The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. THE CHALLENGE.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. The following four measures will help you with this.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kevin has almost a decade of experience working at some of the world’s most innovative software companies. It also draws out the process by requiring time-consuming agreement on needs and strict protocols, like QA reviews. Additionally, product managers and designers mostly want to implement product analytics themselves.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

Colin Matthews was a longtime PM and now teaches my favorite AI prototyping course: AI Prototyping for Product Managers. He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical product manager ). Use code “LENNYSLIST” to get $100 off. This is all possible, and you’ll learn how.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Journey Into the World of Strategy.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

This article provides an in-depth and honest review of the platform. Based on verified Gartner reviews , the majority of its customers use WalkMe to support internal business apps, large-scale field operations, and app rollouts across thousands of employees or users. ” WalkMe review collected by Gartner. Lets dive in!

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. Download The Ultimate Modern Support Tech Stack guide. Is your tech stack ready?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code. We were testing our code. I’m not a technical Product Manager.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

As she tells it, “When I was fresh out of college, I was working at my first job in the tech industry. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Many people believe tech to be apolitical and unbiased, but that’s simply not true. The language we use shapes our world. Know the scope of the issue. Share the work.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did. About Hannah Kim. Better Decisions.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them. Well hear from Chi Phan , the senior product manager who was brought in to oversee this process. Its worth noting that many API teams dont have product managers. They still exist, even when your product is an API.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. From my participation in the program and the lessons I’ve learned from my mentor, I now have a wider perspective on the challenges that come to every product manager. The results were not always positive.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

She was Trello ’s very first sales hire in 2010, built the company’s sales and account management teams, and was instrumental in scaling its business from 5 million to 25 million users within two years. Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales. Crowning the customer.

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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. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

Depth over breadth: Revolut’s leaders deliberately go extremely deep into 7 to 10 projects (out of 100 or more running simultaneously), but at a code and technical implementation level. This eliminates the uncertainty of whether poor traction is due to a bad idea or poor execution, making feedback interpretation clearer.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. Explore the article below for more.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. Consider the rapid advancement of technology in recent decades. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. It’s not about finding the right tech stack; it’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. With so much to accomplish manually, a lot slips through the cracks, leaving an unfulfilled gap in the arena of customer success management needs. Best customer success software for startups and small companies.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework. But it’s not enough on its own.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

While it’s helpful to be aware of the indicators that may be commonly used for the type of product you manage, it would be a mistake to blindly adopt them. These indicators suggest that achieving product success will be much harder in the future, due to an increase in technical debt , higher absenteeism or turnover rate.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? This includes discovering the right UX design and functionality and making the right technical decisions. Additionally, I recommend running weekly review sessions to understand the progress of the discovery work and adapt it if necessary. How might people use the product?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

We’d like to share some insights from what we’ve learned so far about software delivery and operations over the past few weeks of working from home during COVID-19 , and how we as an engineering team have adjusted to this unprecedented, unpredictable situation. We decided that now is not the time to experiment with slower ways of shipping.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. 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 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Additionally, you should review AI-generated answers rather than blindly trusting a tool, even if the results sound very convincing. To find out more, you should evaluate different tools, possibly together with your product management colleagues. Fourth, do you systematically review the product strategy?

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

Why My AI Learning Approach is Different When I first began exploring AI, I quickly realized that most learning resources available online are heavily technical. I found myself overwhelmed by complex machine learning algorithms, data modeling, and coding. Ill be sharing tips, resources, and my reflections in upcomingposts.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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