The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

This can be done for example by involving the developers and product owners in the user research, the wireframes assessment and the usability testing sessions. A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team. Resource management.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. Leadership interviews: This is a critical input to the process and is often forgotten or skipped for various reasons.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Email sponsor@mindtheproduct.com for more information.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints. The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data. At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”. Strengthen Your Expertise.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2017

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests. Prioritise your A/B tests.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2018

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the past few years, we’ve seen the “ great flattening ” of tech: rising expectations of fewer ICs to own larger swaths of the product and manage multiple teams while staying hands-on. Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Under Musk’s leadership, Tesla adopted a first-principles approach to rethinking fundamental aspects of the electric car. Guided by fundamentals and first principles — Tesla transformed the trajectory of automotive technology. Building a plan to test for DMF as you go into your roadmap is critical. Does it make sense?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The most effective teams foster a culture of structured disagreement not consensus where ideas are tested through rigorous debate, but personal attacks and politicking are off-limits. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. OKRs should serve the strategy, not dictate it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2019

For example, a relatively common type of incident might be a brief outage of Intercom due to a database failover. Communication : When needed, communication with customers, support, sales and leadership can occur. Resolution : The incident is resolved, and follow-up actions like an incident review occur. Defining principles.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this episode, sponsored by Pendo , listen to learn about: * Product Management in transport tech. * The different stages of tech companies. * Is technology consumption sustainable? Technology potentially can keep up, but humans can’t. Sustainable Technology piece at ByteAnt. Quote of the Episode.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The value of this approach is that rather than having all of the decision-making power come from the leadership team, it gets diffused to the teams closest to your customers. It’s important that outcomes be set by a two-way negotiation between leadership and the product team. This leads to better decisions. – Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.]. Timothy Gallwey. *

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. The Thick of It and W1A shows.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Showcase your brand to our audience of avid listeners as a sponsor of The Product Experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

Instead, I review the lessons learned from myself and my team that created and launched the summit. Product leadership. 14:24] Other decisions we were happy with: Pre-recorded sessions—technology worked. We need to test it better across many platforms. [22:27] Product leadership. * Customer research. Communication.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Showcase your brand to our audience of avid listeners as a sponsor of The Product Experience.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues. By collaborating with residents and testing new formats or themes, we could design events that truly resonate and foster a sense of belonging. Or consider a fitness goal.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

” and “Whose opinion does the leadership team value most?” I’m curious—what experiences have most shaped your philosophy toward product leadership?” The leadership team bought into the future she helped them envision. Information-source diversity: Review your research sources.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely. Remember that we are still in the nascent stages of generative AI technology. The risk of falling behind is real.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

Continuous integration reduces the risk of large code conflicts that used to take days or sometimes weeks of testing to resolve. A group of people (sometimes senior leadership, sometimes a budget oversight committee, sometimes a product team) prioritizes and funds those ideas, initiatives, or projects. The business was the customer.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made. Over those 10 years, the technical teams created more robust testing and deployment scripts. The effects of that batching: Every change requires several days of delay because the managers need to review the changes.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Suggest a guest to us here. Talk to us. Tweet at us!

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Due to rapidly-changing technology, customers have high expectations for the products they use. Challenge #3: We don’t test with users enough. In mobile product management, testing is essential. To start, here are ten steps for beta testing your mobile app. Challenge #1: I have too many responsibilities.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 14, 2020

Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Showcase your brand to our audience of avid listeners as a sponsor of The Product Experience.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. You can manage the team in exactly the same way you have managed product up until this point – with artefacts like canvases, processes like testing assumptions, and tools like metrics to demonstrate progress. Book suggestion: Product Leadership. Developing Your own Team.

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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. Using the rigour of a value proposition canvas to describe your organisation can help you to be honest with yourself: As a Tech Startup. Value Proposition.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Developing a successful digital product requires more than technical knowledge. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. Be aware that collaboration requires leadership.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2019

Following a talk at ProductTank Bristol, he joined us to chat about the advice he gives both to aspiring product managers and to those angling for leadership positions. Links mentioned in this episode: Six leadership styles, from the Harvard Business Review. Quote of the episode. Or can you continue to be a practitioner?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Therefore, the first question any aspiring agile startup should answer for itself is simple: is it a sales-driven, product-driven, or tech-driven enterprise? However, if the competition is fierce, technology is advancing rapidly, and big players are investing large amounts, there is no way to avoid becoming a learning organization.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Without going into actual project-related detail, any sync I have in the AM would fall in the “catch-up,” “quick sync” or “review bad livesites” category. Sometimes I’ll still be in meetings, as there are occasional team or leadership calls scheduled for lunch. If I went into the office: 8:30 AM is when I wake up.

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