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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. Similar, right?

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. But, it is very difficult to actually execute upon unshipping.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. “The customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems we use. But the customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems that we use.

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On skepticism and storytelling: How PMs can become more data-informed

Mixpanel

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. 2015 was when I saw a distinction emerge between real-time customer data and BI/analytics data. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.)

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On skepticism and storytelling: How PMs can become more data-informed

Mixpanel

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. 2015 was when I saw a distinction emerge between real-time customer data and BI/analytics data. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.)