People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

Subscribe now What is product sense At a high level, product sense is understanding what makes for a high-quality product for your customers (empathy) and having strong, validated opinions about what solutions will be successful (creativity). The product strategy and product roadmap will be shared with you, but you will not define them.

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

For example, Cash App users may download the free app to receive a reimbursement from a friend or family member, but then decide they prefer the user experience and add direct deposit. All these services that compete with local banks are possible with the same app downloaded for peer-to-peer payments.

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Product Solving

AUGUST 26, 2020

During the building phase you are testing the removal of friction by getting users to test your product and provide feedback. From hurting your users, to affecting other parts of your product, to collapse of an entire system, sometimes friction is what holds everything together. Download the app. The workflow is simple.

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Balsamiq

JULY 13, 2018

It's been such a rewarding process to spend an hour with a real customer talking about their real problems and how they use Balsamiq for a real use case. So for this month's case study, I spent a little more time talking to Raguram Venkatesan , a customer and Product Manager in Florida. What was your path to your current role?

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

With the transition from print to digital and with so many people now dependent on transportation methods other than private car ownership, there is an opening in the market to use geo-data to embed digital content and hyper-local news inside mobility apps. Hyper-Local Digital Media and Transit Apps. Working With Metro Media.

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Transportation Feedback Software Customer Experience Leadership 52

BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I would also propose that companies should never differentiate between Product Managers and Product Marketers while hiring and they should encourage transition into one role from another. Experienced Product Managers (working on SaaS products) will find this post more useful than Product Marketers.). It happened with me too.

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Balsamiq

JULY 13, 2018

It's been such a rewarding process to spend an hour with a real customer talking about their real problems and how they use Balsamiq for a real use case. So for this month's case study, I spent a little more time talking to Raguram Venkatesan , a customer and Product Manager in Florida. What was your path to your current role?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How comprehensive is your SaaS company’s approach to customer communication? Let’s dive deeper into what everything customer communication management for SaaS entails, as well as our best practices for getting it right. Provide meaningful interactions through UI feedback mechanisms like tooltips.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The results are increased engagement, increased productivity, and better solutions. Major Takeaways: We’re seeing five PM trends: salaries and hiring are rising, career paths are widening, companies are becoming product-led, tools are becoming no code, and lifelong learning is a must. You must ensure that the differentiation is clear.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation. they don’t get any feedback to understand whether or not they’re on the right track.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2017

Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. Because of this, look through product management job descriptions and you’ll find many that mention third-party software integration, APIs, strategic partnerships, and so on. Sure enough, there was interest.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Why these questions should be asked Feedback, performance, and competitor relations Feelings (pride or jealousy) about own company and others Relevance of important values and aspirations Exact choices: Extract the choices that your company makes as attributes What does the company do? What are people doing right now?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2020

In the world of SaaS (software as a service) it usually comes down to one person who devises a strategy for developing and unraveling a perfect product. For example, creating case studies includes approaching potential partners, tracking their results, writing a study, and promoting it using SEO strategy or through paid campaigns.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Photo by Ryan Quintal on Unsplash This is the second part of a case study regarding Soundcloud’s content categorization and exploration of strategic opportunities. Liked tracks could be treated as a playlist and we could also have “Liked Mixes” and “Liked Podcasts” as we now differentiate the content.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 5, 2021

I have spent 18+ years in the software industry playing various roles: from a developer to an architect to a product manager. My expertise is primarily on Microsoft Windows technologies. I helped architect the company’s Universal Monitor technology at first. How did that technology come about? That was very exciting!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

And the relationship you may have with them is also not always a fairy tale (see the horror story of one of our users, whose ‘power users’ almost derailed their app.). You often may hear that “power users are your oldest users”, or that they are “your most active users” or those “who are best at using your tool”. What are power users?

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Userzoom

APRIL 23, 2020

In many cases, the new product/feature is created in response to a gap in the digital experience or in response to voice of the customer survey. Keep these in mind as you develop your research roadmap. Answer: One note-taker during the moderated study would be ideal considering that most software offers a transcript of the session.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. So what’s the solution? Today, we’re careening between a bloated set of apps that are time-consuming at best and unreliable at worst. How do you differentiate yourself from the other companies?

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