The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. The team also agreed to initiate a weekly meeting to review and clarify requirements and to estimate the user stories. Long standups.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Let’s establish some basic definitions before diving into the details of Strategy Blocks: 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We had a large group of talented people – some who knew features and workarounds better than anyone else, some who were experts in technical concepts, some who excelled in project and relationship management, and others who had a deep knowledge of particular industries. The only problem? We were operating in silos. part of the name.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Additionally, you’ve invited the senior management sponsor to the upcoming sprint review meeting to secure the individual’s continued support. An agile team is responsible for planning and tracking the work, reviewing the progress on a daily basis, and deciding how the work should be done to maximise the chances to meet the sprint goal.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. Explore the article below for more.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

This is where having the right tech stack comes into play. From a support perspective, creating FAQs and knowledge hubs should definitely be your first port of call – but what if you could reach your customer before frustration gets the better of them? Maintain momentum by bridging your tech stacks. Pain points made powerful.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Definitions : First let’s go through some quick definitions to make sure we’re speaking the same language.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. But on day one of the program kickoff, I already began to re-assess my initial definition! In my situation, I was limited to lead effectively due to the physical gap. Your followers choose you.”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. Ensure that the Platform is User-Led, Not Technology-Driven.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Prioritize platforms that offer strong native integrations, support your full tech stack, and allow centralized control over data governance. Userpilot exemplifies this approach with its extensive integration capabilities, connecting directly with your tech stack to create a single source of truth for product analytics and user behavior.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

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. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. I didn’t speak lightly; I knew our engineers were struggling with the changes and that what they needed most of all was definite information, and fast. To be honest, I think we’re still just figuring things out over here,” I told him.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If you can’t explain what makes your favorite apps great from a technical, marketing, and product perspective, chances are you have some learning to do. PMs have diverse backgrounds, ambiguous responsibilities, and varied definitions of what their role includes. My technical skills aren’t advanced enough (15%).

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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. Throughout this traditional definition, you’ll notice an emphasis on data, typically taken to mean quantitative metrics. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

This approach can free up internal resources, reduce time to market, and provide access to niche skills, especially in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

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UX Planet

JULY 11, 2024

As a UX recruiter and team manager, I will reviewing a Google Course case study from Kevin, a self-taught UX designer based in Illinois. He studied Creative Technologies, which is an interdisciplinary major that covers several topics such as motion graphics, interactivity, and web design. Let’s get into it.

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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. With the advancement of technology, we are beginning to realize the promise of augmented reality apps. At this moment, we can only imagine what this technology will look like once we’ve maximized its potential. Check it out.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Some of these challenges were due to me being a beginner. If you arent familiar with the technical details of REST APIs, you might want to read my Understanding Web APIs: What They Are and How They Work article before reading the rest of this article. I definitely have encountered my fair share of error messages.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Review and adjust product roadmap; check potential impact on the product strategy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. This framework is correlated with higher productivity but is somewhat disconnected from definitions of productivity used in other parts of the business.

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Userpilot

JULY 2, 2024

TL;DR A self-service data platform is a user-friendly system that allows non-technical users to extract, transform, and visualize data without extensive IT support. No-code and low-code data collection : Allows non-technical users to gather and manipulate data easily, democratizing data access and improving productivity.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

There are definite technical similarities between the powerful rockets, and both have shaped space technology in new, innovative ways. The NASA waterfall model includes System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review. Is NASA Being Smart or Playing it Safe? .

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Folding Burritos

JULY 5, 2015

On the other hand, this sort of multi-dimensional thinking is definitely the right way to imagine a backlog. If they clearly aren’t important enough to be done, then they definitely don’t belong on the backlog. Despite Janna Bastow’s very wise advice to avoid dates on roadmaps, our team can’t avoid them due to stakeholder pressure.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another. No one can denythat.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Crafting an actionable definition for modern product management One of the questions that founders and CEOs often ask in VP / Head of Product interviews is, “What is product management to you?” How it all started For over a decade the definitions I adopted were based on the ultimate guru every PM (including myself) worships: Marty Cagan.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 16, 2023

TL;DR Data democratization is the process of simplifying how data is stored and managed to help non-technical employees access it easily and make data-driven decisions. This increases collaboration across the organization and fosters communication with non-technical stakeholders. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For instance, think of the tech giant, Microsoft. A few years ago, the company faced significant challenges due to role overlap. Causes of role dysfunction: Operational complexity: As companies grow, tasks become more interconnected, making clear role definition challenging. Role dysfunction isn’t just a sophisticated term.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These are the technical or sensitive queries that need a specialized, empathetic response. So it’s no surprise that human support is crucial for those tricky or sensitive issues that just can’t be solved with automation or bots, such as payment problems, difficult technical issues, or complex queries that need deeper context.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Rapid technological changes and shift to hybrid work: The transition to remote / hybrid work, then back to the office, has mixed up communication, collaboration, and work-life balance. This can lead to multiple life changes as we seek new definitions of success, career shifts, and creative pursuits. Today is perfect for a lifequake.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If people are just complaining that [OKRs] take way too much time, that’s a definite sign that they might not really get any value out of it, so let’s definitely change that for sure. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. . * When not to use OKRs. Measuring results. Quote of the Episode.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Key elements include definition, target audience, key benefit, category, competitive advantage, and differentiation. Look at your competitor’s marketing materials, websites, and customer reviews to gather insights. Choose a positioning strategy based on price, competitors, quality, features, or benefits.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. 2] Use the Right Goals A team is, by definition, a group of individuals who work together on the same goal.

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