Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Or how about telling the execs at Microsoft Office that their model of selling physical boxes of Office software is a one way ticket to death by Google Workspace? For every React, there’s a javascript library or framework that never quite catches on – or dies a sudden death after being dethroned by a new kid on the block.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? What techniques and methods can you use to validate feature ideas effectively? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. How can you build one?

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2023

Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. Helps users adopt advanced features with a continuous onboarding process. Use in-app prompts , like tooltips and modals, to highlight those features. #5: Postfity welcome survey.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We’ve posed this question at the ProductPlan blog: Does a product manager need to be technical? A SaaS product manager won’t need to code features or fix bugs in the company’s app. It can literally mean the difference between life and death. Those prescriptions lead to suffering or even death.

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Userpilot

JUNE 21, 2022

Is the feature fallacy trap really a thing? We’ve all been there… having that tough conversation about how that next awesome feature will change it all. The truth is though, no matter how much we think we’re one feature away from making it big, the likelihood is that is not going to happen. How to avoid the feature fallacy trap.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s connected to important SaaS metrics like activation , retention , and feature usage. For example, if you’re using a project management tool: Wow Moment : you log in for the first time and see all the features you dreamed of, complete with a really intuitive UI. For more on this particular nuance, see this blog post.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2021

Managing a product with no development budget can be a product manager’s worst nightmare, but it doesn’t have to be a death sentence for the product. Blog posts ?—?your your company has a blog and I’m pretty sure your high-quality and authentic content will generate more traffic than the usual marketing fluff-driven posts.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? This leads to its eventual death. The Userpilot engagement layer can help you onboard users and announce new product features. Instead of building a number of features, focus on a set of 3 or so minimum viable features and build a solid MVP around them.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

You probably thought that companies only used one type of persona for sales, marketing, feature adoption , and everything else. You see, knowing the types of customers you don’t want helps you achieve customer fit faster while avoiding falling into the feature-fallacy trap or the product death cycle.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Sprint Reviews are a zone free from death by PowerPoint. Ambassadors collect feedback, track feature requests, and check bugs prior to reporting. Or the company blog. It greatly contributes to other components of the communication strategy sketched above if you can link to a detailed blog-post. Show, don’t tell.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In my last blog, we talked about being a PM in a Startup. There are less life and death moments with a clearer path of where you’re going. Use product features as a Trojan horse to fix up tech debt Think of creative ways to scale the business into other markets / segments. A Scale-Up is can be an exciting time to join a company.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 27, 2020

Download the Remote Agile Guide for Free Virtual Liberating Structures for a Remote Sprint Planning The Sprint Planning indeed features a level of bringing everyone onto the same page, although this should not be confusing with a reporting session. Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ?? Well, then: ??

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

Image taken from Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer A core component of iterative development is the continuous cycle of feedback and improvement of new features. Each increment is a fully functional release of the software, even though it may not contain all planned features.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2022

Low production costs and declining sales growth are features of the maturity phase. It is the stage before death with shrinking sales volume and dwindling profit margins. But that’s where the similarities end and the differences begin: The BCG Matrix features four stages instead of five: Question Mark , Star , Cash Cow , and Dog.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The Development Team Death by PowerPoint : Participants are bored to death by PowerPoint. The Stakeholders Scrum à la stage-gate® : The Sprint Review is a kind of stage-gate® approval process where stakeholders sign off features. Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ?? Well, then: ??

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Most folks are looking for a pointer to a book or a class they can take on product management, but I always reply with a collection of blog posts from practitioners sharing their best practices. Spool Babe Ruth and Feature Lists - Ken Norton Using The Kano Model To Prioritize Product Development - Martin Eriksson Position, Position, Position!

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We’ve posed this question at the ProductPlan blog: Does a product manager need to be technical? A SaaS product manager won’t need to code features or fix bugs in the company’s app. It can literally mean the difference between life and death. Those prescriptions lead to suffering or even death.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Common use cases for tooltips in the SaaS world include user onboarding , upsells, new features , and product tours. It exists to explain how that UI element works, which is particularly useful when the feature in question is unintuitive or new. That makes standalone tooltips perfect for explaining one ambiguous product feature.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 1, 2020

This is draining for the startup as it is slowly bleeding its way to death. No matter how many relationship blogs people read, they still commit the same mistakes that drive them towards divorces. Feedback means being objective by saying: I would choose your competitor’s product because it has the following features.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2022

