2008 Systems Review Weak Development Team 
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
In a heartfelt testimony, Rebecca recalls how her little brother came down with a rare autoimmune brain disorder back in 2008. How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? For her, this is one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Tyner Blain
AUGUST 17, 2023
There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.
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Tyner Blain
AUGUST 28, 2023
Knowing a good structure is necessary, but you also need to avoid filling the good template with bad content. I was poking at this issue back in 2008, to encourage people to abstract their problems correctly I provided a few examples, of “correctly” but not really good guidance to help people find the correct level of abstraction.
Product Solving
AUGUST 26, 2020
Hiten Shah said it nicely on Twitter recently: Hiten Shah @hnshah Friction is the keyword in product development. From hurting your users, to affecting other parts of your product, to collapse of an entire system, sometimes friction is what holds everything together. Until it all came tumbling down in 2008. so they thought.
Business of Software Conference
AUGUST 1, 2019
And I’m pleased to say that Warburg Pincus participated in solely funding half of what became Veritas Software which enabled data management across infinitely extensible networks and then BEA systems which became the go to platform for transactional applications, moving from client server to Internet distributed systems.
UX Studio
MARCH 11, 2024
Business understanding, effective communication and systems thinking. I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Karthik: Yeah.
svpg
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.
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