Research Software Startups Weak Development Team 
The Product Guy
MAY 23, 2025
The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.
Product Talk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.
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Product Talk
DECEMBER 18, 2024
We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software?
The Product Guy
OCTOBER 9, 2018
First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?
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. Going all-in on one cloud provider is where the magic of cloud platforms comes to life: that is, ease of use, simplicity of the platform, and efficiency.
Product Talk
JANUARY 17, 2024
This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed. He began reading books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 1, 2019
What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE.
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