Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. Eric loves coding and is passionate about new products. A product persona is a fictional character created to represent a set of users that will react to your marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion) in a similar way. Unbelievable! Who is this person?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Stakeholders can be powerful and influential individuals.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

Customer behaviors and preferences are shifting daily – as are their emotions. Success is understanding how the product fares in the market, and being able to adjust properly, pivot, and quickly make decisions based off of customer feedback. By simply asking customers, “Why did you choose this score?”

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2020

There is no shortage of feedback these days. When you’re trying to deliver an exceptional product, it’s easy to get lost in the constant deluge of customer feedback. Your users are likely communicating with your company through multiple channels and it can seem like feedback gets lost in a black hole.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2021

You can’t build software without encountering incidents – from critical bugs to full-blown outages, dealing with incidents are an inevitable part of the process. As a result, you’ll find no shortage of articles telling you how to write a review – or as they’re commonly known, a post mortem – of your incident. Ask five key questions.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It’s a common-sense approach, but customer attitudes are shifting significantly, which means there’s a growing need for both teams to get each other’s backs in order to effectively deliver a seamless customer experience. It’s becoming a less and less reliable model for how customers actually engage with brands and businesses.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Deploying the major types of survey questions enables you to understand your customers better and make more data-driven product improvements. We'll delve into 11 types of survey questions, providing concrete survey question examples and best practices to help you collect accurate feedback at scale. MCG survey question.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. Strategy first, technology second.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 21, 2022

Now more than ever, performance reviews provide an important opportunity to launch candid conversations about future goals. By sharing the written review ahead of time, managers can set the foundation for positive communication. And somehow, so do performance reviews. Self reviews are a common component in performance reviews.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

They work at the intersection of the User Experience, Business, and Technical teams, and have the opportunity to tap into the collective knowledge of these teams, in addition to their own interactions with the market. Product managers have a unique view on what’s happening across the business, provided the relationships are working well.

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2022

Are you thinking about using qualitative feedback to gauge the success of your SaaS business? While some product managers focus solely on quantitative data, one can argue that qualitative data is just as important because it reveals what customers feel about a SaaS product. Looking to collect and analyze feedback?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. The three tools I typically use for this are product reviews, weekly metric reviews, and OKR reviews.

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Userpilot

MAY 20, 2024

The customer sentiment score can help you tell how well-perceived your brand is. Let’s explore the customer sentiment score, how to measure it with user feedback , and what strategies you can execute to elevate the customer experience. But how can you measure and improve it?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2022

A customer data platform is software that pulls in multiple data streams into one consistent database that helps to organize and manage customer data. . What is the purpose of a customer data platform? To understand the purpose of a customer data platform, it helps to look at some third-party definitions. .

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 1, 2020

I have the most perspectives and insights to share in these domains because I live and struggle with them each and every workday. I'm often given the feedback that many of my essays apply equally well in roles outside of product management and I certainly think that's true. The Hierarchy of User Friction. Book reviews.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. As Jason Lemkin puts it , “The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever) customers. What matters is that somehow, someway, you still get those 10 paying customers closed.”.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Have you ever wondered how to collect customer feedback efficiently and which voice of the customer best practices to follow? Taking the voice of the customer (VOC) into account is essential when trying to maximize customer satisfaction, improve user sentiment , and get the most out of your marketing efforts.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Still, in any case, a good Scrum Master will want the Scrum Team to be a part of this process (whether by participating in user interviews or running experiments).

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Userpilot

JULY 15, 2021

Good user onboarding for SaaS is part science, part art. A guide on how to pick the best onboarding software. Onboarding is the ongoing process of educating users about a product. Onboarding processes can be proactive , where the company is driving users towards a known behavior. What is SaaS user onboarding?

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2023

It saves you time, ensures consistency, and enables easy customization to fit your unique needs and branding. In this blog post, we’ll discuss different NPS survey questions and best practices to collect valuable feedback from your customer base. They are loyal customers and will recommend your product , given the opportunity.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2023

Knowledge is power and user documentation is necessary for building it. This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. What is user documentation? But great documentation doesn’t happen by accident.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

With fewer than 50 employees, the company has a user base that’s grown to more than (an estimated) 50 million. Fill out this short survey if you use Perplexity regularly, and they’ll reach out to conduct a user interview. I assume much of your success has been due to hiring well, and keeping a very high bar.

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Userpilot

MARCH 16, 2023

Looking for an in-depth review of UserGuiding pricing so you can understand whether it’s the right choice for you? Although review sites and word-of-mouth can help you narrow down your choices, they can fail to help you make the right decision. The platform allows you to build product tours and walkthroughs without any coding.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2020

More specifically, the Product owner will oversee the roadmap’s construction. That might include other Product managers, and also people from different teams, such as Customer Success managers. Your Customer Success team may want to check on the status of a customer’s feature request. per user per month.

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Userpilot

MAY 14, 2024

A customer behavior model reveals the external and intrinsic factors influencing buying decisions. This article covers 12 of the most common customer behavior models and how to maximize them for better product management. Customer behavior models also help them improve user experience and boost customer retention.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2024

In this article, you’ll learn: Behavioral design principles to incorporate in your user interface and experience. Six methods to identify behavioral patterns that influence user behavior. TL;DR User behavior patterns are the systematic ways users interact with a website and app. Book a demo now to begin.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The growing number of public vertical SaaS winners worth billions of dollars, such as in health sciences (Veeva), construction (Procore), restaurants (Toast), and banking (nCino), demonstrates how cloud-based and mobile app development specialized to certain industries can become giant businesses. It is an expert in building payments.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We decided to bypass the fads and the hype, and sat down for an insightful conversation about AI with the localization team leader from Alconost, Stas Kharevich. So does that mean there’s already localization software on the market that uses machine translation? That’s right, software that uses machine translation does exist.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

You must know your customers extremely well. Leverage user research , conduct interviews, and track reviews for this. Use product analytics tools to get insights from the data, create a data collection culture in your team, and create shared reports for your team. Adapt to changing user preferences and industry trends.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Progress reports focus on what has been achieved since the last review and include recommendations for future steps. Regularly reflect on your reports and act on the feedback from stakeholders to make them more thorough and informative. Otherwise, the performance reports won’t be accurate and people will dread their reviews.

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Split

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The usage of a single, common codebase by all developers on a team is emphasized by the software development method known as trunk-based development (TBD). With frequent integrations and codebase validations, this strategy ensures that the code is constantly in a usable state. Finally, automation boosts software quality assurance.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2020

As more and more SaaS companies attempt to increase customer loyalty, more and more ways of measuring it are developed. In fact, 55% of companies around the world use NPS to measure customer loyalty and satisfaction. It’s since become a popular way of measuring customer satisfaction. How to improve NPS. Key takeaways.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Think about the complexity involved in developing and releasing a piece of software. This is where the actual software is built in the Waterfall methodology.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2022

Or the product is already operational, and people are using it, but you need to expand to more users and add new locales. The third phase is in-country review. Usually, we ask new translators to list the subject areas in which they’re most competent: software, tourism, or marketing, for instance.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

That means you shouldn’t aim for zero churn but to drive revenue up to a point where it surpasses the amount you lose due to churn. Product churn is a metric that measures how many customers leave your product over a specific period. Customer acquisition costs 5-25 times more than customer retention.

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