The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2020

Building a product is a huge responsibility, each feature you release takes time, focus and ongoing love. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Yossi Mlynsky, lead a conversation on this topic. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

In this post, I include three tips for product managers new to JTBD style interviews, written by someone (me) who just completed his first round of JTBD interviews. I’ve used the job to be done framework to clarify for other members of our team the problem we’re solving for customer. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2020

Fundamentally, being a Product Manager is all about making sure that the right decisions get made, and for me the hardest decision has always been “what shall we do next?”. First we agreed framework for product decision making. We agreed that our number one priority had to be achieving Product/Market Fit.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

The process of taking a product or a feature from idea to execution is a taxing proposition for any team to undertake. The goal is to encourage experimentation learning as a key way to building a framework that tests assumptions freely. There isn’t one individual responsible for a product’s success. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Incorporating the analysis into product decisions. Customer segmentation is a powerful tool for product managers and marketers to draw an accurate picture of the customers. A really powerful framework is to continue asking ‘why’ until you get to the root cause. so that product decisions are not made in silos.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We became a so-lala product: So-Lala [zo la la] – German word for so-so or meh. The So-Lala Product epidemic. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. Let’s go Agile!

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The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

I already discussed this situation with fellow product managers and shared my experience. I was suggested to try jobs-to-be-done framework. He encouraged to start user interviews to better understand their behavior and what value do we create with our product. More About The Product Mentor. The Product Guy.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Using a custom ChatGPT model combined with collaborative team workshops, product teams can rapidly move from initial customer insights to validated prototypes while incorporating strategic foresight and market analysis. By the time we launch, the market may have moved on from the problem we originally set out to solve.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

It started as a site to share ideas and lessons I’ve learned in my career as a product manager for enterprise software products. And it resulted in the Secret Product Management Framework , a better way to understand product management. . The primary focus is new product managers.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2020

When you first start as a product manager at a startup, the routine can be jarring and exhausting. There is always more work than the people available to do it; when somebody doesn’t know who is the best person to do something and it’s urgent or important, the common answer is go to the product manager. Product Managers.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2020

Guest Post by: Alexander Berry (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Brad Popiolek]. Many product managers, including myself, often reflect and think hard around the areas which they need to invest in to progress in their career; is it A/B testing, data analysis, go to market skills?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

How product managers can make OKRs drive real results Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Ben Lamorte, the world’s most experienced OKR coach and founder of OKRs.com, we explored how product managers and leaders can transform their approach to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Product management comes down to discipline and process. Your next step is boiling that feedback into relatable buckets for the product and then deciding what to prioritize, what to not pay attention to and more generally: what to do. . A decision making framework that I use is. He is a Product Manager at Mastercard. .

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The Product Guy

APRIL 21, 2019

There is one key tool used by successful customer-centric businesses that most product managers disregard. From a product manager’s perspective, it’s important to focus on product-centricity, which means having a product or service that responds to customer needs and then getting as many customers as possible who have these needs.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

It’s a change in approach that’s driven by demands for more agility and greater velocity from the time a problem is identified to the time that a product is released. . As firms move faster and pivot more, perhaps it’s time to reconsider how best to capture product requirements. What’s wrong with this picture?”

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 31, 2019

At the end of this, the candidate put together something that looked like the following: When I saw this, I immediately told the CEO, “this is not your VP of Product.” When you need to hire an executive Product Manager, a CPO or a VP of Product, you are at a moment in your company where you have a ton of choices.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The wondrous product was used by less than five percent of our entire user base. The launch of the kiosks failed because we failed to realize how the product risks pose a threat to the success of a product. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

The reason why I like to share that is in today’s talk, we’re going to get into my continuous discovery framework. And I like to set the tone that this framework was developed and co-created with dozens of teams from all over the world. This is my framework. I teach an outcome-focused brand of product management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Your product’s value needs to be defined, delivered, and perceived as such by your customers. If this isn’t challenging enough, what your customers want and need varies based on their profile and maturity with your product. For example, when companies say that they want to start selling to enterprises, everybody nods.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2020

Guest Post by: Ralph Bautista (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler ]. There are several ways to get into Product Management, the majority of folks stumble upon it by choice or because their organization needed to fill that role and you were the best candidate at the time.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

The founders have filled the role of product manager since the company was conceived and it is difficult for them to hand that management over. You will need to continuously prove that you are the right person to be owning the product and that you have not only the business but client’s best interests in mind.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

It started as a site to share ideas and lessons I’ve learned in my career as a product manager for enterprise software products. And it resulted in the Secret Product Management Framework , a better way to understand product management. . The primary focus is new product managers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

It started as a site to share ideas and lessons I’ve learned in my career as a product manager for enterprise software products. And it resulted in the Secret Product Management Framework , a better way to understand product management. . The primary focus is new product managers.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Guest Post by: Tofi Buzali (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andy Wadhwa]. As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. Based in Mexico City, he’s currently in charge of Product Management and Growth at Proscai. Better Products.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

Mid-market and enterprise sales deals are undeniably complex. Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals. Act II: Building a visual framework. Approver: Growth product manager. Informed: Marketing manager. Contributor: Sales lead.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. In a few weeks, the name will change to Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. .

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

How serial innovators transform product management Watch on YouTube TLDR Navigating innovation in mature organizations requires a unique approach that goes beyond traditional business strategies. It requires a unique approach that goes beyond traditional management techniques.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of my goals at Product Talk is to showcase what good product management looks like. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new series, Product in Practice, where I’ll profile product managers doing great work. To kick off the series, we interviewed Rachel Allen , Director of Product at Omnitracs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The value assessment framework allows you to identify gaps in any of the value layers — definition, delivery, and perception. Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. This concludes the value assessment framework.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Guest Post by: Christopher Davis (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jonathan Berg]. As a product manager, you’ll often find yourself with a growing backlog of user stories and product defects that need grooming and scheduling. A robust ranking framework is key to answering these questions.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Story estimation :- The engineering team was fully onboard with estimating user stories using a complexity based framework. More About The Product Mentor.

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