Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses , the community , or the Continuous Discovery Habits book—focuses on the various facets of continuous discovery. The only problem? The interviews led to new opportunities and a new, dedicated opportunity solution tree.”

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Here are a few product and mobile-focused blogs recommended by your peers: Product Hunt. Mobile App Management Blog by Apperian. Apptamin Blog. All the time. PM Subreddits.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 3, 2021

Check out the 10-minute video version of this blog post. Removing blind spots means we see, interact with, and move closer to understanding reality. This blog post maps mental models (now there’s meta for you). we need to fix the problem, but the priority is minor. Prefer watching your insights? The data is inconclusive.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. Want to check out the other posts in this series?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

All the while, he’s been sharing his latest thoughts on infrastructure, devtools, management and more, on his Irrational Exuberance blog. Will Larson: When I graduated from college I was actually teaching English in Japan for a year, and that’s when I started doing a lot of tech blogging. product called Yahoo!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2022

So here I’m going to describe my first two years here so you can get a sense of what engineering work at Intercom actually looks like – how do we approach problems, how do we collaborate, how do we build product, how do we treat one another. in a period of rapid growth, with exciting new challenges and problems to solve.

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UX Studio

APRIL 19, 2024

In the following blog post, we’ll explore some of the issues and provide solutions for creating a better image-generation experience. If concerns and problems around generative AI are addressed and managed, AI image generation could become a powerful alternative to stock photography. Look no further! So why wait?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This feature, if it solves a customer problem, results in measurable changes in how customers behave in your product, and ultimately this behavior change delivers an impact to your business. Context: where we’ve come from in trying to move to outcomes. First some context. .

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In 2013/2014, the company began scaling rapidly and moved to India to accelerate its growth. BizTalk server specialist, Saravana Kumar, moved to London in the year 2000. In his words, “I went to a manager at the time, and I told him I wanted to build this solution.” Presently, Kovai.co How it started. The present.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

On the other hand, the purpose of a backlog is to assess opportunities, run discovery on them, and use that evidence to implement solutions. Instead of putting features on roadmaps, an outcome-based approach should be used to focus on the questions to be answered, not the final solutions. With that, let’s move on.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What is a framework for problem-solving? We also look at examples of different frameworks and the main steps in the problem-solving process. A framework for problem-solving allows product teams to find the causes of the problems and generate solutions in an organized way. What is a problem-solving framework?

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The problem most salespeople have in the discovery process is trying to validate that buyers have problems their products solve. You already know that because they’re talking to you about your solutions. The Remedy – Asking Different Discovery Questions. Guess what? Save these questions for later.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

After reading a blog or a book or attending a conference or talk on product management, I’m always excited to try out the new processes and frameworks I’ve learned about. Solving I nteresting problems that are M eaningful to P eople, with A ctionable plans that are C lear and T estable. Meaningful Product Processes with IMPACT.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Couple findings with other reports to analyze user behavior Funnel analysis helps point out where the problem lies, but it doesn’t show you what’s causing it. Armed with this additional insight, you can deploy tooltips or other contextual solutions to help users engage better. Funnel analysis report showing drop-off rate in Userpilot.

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Userpilot

APRIL 28, 2022

What is the opportunity solution tree? This article covers Teresa’s Torres famous opportunity solution tree method for continuous discovery and steps to build one. The OST is a visual aid illustrating the interdependencies between the desired outcome, opportunities, solutions, and the experiments needed to validate the solutions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

An interesting problem statement Twitter was trying to solve was?—?“How The proposed solution, supported by research, was Smart Auto-Dropping of Images. Credits: Twitter Engineering Blog The new mechanism was released sometime in 2018. Testing the effectiveness of your solution in 20% is sometimes, not as easy as your 80%.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2024

This could be from blog articles, social media posts, paid ads, or a recommendation from a colleague. Consideration stage At this stage of the product funnel, prospects start considering the product as a solution to their problem. MOFU content focuses more on the problem and a solution and only plugs the product in as a side.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. Overengineering leads to longer development times, higher costs, technical debt, and problems achieving the PMF. User stories make you focus on solving specific user problems rather than the actual features.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 23, 2020

How product managers can find a new angle on problems and be better problem solvers. First, to help us solve the right problem. He also shared the tools of reframing in his book, What’s Your Problem, published by Harvard Business Review. 4:04] Why are a lot of people not naturally good problem solvers?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

We talked about my blog (I had an anonymous blog where I wrote about my life), my volunteering experience as a medical clown and working in hospitals with kids, and also about mathematics, computer science, and marketing. While this type of answer could be 100% accurate, it’s not a helpful one if you need to move forward.

