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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Product launches Customer Feedback User Friction Onboarding KPIs 52

Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Making of Product Managers by Lena Sesardic gives you eight actionable insights from 20 stories of real product managers who broke into product management from different fields.

Books 98

Books Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools 98

Gainsight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As the Customer Success function matures, it’s increasingly clear that Customer Success Operations (CS Ops) plays a critical role in driving effectiveness and efficiency just as Sales Ops does for the Sales function. Jeff is the Senior Manager of Customer Success Operations. . Operationalizing Customer Success Journeys.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools User Testing Data Visualization Reporting Tools 52

Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

Technical Advisors 69

Technical Advisors Data Visualization Customer Experience Startups 69

Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

This is why a lot of companies are investing in User Research. Ultimately, the purpose of a research study is to gain insights in order to learn something new, answer key questions, and generate empathy for the end user. In order to do this, it means those insights you’re gathering have to be actionable.

Data Visualization 55

Data Visualization Customer Feedback Customer Experience Technical Advisors 55

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. How do you deal with that?

Product Research 97

Product Research Technical Advisors Customer Experience User Testing 97

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. . What if something fails?

Consulting 86

Consulting Research Software Reporting Tools User Testing 86

Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technical Advisors Reporting Tools Data Visualization 52

Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

Paul writes: I’ve spent the best part of 30 years thinking about ways to help salespeople to get better, to develop more from their customer base and to have satisfying and enjoyable sales careers. Alex B Alternatively you may have hired Alex B because they were warm, empathetic, a great listener, and very customer centric.

Research Software 69

Research Software Technical Advisors Customer Experience Data Visualization 69

Gainsight

JUNE 18, 2020

Today I’m speaking with Janine Snead , IBM’s Chief Digital Officer, Vice President of Customer Success IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software. IBM has one of the largest product portfolios in the world, and I’m proud of how they’ve found a way to drive customer success across so many business units and products.

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization Technical Review Technical Advisors Customer Experience 52

Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

Technical Advisors 40

Technical Advisors Data Visualization Customer Experience Startups 40

Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

As always the core of the conference is our line-up of amazing speakers, and the insights and stories they bring to the conference is what starts all those conversations. Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor.

Technical Cofounder 76

Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO Coach User Testing 76

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. Let's get into it.

Analytic Tools 81

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs Software Review 81

Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Too often, they are conflated with product tours , leaving the customer confused as to why they are being shown features they don’t need. In this article, we’ve put all our insights from building walkthroughs with thousands of SaaS companies in one place. Let’s get into it. That’s a product tour , and you should avoid those.

Analytic Tools 98

Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience Data Visualization 98

Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

We work with hundreds of SaaS companies and are willing to share the insights from all those conversations with you. Onboarding software is typically used to educate new users , demonstrate new features to advanced users, or train new hires. And it’s in retaining your customers that the money lies in the SaaS world.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools Software Review Data Visualization User Testing 52

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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Weak Development Team Development Technical Advisors Software Review 78

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.

User Testing 40

User Testing Enterprise Roadmap Product Research 40

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. Crowdtesting is simply user testing through broader groups of people. You can engage with your employees as well as your customers.

Reporting Tools 76

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Data Visualization Crowdsource 76

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.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Onboarding KPIs Embedded Analytics Reporting Tools 52

Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. Look for an agency with expertise in your chosen channel, a solid productized services model, excellent customer service and reasonable prices. Customer service. Broken links.

Research Software 98

Research Software Marketing Technical Advisors Customer Experience 98

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Building empathy for users. From a user experience perspective, Reddit hadn’t been updated for about eight to 10 years, and it’s well known for being a site that was anchored in the past. The challenge, though, is that meant new users to the site were having a bad experience. Nick: There are two approaches.

Engineering 141

Engineering Leadership CTO Coach Feedback Software 141

Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I was a product manager myself, then led product teams and have over the past several years been advising organizations’ product groups on the skills needed to be successful. Google “storytelling”, and you’ll find numerous posts on how to train a salesforce on storytelling techniques. We sell ideas. We sell visions. Influencing Others.

Technical Advisors 40

Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Vision 40

Aptrinsic

JANUARY 2, 2018

How to Build and Manage Successful Product Team During Aptrinsic ’s recent Mastering Product Adoption and Growth event, industry-renowned product leaders shared their insights into driving product growth. Today, about 76,000 businesses and more than 56 millions users trust Box to manage content in the cloud. Vitamins are nice to have.

User Testing 40

User Testing Technical Advisors Customer Experience Customer Feedback 40

UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I also noticed that companies that do pay attention to it have better user experience for their products. And, you know, user experience makes up the whole thing, the whole experience. . They focused too much on their technical side or even visual design, but nothing about the communication. Pixel location doesn’t matter.

UX 78

UX Customer Experience User Testing Technical Advisors 78

Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. We talked about opportunity solution trees , customer journey maps, experience maps, story mapping —there are lots of ways for teams to externalize their thinking so that they can align around it and stakeholders can follow their progress.

Product Research 214

Product Research User Testing Research Software Data Visualization 214

Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

But he didn’t have as much of the classical training for, “How do we get a process set up? That actually is quite insightful, because then when you’re trying to hire for those people, it sounds like you have to build out those networks—which you are probably doing now, I suspect. Latif: Wow. How do they react to it?”

Startups 53

Startups Technical Advisors Research Software Product Research 53

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. Participating in technical release planning.

Technical Advisors 70

Technical Advisors Technical Review Feedback Software Agile 70

Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

User Testing 92

User Testing Weak Development Team Technical Advisors Analytic Tools 92

All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

It’s been over a year since the product management team went on a series of agile/scrum training courses. Agile/Scrum Training On-line Product Managers, Web Editors and Business Owners spent a few days on a scrum master and product owner’s training course. Problems and Issues The real battle started after the training.

Agile 48

Agile Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager 48

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

So, it would really help if as we kind of go through this I can get some feedback from folks about what you’ve heard what you’ve done. Do we create any value for our business for our customers? And, 2) as leaders we need to learn how to give feedback and give input without dictating outputs.

User Testing 59

User Testing Feedback Software Research Software Product Research 59