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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers.

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Method to the Product Madness

The Product Guy

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. Defining a discovery process will help immensely with the validation and feedback loop! More About The Product Mentor. Better Decisions.

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Nir Eyal on designing healthy habits – and the psychology behind them

Intercom, Inc.

His best-selling book Hooked explores how to design habit-forming products, and you can keep up with his writing and research at NirAndFar.com. How do we get the user to engage again in the future? Product design typically starts with the problem a user is trying to solve. Are habits naturally beneficial to users?

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization. Prototyping and design: Wireframes, mockups, user experience flows.

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Checking in on Shopify Plus’ 11,000 checkouts per minute

Intercom, Inc.

As tech continues its path toward democratization, with better offerings available to more people, an odd contradiction has revealed itself: on the enterprise side of things, most software simply isn’t very good. In 2014, the company smashed expectations, earning $105 million in revenue – double what they had taken in the year before.

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Moving upmarket as a product manager: What changes and what stays the same?

Intercom, Inc.

As Intercom grows, we’re moving into new markets and serving new customers. 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. But one thing is consistent across every product management role – a deep focus on the customer. .

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10 Scaling Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

One company I worked with, for example, assigned developers who had worked on enterprise systems using an ancient programming language to develop a brand-new, embedded product with the latest technologies. Rather than scaling prematurely, stay as small as you possibly can until you are getting close to reaching product-market fit.