The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Management often believes that poor strategy can be made up by iterating/or pivoting execution, where operational expenditures are relatively low as compared to capital-intensive enterprises. Fortunately, I was paired with a mentor, Vikas Batra, who has several years of product management experience in enterprise telecommunications hardware.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2019

Help your team adapt and keep clients aligned with these documents, meetings, and conversations. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

At Proscai, I had the task to build a new Point of Sale (POS) solution for our clients and these three phases along with its corresponding documents helped me plan the development process and make sure all the team and stakeholders understood why, how and what we were building. Define Product Vision and Strategy. Better Decisions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

How much it costs (spoiler: it’s for enterprise plans only). All you need to do is to head to the documentation and copy-paste one line of code. But here’s the kicker— session replay is only available as an add-on for enterprise plans. And let’s be real: enterprise plans are on the pricey side. Mixpanel pricing.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 13, 2019

Document your Key Assumptions. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…. If it’s a senior PM, it may be showing an exciting opportunity to VPs or CPO. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

I haven’t had much luck in showing my raw documents and notes to stakeholders–they can’t consume this. I try to get this into my product reference document and have it passed around to marketing, comms and product before heading to engineering. It forces me to articulate why the roadmap items exist on the roadmap. .

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This document can be used to communicate quarterly objectives that you hope to achieve. If done correctly, this document can be a powerful tool that motivates your design & engineering team by setting ambitious yet achievable & well-planned goals. For more details about Theme, Epic, and User Story, refer to this article.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

There's work to be done. -- 2016: "I want a product manager who can be great at writing specification documents. As more enterprises turn digital, this will become a stronger need for them. It sounds like something we should be doing." We need PRDs" 2019: "I want a PM who is good at strategy, and can help us realize our business goals.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2025

Todays guide takes a deep dive into session replay for enterprise companies. Your website or app has something called the Document Object Model (DOM). How do enterprise teams leverage session replays? Enterprise teams face unique challenges when it comes to optimizing user experiences across complex applications.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). To summarize the process, I advise you to start the document by focusing on defining the problem. More About The Product Mentor.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2023

Knowledge is power and user documentation is necessary for building it. But great documentation doesn’t happen by accident. This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. What is user documentation?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 8, 2023

Applying for the OCI award is a great way to document what you’re doing. Everything for us starts with strategy—both innovation strategy and corporate and total enterprise strategy. In the application, we shared our enterprise strategy and specifically the significant role innovation plays in that. They do a site visit.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 13, 2018

The same cannot be said about large and complex enterprises. It adds great value with b2b enterprise customers. Working software over comprehensive documentation. You should focus on working software instead of generating loads and loads of documents regarding analysis and design phase of the project. When to use Wagile?

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2020

This clearly stated document communicates to the team how they should engage with me and is always visible and accessible for any new team members joining. I believe this allows for more effective communication as each person knows what to expect from each other. More About The Product Mentor. Better Decisions. Better Products.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2023

PLG for enterprise? As enterprise products tend to be complex, their value may be difficult to experience through free trials or freemium. Moreover, the enterprise sales funnel is more complicated than a product-led growth funnel. Personalized onboarding can help enterprise users learn how to best use the product in less time.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

We write a document that evolves over four to six weeks during which all of the leads from different teams contribute. We tap into all of that to write the vision document. [8:27] The document includes at most two pages about the vision. The strategy document provides North Star metrics. At Amazon, they call this PRFAQ.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Since we log many actions in our product’s database, I used my background in SQL and R to create a shared document with product KPI’s all in one spot. I augment this document with graphs from third-party tools like Google Analytics, Pendo, and Firebase. I now update this document weekly and share it with team leads.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

While doing phase one of document storage and planning out the execution of the next phase and overseeing the maintenance of the old platform, I was asked if I could rebuild our ticket management system for ads in three months and in doing so move my next planned phase till after I could deliver ticketing. Better Decisions. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A stakeholder map is the best way to document all stakeholders in every project. The communication plan is simply a document we created to figure out the pathways of communication with the stakeholder. It could also include the actual team creating and executing the development to finish the product. Communication Plan.

