The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. The following four measures will help you with this.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kevin has almost a decade of experience working at some of the world’s most innovative software companies. It also draws out the process by requiring time-consuming agreement on needs and strict protocols, like QA reviews. Think about Apu, the ever-diligent Kwik-E-Mart owner. But why bother fixing it?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended entire industries, forcing rapid change in the ways companies do business and dramatically accelerating the adoption of new technologies. Below, we take a closer look at the top three trends in the sales tech landscape to consider when choosing the right software for your sales organization.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. Download The Ultimate Modern Support Tech Stack guide. Is your tech stack ready?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur. What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Third, the team observes sustainable pace. But this would be wrong.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. In other words, technology is the backbone of innovation. Ally opportunity: Common survival strategy in product-led growth is through partnership/ally with other best-of-breed products in the same segment or even other. Let’s move the case.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

To adequately cover this topic, we are going to get into the nitty-gritty of the technical underpinnings of APIs. If you need help getting up to speed on these technical details, be sure to read last weeks article. Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Know the scope of the issue.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Early in her career, Francesca encountered this phrase alongside the common description of product management as sitting at the intersection of business, user experience, and technology. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. You should therefore do just enough product discovery and strategy work before you start using Scrum and before you add any items to the product backlog.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales. The beauty of the freemium model in an enterprise setting is that the supplier due diligence process is already much further along. Listen to the full episode above or check out Kristen’s key takeaways below.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. How can the product be built?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

Companies like Canva grew by defying industry conventions around complex, professional-focused design software making powerful design tools accessible to everyday users and businesses. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. OKRs should serve the strategy, not dictate it.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? Architect, Tech Lead, Solver, and Right Hand. I don’t know.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them. Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. To make this happen, Chi needed to connect with her vendors product and technology folks. They still exist, even when your product is an API.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. Digital technology has inadvertently become a significant contributor to the growing carbon footprint of the tech industry. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Many have a well-defined AI strategy and have made considerable progress. However, the emergence of generative AI presents an opportunity for these enterprises to revisit their AI strategies and plans. Remember that we are still in the nascent stages of generative AI technology. The risk of falling behind is real.

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

Why My AI Learning Approach is Different When I first began exploring AI, I quickly realized that most learning resources available online are heavily technical. I found myself overwhelmed by complex machine learning algorithms, data modeling, and coding. This is one of my go-to resources for business and strategy articles.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

You don’t need a technical degree to be a strong PM. The product management profession requires varying degrees of technical skill, but it’s not one-size-fits-all and certainly does not require an engineering-based degree. do not interface with developers in a technical way). Go beyond NPS as a core KPI. Want to learn more?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 14:27] What did you do to better align customer needs and business strategy? Engineering had a lot of power.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Expert review : Established design experts check your products design based on usability principles to identify potential improvements. It’s the same issue if you lack a survey strategy.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally. About Terri Boshoff.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

In the next five years, around 48% are interested in employing AR and other metaverse technology to shop. Is it time to embrace augmented reality applications for your business’s commerce strategy? Then it starts to run the code from the marker and layers the right image or images. What is augmented reality app?

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights. Mural , Miro , etc.) is recommended.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Its chock-full of stories about how the author solved business problems by writing code. Even though it had been ten years since I had written a line of code, I decided to dive back in and I started automating my business logic. It wasnt easy.

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