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? Christy: All right. I am Christy Culp.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Having a well-thought-out product management process can help you build a high-impact product roadmap, smartly collect customer feedback, know which initiatives or requests to prioritize, get executive buy-ins, etc. Conduct user testing and gather feedback.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

And it’s also become the epitome of user-friendliness. Here I explain some localization best practices and solutions. usually within the user interface?—?and The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand. Translatable texts?—?usually

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. In this role, she led a small marketing team and worked with them to develop customer personas to further improve the effectiveness of the organization’s marketing campaigns.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Focus on Problem Validation, not Solution Building. Talk to the Users.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

For the last couple of years, the pandemic has forced organizations to adapt and make changes in how they grow, provide support, and retain customers around the world. With the 2022 Customer Service Quality Benchmark Report , we wanted to look deeper than individual metrics. Declan Ivory , VP of Customer Support at Intercom.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

Imagine you are a Customer Success Manager (CSM), and you wonder what the future holds for you. Let’s begin with what makes you unique as a customer success professional. Over the past ten years, the role of Customer Success Manager has evolved and changed as much as the field of SaaS has.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Product tours are an essential way to onboard users in your app. Yet, all too often, SaaS businesses see their customers not completing the product tour, or even churning during the onboarding stage. Product tours are a way of showing users the product features they need to learn in order to activate.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JANUARY 30, 2020

In the last year, major companies in business intelligence (BI) digital solutions, such as Qlik and Tableau were already investing on it. Namely, its potential to provide companies with actionable insights rather than with abstract raw data. However, it's essential that businesses don't underestimate those tools' UX design.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2021

Are you just starting to put together a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program? There are a lot of both in-app tools and outside the app methods of collecting user sentiment data to understand what your users really want, we’re going to show you the best practices and which common mistakes to avoid.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 6, 2021

How involved is your Customer Success team in product launches? Customer Success brings a deep understanding of customers’ needs and pain points. Within your organization, customer feedback is likely being funneled across different functions—product, marketing, sales, customer success, etc.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. An example of the former would be “Find out if users are willing to share personal data as part of the initial registration process” to address a user-interaction risk. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. On a call, we will discuss your challenges and motivations to craft a customized solution for your organization. .

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Your hiring manager will assume you’ve investigated the company’s solution and have some thoughts about the types of analytics you would need to make strategic recommendations. Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here. Examples might include: Business intelligence tools. Project management tools.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The customer finding it could damage your reputation. Negative online feedback is just a finger’s swipe away. It’s nice to have your customers testing the application. Do we have any smart solutions available? It is a cost-effective and real-world multi-platform testing approach. It can easily make or break brands.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Due to the number of applicants, making it past the resume screen may rely on a bit of luck.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Startup founder?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. working on radar systems. I liked being that interface between what the company was building and what the customer needs.” Some of you may have heard of the Peloton Cycle.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? Instead, they should set up a standard approach for local leadership groups, and then let the local team customize it to their needs. Designer: “I’m seeing some signs that the work we’re doing right now might not be very well understood by end users.” Give them lots of support and direct feedback.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. One of the themes that emerged over the course of the conference was the importance of understanding the needs of customers and the metrics you can use to better understand and act on their real, rather than stated, needs.

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Modus Create

MAY 11, 2020

However, this article is about opportunities and solutions, not about problems nor predictions. For people in tech, it’s just our daily environment, nothing too fancy, nothing too hard. This applies not only in tech, but also in politics and society. There are no doubts that an economic crisis will come. Is it hard?

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. Teresa : I’m going to do a quick review of what we covered in Part 1 and Part 2. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together. Thanks for joining.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roadmap Planning process Unlike Consumer products, you have two different types of audience to satisfy in Enterprise world, namely Buyer and User Persona. You need to be precise, if it’s the CEO, CFO, VP – Sales, CMO, etc… You need to know as what ROI this user looks out to buy the product and continue to stay vested in the journey.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the Understand the technical architecture for the product : Get an engineer to sit down with you and explain how the product works under the hood and which major technologies and frameworks have been used. but actual user complaints, or verbatims. As an aside?—?I’ve

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

The book starts with Sean agreeing to be the first product manager at Alpha Technology Ventures. He is initially overwhelmed but quickly falls back on his product and customer knowledge along with building relationships with his new peers in Engineering and Project Management.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As product managers, we bear the responsibility for bridging the two worlds – technical and business, and need to influence both. Change must happen on two levels across the organization: Technical – Roles and responsibilities must be understood, accepted, and adopted. As a result, specializations in roles developed.

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