Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. With consumer and B2B products, we put a ton of time and energy into our onboarding process. And yet, poor documentation is pervasive.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

A company that practices aspirational product management is one that values experimentation and customer research, and continuously integrates those learnings into the product development process to create a valuable product. A company that does it right will have lots of experimentation built into the development process.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Testing the Proto-Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

45%, for B2B products it is 25%?—?55%, Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. The 5 seconds test and the first-click test are common qualitative testing techniques to start investigating the issues with your bounce rate.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

A/B and multivariate testing for optimizing user experiences. While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets.

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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. We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both New ideas are exciting. Can it be done?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. Some B2B KPIs starting points, knowing that every company is different. [1] Let’s bid on that, and as sign just a few folks from core development if we win.”).

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. And I like to set the tone that this framework was developed and co-created with dozens of teams from all over the world.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.”

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

While gaming and entertainment are the first obvious applications of VR, the more interesting applications – and the ones we focus on here – are in B2B and B2C products and services. As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What is concept testing and how can it help accelerate your product-led growth ? In this article, we’ll go over some concept testing examples from some of the best B2B and B2C brands to help you get started with your strategy. Airbnb failed to concept test its logo and faced ridicule due to its design.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Melissa Perri

APRIL 20, 2017

What does an effective sales team look like at a product-led organization? “Sales already promised it.” I once joined a B2B company as a Product Manager in the the middle of the year, so their entire product roadmap was set and in motion. The sales team. The results? So what happened here? How did we get here?

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Userpilot

MAY 17, 2025

In fact, 52% of users have abandoned a mobile app due to poor localization , and over 60% of B2B buyers say theyll choose a localized product over a more expensive one in a foreign language. High churn may signal poor cultural or linguistic alignment. Slack is an interesting example of testing and optimization.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 7, 2021

Her name is Christina Wodtke, and she is a lecturer at Stanford, sharing insight into human innovation and high-performing teams. 13:27] What are the steps for putting OKRs into practice in a product team? Start using OKRs with a high-performing product team. She has designed products with LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo!

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. Test Everything. All product managers love a good test.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

That might seem obvious or naïve, but recent conversations with several B2B/enterprise clients suggest that it’s actually controversial. B2B is lumpier than B2C.). On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Roadmaps are shared.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Creating and distributing effective B2B customer satisfaction surveys is a vital step in understanding your customers and fostering mutually beneficial business relationships. By the end of this post, you’ll know how to create an effective B2B survey, distribute it, analyze the results, and take action on what you’ve learned.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In B2B companies, value should ultimately generate profit (get new customers, upsell to current customers, or avoid churn), and it ends up in an equation like this. In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. I think it is a very good idea.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

Younger or smaller companies particularly those without formal research teams often fall in the lowest budget category, investing only enough to conduct limited testing or outsource one-off studies. While many teams have trimmed headcount or pulled back on growth marketing, user research appears to be bucking the trend.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. By the time they need to be replaced few, if any, people from the original team are still around and, in any case, and no one fully understands the IT in detail. Replacing them is an expensive and high-stakes endeavour.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there? We provide data for modern sales and marketing teams across all the products they already use.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As you develop your product and achieve product-market fit , you must consider the technology adoption curve , which divides users into five segments: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. A/B test your in-app experiences to find opportunities for improvement and optimize adoption. Innovators.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Last but not least, in customer-oriented and agile teams, decision-making criteria are often narrowed down for efficiency to a single question: What business value does this bring to the customer? After all, what could be a better stress test before pushing itforward? Of course, the latter are rarely product designers.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” Its about identifying and testing promising solutions that actually matter fast.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. There seems to be a belief?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Are they keen to test it out? For many B2B SaaS companies, inbound marketing represents a cornerstone of all marketing activity. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

On your way there, there are many potential weak links that can prevent it from happening. It doesn’t involve heavy development and brings everyone relevant to the discussion early. for example, simplifying the registration process in B2C or better lead qualification in B2B. when eventually tested or used?—?needs

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Is there a difference between developing a product for enterprise and a consumer? The key thing here is that Slack is a simple product solving a simple, well-defined, and well-understood problem for a user who has needs which are very similar to the personal needs of the design and development team.

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