Product Talk

APRIL 11, 2018

I get asked all the time, “How much time should we spend in discovery ?”. First, it assumes you do discovery first and then delivery second, which is not true. You need to do enough discovery to mitigate unacceptable risk. Now as a discovery coach , I would ask, “How could you have learned about feature B earlier in the process?”

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

For most SaaS businesses, a product satisfaction survey can be the heart of a user research process. But what type of surveys are best for your goals? In this article, we’ll go over different survey types and examples, as well as provide some ready-to-use templates you can use right away with Userpilot.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Carlos Ruiz (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. For product leaders, that means taking a step back to build a team that can be customer-centric and deliver ongoing innovation to the market. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Loyalty segmentation helps you to tailor products, support, and marketing efforts by categorizing customers based on their loyalty levels. TL;DR Customer loyalty is a measure of how committed customers are to your product or service. Customer loyalty is the degree of preference a customer has towards your products or services.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” — Jeff Bezos Ever question the value of a product development lifecycle? If you haven’t gathered from my past posts on product topics, I’ve worked with ‘interesting yet easily annoyed’ colleagues many times. Do you even know what a product lifecycle is?” Lifecycle sh*t!?

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Why is incremental innovation important for product managers ? Incremental innovation is a process of gradually modifying a company’s existing products or services through small improvements. Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. How is it different from other kinds of innovation?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re a UX designer or product manager wondering how to deliver a better product in terms of usability and user experience, this is the article for you. Start improving user experience and usability with user research. Card sorting and fake door testing are useful testing methods before the product launch.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Do you know which user experience survey questions to ask? This post lists the different questions to ask users on your survey concerning their experience with your software. We'll also discuss how to conduct UX surveys correctly to get the most out of your user feedback. What are user experience surveys?

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

When I first began working on an AI project nearly a year ago, I frequently reflected on the process for developing GenAI products. Part 1: The need for Reevaluation If you have worked on the GenAI products/ features before or are just starting, you might find adopting a reverse engineering approach beneficial.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

TL;DR Customer feedback systems are frameworks for collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer feedback for actionable insights. Customer feedback helps SaaS companies personalize the customer experience and identify pain points and needs as well as factors contributing to customer success.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2023

A CX strategy should encompass every interaction and engagement layer between your customers and your SaaS product. You can build a CX strategy by: Starting clear customer experience vision and goals using the likes of SMART framework. Optimizing the CX strategy after testing variations on subsets of the audience with A/B testing.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. Good product and customer satisfaction come through from a great analysis phase.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. While those skills are useful, they are not enough.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Are you ready to dig in?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

How does it contribute to product success? How do you embed it into your product management processes? Product managers need empathy skills to better understand user needs , choose the right problems to solve, and find solutions that will work best in their unique circumstances. What do you need customer empathy for?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. but nothing around how to measure it.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. We were faced with a lot (!) And that’s OK!

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial. Testsigma 2.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages. The feedback loop process is.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2024

The benefits of tracking user flows include creating user-centered product design , eliminating friction in user journeys, and reducing churn. Here’s how: Create user-centered product design : User flows force you to think from your users’ perspective. ” The SMART goal-setting framework.

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Rapid Market Changes The pace at which markets change today is unprecedented, leaving little room for slow decision-making or rigid product development processes. By fostering a culture of continuous feedback and iteration, companies can stay ahead of the curve. Quality is a cornerstone of Agile practices.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Jamie Levy, the main tenets of a UX strategy are business strategy, value innovation, validated user research , and frictionless UX. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. A UX strategy is a plan that guides product design and development.

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Userpilot

MARCH 2, 2022

Much of product success depends on your marketing team but business decision-making and progress evaluation are crucial to keeping your company focused on the right path towards sustainable growth. So, let’s see how you can implement SaaS OKRs successfully to track progress towards these goals and drive product growth.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. Next, conduct further research, run experiments , and dig deeper into issues to validate or refute the hypotheses. What is root cause analysis in product management?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2018

A Product Management Framework for Machine Learning?—?Part A quick look-back at the 8 steps to building an AI Product: Identify the problem There are no alternatives to good old fashioned user research Get the right data set Machine learning needs data? Part 2 of 3 This is part two of a series of 3 posts?—?if

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Product roadmaps provide a high-level view of all product development motions, including UX ones. A field roadmap gives a general overview of all UX efforts across all areas and products. A specialty roadmap focuses exclusively on one area, for example, UX design or research , but across multiple products.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2020

One of the most impactful things a product leader can do to help their team succeed is to point everyone in the same direction—to channel all of the team’s energy, focus, and resources towards an aligned outcome. Below, I’m sharing a framework that I’ve leveraged to set goals and effectively institute them across an organization.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone. Test everything!

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

TL;DR The growth experimentation process is a systematic approach to testing new ideas. Firstly, it boosts the velocity of data and research-driven decision-making. Finally, utilizing the right growth experimentation framework can help improve conversion (alongside other metrics ) at key touchpoints in your product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. But what product-market fit is, exactly?

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! They lead a team that consists of developers and designers.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2019

It articulates a step-by-step approach to building a presentation: 1) Share your story; 2) Outline your talk; 3) Deliver your MVP (Minimum Viable Product). For product people, building presentations can be a lot of fun. Like product development, creating a talk is a highly iterative process that depends on feedback loops and metrics.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’).

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2021

With the right strategy and proactive support tools – think Outbound Messages , Product Tours , Mobile Carousels , and Banners – you can alert customers to known issues, like delivery delays, bugs in your product, and website downtime. Create a customer feedback loop. Download The Ultimate Guide to Conversational Support.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

As VP of Product at NerdWallet , I guide product decisions that drive maximum value for our brand and consumers—helping them break down complicated financial topics (e.g. This understanding of why we do what we do is core to our product strategy, and informs every decision we make. what the heck is a Roth IRA?),

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