Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate. Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Horrified, he began working to create more affordable and safe products, ultimately reverse-engineering existing solutions and the processes that went into their creation. However, his belief in his product vision drove him to solve a real problem experienced by thousands of women. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. I realized we need to change how we build products.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What is product vision? Communication skills.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. It’s absolutely rooted in the empirical data that gives an objective understanding of your customers’ paint points and desires.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Average ships per person in the team. How to upskill as a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Ronke PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Design-driven leadership is product management Final thoughts The very essence of leadership is creating a space that enables our teams to dream big, imagine, and bring what was once unthinkable to life - therefore, changing humanity. Our customers represent an ever-changing demographic with evolving needs. That is innovation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. It is ideally a galvanizing document to drive vision, bring teams into alignment and commitment, and lead them and your customers to your future, promised destination. You own it, but many other teams are gunning to influence it daily.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 30, 2023

Moshe is a leader in product management who started his career on the engineering side, specifically within the enterprise real-time B2B software space. He fell in love with product management after seeing the gap that existed between what customers wanted and what engineering produced. Cultural fit in the organization.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Do you validate the pain point and place it in a parking lot for triage?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Talk to Users & Customers ?? Your First 30, 60, 90 Days as a PM Checklist Common Mistakes Made in Early Days as a PM Talk to Users & Customers: Understand Their Pain Points Abstract by Oleg Shcherba Your first order of business as a new product manager should be talking to customers!

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Through research on thousands of product managers, she pioneered the practical professional development approach that anchors product managers with the five skills most important for their professional success. She is Faculty at Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, teaching graduate level product management courses.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2018

It was only after director and screenwriter James Gunn sent out this tweet that I realised the same can be said of product management: It’s worth reading his whole thread but essentially his point is that, while people don’t die if you act badly, to act well you need years of training, practice, experience, and honing your skill set.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. It’s also not like customer retention is the business of only one department. We have also asked experts from each department about their Customer Retention Strategy – so let’s dive in!

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. Could we make the user experience safer? Spam engines are the most famous example here but there is much more. Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Remember, they’re dealing with board members, investors , and customers who may be applying pressure. Even the boss has a boss, not to mention demanding customers. Sympathize.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. They also ensure it fulfills the business’s wider objectives, do the initial research, user interviews, and collect user feedback and data. Their role is all about user needs. TL;DR – Post Summary.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. Successful solutions architects and solutions engineers have a highly valuable skillset with a mixture of technical knowledge, communication skills, and B2B sales expertise.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages. test your concept’s problem/solution fit with potential customers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. It helps you meet user needs, enhance user experience , improve product value, and gain a competitive advantage. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process?

Data Visualization 95

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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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. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. In the US, they earn on average around $103k per year.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you do not scale, you will be unable to reach a new pool of customers and your competitors will leave you in the dust. If you scale prematurely, you may struggle to satisfy customer expectations. Scaling involves finding the right timing, understanding customer psychology, and making critical decisions to drive product-led growth.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

During this period, we went through different phases, which gave us several lessons that helped us identify our final vision to build an open-source data integration engine. Exploring 2 directions at a time, max We’re 5 people on our team, including 4 with an engineering background. This article lists these lessons.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey. The Results.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. User research is a vital part of the design process. Playfulness pays off. Fergal: Cool.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Imagine stepping into the world of product management with a product vision, secret formula and one particular feature that the industry’s luminaries use to transform raw ideas into gold consistently. Some PMs may opt for detailed paragraphs, while others favour brevity with one or two sentences to capture user will.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions.

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nulab

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A flash Silicon Valley campus staffed by armies of developers, bazillions in the bank, and countless users. You need to understand their product team structure… And you need to learn how startups can adapt them for rapid scaling without losing sight of their goal. Product roles explained: Product team structure.

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