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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. Or how working on outbound product management would make them better inbound product managers. Growth requires continuous effort, over a long period of time.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Have we named things correctly?

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. Product management is the name of the profession and also a description of what some levels do.

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Better Practices for Building Integrations

Amplitude

At Amplitude, we are big fans of customer development partners (CDPs), who help us build and test our new features. If that partner can’t give me a list of customer names and use cases, then I’m inclined to make it a low priority. outbound integration. Related Reading: How to Organize Your Product Team Around Your North Star.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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Making SNMP Monitoring Scalable, Reliable and Extensible with eG Enterprise

eG Innovations

Three significant versions of SNMP have been developed and deployed. The communication from the poller to the eG manager is initiated in one direction only, outbound to the eG Manager. Prioritization of traps allows eG Enterprise alerts to be sent to IT operations teams with the appropriate level of severity.

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Sparking conversations: How every team can benefit from conversational support

Intercom, Inc.

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.