A good onboarding system will positively impact metrics like activation , retention , feature usage and Time to Value. 4 – Feature usage. A common reason for creating onboarding processes is to show your customer how to use a new feature. The better your user onboarding strategy, the more customers will use that feature.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 3, 2019

Brian Balfour How You Battle the "Data Wheel of Death" in Growth. Similar to an aircraft these tools provide you gauges to course correct your business, but if they are showing you the wrong information you'll end up in a death spiral. Don't ship new features without a clear tracking plan. Change the definition of done.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To illustrate what I mean, releasing an onboarding flow to explain a new feature to a customer who's been around for 1 year would be classed as secondary onboarding. In this example, Hubspot asks a user if they are tired of copying and pasting, and uses that pain point to push a secondary template feature. Users hate this.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

For example, if regular customers have trouble with a certain feature, you can trigger an interactive walkthrough when they use it for the first time. Improve customer experience with Userpilot Userpilot is a product growth platform with various features and tools that can help you improve your customer service and experience.

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Iteratively Blog

MAY 31, 2020

With product analytics, you can understand how customers are using your product and what features led to retention? What percent of users are discovering our core features? Measure feature adoption : With product analytics, you're able to track how folks are engaging and adopting new features.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2018

Countless books and blog posts exist about the skills to prioritize features and launch products. As critical as some projects as product manager may be, we can learn from leadership in life-or-death situations. Wilde What makes a wildly successful product manager? Sure, some technical knowledge doesn’t hurt.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 31, 2018

10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned. Expanding on a tweetstorm, this essay breaks down the key lessons I’ve learned from running a professional blog over the last 10 years. Featured essays from 2016. Featured essays from 2015. The Next Feature Fallacy. This is the Product Death Cycle.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

If the Product Owner ignores the need for this work, and the Development Team accepts this attitude, the Scrum Team will find itself in a downward spiral, turning slowly but steadily into an output-focused feature factory. Development Team Anti-Patterns: Sprint Review Death by PowerPoint : Participants are bored to death by PowerPoint.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The hardware is designed to provide Autopilot features right now, with the expectation that full self-driving capabilities will be available in the near future. We’ve seen it with 3D movies, which almost died a slow and quiet death in the early 2000s only to boom back into popularity, and now we’re going to see it with folding phones.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 11, 2022

Your product is a matter of life or death for the user. Slack’s little finger icon pointing to the messaging feature is instructive here. Good reasons could be: You have a complicated API to integrate, without which the user can’t get any value from your app. Welcome screen. Welcome screen built with Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

Trust is the beginning of all; without it, transparency, inspection, and adaptation would be able to work their magic, and we end up as distributed feature factories.) ?? ?? Death by PowerPoint : Meetings still revolve around an individual broadcasting a slide deck. All blog posts on Liberating Structures for Scrum. ??

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A good user onboarding experience will increase your activation rate and drive user retention and feature adoption. New user onboarding experience increases feature adoption. Do you have a feature that you just know that your users would love… if only they would adopt it? What makes a user onboarding good?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

This siloed mentality turned out to be the death knell for many early Internet stars. Within this line, the most important initiative was to add or subtract features, according to what the market seemed to demand at the time. It’s all about features. This article was originally published on The Product School blog.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Your executive stakeholders have life-and-death power over your products. You can find plenty of guidance on this blog about dealing with your executives. This is why I’m suggesting we de-prioritize that feature.” Cool features can work wonders for a product’s performance in the market. ” 4.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I help Teresa out with content for the Product Talk blog. ” It actually increases your likelihood of landing on a solution—whether it’s a feature or a new product—that has a higher probability of achieving your goals. We’re focusing on shipping code, delivering features, hitting our roadmap. I’m Melissa.

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Dear Strategy

MAY 10, 2018

In very short summary of what really is an excellent book, the basic idea is to find “blue ocean” market spaces where other competitors aren’t playing, rather than playing in “red ocean” spaces where competitors are fighting each other to their bloody deaths. And that’s just on the product side of things.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

The major feature of Apple Podcasts is that — despite its shortcomings in user-facing features and monetization — it’s pre-installed on all iPhones, making it a tap away for 900M people worldwide. I categorized consumer podcast listening apps into three major categories: The incumbent: Apple Podcasts. Long-tail listening apps.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They offered solutions and suggestions for Sys Admins via content in blogs, KB’s, videos and webcasts. We want to focus on what we learned over here at our near-death experience. And we referred to this in our history as the slow bleed of death. Owl that woke him up is still the screech of death owl.

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