The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. This could also be due to stringent processes or lack of the same.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2018

This first post covers Positioning Documents, which I bought to Onfido from Pragmatic Marketing training, and Line of Business Meetings, which Kevin brought with him. The Positioning Document and Line of Business meeting act as communication devices. Positioning Document. Positioning statement (25 words or fewer).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Or is it like, “Hey, if this is a consistent pattern then we need to make sure no one ever repeats, we’ll have a principle about the positive behavior that we want.” Maybe it’s useful to actually to share some examples instead of talking about this in the abstract, but it’s basically about us having a predictable system.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. Inevitably I still re-create the high-level roadmap in presentations for All Hands meetings, exec reviews, and sometimes even customers. Design: Product Roadmap.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

This survey, titled “ Learning Management Systems (LMS) Accessibility Feedback Survey ,” focuses on understanding users’ experiences, opinions, and judgments about the accessibility features of different LMS platforms. ✅ Do —  How often do you use your Learning Management System(s)? How do you filter effectively?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 At almost all of my clients, I see major product waste: products released on time/on budget that don't deliver positive business outcomes.  We simplify problems, minimize system complexity, and jump to ‘obvious’ solutions.  We Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At Enough preamble.  Here’s

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

Going through OKR exercises helps you collectively align on what those ultimate metrics that really matter for the company should be. A player's Standard of Performance might include the 30 skills they are expected to have to play their position well. There are many benefits to this approach for sure.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

They bypass ROI calculations, due diligence, prioritization exercises, and customer validation. This puts product managers in the awkward position of having to say “no” to stakeholders and customers. But the problem facing a particular customer may or may not represent a true systemic need.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" "Here is another one-line ticket written by non-technical users who don't understand their problem or our system.  We'll " "Engineering has 18 unfilled developer position.  We  They don't care about ticketing systems or sprint lengths or test harnesses or hiring challenges.  What

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Once you know that, you can easily align around that and position yourself as the solution to that problem. But over the years, Al went onto other positions in companies, and then he became an advisor to startups, and he teamed up with Chris and Dave, both of whom are Silicon Valley veterans and former CEOs and CMOs and founders.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

So PM is a unique position in many ways, and I think at the core, sorta what Christy was saying is PM sits at this intersection of design, business, and technology or engineering. So you can actually have sort of the benefit of, like, mutually exclusive positions. And everyone can come together and be efficient as a system.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Adam: Thank you, it feels a bit surreal still, mainly due to just how quickly the company has gone from seed to series, all in under a 12-month span. We felt fortunate to even be in a position to start the company when we did, and that appreciation has just fueled this really unprecedented year. How does that feel?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

As you become more established and comfortable navigating in your position, consider trying out your solution to problems that arise. These exercises with your report on handling situations and identifying phrasing that will be well-received will pay large dividends in the development of your report and save you time in the long run.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Satisfaction leads to positive reviews, recommendations, and increased user retention. There are various types of e-learning apps, each designed to serve different educational needs and preferences: Learning Management Systems (LMS): With these platforms, you create and manage educational courses or training programs.

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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. The foundation of a positive, two-way working relationship is having a sense for what motivates your teammate. The power of positive feedback.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 4, 2022

This article will explain the differences between these strategies including the benefits of combining static and dynamic thresholds to reduce false positives and alert storms whilst implementing automatic anomaly detection. Having to set thresholds manually for every single metric is a very time-consuming, monotonous exercise.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

In other words: If two teams are building a part of an application separately, that system will probably have two components, introducing dependencies and additional communication overhead. In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. They include: Close.io

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2019

For that exercise we’ve taken a random sample of 3000 bug recordings uploaded to our database in the last 2 months. Bug” is the most common word in bug reports For that exercise we used the titles of bug reports to create a word cloud and see the most common themes. could be due to the sample, though. Here’s what we found.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Introduction: The Product Manager’s Unique Challenge Product managers often find themselves in a unique position: responsible for a company’s future success but lacking the formal authority to implement changes directly. Due to recent downsizing, our subject company had only five team members available for this crucial project.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

” When you have that word followed by something positive, that’s predictability, and that’s what drives customers to come back because they’re using that word, always. Is it a ticketed system where I have to wait for somebody to get back to me? And I love the systems that work it out. What is it?”

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In turn, this made them do the exercises too slowly. We managed to find the right expressions, calls-to-action and sentences after all, but it could have gone much faster and easier if we had had a system or more experience in how to design our words. The copy I banged out caused all that. Their hopes and dreams.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Through the forced group review, the MRD and PRD gave the engineering team context. It doesn’t matter that you are the only one who refers to them after the initial review. These exercises became our 'script'. What was previously an outstanding, solid, diligent effort was taken to the next level – ownership.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

From this exercise, our goal is to understand how close AI is to automating the PM role, and what task areas are most likely to be delegated first. This let us set our own system prompt (the instructions for how the model should behave) rather than using the ChatGPT system prompt , which has a lot of extra words that might throw off our test.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Move away from this concept and toward the idea of a flywheel instead: feeding energy back into the system instead of success rates diminishing over time. You now have people whose entire job is to work on the knowledge bot or on a positive way of moving tickets and demand around. Speak the customer’s language.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2020

And while more paths of communication mean more opportunities to make a positive impact, they also require you to tailor the right messaging to the right channel. Map out every touchpoint between you and your customer and focus on making them as positively unforgettable as possible. But the best companies have a system in place.

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UX Studio

MARCH 13, 2023

Sharing your difficulties with a person who can help you build a resilient attitude is a great way to improve your mental health Move – Physical exercise can reduce stress and even improve symptoms of anxiety disorders and depression. Anonymized support groups, forums, and chat messages can have a positive impact on the therapies.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

The Value vs. Effort matrix compares the positive impact of a feature against the resources and time needed to implement it, highlighting high-impact, low-effort features. The Product Tree is a visualization tool that presents the hierarchy of features, from core systems to future enhancements. Weighted scoring system template.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time.

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eG Innovations

JULY 8, 2021

Beyond this if you are using Application Insights, there are alerting options with the smart detection module such as Failure Anomolies that it may be helpful to review. If you want to go further and integrate alerts with ticketing systems such as ServiceNow there are also associated costs. Counter name. LogicalDisk. Free Space.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . I appreciate the concept of the “business operating system” and balancing the agile enterprise.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Skill #2: Learn How to Become a Systems Thinker It’s super important to be able to understand interrelationships and patterns to help teams identify opportunities and innovate, quickly solve problems, and improve their decision-making. And systems thinking is the best way to build this competency. You just failed to be self-aware.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been on a sort of health kick for a few years: I quit smoking, I started walking to get low impact exercise, and so on. I could barely sit down in a chair from a standing position, or get in bed or roll over once in. My immune system is so strong that my immune system attacks my healthy cells.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The decision to stop supporting and enhancing that product experience was due to the rather obvious situation of the device in which that application existed was losing market hold and relevance. I’ll share a few examples on this particular topic. The first case was tied to a component of a larger product experience.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 19, 2024

Nice also can be cringeworthy when a manager says you are “nice” during a performance review. The insight puts you in a more informed position to redirect preconceived notions and help others to see you or the situation differently. We return to the monkey and the pedestal or systems thinking.

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UX Studio

APRIL 25, 2019

It can differentiate you from the competition, project positive feelings or make it easier for customers to remember and choose your product over others. To better keep track of all insights and emerging patterns, we recommend building a research system: Surveys – online, by email or telephone. Research facilitates getting these right.

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