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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

With Scrum came the POs, and with the new POs, came the interest for real Product Management. -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. 2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers. We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?"

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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Product Management & Automated Testing

The Product Guy

We left automation testing behind. The only way to know there weren’t any bugs was for me to test manually. Testing took up almost 70% of my time.I Testing took up almost 70% of my time.I Stories in our user story tracker were waiting for my acceptance for weeks before I was able to get to them and have them released.

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Food & Drink Apps: Using Industry Benchmark Data to Understand Changes in Mobile Customer Sentiment

Alchemer Mobile

See actionable strategies for engaging with customers during this difficult time here. So, what can these brands do to capture, analyze, and act on these changing customer behaviors? This is our fifth consecutive year conducting this research. Mobile Customer Sentiment. Here are some of those key benchmarks.

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Customer Feedback Management is the Heart of Food and Drink Apps

Alchemer Mobile

According to AppAnnie’s 2019 State of Mobile Report , consumers sourced food and drinks through apps 130% more often in 2018 than in 2016. What matters above all else in food and drink apps is stellar customer experience and service. Here are five customer feedback management strategies to use.

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Designing Series: How we built our customer messaging orchestration tool

Intercom, Inc.

Last week we released Series , a brand new way to orchestrate customer messaging campaigns in Intercom. Our first customer messaging solution. In 2016 we released Smart Campaigns , which addressed the same problem of message orchestration. This approach resonated with a number of customers.

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Stepping up Your A/B Tests

Mind the Product

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests.