Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. As an individual contributor, you’re focusing on your own projects and progress, but as a leader you are now responsible for the team (or teams) that report up to you. And it might feel a bit lonelier than when you were an active member of a product trio.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. It’s just helpful to know what to expect so you don’t have to be too hard on yourself when something goes wrong. Let’s dive in!

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Assumption testing is at the heart of what good continuous discovery teams do week over week. Assumptions are beliefs that need to be true in order for our ideas to succeed. The challenge is that we need to be able to see our assumptions before we can test them. It’s a bit like asking a fish about water.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about.

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Product Talk

MARCH 6, 2024

When you’re building a product, you can easily get overwhelmed by ideas. While some of these ideas are unsolicited and may not relate to your current outcome or the opportunities you’re pursuing, that doesn’t mean you want to ignore or discard them completely. Tweet This So how exactly do you manage all these ideas? .

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sometimes they’re dissatisfied with what’s available on the market and think they can do better. For today’s Product in Practice , we caught up with Kranthi Kiran , the Founder of ThoughtFlow. Do you have a Product in Practice success story you’d like to share? You can submit yours here.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. Too many responsibilities.

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

In the book, the authors recommend that for any new product idea, we need to consider the monetization potential from the very beginning. However, they suggest that we can simply ask our customers about their willingness to pay. But asking customers what they might do in the future leads to unreliable feedback.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Tweet This But if you stick with it, you may eventually find you can look back and see how much you’ve progressed. That’s certainly the case for Kelsey Terry , who’s sharing her story in today’s Product in Practice. She kept looking at what was working and what wasn’t until eventually she found a path forward.

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Since publishing my second book, Product Operations, in October, I’ve been reflecting on what I learned writing two business books and wanted to share those insights that I wish someone had shared with me before I started. But my heart was set on Product Management. Build your audience before you start writing.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

But after working with thousands of product people and organizations of all kinds, I can tell you that everyone is capable of making progress on their continuous discovery journey. It’s all about finding the small steps you can take to build these habits. Full Transcript Good morning. This is amazing.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Sandrine Veillet ’s Product in Practice story perfectly exemplifies this. She took a multi-step, methodical approach to introduce continuous discovery, including enrolling a group of product people in the Master Class , having those participants coach and train others, and bringing stakeholders along for the journey.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You don’t necessarily need anyone’s permission to get started with continuous discovery. You can easily go through these activities on your own. There’s a reason why Teresa often refers to the product trio : Continuous discovery is more effective when you avoid turf wars and bring in different perspectives.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. What skills will be most, and least, valuable in this fast-approaching future? I’ve been thinking about this question a lot.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Improve your customer feedback programs to reduce churn By Jasper Lipton, Alchemer Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing   Customers leave. This leads to three very difficult questions: How do you know a customer is at risk? That’s just part of life and business.

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Product Management University

APRIL 17, 2024

If you want to create a revenue plan with sales that gives you a more realistic chance of hitting your revenue targets, give some thought to a broader market strategy where each product plays a role versus a marketing plan for each product. If you’re in product marketing, you know all too well how this works.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager — Playlist Platform Spotify is an innovative business that changes the surrounding reality: almost everyone you see on the street or in a café wearing headphones listens to music on Spotify. Here’s the general description: Delivering the best Spotify experience possible.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

Every seasoned product marketer knows that adding new features to your product is key to product management success. You need a robust ideation process to bring the right ideas to life and add more value for your users. The second stage requires you to round out your ideas to make them more comprehensive.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2021

There are many ingredients involved in successfully building a great product, but fundamentally it all boils down to a series of decisions. And it’s the quality of those decisions – and the speed at which you can make them – that will dictate how fast you can bring value to customers and realize positive impact for your business.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2024

This article shows you 11 examples across different user journey stages. We also cover best practices to help you create logical user flows and develop memorable user experiences. The benefits of tracking user flows include creating user-centered product design , eliminating friction in user journeys, and reducing churn.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Demos are crucial for your sales process success, which is why you need to learn SaaS demo best practices to create beneficial content. Think about it – would you ever buy a car without taking it out for a test drive first? Run your demo while keeping customers engaged by using relevant scenarios and asking questions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Despite having an easy-to-use product, users still need assistance to perform certain tasks or solve issues. That’s what end-user support is for. You can offer in-app support through live chats, resource centers, or interactive walkthroughs. Product tutorials. An all-in-one platform for product-led growth.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 25, 2024

How product managers can empower their teams Today we are talking about how product leaders can create more effective teams by using a people-first leadership approach. Joining us is Diana Stepner, Head of Product for Education at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Launching people is just as important as launching products.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Don’t miss Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), my PM recruiting service (we help you hire Sr. Why 100 ?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

GPT-3 can create human-like text on demand, and DALL-E, a machine learning model that generates images from text prompts, has exploded in popularity on social media, answering the world’s most pressing questions such as, “what would Darth Vader look like ice fishing?” or “what would Walter White look like if he were in Animal Crossing?”.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. But you’re wrong. Consider these recent news items that caught my attention: When Italy banned ChatGPT, the productivity of coders in the country fell by 50% before recovering.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Let’s talk about that trickiest of subjects: Product Judgment. Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Are you using in-app customer support to resolve your users’ issues faster and streamline the support process? By integrating customer support directly into your software app or website, you can: Boost user retention. Reduce support costs by minimizing the need for human intervention. Improve customer satisfaction.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

Let’s talk about how CS teams drive value in logging customer feedback, product roadmapping, and closing the loop. Building a customer feedback management system? Here’s how to successfully build your CS team into your feedback workflow. CS needs to have some influence over roadmap decisions to effectively reduce churn.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 16, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. Ask most product teams how they plan to drive more growth, and you’ll frequently hear the same answer: we need more features.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Here is a cheatsheet of principles and actions to best implement agility into your team’s workflow.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2024

Principles are a very powerful tool in product leadership. They can help you create clarity and alignment, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Here are a few ways to use them in your everyday tasks, and some cases where they are not the right tool. You can imagine it was a heated discussion. Very different indeed.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 23, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. Today’s post, by returning collaborator Kyle Poyar , is one of my new favorite guest posts ever.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. It empowers you to identify features that drive the highest ROIs and those that need improvement or sunsetting. We cover: Types of product features. The insights from feature analysis help you: Identify feature opportunities.

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