Saying No.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 28, 2022

It also shortchanges your team by denying them opportunities for professional growth. That means they’re missing out on the tremendous value and opportunities that delegating would provide to them and to their team members. When you fail to delegate, you’re not only cheating yourself, you’re cheating your team. 5-second summary.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 22, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want Vanta —Automate compliance. Tools like Statsig, Gemini summaries, and cohort dashboards make this possible at scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. we’ll be answering that by chatting with the people that make it happen: the R&D team members who take your feedback and turn it into the tools that you use.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety. Look for the people that are mentoring an intern, running a meeting, or organizing an initiative for the team.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In this #mtpcon London talk, Kate Leto examines the importance of emotional intelligence in individuals and teams and asks how it can be used to make better hiring decisions. If we want to build greater emotional intelligence into our product teams, then we need to design our hiring processes to look for it. Key Points. Hire people.

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