The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

If a persona says no to both questions, users like her won’t care about this feature, even if you consider it your magnum opus or your product’s big differentiator. This is more likely to work for a mobile app for consumers than for a desktop application for enterprise. Sad but true. Landing pages. You may buy this ebook at [link].

Research Software 273

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 9, 2018

There’s the monetary cost – usually substantial for an enterprise application or system. After all, a known bad (the current situation) is sometimes better than an unknown bad (a new application that doesn’t work). How do you prepare the sales team for these kinds of objections? They might postpone the decision.

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Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing Product Research 95

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way. I really recommend it, because the biggest differentiator we saw is that in a persona-driven world, you’re really thinking about that fictional character.

Customer Experience 34

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote.

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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.

Customer Experience 165

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Conducting a competitor analysis helps you understand the market landscape, identify your differentiations, and gain deeper insights into your target audience’s preferences and pain points. This will help you understand what attracts customers to your competitors and how you can differentiate your marketing approach.

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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.

User Testing 191

User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Experience Customer Feedback 191

Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Some product teams will use written methods across both the problem identification and solution definition steps, while others will use visual methods. Written Methods.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. Teams may struggle to decide about the product’s features or design, potentially leading to waste.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Meta is looking for an Operations leader to join the Product Data Operations (PDO) team. As a Manager on the PDO GenAI team, you will be responsible for managing a team of Project Managers to supply product teams with critical data and data labeling for Meta’s GenAI products. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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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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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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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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User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Data Visualization 142

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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. While the SAAS model has disrupted this thought process, enterprise software very much depends on forward integrators. The article discusses an approach to solving the “Cheaper/Faster/Better” problem from the lens of Vertical Integration.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. Best for large enterprises. There are two.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

Right now, enterprise companies are thinking about how they can scale proven use cases with less technical knowledge to drive business goals. Most existing tools don’t connect the core capabilities that businesses need to drive enterprise goals and meet CX objectives. What can Alchemer Pulse do for your team?

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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. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

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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. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 109

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 109

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. But when you define your product strategy, and your differentiation from the competition, it is important to understand what your real competition is. But our real competition wasn’t there.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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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. Short on time? Here are a few quick takeaways.

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Analytic Tools Data Visualization Customer Experience Inbound 190

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?

User Testing 98

User Testing User Friction Development Team Review Customer Experience 98

ProductPlan

MAY 7, 2019

Enterprise. Enterprise. Ensuring everyone is striving toward the same strategic goals while still working and thinking independently isn’t easy, particularly when the organization is broken out into separate teams. How confident is the leadership team that they can identify a single metric truly representative of future success?

Customer Experience 98

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Both Heap and GA4 come with a free plan and premium options for large businesses and enterprises. The tool is still under development, so there are a number of known issues that can cause problems for users. Heap pricing Heap comes with a free plan and three other premium options for middle-sized businesses and enterprises.

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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. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

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. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

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. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

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. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Customer success teams don’t have time to waste. Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 New tools must show their value fast. 2 – The best customer success software will be no-code.

Analytic Tools 98

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools Data Visualization 98

UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. In this article, we’ll uncover the common branding mistakes that have haunted both enterprises and small ventures. Budget constraints: Small businesses often operate on shoestring budgets.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2019

On joining Venture Capital firm Warburg Pincus in 1988 he built their IT Investment practice, which focussed heavily on Enterprise Software. Bill Janeway (Partner & Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus) – The Rise & Fall Of Enterprise Software from Business of Software Conference. The Rise And Fall Of Enterprise Software”.

Reporting Tools 10

Reporting Tools Analytic Tools Software Review Enterprise 10

BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. Do they have money? Who pays us money?

User Testing 75

User Testing Feedback Software Product Management Product Manager 75

Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

Reporting Tools 91

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ”  “Once product/engineering give us hard dates tied to exact feature definitions and use cases and Ideal Customer Profiles, Sales can form the right account-based selling teams.” 

Data Visualization 78

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