The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Prior to Vydia, Gaudio built and managed the marketing team at video Ad Tech company, Yashi, which was successfully acquired in 2015 for $33M cash by Nexstar Media Group. The Best Product Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. Don’t hire me as a PM if you are not ready to hear hard truths about the market, the real expectations of customers (hint: they don’t *need* your product), or the difficulties of the teams. I’m not speaking for all Product Managers but here is my list.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roadmap Planning process Unlike Consumer products, you have two different types of audience to satisfy in Enterprise world, namely Buyer and User Persona. Typical process what I evangelize for roadmap planning process is the below. Market Research : Adopt Primary and Secondary research techniques to gather intelligence on the market.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. Otherwise, highlight how you have helped those who are adjacent to PMs: product designers, tech sales, business operations, or product marketing. More Execution Questions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. Otherwise, highlight how you have helped those who are adjacent to PMs: product designers, tech sales, business operations, or product marketing. More Execution Questions.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

If you’re looking for a position as a product operations analyst, you’ll be getting in early to a new but fast-growing field. Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here. Product roadmapping software. BS or another technical degree. Be ready with those ideas. Design and wireframing applications.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market. Or it could be ensuring open product, design, and technical decisions get resolved in an efficient manner.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap. Managers and leaders are different.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

This should not be confused with technical documentation. The vision can (but doesn’t have to) include details of the market opportunity, size of target customers, positioning, competitive analysis, and goals, as well as open questions you have before starting the journey. There is an abundance of tracking software available.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Which means at some point, every product must reassess its position in the market – and the strategic decisions that underpin it – to decide whether to evolve and adapt to new emerging market trends, or to ignore them. It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

” Then it goes all the way up to, “You should arrange cross-functional things with sales, marketing support, and legal,” and then before you know it, you’re sitting in annual planning FY24. ” Things like, “Hey, maybe we should have an annual roadmap.” What are you talking to me for?”

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit. Transcript.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

If you’re looking to scale up your SaaS business , you may have considered hiring a marketing agency. Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Whether in the pool or already on the market, a new product or service with plenty of ideas will constantly require recurring feature prioritization. As a consequence, the functional and reliable features still have some technical hiccups which would need more work. Keep your product roadmap in mind.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. I’m not a technical Product Manager. If you are having similar problems with your development process I highly advise you to analyze the reasons to them, starting with an honest answer to the question – is your process actually solving your problems?

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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. The positioning statement is what you say if someone with a minimal understanding of your industry asks what your product is. There’s some great advice on product positioning from Fritz Mueller from i365. Product Strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

A lot of product teams are asked to deliver a fixed roadmap with some dates on it. So, this visual for those for the product folks in the room to tell a board that I made it up and it’s a 12 month roadmap for Netflix that I totally made up. So what Dewey is advising us to do. I say product team it could be any team.

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