The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. 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).

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. David Matheson, whose session is titled “Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews.” What was the difference?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. In-app strategies for converting free or trial users to paying customers. Measure campaign performance and refine your customer acquisition strategy.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging But this naturally raises a simple question: why do companies need help building better products? Good product team, bad product team Click To Tweet. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast. Not so fast.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tired of reading tons of generic reviews that don’t really help you discover which tool is best for you? We’ve prepared an in-depth, honest comparison and review of two top tools for feature adoption that we’ve either experienced first-hand or that have been used by friends at other SaaS companies. Users churn (ie.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Probably only 10 lines of code.   Now.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. As the product owner, then you should own the product on behalf of the company and be empowered to have the final say, particularly if no agreement can be reached. That’s usually challenging enough.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). a skateboard.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Over the past few years, many people in the development community have sounded off about “rating nags” and the “please rate me” dialogs that some apps show, with perhaps the most pointed critique coming from John Gruber , of Daring Fireball. This is about how companies communicate with their customers in the mobile world.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the symptoms aren’t so obvious to the outbound (and extroverted) part of the company. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. And first prize is a Cadillac.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Monitor online mentions : Regularly check reviews, social media, and forums for customer opinions. Incentivize reviews to build customer loyalty : Set up a loyalty program rewarding users for reviews and referrals. poor customer service) can harm a business’s reputation. But how do you get customer reviews ?

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. There has to be cross-departmental and cross-functional cooperation between product, sales & marketing, customer success, and customer support to implement a successful customer retention strategy.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

So let’s look at the most important KPIs that will help you create strategies to provide superior customer service and boost retention. Customer service KPIs measure the performance of customer service teams and customer support management. Measure the performance of your support team. What are customer service KPIs?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

They’ve identified a Big Opportunity to transform Industry X and their strategy work has identified First Opportunity as where to start first. We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”. distribution, etc). We’ll come back to these.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. A quick side note — If you are a product manager who works in a company where this is the norm — congrats! Why go through the trouble?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

UX studio has conducted an expert review for the IT company IncQueryLabs to discover why their website did not perfo rm well. . IncQueryLabs builds software toolchains to boost industrial digitization efforts, by helping their clients to achieve higher quality, faster time to market, reduce development costs, and break vendor lock-in.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 26, 2023

Bill Spruill, co-founder of Global Data Consortium, shares five valuable lessons he learned while building his company over a span of ten years. In a candid and insightful talk, Bill Spruill, the co-founder of Global Data Consortium, shared his experiences and the lessons he learned while building his company over a span of ten years.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? presence, awareness, state of mind) 5.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn. Here are one of the most common ones: Poor Onboarding: A poor onboarding process can make customers struggle due to a lack of support or guidelines. Let’s dive in!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Strategies – so you know which steps you should take on the way to higher, faster, and more sustainable growth. For example, for a $3 million SaaS company, a growth rate of 80% is below average, while for a $20 million company, such growth is twice the average. SaaS growth rate benchmarks depend on the annual revenue.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

Without it, you’d find yourself implementing features for the wrong customers, distorting your value proposition, and leading your customer support (CS) team to burnout from dealing with bad-fit users. 75% of companies will break up with poor-fit customers, according to Gartner. Let’s go over the concepts.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Good strategy works by focusing energy and resources on one, or a very few, pivotal objectives whose accomplishment will lead to a cascade of favorable outcomes.” “A This book changed the way I listen to people.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Understanding customers’ unique needs and expectations allow companies to better meet these needs. Gather insights about your customers from internal teams. Perform social listening on social media and review sites to see an unfiltered look at what customers are saying about your brand. Why is customer analysis important?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 3, 2023

This article will discuss 10 actionable strategies to help you drive more customers by improving MQL to SQL conversion rate. MQL is a potential customer fit for your business, reviewed by the marketing team. The marketing team reviews and confirms the MQL before sending it to the sales team.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Let’s have look at what product positioning actually is, what it involves, the benefits of effective positioning, the strategies you can employ, and the risks of ignoring all the wisdom in this article.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In this article, we’ll discuss 10 strategies you can use to improve your Net Promoter Score and thus increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Other strategies include using walkthroughs to help new users reach activation faster, creating an in-app help center, and providing top-notch customer support. Here’s why.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

You can choose to paint on the digital canvas with a variety of tools, from digital brushes to 3D modeling software. Next, let’s talk development hours. If you’re a tech-savvy DIY enthusiast, you might spend less on development hours. Plus, if you’re tech-savvy, you can save on development costs. But here’s the flip side.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

A company may choose to undergo an Agile Transformation for various reasons, each aimed at achieving specific business outcomes and addressing organizational challenges. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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