Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

He compares today’s state of AI today to early days in physics where the Standard Model was developed and ended up serving physics almost unchanged through today. Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? While Dual-Track Agile is my recommended way to develop products, it’s not very clean. Now Things get Messy. Can users use it? Usability).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. But regardless of how I presented myself, that was something that I could easily explain once people approached me. It’s a great model but the name is quite misleading.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Stay present. State objective and agenda.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

3] Co-create the Product Strategy and Roadmap The traditional way to engage the stakeholders and secure their support is to present them with a draft strategy and roadmap, collect their feedback, update the plans, and, if necessary, show them the updated version. 4] As its name suggests, the coach supports and coaches the product team.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. Do the net present value calculations with correction factors for likelihood of success. 22:55] What bucket approach do you use?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Text introduces us to each app, starting with its name, and text guides us to how apps work and what value they provide, from instructions and inputs to settings and disclaimers. If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? The write stuff.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. I pitched the idea by building a fully functional, iOS prototype, rather than via a PowerPoint presentation. The Results.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, it’s crucial for product managers, developers, and your entire cross-functional team to examine—and re-examine—the product experience from your user’s point of view and incorporate it into your product strategy. What Happens to Your Customers After Bad Product Experiences.

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. If you prefer to watch the video (1 hour long), you can find the presentation here. Empowered Product Teams. Second, the chemistry of the members of the team is key.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. This year has been particularly exciting for us: we were able, after five and a half years of negotiation, to purchase Close.com as our new home and domain name, so we went through a rebrand from Close.io

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Leadership is not just about having a clear vision for the team – it’s also about serving others. Having a diverse team is not just better because all the different thoughts, points of view, and experiences make it more profitable in the long run. How can you remove obstacles?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

When confronted with this question, I used to hesitate, because from company to company there are a million things that can affect the roles; the product, larger organization structure, product development process, cultural differences, regional differences in commonly-used titles, the list goes on. Chris will manage the “how” of the product.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. My name is Jacob. It’s from another team, so you can be completely honest with me. However, not all methods are equally effective when deciding what is valuable. I think it is a very good idea.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. Illustration from Intercom’s article about the values of designer-developer collab.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I was there to present my findings on how one of our business lines was doing. A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. I kept meeting with every team in the company to learn more about what my business was good at, even if it didn’t involve direct contact with the products that I was building. My teams move markets.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The best product teams have a stronger analytics set-up than the competition. And if your product team is open to new technology, you can instantly gain an edge on the market. Touch heatmaps are, as the name implies, based on gestures of users. One of those new technologies are mobile heatmaps?—?they

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These are our improv techniques for conducting user interviews, consolidating user pain points to create solutions, humanizing your customers, and working with your team to bring it all home. We hope they come in handy for you and your team. Find ways to connect your team members to their end audience. Becca, back to you.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

Here’s a simple version to win over your team and stakeholders. Let’s face it, roadmaps have a bad reputation. Common spans include: Next 3 months, 3–6 months, 6+ months Quarters Financial year halves Now, next, later The first column should be fixed and not change much given it’s what your team should be focused on right now.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

“I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. And a frustrated product manager is a symptom of people and alignment issues in their team.” How many acronyms and feature names are there that require you or a scrum master to translate? Rebooting teams.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

Many infrastructure development teams don’t have a product manager, or have a fractional product owner/analyst working primarily on detailed technical requirements. Said another way, great development teams want to work on great technical problems. Product managers and development teams solve different problems.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

While I thought it was an absolute, for a micro-second, I questioned it, and then the floodgates of doubt opened — maybe not such a bad thing in this case. Especially in mature companies, roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty when you are early in developing a product. The slide doesn’t guide product teams for planning purposes.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. If you are simply advertising your product, you are educating the market on the product and on why it is better than the competition, namely your unique value proposition. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. If you are simply advertising your product, you are educating the market on the product and on why it is better than the competition, namely your unique value proposition. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market?

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 9, 2020

In this presentation originally delivered at Mobile Growth Summit, Apptentive’s CEO and Co-founder, Robi Ganguly, dives into exactly how companies can use feedback to predict churn and extend customer lifetime value. My name is Robi Ganguly and I am the CEO and co-founder of Apptentive. Transcript.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s where you present an idea or prototype to your target audience to gauge their interest, understanding, and potential acceptance using feedback collection methods. Understand Customer Needs and Optimize the Product Development Process : Concept testing lets you pinpoint exactly what features resonate with your audience.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers. If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going.

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