Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 29, 2024

It is not an understatement to say that the success of a new digital product launch is largely determined during the product development process. But for many products in the marketplace today, it is no longer enough to incorporate AI into the product development process. AI can help your employees be more competitive and efficient.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Strategic Product Management: Sunset Decisions, Platform Benefits, and Team Structures Introduction Strategic decisions around product lifecycle management, platform integration, and team structures are critical for product managers in established tech companies.

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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. However, if a non-techy PM meets a non-businessy team lead, things can go sideways pretty quickly.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Wondering what it takes to become an amazing agile developer? This post outlines all the traits, essential skills, and soft skills that characterize what it means to be an amazing agile developer. 8 Steps to Become a Rockstar Agile Developer Here is a step-by-step process on how to become an agile developer: 1.

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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. Most companies are in reality reviewing and failing several orders of magnitude less ideas than this.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? This can help in gauging software adoption , detecting shadow IT, and optimizing the tech stack for better ROI. WalkMe offers a drag-and-drop editor for non-technical users and supports both mobile and web applications. Or bad, because it adds unnecessary complexity? WalkMe Pricing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? After all, you’re translators, not tech wizzes.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

A technical product manager is a critical piece of the product management puzzle. For that reason, knowing some common technical product manager interview questions can help – whether you’re a hiring manager or a TPM candidate. In this article, I’ll list the most common/anticipated technical product manager interview questions.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Brief Introduction to the Product Lifecycle Model As its name suggests, the product lifecycle model describes how a product develops over time. A product is born or launched; it then develops, grows, and matures. It assumes that it has a life much like a living being.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As its name suggests, this roadmap focuses on product goals and outcomes, such as acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt. This approach is problematic for the following three reasons: It does not leverage the creativity and knowledge of the stakeholders and development teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or That slashes the work to <600 hours/week/product manager.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

It’s driven by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, and nothing has captured attention quite so effectively since social media hit the scene promising free technology to get closer to their customers. Right now, enterprise companies are thinking about how they can scale proven use cases with less technical knowledge to drive business goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. Marketing technology is now the largest portion of total marketing budget (29% on average according to Gartner ).

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. In 1988, Hewlett Packard (HP) conducted an internal review of their software development processes and set a target to improve their code quality tenfold. Create a code review checklist. Introduce code review metrics.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you looking for crucial technical program management skills to become a successful technical program manager? Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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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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Modus Create

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That’s not to say that legacy technology isn’t a relevant factor anymore. Multiple industries employ outdated software in their core operations and only consider modernization when a critical technology in their stack becomes unsupported (for example, an older version of Java or PHP is sunsetted). Paying off technical debt.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt. This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. Actionable.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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