Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It’s often more common to see project-based user research rather than an ongoing, iterative discovery process.” Tweet This Teeba liked how Teresa focuses on continuous discovery, and she learned about the opportunity solution tree at a conference. .

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway. We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. I think that was in 2004.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . And per customer?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’ve been at your company for a while, you might get inspired after reading a book or attending a conference. Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [6:35] What is a customer use case? 8:36] How do we create a customer use case?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We are starting to pull together our list of 2024 product conferences. If you know of product conferences that are not on the list and you think they should be, please send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Are you looking for the 2023 Product Conferences list? This list is by no means exhaustive. Find it here.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We are starting to pull together our 2020 conference list. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Are you looking for the 2019 Product Conference list? The UX Conference.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Has clicking that icon met the user intent of the feature?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. At Intercom, we have taken advantage of these technologies relatively early. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. We can’t just build for the good path.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 30, 2018

How product managers observe and listen to users to gain valuable insights. What products will delight customers? One that stands out is Ben Brenton, Chief Innovation Officer at Snap-on Tools , who shared that he takes their product teams to meet with customers four days a week. Budget-minded usability testing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Finally, your SaaS mobile app is live! But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? If you expect users to come naturally just because your product is good, youre already at a disadvantage. Organic, when you attract users through public platforms and owned media marketing.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

PDMA and the Inspire Innovation Conference The PDMA, founded in 1976, is the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators worldwide. PDMA contributes significantly to research and knowledge in the field of product innovation.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

s Consumer Insights team strategically collaborated with many other departments such as marketing, online, and store operations to share data and inform decisions based on changing customer preferences and behaviors. uses consumer insights-led research to help key business partners understand the customer experience.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Researchers often have concerns about what will happen when “other people” go out and do work with users. But the demand for research far outweighs the supply of researchers, and everyone wins when more people are enabled to do research themselves. Planning Research. What method of research should I use?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

We’ve heard it again and again – these are odd times; we’re not working remotely, we’re working during a crisis; this is not the new normal. You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. Customer Discovery. Remote Working. Adapting to change.

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Mind the Product

MAY 3, 2019

“Do you like the conference so far?” It is tempting to ask customers what they want, but you won’t get a good answer. We may say “there is no such thing as a dumb question,” but in research, this isn’t true. For a researcher, this is the first question that should be asked. What are the customers key “jobs to be done”?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What one product manager learned about understanding customers. Today we are talking about the journey from software developer to product manager and some key challenges encountered as a product manager. She enjoys being a mentor to new product managers and has gained vast product management experience. Customer interviews.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. Natasha Ratanshi-Stein is the founder of Surfboard , a software company that offers scheduling tooling for customer support teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

Too many startups focus on the first S in SaaS, but they forget all about the second one. When software and service aren’t equal priorities, it’s impossible to build a successful company. When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. There are obvious benefits to selling self-serve software.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

Usability testing is an important part of the app development process because it helps to ensure that the app is easy and enjoyable to use. This is particularly important for mobile apps, as users have high expectations for the apps they use and are quick to uninstall those that are difficult or frustrating to use.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers? Who are the users and who are the customers?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. We take care of most of Intercom’s backend technologies. What it means to Run Less Software.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. They interview customers , run usability tests, and conduct A/B tests. Last May, I spoke at the Front conference in Salt Lake City. 9:16] Continuous Customer Interviews. [20:12] 2017 Product Conferences.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Customers are dissatisfied with your current product and churn at a high rate. And software developers and testers want to know that their time spent writing and testing code is purposeful. Sometimes an account manager emails you about a complaint that a major customer has and demands to know when the fix will release.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Mind the Product founder Martin Eriksson opened the conference by reminding us why we gather each year. While we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the mechanics of product management, the most common challenge we hear about is discovery: how to know if we’re building the right things. Mind the Platform.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. This article answers that and more.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. We’ve defined success as shipping a set of features on time and on budget. It’s not just about shipping features, but about creating value for both our customers and our businesses. My slides and script are below. Becoming a successful discovery team. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 10, 2018

At #mtpcon San Francisco, Leisa Reichelt , head of research and insights at Atlassian, took on our current approach to user research and how we take an evidence-based approach to doing completely the wrong thing. Five years ago, the industry was focused on just getting people to do any user research. Jakob Nielsen.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Back in March, I spoke at ProductCamp Cascadia (an online conference hosted by ProductCamp Portland , ProductCamp Seattle , and ProductCamp Vancouver ) exploring the topic of design justice. We know in the tech industry that we’ve had challenges for a long time in terms of the diversity of our employees. We did the research.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

And if you’re trying to guide your teams toward being more empowered and autonomous, this is a process that takes dedicated time and commitment. She regularly shares her learnings and insights on LinkedIn and recently took some time to chat with Teresa for this Product in Practice about her teams’ experience with continuous discovery.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

In 2017, Teresa Torres gave one of our favourite talks on the Mind the Product stage, introducing the concept of Opportunity Solution Trees. The only person in the room who is an expert on the customer’s context is the customer. Tools: Omnigraffle , Miro (formerly RealtimeBoard). We weren’t disappointed.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Imagine this: you’re scrolling through your feed, bombarded by SaaS ads that all look and sound the same. Plus, you’ll learn how Userpilot can help with product marketing and drive user engagement. Here are seven of the best advertising campaign examples in SaaS: 1. Chameleon user onboarding Olympics.

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