Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. To this day, Rohini continues to cold-call customers.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Elizabeth O’Neill, People & Culture expert, BoS participant and this year speaker, explains the difference between having one bad meeting and creating a culture of silence in this guest blog post. One Bad Meeting Can Create a Culture of Silence. Excitedly, he pulls together his small team and describes his idea. .

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In today’s PLG-driven world, SaaS companies must deliver seamless customer experiences to survive and thrive. Customer journey optimization has emerged as a strategic imperative for companies seeking to boost customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. Register here for FREE!

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Assessing your AI adoption priorities Finding a starting point involves assessing how AI fits into your existing priorities. In our 2023 research, 39% of enterprises cited AI as a top initiative in the coming year, more than any other initiative. Just 22% of companies with 10,000+ employees cited AI/RPA as a core focus.

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Generation Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Generation Focus team is very grateful to be a part of the vibrant EPIC People community. Our founder, Joanna Beer, appreciated the opportunity to meet with the EPIC team to share about Generation Focus’ work towards ensuring equity and inclusivity in research recruitment. Scroll down to read the full interview!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. With this in mind, I shall explain and provide examples, and I would love your feedback and questions. Provide regular feedback In recent years, managing has become a mentor’s game.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 26, 2023

Well, it is a fact that it would be hard to find a more misused UX research method than surveys. On the one hand, due to their low cost and time requirements, we often see that surveys are the go to research method for many product teams. And any time this happens, as researchers, we feel that something dies inside of us.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rich sat down with Ivy Hornibrook, Leading the Product conference ambassador , to talk all things Product Management. Don’t tolerate bad management if it’s making you miserable. The number one thing I see that undermines product and engineering teams’ success is senior executives who help too much,” adds Rich.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Content: What is customer experience What factors is customer experience formed from? Why customer experience management is important Customer experience management?—?whose Today, we’re talking about customer experience management, and for that you won’t need any sinister tendencies at all. Sounds cool, doesn’t it?

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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. We have to focus on the basics to answer this question – research, understanding our customers and their needs, and discovering what we could build that is valuable, feasible, and desirable. Do the customers want it?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. We had successfully released our new feature to hundreds of thousands of users, after what seemed like an eternity?—?ten I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

The customer onboarding process is a vital stop on the path to customer happiness and product success. In This Article: Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding? 5 Easy Ways To Collect Feedback During Onboarding. Forget Your Customers, What Are Your Account Manager’s Pain Points?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For a unique fast track to learning and inspiration, however, conferences cannot be beat. We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). 14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders. SaaStr Annual.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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Gainsight

MAY 23, 2023

At its tenth annual Pulse conference last week, Customer Success (CS) platform Gainsight unveiled a new product designed to digitally connect the various fragments of customer experience, oriented around CS and supported by a new company-wide licensing option. It’s not just a team.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Search Amazon for customer reviews on industry-related products or books. One study tested how bottled water brands can use personality in their branding to improve consumer brand recognition and preference. Using words your customers are using will get their attention more than using generic or common industry-related words.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. They do not set the menu, cook the food or plate it up for customers. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Customer feedback ?—?what

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Nothing beats meeting real users. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. and at conferences across the US and Europe. Talk to us. Tweet at us!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. The agile product team believes that if they keep on pushing small increments then everything will be okay. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. Develop the Right Skills Certification in data PM develops the right skills. Big data analytics is a growing global market expected to reach $550 billion by 2028.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 26, 2023

Well, it is a fact that it would be hard to find a more misused UX research method than surveys. On the one hand, due to their low cost and time requirements, we often see that surveys are the go to research method for many product teams. And any time this happens, as researchers, we feel that something dies inside of us.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. 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. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

Product consolidation refers to combining several products that sell separately but have overlapping functionality or user personas into one product. If you research product consolidation, you will find it has different meanings according to the audience. There are several reasons for a product team to consolidate its products.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. Not testing your ideas is a great way to fail fast. Not testing your ideas is a great way to fail fast.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. As a product leader you must create a safe space for your team.

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Qualitative research methods—such as interviews and observation—reveal what you don’t know. Quantitative research methods—such as surveys and experiments—reveal how many. Product and marketing teams seem to love surveys. Are those problems urgent to the buyer and important to the user? Helps with pricing).

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

Convincing potential users to sign up for your product isn’t easy. The latest batch of billion-dollar companies are built on high customer retention. They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. Most specifically, the industry came up with this beautiful idea of A/B testing.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 2, 2018

However, they can also pick up some bad habits along the way. Some bad habits may be from a lack of knowing better but others come from routine and a “this is how we do it”-sort of mentality that too often develops over time in many organizations. 11:03] How did you begin working with bad habits?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Mind the Product co-Founder and co-Author of Product Leadership Martin Eriksson opened the world’s largest conference for passionate product people. We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. A/B testing can often kill big, existing ideas because [it] expects results quickly – and you can’t get results quickly from big, important idea changes.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. Speaking of which, Microsoft has revealed it is developing a new feature for Outlook that will allow users to keep track of any meetings they can’t attend in person. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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