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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2022

Similarly, many enterprise organizations feel a sense of accomplishment once they have established a customer success team. Customer success teams often deal with data from a variety of different sources, from specialized customer success platforms to CRM software to Excel documents. They are just happy to be there. . And why not?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Have a communication policy outlined for your team There are so many enterprise tools available today ranging from email to instant messaging. Always use numbered lists in documents or slides Sounds simple? Always, always, use numbered lists in documents to denote options, points and/or in slides. Repeat your goal.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

I’ve practiced to always remind myself of company goals as I jump onto a project, review a request, or write up a product requirement document. Jie picked up the product manager role in 2015, after several years helping Catchafire, a startup social enterprise build its operations from the ground up. Start with clear company goals.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The registration link and documentation links are prominent and easy to navigate. You might wonder why this is worth noting, it’s because many APIs, especially those offered by enterprises and enterprise software providers are bizarrely not this straight forward. Language is one of being product-led?—?“register,

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eG Innovations

MARCH 21, 2023

One-click dashboard templates are among a number of tools available within eG Enterprise to allow organizations to rapidly set up targeted and bespoke views for a wide range of audiences across their organizations, whilst avoid the costs and inconsistencies of building and maintaining many individual dashboards.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Expectation Management Regularly align with managers on priorities Document and track role expectations Proactively address misalignments 3. Context-Aware Learning Study industry best practices but adapt them to your environment Understand why certain approaches work in specific contexts Learn from both successes and failures 2.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

After acquiring Butler, an integration allowing to do repetitive tasks – Trello seems to step up its game, gradually moving towards big enterprises. Like most of the tools mentioned earlier, Dropbox has made some crucial steps toward an enterprise focus. Time management tools have always been in demand.

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Product Management University

MARCH 3, 2020

Large enterprises though, had two critical situations that if addressed, would yield significant benefits that were easily quantified. Be sure to document the circumstances where those scenarios are most and least valuable from the buyer’s perspective. Combine requisitions for the same items to a single P.O.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Prioritization frameworks Gantt charts/roadmaps Documenting and organizing user research interview results Checklists and task management across teams Spreadsheets do have their drawbacks. This means the most recent designs will show up live in the document. Standard, premium and enterprise pricing available GA rating: 4.4/5

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

More About The Product Mentor The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…. Don’t get me wrong, we communicated pretty frequently – emails, Skype chats, and a few weekly video chats.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2022

Combine for Success Product Management enables Enterprise Service Management for standardization and scaling. Please keep one thing in mind: This is a full definition working for Enterprises, offering highly configurable and scaling Products. Well that’s the core to Product Management!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2018

So I would do my product management thing; I’d go and talk with the potential users in-depth, understand their days, create personas, and document needs and workflows. All the while my products suffered abandonment issues. There had to be another way; how could I go on a date without committing? Less is More. More About The Product Mentor.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A good resource center can host onboarding flows , how-to guides, video tutorials, FAQs, and knowledge-base documents. Customer tier (enterprise vs. free trial). Essentially, you want to create a way for users to get help whenever they need it. You can do this by creating a resource center. Not sure how to prioritize?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 11, 2018

Having just recently relived the experience of joining as a PM at a new company, I am living through this state myself and am seizing upon this opportunity to document my takeaways. Give yourself a break: you won’t really “get it” for a while. If you’re anything like me, you will be impatient to prove yourself. Better Decisions.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The strategy is the document that directs the mass of energy in the same direction significantly moving the needle versus a lot of activity moving in different directions not getting very far. The roadmap is a living document and should be shared The roadmap should be a living document that is revisited and updated on a regular basis.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There are three main aspects of driving alignment that I’ve seen vary a lot across companies and teams: how you document decisions, direction vs autonomy, and communication styles. Documenting Decisions. I thought: “A strategy document? But really, I just had never written a formal strategy document before. What was that?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The IDP documents their long-term aspirations, their current skills, and the skills they need to practice. For example, if the buyer agrees to your enterprise plan, a multiyear contract, or upfront payment, then you could open the door to discussing a discount (but never before). ” Image adapted from BodeTree. Get the recording.

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