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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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SVPMA July Meeting – Steven Haines

The Product Bistro

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting.

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Speed and Substance: How To Innovate Consumer Insights

The Product Coalition

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. Perhaps that’s why some research experts say, “Data is the new currency.” They work with major companies like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé, who want to anticipate consumer trends to shape their product development.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. If they don’t match the persona market, these contacts are not likely to offer constructive criticism given they may not even relate to the pain you are seeking to address.

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Product Strategy Explained in Practical Terms

Product Management University

Let’s look at the practical side of developing a full blown strategy for each product. This is the biggest part of product strategy that never gets talked about, and it just might be the biggest hurdle every product management team and every organization faces. The best sales teams on the planet can’t absorb that much.

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Collaboration between Designers and Product Teams

The Product Coalition

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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User Research: What Is It and How to Do It in SaaS

Userpilot

User research methods for SaaS: Usability testing User testing User interviews Focus groups Session replays First click testing User feedback surveys Card sorting A/B testing Product analytics Heatmaps Userpilot can help you conduct user experience (UX) research and easily interpret the data. What is user research?