The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data. These system errors increased our backlog and costs, and delayed enrollments.

Research Software 384

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 6, 2021

Ratings and Reviews. Food and Drink app ratings and and reviews were slightly higher than macro averages across both iOS and Android, particularly within the Restaurants category. star rating, and had 1,223 app store reviews. star rating, and had 4,695 app store reviews. star rating, and had 4,695 app store reviews.

Feedback Software 243

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. This could be due to lack of product, domain, system understanding and action should be taken to address such instances soon. This could also be due to stringent processes or lack of the same. Soft Skills Required for the Role.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

New research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals that businesses of all sizes – from small businesses to enterprises – are realizing the business value of personal, efficient customer engagement. Creating quality customer experiences has always been important for retaining customers.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The effectiveness of a design system cannot be assumed; it must be actively measured and optimized over time. A robust design system should not only streamline design and development processes but also ensure scalability as the organization grows, adapts to new platforms, and handles diverse product requirements. Image by Steve Dennis.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Image by Cody Cai Design system governance models help organizations manage and maintain design systems across teams and products. There are three popular models —  Solitary , Centralized , and Federated  — each offer different approaches to how design systems are governed within an organization. Image by Nathan Curtis.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This article reviews 3 popular contribution models: 1. It uses the hybrid model of contribution where the central design system team is responsible for the overall direction. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful.

Systems Review 98

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. Customer reviews are a great way to track sentiment, and in-app ratings prompts can help inspire customers to leave their thoughts on your mobile experience. In-app ratings prompts.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We introduced regular alert review sessions for teams dealing with frequent alerts. Each alert review session starts with an ordered list of alerts that fired in the previous period, ordered by frequency of their firing. fire most frequently) are reviewed first. . 8 questions to ask when assessing your team’s alerts.

Data Visualization 209

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. For example, more customers than ever have had to pivot to online shopping; for many, this has come with an added level of stress due to factors like shortages in supply chains and delivery delays. With empathy. “I

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. What is Systems Thinking? Interrelationship: all parts affect each other within a system.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

That could be a simple pass-fail scoring or a more complex system. [8:21] The level of complexity of the portfolio management system needs to line up with the decision-making pace of the organization. In some cases, a simpler system is better than a complex system. 8:21] Who is involved in portfolio management?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. We had terminology replacements drafted and people with an appetite to make changes.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Classics: time-tested customer experience metrics Net Promotor Score (NPS) Introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a leading growth indicator across industries. This makes them vulnerable to switching to a competitor due to pricing, missing features, or poor customer experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

Research Software 267

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Ranch and Dexter Bourbon Distillery, Hall discovered that successful innovation requires a bottom-up transformation focusing first on empowering frontline employees to fix inefficiencies (“stop the stupid”), then enabling middle managers to improve systems, and finally allowing leadership to pursue bigger strategic innovations.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

Understanding OKRs: From Intel to Modern Product Teams The evolution of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) began at Intel during the 1970s and 1980s, where Andy Grove transformed the traditional Management by Objectives (MBO) system into something more dynamic and outcome-focused.

Systems Review 282

Systems Review Framework Customer Experience Technical Review 282

Product Talk

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Our more senior engineer might be most interested in system architecture, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. The most senior engineer might be most interested in system architecture, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. However, sometimes this doesn’t work for engineering.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2020

Rarely, they come due to professional interest alignment. My network is a great learning support system. But I must admit, once I graduated, networking opportunities shrunk drastically. Moreover, the networking opportunities all mentioned channels offer are usually personal, or via shared interest and hobby.

Product Management 468

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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). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

Feedback Software 372

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

Monitoring and alerting systems aren’t perfect, and it can take some time for the customers to notice problems and report them to the support team. We all deal with business-critical legacy systems from time to time. Even the simplest change to those systems could be risky because of your lack of context and the potential blast radius.

Data Visualization 282

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. Then draw a coordinate system that takes into account time, captured as sprints, and effort in the product backlog, which might be expressed as story points. Rough, high-level estimates are sufficient.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

Escalate to your manager when you have an interest in developing a skill or learning something about the business (ex: SQL, storyboarding, core system flow, etc). You’re working diligently on a high priority ask, but then you get blindsided by a request from a stakeholder. Continuous Learning: Leveling up your skills.

Product Management 300

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 19, 2021

In our early days, like many other companies, we prioritized the speed of shipping over maintaining the consistency and interconnectedness of our system. But it made the idea tangible and showed that, in theory, everything could be built on top of a single system. Let’s say our system consists of these five objects.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2020

Almost one million children died from pneumonia in 2019, and 99% of those deaths were in developing nations, mainly due to a lack of supplemental concentrated oxygen. At Lean Med, we are developing a solar-powered oxygen system for use in developing countries. Our system can save hundreds of thousands of lives. [4:43]

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

Research Software 370

Research Software User Testing Analytic Tools Product Research 370

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

It underpins a whole host of core Intercom features – Inbox Views , API , Articles , the user list, Reporting , Resolution Bot , and our internal logging systems. To provide the needed level of this “invisible” management, we utilized a combination of two technologies – Chef and AWS Systems Manager (SSM). Architecture of the system.

Reporting Tools 249

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

One project I worked on was the installation of telephone billing systems. A telephone billing system is a product that a telephone company uses to send you those awful monthly telephone bills. The telephone company used the telephone billing system to generate invoices to get revenue.

Reporting Tools 257

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

OpenAI released their most recent machine learning system, AI system, and they released it very publicly, and it was ChatGPT. So when you look at it at a glance, it looks correct, and until you really apply your slower systemic reasoning, it can be hard to see that. So, it’s an interesting question.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Almost all apps have experienced one of three significant changes to their DAU due to COVID-19: massive drops, huge spikes, or higher frequency of app usage. Almost all of our customers’ apps have experienced a significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. For apps in the hardest-hit industries, DAU is down 60-75%. Huge spikes.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

This meant that they could attach information like the user ID to the Typeform page and review it as part of the responses users provided. Tweet This While this system wasn’t perfect, it worked pretty well for Ellen’s needs. With the user ID, they could look the person up in Amplitude and see how active a user they were.

Product Research 304

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning? Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

Analytic Tools 356

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There’s a huge wealth of other qualitative data that often gets ignored by product teams because it is so hard to use—for example, customer support tickets, sales call transcripts, social media mentions, interview transcripts, and product reviews. You pipe your feedback into one system that is your record for customer feedback.

Data Visualization 314

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2021

These platform dynamics have led to the emergence of API-first apps that are designed to connect and deeply integrate with your existing messaging, CRM, and prospecting technology to streamline communication and enhance each touchpoint of the sales motion – without having to “rip and replace” entire sales systems.

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