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Userpilot

MAY 31, 2022

The main difference between reactive and proactive support is that the former waits for customers to reach out with an issue for you to resolve, but the latter identifies potential problems before they happen and suggests solutions to customers, saving time and resources. Proactive customer service vs. reactive customer service.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Yet most roadmaps have a big problem in common. And the problem with a list of features is that the rest of your company, and your clients, think it’s a commitment. You need to say no to features and start talking about problems. One of many, many roadmaps. Start Talking About Outcomes. You need to start talking about outcomes.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

TL;DR Customer empathy is putting yourself in your customers’ shoes to better understand their problems and make it a part of your company culture to develop solutions that satisfy them on practical and emotional levels. Before you develop features, ensure enough users need them and they solve significant enough problems.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Themes are “a promise to solve problems, not build features”. The idea behind developing themes is to take a 30,000 Ft view and focus on the root of the problem rather than burden yourself with a list of features. Developing themes enables you to define priorities in terms of problem areas or initiatives to tackle these problems.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

I hated it and saw it as a chore, but when I grew up I found myself writing a personal blog anonymously. As product leaders, we live in the heart of many conflicts , and we often see our job as getting people to agree so that we can move on and get things done. When you view it that way, whenever someone argues with you it’s a problem.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Always ask 'what' and 'why' when looking to solve problems. Use a product problem template that can help your team identify opportunities. When considering what to focus on next, product managers should always ask two key questions: What problem are we trying to solve? The product problem template.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Though I had no idea what I was doing, before I knew it, I interviewed external customers, internal stakeholders, and various customer-facing teams to understand the problem better. Then, I created a product roadmap to move that strategy forward, which ultimately drove a 15% increase in revenue and a 20% increase in retention.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Determine the problem you are going to solve for your target customers. Perform a competitive analysis of the currently available solutions to the user problem. Carry out customer discovery to validate the problem and your solution. Determine what problem you are trying to solve. Stages of product planning.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 15, 2024

then move up to the Northeast and over to the West Coast near key distribution hubs. The problem that retailers ran into was that the distance between where the cold items were being stored and where their customers were located was too great. A new solution was needed. However, there is a bit of a problem with this plan.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For enterprises, this acceleration of content in a social media-dominated discourse presents a real problem.”. The solution to combating the “fake news” – at least in a product organisation – is good intelligence. Fake News in Your Organization. Identify and Remedy Issues Surrounding Churn.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2021

It’s a temporary state where your product is solving a big enough problem with the right solution for your customers. Generating product hypotheses is a blog on its own. Here is a blog from Hackernoon with a more in-depth explanation. Getting to 80% confidence is enough for you to move to the next step.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

Design thinking is an iterative problem-solving approach that involves applying design solutions, to solve problems. Where design thinking encourages innovative solutions, the human-centered design prioritizes good usability and a great user experience. Both methods are driven by empathy. What is design thinking?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 11, 2024

So the thing that I started doing was writing blog posts for Mode’s corporate blog. The very first blog post was a blog post about Miley Cyrus, one of those “data-driven looks at pop culture” things, kind of like what FiveThirtyEight did for a while. I had to ghostwrite economic policy papers.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

How product managers can gain influence, solve problems, and propel their organizations to success. There was a product vacuum as one of the co-founders was becoming CEO, and development management was moving out of product into more technical aspects. I talked to a lot of people and wrote down the problems people shared with me.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The product design process always begins with understanding the problem and the user’s goals. It allows you to frame problems and identify solutions as you map the full scope of the product. You can easily adapt, move, and adjust future sprints to fit in with requirements. What problem are you trying to solve?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this blog, we’ll explain why, and how you can get more of your users adopting your product – becoming long-term, stable, and profitable customers. Early Adopters expect a product to work well, and support when they encounter problems. Dissatisfaction with the old solution (or lack thereof) provides a push to change.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even if you have strategy frameworks set up, problems in the design and research processes can misguide your strategy. In this article, I’ll bring personal examples to illustrate these problems and recommend solutions to them. If all the insights are right, but the solutions are not good enough, the result is the same.

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