Product Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He’s exploring new products to unleash creative performance and thriving teams through the evolving future of work and web3. In his previous role, he conducted customer interviews , but the process wasn’t structured in a way that made it easy to share those insights with the rest of the team. Tweet This. This was the case for Richard.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. If PM 101 is problem before solution, this is definitely 102 – “ who will pay and why ?”

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. First, a shout out to Frank Robinson , a fellow product development pro in Santa Barbara who coined the term “MVP” about 20 years ago. And what it’s not.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Merging into a single customer base, looking for cost efficiencies from a combined team, increasing profits because of the reduction in price-competition in the market. ” Within that context, there are problems which exist which the team must address to make it work.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing focuses on getting products into the hands of the right users, whereas product management focuses on developing the product. It is a merger between product development and sales to ensure a product satisfies specific customer needs and business goals. Product management focuses on product development.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. The reason that educating the market is considered a bad idea lies in the context: the term “educating the market” usually comes up right after the problematic claim that “they just don’t get it”. It definitely wasn’t the first handheld computer.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Rune’s definition is much broader – any systematic structure that eases the burden of work on the designer and heightens the quality of the product. I was also a Creative Director for the digital design team at O’Reilly Media and then I moved full-time to teaching as a professor at NYU, now in Shanghai. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. Questions not to ask There are such things as bad questions when you’re interviewing a user.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction. The product’s key differentiators or unique selling proposition. If you want to learn more, keep reading.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. The design team at IBM likes to employ a “make to learn” method. Prototype it til you make it. Fergal: Cool.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. The reason that educating the market is considered a bad idea lies in the context: the term “educating the market” usually comes up right after the problematic claim that “they just don’t get it”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. My background is definitely atypical. I feel lucky.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2017

Product usability is the new currency for differentiation. Combining both roles into one usually results in one the following: A product that has the right features with poor usability. Functional Product Designers Accelerate Product Development. That makes the role of the functional product designer, a.k.a

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. What is technical debt? How is technical debt created?

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. What is Technical Debt? How is Technical Debt Created?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2019

The few widely-available definitions This is the closest thing to a widely accepted definition of a Product Manager This Venn diagram from Martin Eriksson’s 2011 blog post is one of the most frequently cited definitions on any piece which explores the nature of the Product Management role. My take on the question?—?“So,

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. John Cutler first used the term to describe such companies because their software development processes resemble factory assembly lines. What is a feature factory?

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2019

On the other hand, nobody knows your idea better than you, and the best way to share it for future professional design and development is to visualize it. Having a prototype is not only a good way of presenting your idea, but it can also help you determine app development costs in the future. It definitely says a lot about this tool.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom. In today’s episode, we sat down with Sanj to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. They work with major companies like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé, who want to anticipate consumer trends to shape their product development. But we also have a research consulting team. While flying from the U.K.

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UserVoice

MARCH 12, 2018

More definitely means more work, and sometimes more can actually be a bad thing, so let’s break this down. This can quickly show its face when it comes to addressing technical debt or getting around to all those things your development team said they would when they rushed the LAST important feature to market.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. So I wanted to hear why that strategy makes sense for MadKudu and his advice for other teams thinking about building apps for their product. Liam: Definitely. Short on time?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A GTM strategy provides direction for all team members, reduces your product’s time to market, and helps you cut costs. Differentiate your product from other similar products on the market to avoid product parity. Design a launch plan before the product is ready and assign clear roles to team members.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. What is technical debt? How is technical debt created?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. What is technical debt? How is technical debt created?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Training your own model requires access to data and technical resources but could be a true differentiator in the market. Automation frees up PMs’ time so that they can focus on activities that make the biggest difference, like product strategy development. Consequently, it could easily be your key differentiator.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. What is technical debt? How is technical debt created?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. What is Technical Debt? How is Technical Debt Created?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Customer discovery helps product managers develop their confidence. During product discovery, the product teams always learn a lot. Finally, involving the whole team in the discovery process energizes them, takes advantage of their unique perspectives, and empowers them. energize your team. get a pulse on the market.

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