Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Feature parity across desktop and mobile is rarely what customers need or want. If an organization wants to shift to product teams—teams empowered to drive outcomes —they need to structure their teams such that each team includes the necessary skills and abilities required to build and deliver customer value.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Product management malpractice.    Stymied. 

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2022

This is especially true for product strategy. It’s impossible to create a winning product strategy without asking basic questions.?—?why, why, what, how, when, and who- and the more complex questions, for example, “What’s the user acquisition strategy?”. In other words, preconceived notions and assumptions.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MAY 13, 2024

We asked product managers, design leads, and research leads to understand why they opt for agency designers and researchers over in-house staff. In this article, we collected the patterns in their motivations combined with our user research and responses in product design-related Slack groups.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh on Pexels When I first started my consulting business , I attended a sales coaching workshop.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. The former is achieved by solving a problem or by providing a specific benefit.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2022

How I came to realize product strategy doesn’t exist in isolation “Two roads diverged in a wood and I?—?I So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” Questions were my business as a consultant. using my best-consulting delay tactic. “I

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If you are providing more value to your customers, then let your product be appreciated at the price it deserves. We hope to inspire you to be more hands-on and persistent in pricing research and experiments. What is pricing research? What is product monetization? What product pricing questions to ask customers?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

TL;DR The Hamster Wheel : teams often chase one feature after another without linking them to user needs , resembling a hamster wheel. Solution : create an outcome-based roadmap by identifying customer needs and wants. The Ivory Tower : teams that stop consulting customers build products that don’t meet market needs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. This makes it more important than ever to create products people actually want to use. What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. But how do you do that?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. Slack, an acronym for “Searchable Log of All Conversation & Knowledge,” set out to “make work-life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive” by bringing the right people, tools, and information together.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Management to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required Who is Lenny Rachitsky? Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. If you haven’t already, ensure you speak with 5 to 10 potential customers this week.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many of those companies would spend that money on building their software without sufficiently interacting with their customers. A typical product development process would follow the Waterfall principles, taking quarters, and even a year to release a product to the market.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2020

When it comes to measuring customer satisfaction with your product, the Net Promoter Score (NPS) can be one of the most important metrics you should pay attention to. The NPS score is essentially an index ranging from -100 to 100 that measures the willingness of customers to recommend a company’s products or services to others.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What and Why and the inspirational differences that product brings.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

A successful product can only work if people actually buy it. But too many product leaders focus on the product itself and not on what makes it sell. As product leaders you cannot ignore the full customer journey to make sure it makes sense. It appears in your product itself. Hint: it’s not features.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2021

Customer journey analytics is your greatest resource in making sense of your user data. If all the data we collect to create better products and customer experiences were trees, each company could plant its own forest. It’s being able to look from above and see the customer journey that winds through them.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

Yet we continue to think our customers won’t mind changing to use our products. In the B2B hemisphere, change goes hand and hand with new products. B2B product leaders, I am calling you out on the dreaded implementation phase. They hand the contract off to the customer success team before the ink dries. What if’s.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But is it really what your customers want? Here’s how to look at it in order to make the right decision for your customers. Layer 1: Your Customers We always try to make things simple for our customers, while preserving the value. That’s the magic of a great user experience. But which one is more important?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Your product might be awesome, but if there is no significant need on the other side, it wouldn’t succeed. A need is more than a general desire, and you should trust your customers’ actions more than their words. His stats showed that over 60% of his customers only bought from him after having known him for two years or more.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 30, 2018

As a researcher on attitudes to digital privacy and an advocate for user-friendly privacy practices, I’m excited by these developments. I’ve been following the conversation and have started to see evidence of a long-term shift in consumer attitudes towards increased security and control. The Privacy 2×2.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li. A Product Development Health Check is like a fitness test for your product development practice. 5 Key Elements to Check A single product issue may reflect multiple underlying causes.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 17, 2023

Successful products solve customer problems. The key to product success, then, is simply to understand those problems, and the obvious way to do that is to talk to customers, right? There are all kinds of ways to make mistakes when seeking input from customers: You can talk to the wrong ones. Why bother?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 16, 2018

Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay]. Product management requires product strategy. What are your customers’ needs? These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy. How do you best solve for these needs?

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