The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. The four memorable moments below taught me, and continue to teach me these lessons.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2019

Know how to test a product by measuring risk through desirability, viability, and feasibility. We are discussing a valuable new book titled Testing Business Ideas. It is full of practical experiments we can do as product managers to help us with problem-solution fit. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [5:28]

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

It is tailored for product teams who need to send NPS surveys inside their app and analyze it without technical expertise. A 14-day free trial is available for businesses to test the platform before committing. Conduct A/B testing on your surveys to ensure the design, questions, and timing drive higher engagement rates.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did. About Hannah Kim. Better Decisions.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. It’s not about finding the right tech stack; it’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The episode also covers potential pitfalls in prototyping and best practices for product managers. The Power of Prototyping in Product Management The Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice University is an academic makerspaces where students learn innovation and product development skills.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We had a large group of talented people – some who knew features and workarounds better than anyone else, some who were experts in technical concepts, some who excelled in project and relationship management, and others who had a deep knowledge of particular industries. Set live, test, and improve. The only problem?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

How to solve common dysfunctions in product management Today’s guest is Ben Foster, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Prodify. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He  He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. Explore the article below for more.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is because they have a depth of knowledge of what’s possible technically. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security. Engineers often generate the best solutions.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. This is a valid question. Quantum Metric.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch. Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints. The sales and management teams wanted us to deliver the entire product at the launch.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now I believe the future of product management looks like Tal Raviv. He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers).

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. Ok, that’s great for UX theory nerds.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

What product managers need to know about selecting and managing projects. This is the next episode in the series on a product management body of knowledge I’m doing every-other-week. Our guest, who also authored the portfolio management chapter of the PDMA BoK book, is Steve Atherton.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. This article will help reduce such churn by refining your product management and UX analysis approach. Coming to product experimentation , testing multiple changes at once can confuse the results.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

As she tells it, “When I was fresh out of college, I was working at my first job in the tech industry. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. For example, webcams with built-in facial detection sometimes don’t detect people with darker skin , because they were only tested on people with lighter skin.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. The top challenges of product management.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As these examples show, it is worthwhile to carefully consider if a platform can benefit your business, thoughtfully building it, and carefully managing it. Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. OKRs should serve the strategy, not dictate it.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’m a product manager at Stripe.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

This has been challenging to navigate as there are not many resources available on how to manage not only a maturing product but the changes that come with rapid organisational growth. 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.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch. Supporting tech. Quantum Metric.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their pain points. Usability Benchmarking, Online Assessments, Surveys, A/B Testing. Learning Points. Way Forward.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

A/B and multivariate testing for optimizing user experiences. While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Since #mtpcon Singapore 2019 Mind the Product has been on a mission to support the continuing growth of the AsiaPac tech community. By general consensus product management as a discipline in AsiaPac remains behind the West and the product management role is misunderstood at times. Behind the West?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The episode provides valuable lessons for product managers and innovators in various industries, highlighting the importance of executive sponsorship, employee engagement, and a structured innovation process. PDMA contributes significantly to research and knowledge in the field of product innovation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15] For example, the Wyze Cam, a security camera, detects people, pets, and packages, and we’re beta testing face recognition. The leading brand cost about $150.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Product managers live and breathe this approach, diving beyond symptoms to address root causes. A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Sam Lightowler’s Advice: Use a Diagram to Demonstrate Value Meet Sam Lightowler, Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sam Lightowler , Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stepped in to share her experience. and CBC Gem. and CBC Gem.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We were now reviewing the features to be sunset, and the teams to work on them. With a dedicated reverse roadmap, you can easily show the experience improvements due to the deletion. Eliminating those features will make it feel good and allow time to test new concepts. Product teams would much rather build new stuff.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

We’ve researched, tested, and curated a list of 10 top-rated session recording tools to help you unlock valuable user insights and build better digital experiences. Hotjar – Best for product managers, UX designers, and marketers – Free plan available; paid plans start at $32/month. G2 rating: 4.3/5 G2 rating: 4.6/5

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Here are some classics on product manager hiring along with value-added commentary. Meanwhile, the product management hiring industry has apparently made a fetish out of its own formulaic interview questions which only prove that you’ve exhaustively studied the rote patterns they rely on. Plus a bonus.

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