Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Poor marketing.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Without product analytics, how do you know how to move the needle with your product growth? If you’re only beginning your adventure with product analytics, looking at all the usage data may seem overwhelming at first glance: Source: Heap. Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics?

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In many cases, businesses that place data and insight at their core are the ones that are thriving. Forrester reports that insight-driven businesses are growing at an average of 30% each year and are predicted to take $1.8 Using product analytics to power smart, lean growth at Immobiliare.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

If you’re a financial services product manager, you’ll know that crafting an effective fintech app onboarding process is no small feat. There are challenges unique to financial services that become magnified when dealing with mobile devices. Chances are the ones you frequently use have a simple, intuitive app onboarding process.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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eG Innovations

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I will not dwell too much on why you should monitor Azure Active Directory, but here are the top three reasons why we think everyone should be monitoring this service: Security – actively monitoring sign-in logs enables you to detect malicious attacks such as brute force penetration attacks as they happen.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. The most important tool empowering leaders can use is context.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? This means complicated UI , redundant features, and unnecessary use of complex technologies.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

Imagine we’re a SaaS company selling logistics software that helps companies track their shipments, warehouse inventory, goods reordering, and time-versus-shipping-cost analytics.  Our rent rent rent rent We’re in the HR software business rent build? " and "is that a legitimate software update?"

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If you’ve not heard of Celonis before, it’s a SaaS company that focuses on one thing product teams tend to either love or hate: process map diagramming. As companies continue to experiment, we should soon start to get some real data to emerge to understand whether this is true. Transaction revenue grew 7.2% Enjoy the rest of your week!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Interested in getting help acing your data science or machine learning interview? Check out our complete Data Science Interview Prep Course.    Curious about following a data science career path? And as companies collect even more information, working with and understanding data is becoming a bigger priority.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

From understanding the analytics landscape to mapping capabilities with KPIs and integrating new tools with your current stack, we know that choosing a product analytics solution can be overwhelming—not to mention, time-consuming. How is Mixpanel different from marketing analytics tools like Google Analytics?

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

We look at the process of idea validation and a range of tools and techniques you can leverage to aid the process. TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Are there enough users who are ready to pay for a solution to the problem?

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As a product leader, you know how important iteration is to helping teams adapt to user needs and build great products. But iterating without clear, accessible data can lead to problems throughout the launch cycle, from poor audience fit to missed timelines because it took too long to validate an earlier change.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.    Some are top-down command-and-control, others are freewheeling or consensus-driven or chaotically leaderless or run by a CEO who had a bad childhood. 

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months of iron-clad commitments, non-negotiable delivery dates, major organizational changes, and accurate predictions of revenue.    (And the 9000 things we won’t do.)  ” What To Do?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

We introduced Intercom as the Engagement OS , the customer communications platform that enables the most critical component of the modern customer journey: ongoing engagement, throughout the customer journey – from acquiring to onboarding, activating, support, and beyond. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the event.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2020

This post is more about framing the problem as I see it rather than proposing solutions, with a call to action. We’ve relearned over the last few years that products can have unintended side effects, and that bad actors can misuse good products. As product professionals, we’re often not taking time to anticipate bad outcomes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

After all, almost any product or service can be replicated by a competitor. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. When people detect a bottleneck in the system, the operational cadence of the company starts slowing down. Paul: Yeah.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Apptentive’s annual Mobile App Engagement Report serves as a baseline to help app publishers across categories understand their app’s engagement strengths and areas for improvement. And today I am super excited to share some of the key insights from our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Benchmark Report. I am Christy Culp.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. “Always Be Closing!”

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

Christoph Janz has a great post and visual tying a company’s pricing, volume and target audience to its marketing and lead generation models along a continuum. Rigorous A/B testing is a favorite tool in our B2C kit. Risks are very low, OKRs tie directly to transactional revenue, and the data speak unambiguously.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2022

Finding a new team member creates anxiety for many managers and for a good reason. The right hire unlocks new capabilities, allowing the team to achieve even more. The wrong choice, however, can drag down the highest functioning of teams. The perfect product operations candidate might not even know to search for this job title.

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Modus Create

MAY 31, 2021

This article focuses on the practical challenges we faced while testing APIs and their best possible solutions. As per the latest State of API report, there is a massive spike in the companies taking up API operations. Let us get into the top QA challenges of API testing and their solutions. . Test Coverage.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. 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.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Data-driven thinking.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. Here’s my gross simplification.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Rather, everything is an iterative process of building the service, rolling it out to users and keep improving it as you get new data and feedback.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2019

It is more accessible than ever before, and we’re constantly awash in data, metrics, news, reports, etc. There probably isn’t a better example of data overload than in finance. The sheer volume of data available is astounding. They were also roughly 20% confident in their predictions.

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