Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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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. Do we have enough expertise to build the solution?

User Testing 98

User Testing Product Research Feedback Software Customer Feedback 98

DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand.

User Testing 66

User Testing Research Software Market Research Product Research 66

Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team? What is the best way to work with cross-functional teams?

User Testing 98

User Testing Research Software Feedback Software Product Research 98

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be?

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2022

Your product messaging should attract the right audience and help them see your product as the perfect solution to their problems. Having a product messaging framework is important because it sets the precedence for how the market and your potential customers will see your brand. What is product messaging in SaaS?

Research Software 52

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. What is product strategy?

Product Research 98

Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback Research Software 98

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

Agile 156

Agile Product Research User Testing Feedback Software 156

The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit.

Startups 52

Startups Customer Experience User Testing Technical Review 52

DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand.

User Testing 40

User Testing Research Software Product Research Market Research 40

DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand.

User Testing 40

User Testing Research Software Product Research Market Research 40

ProductPlan

MARCH 1, 2023

Product Planning is researching, making decisions, and taking action to develop a successful product. Product management teams will have their cadence and frameworks for planning, but typically it consists of some version of annual combined with quarterly planning. What is Product Planning?

Research Software 52

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. It’s a framework to make quick, painless, and informed judgments about your idea so that you know whether it’s worth pursuing. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both

User Testing 156

User Testing Product Research Research Software Feedback Software 156

Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

Along with fostering a company culture that’s widely adopted and understood, smart product experimentation is about prioritizing drivers before solutions, taking a measured approach, and experimenting with purpose. On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design.

User Testing 75

User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Feedback 75

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap. So what can you do?

Framework 61

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. a framework which promotes rapid feedback cycles and adaptation, they created what we know today as Scrum. Enter agile.

Product Management 92

Product Management Product Manager User Testing Product Research 92

Good Product Manager

APRIL 21, 2015

Don’t Prioritize Features Based on Development Cost. I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds, of different ones, and nearly all of them have one thing in common – there’s some input for development cost. It’s fairly common for product managers to come up with their own spreadsheets or formulas to do this evaluation.

Research Software 74

Research Software Product Research Feedback Software User Testing 74

Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2022

Specifically, UX designers sit at the intersection of product design, market research, interaction design, product strategy, human computer interaction, visual design, and more! It is also highly multidisciplinary, incorporating aspects of design, tech, behavioral psychology, marketing, and more.

UX 52

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

I did what I should have, and was not bad at it, as numbers and analysis are not hard for me, but besides, I couldn’t say that I really enjoyed it. My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. Product manager is the title of a role in technology companies.

Technical Review 60

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right.

Feedback Software 98

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The products you bring to the market are just vehicles to solve those problems. They develop their roadmap as a list of features, rather than using the roadmap to communicate the value they expect the product to deliver. For example: You will often be too optimistic about what your team can build in the time you have.

Product Research 54

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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. They earn around $201k/year.

Data Visualization 105

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Userpilot

MAY 9, 2024

The article will teach you how to design an onboarding strategy for your SaaS. TL;DR Customer onboarding helps new users understand and engage with a SaaS product effectively. Develop educational content, like webinars or courses, to help users discover new use cases and features. Book the demo to learn more!

Onboarding KPIs 52

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. TL;DR In SaaS, concept testing is a research method used to test concepts during product discovery and before their launch. Consider using AI for qualitative feedback analysis.

User Testing 105

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our previous conversations with Bob have covered how to unpack customer motivations and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework (of which he was one of the principal architects). Too often people come at sales from a marketing perspective. Out of that,I was forced to actually talk to people and learn through very different methods and tools.

Research Software 265

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The Good, the Bad, and the Necessary. Their biggest challenge is setting roadmap priorities without having the desired amount of customer or market feedback (27%). It could also stem from limited staffing and resources for market research and customer feedback channel development. No job is perfect.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

After sharing how I thought the business could improve based on the market situation, customer feedback , and some new ideas that leveraged our core technologies, she looked at me and said: “What are you doing? A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. My teams move markets. I’m researching.

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DISQO

MARCH 6, 2020

Incumbent companies across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. It requires teams to gain insights directly from consumers through experimentation and prototyping, align to the actual wants and needs of the market, and accelerate time-to-market.

User Testing 52

User Testing Product Research Research Software Feedback Software 52

Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The scaling SaaS company often have to find out through practice what the difference is between a product owner vs product manager. Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. need a customer feedback workflow in place? Then, they work with the development team to achieve those goals.

Product Research 52

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management? What is Product Management?

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