The Product Guy

OCTOBER 2, 2016

I joined a growing user experience agency called Motivate Design, without having any real knowledge about UX and its function within product strategy. And I caught what some might say was the product bug! I signed up to be a mentee for the third session of The Product Mentor to learn how to break into the space even more.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

I’m not a big fan of the word “product strategy”. Building a Frankenstein product. Here are 4 steps any startups can follow to create a great product strategy: 1. He thought the best strategy was to play something. A great product strategy is the same. Strategy is where you’re going.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2018

I’m completely psyched to have made this year’s list of Top 40 Product Management Influencers of 2017 for the THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR! Julie Zhuo // Facebook Julie is the VP of Product Design at Facebook where she manages the design team responsible for the core Facebook experience. Twitter | Linkedin | Blog.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles? Highlights from the Roundtable On Enterprise Customer Engagement: Users and buyers often have competing priorities – product teams must treat them as separate voices, not a unified one.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). As any startup will tell you, managing an idea from concept to launch is a lot easier said than done.

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Product Management Unpacked

DECEMBER 20, 2021

“Crossing the Chasm” author on how user-experience design has driven product management from product-focused development to fostering customer engagement. The post Why Product Managers Are So Important first appeared on Product Management Unpacked.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. is the CPO of a startup in transition. is the CPO of a startup in transition. It is very rare to simply sit in the room until everything is sorted out and have a clear vision and strategy as an immediate outcome.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For product managers, this means evolving to build for upmarket companies while ensuring Intercom’s long-standing customers remain at the center of what we do. Product management varies depending on your industry, company stage, company leadership, or teammates. So, how do we do that at Intercom? Well, it’s hard.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

Since it’s still a relatively new role, there’s a lot of confusion around product management job titles, seniority, and hierarchy. Associate Product Manager. Junior Product Manager. A junior product manager typically has some work experience under their belt already and can come from any background.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. Start with building relationships.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Here’s what strategic partner PayPal did to bring scaled product management to life for this startup-oriented software engineer. He expected to get what he needed from Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Science in Product Management (MSPM) program. I felt PayPal would be a great choice.”. “Is

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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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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

Guest Post by: Elly Lin (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Alberto Simon]. When I first joined, the startup I work at had often been stuck with a backlog of products and services to create. It takes all of the fun out of product management! More About The Product Mentor.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

How to successfully transition to a product management role Watch on YouTube TLDR Transitioning from one career to another is full of challenges, especially when the two fields seem vastly different. While confident in her nonprofit expertise, Mary wasn’t sure if her skills would translate to a product management role.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

To survive, your company must sell multiple products Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I’m interviewing Greg Coticchia, an experienced CEO and product management expert. The discussion focuses on the challenges and strategies involved in expanding from a single product to multiple products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In my work with startups I noticed two common pitfalls?—?opposite Photo by Daniel Abbatt from Pexels The best startups I work with have truly embraced the lean startup methodology. Working with dozens of startups, I do see, however, companies that are implementing it wrong. Lean Startup is no different in that sense.

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Productside

MARCH 20, 2025

Product management in an agency setting isnt your typical one-to-many modelits fast-paced, highly adaptable, and deeply collaborative. In a recent episode of Productside Stories , our CEO, Rina Alexin , sat down with Anne Veit , Head of Product Strategy at Razorfish , to discuss how product management works in an agency setting.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The best product managers go out of their way to prove themselves wrong, because finding the flaws in your thinking will lead to better decisions. Spend 80% of your time focusing on the external factors—customers, competitors, and market conditions—rather than internal processes.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 8, 2024

Product Operations (Product Ops) is a relatively new but increasingly vital function within product management teams, designed to optimize product development, launch, and iteration processes by improving efficiency, collaboration, and the overall effectiveness of product teams.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

In this episode of Productside Stories, our host Rina Alexin talks to Rachel Owens , product executive and growth expert. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, build strong GTM alignment, and refine your product strategy for sustainable success.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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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. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. A mature product has a lot going on at once.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does. 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.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. Through this event, she found a three-month internship as a Web Developer at a startup that was developing an online insurance marketplace.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The key ingredients of a successful product management team Today we are talking about how to build a great product team that in turn will build great products customers love. She’s a product executive, advisor, and coach. 16:05] What practical tips can product managers use to build a better product team?

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