The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. The framework. I was determined to do better.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. What makes consumer subscription apps unusual is that most don’t have sales teams, which means the product must be able to sell itself organically and through paid advertisements.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. This type of analysis helps identify which features contribute positively to your product’s value and which might be redundant or underperforming.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. A SWOT analysis helps discover gaps and opportunities in your product for new feature development. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process?

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 30, 2024

It’s not much better for other roles - design, engineering, marketing, etc - as layoffs and the rise of AI have introduced uncertainty for all. tip: stories work with stakeholders and recruiters too) E is for Evaluation What metrics will you use to measure your job search or career development progress? Want some help?

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

my manager came to me and asked to train a group of manual testers to update them to QA automation engineers. My main purpose was to walk the manual QA testing team through Java basics so that they could continue with QA automation engineer tutor. How to Effectively Upgrade QA Team to QA Automation Engineers?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. You can lose your confidence in the product while talking with some of the software developers.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). As we explore the subsequent sections, we will uncover how this iterative approach to product development has revolutionized the way products are conceived, developed, and refined.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Unfortunately, engineering manager interviews can often be quite opaque - EM interview questions can range a wide spectrum, and it's usually unclear what good preparation looks like. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s even harder when product managers and engineers are bogged down with work that distracts them from their highest leverage activities of identifying problems and building products people want to use to solve those problems. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. What Is Product Operations?

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BrainMates

JUNE 19, 2024

Manage Team Capabilities Like a Portfolio: an Action Plan for Disruptive Talent Management By JANA PAULECH The success of a product ultimately comes down to the collective strengths of a well-rounded team. There are a few steps to managing your portfolio of capabilities across the team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Connecting with the right software engineering recruiter to help you land your next job is invaluable. It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. However, job recruiters have a bit of a bad rap.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Figure 1: FRAMEWORK OF METHODS TO CAPTURE AND DEFINE PRODUCT FEATURES. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Recently it has become more common to move from only “defining solutions” to also “detailing problems”.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

In simple words, a digital transformation strategy is a thorough plan for utilizing digital technologies to enhance the physical components of your company, including engineering, production, and service. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns. Continuous learning Stay ahead of the curve.

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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. What can be cut first?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly. Even better, if these criteria stayed the same over time, we could use them to guide long-term product development. Building the ODI Framework After the PCjr setback, Ulwick moved from engineering to product planning at IBM.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. It’s about gathering together professionals from different functions such as engineering, business, design, marketing, legal, and others. It’s not just about bringing together a diverse team. Myth #2.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s like developing a sixth sense for product success. How can we assess the level of product sense in PMs, designers, and developers? Let’s revisit the framework. Is product sense an innate skill, or can the ‘art’ side be developed? The secret? Share People-First Leadership 2.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. There is already a huge lead time and process before any roadmap gets approved by management and gets to the development phase. So what can you do?

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

. “Scaling product and go-to-market efforts make data reliability and product delivery speed more important, while a growing team makes data reliability more difficult to manage. ” According to Gartner research , “organizations believe poor data quality to be responsible for an average of $15 million per year in losses.”

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2024

In other words, the agile development process is redefining what we call product management. Go Upstream One of the biggest culprits of poor agile execution is the lack of clear value targets that start with product planning and ripple their way into UX design and development. Here are a few pointers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. I think it makes sense to hear that opinion and factor that into the product development process. Of course?—?the

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering. Book the demo!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. We also host voluntary “turkey” demos where members of our team can share experiments that failed and what they learned from them. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team.

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Marc Brown, HealthTech Founder and CTO with 20 years of experience building products and leading engineering teams talks about agentic workflows in healthcare, staying curious to foster innovation in tech teams and qualities that make a successful CTO. How do you foster a culture of innovation within your technology teams?

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Let’s look at the practical side of developing a full blown strategy for each product. This is the biggest part of product strategy that never gets talked about, and it just might be the biggest hurdle every product management team and every organization faces. The best sales teams on the planet can’t absorb that much.

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