The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment? 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. And when are experiments invalid? Running Experiments has become one of the most valuable tools for Product Managers to validate ideas, de-risk releases and measure the impact of their work.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Onboarding is a holistic, ongoing process sitting at the intersection of many different teams: product, sales, marketing, customer engagement and business operations. A customer’s onboarding may start with them visiting your website and choosing to purchase your product or service. Onboarding in one part of the app (Platform tab).

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

If you’re looking to improve your team's work, a product management framework can be an excellent starting point. A framework is a set of guidelines or principles that can help guide your team’s decisions and provide a common understanding for all team members. Example of Applying DACI Framework 2. DACI What is it?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2022

When I talk about time management, I share with you the methods that worked best for me. I took some time to think about what I wanted my company and my life to look like in five years. If I wanted to achieve X in five years’ time, where would I need to be three years from now? I do the same with planning. And one year?

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. Great key results are specific, time-bound, measurable, and verifiable. How do you expect this feature will impact users?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Good design is good business.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. When it comes time to launch, however, they fall into the trap of thinking submitting an app to the app stores is the same as launching an app. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. It’s marketing.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Their customers are among the biggest websites online, including retailers like Macy’s and Levi’s, marketplaces like Farfetch and Etsy, and publishers like the New York Times. But there wasn’t a well-defined product philosophy at Botify at this time. This means that each trio can adjust the RACI to their own experiences.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Your product’s value needs to be defined, delivered, and perceived as such by your customers. If this isn’t challenging enough, what your customers want and need varies based on their profile and maturity with your product. At that moment it hit me: I didn’t need my car to be super clean all the time. Likely not.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 23, 2022

However, it does not scale well, with the myriad of devices, OSs, screens and other combinations that exist on the market that your users will utilise. Automated testing really assists with the efficiency here; being able to execute the same tests repeatedly, quickly and timely on a multitude of devices. What is Mobile Test Automation?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Establishing a robust product discovery infrastructure at your organization gives you the freedom to focus more of your time on creating, analyzing, and testing customer insights.

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Sachin Rekhi

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As product designers, we aspire to build product experiences that are not only useful (solve a real pain point for our users) and usable (effortlessly allow our users to accomplish their goal), but ultimately delightful (elicit a positive emotion from users). Meet Your Happy Chemicals.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Get out of your own way to get better information from your users to make products they love. Creating products customers love. Every day we are looking for problems we can solve in ways that create more value for customers. Every day we are looking for problems we can solve in ways that create more value for customers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 15, 2021

In Aug 2020, Google Play released the In-App Review API which lets app developers prompt users to submit Play Store ratings and reviews for the app without the inconvenience of navigating outside of the app or game. During the flow, the user has the ability to rate your app using the 1 to 5 star system and to add an optional comment.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to) Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Ahead of the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st and, at a time where digital products are very much in the spotlight, we’re digging deep into accessibility to better understand how we, as product managers, can improve our digital products. Accessibility Guidelines. Introduction. Complying With the Law.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. At Xing the technology we use is predefined so I will focus business and user needs and how they are connected. Understanding User Needs is key.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this article, I want to share tips on creating the first version of a career progression framework that fits your team and company, and how to get the most out of it. A well-crafted career progression framework can become an essential tool to overcome a significant number of challenges of design leadership.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2024

User interface design is not just about drawing buttons and icons—it’s about designing the way users can interact with your product. UI design focuses on visual aspects, while UX design covers the overall product experience , both working together to create cohesive digital experiences. Command-Line Interface (CLI).

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Userpilot

AUGUST 16, 2022

What if you knew that not all goal-setting frameworks are beneficial to your team? There are a plethora of goal-setting frameworks out there. But choosing a framework is easier said than done. Let’s dive into this article to find the perfect goal-setting framework to grow your product. Tiered goals framework.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Although customer relationship management shares the same principle of centralization, it focuses on nurturing leads and efficient customer management rather than resource management. Scheduling: Often paired with project planning, scheduling involves determining task timing concerning available resources, budget, and deadlines.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 8, 2017

It’s so easy to take the innovation and enjoyment of the job away from people by wrapping them up in guidelines about how to deploy the skill they’ve spent their whole lives learning. Key to this approach is the understanding that it’s fundamentally about reducing the risk of developing something that is not needed by your customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2018

What we achieved is making our web Messenger accessible and compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 A shared framework for web accessibility. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are a shared set of technical standards that explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

When building your products, the security and privacy of your customers’ data needs to be a top priority. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a major regulatory change that will affect all companies with EU customers or users – and because it applies to companies no matter where they may be, it has a truly global reach.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. We value this familiarity because we understand that the important problems to be solved are the ones that deliver customer or business value.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Establishing a product discovery framework from scratch takes cross-team effort, so it’s important to get the right people on board from the start. Here’s just some of the benefits that are worth highlighting.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s become clear to me that everyone should be playing with GPTs (custom versions of ChatGTP) right now. He shared a few examples of how people at top-tier tech companies are using custom GPTs to help their non-eng teams be more productive, while also taking a load off their eng teams. But you’re wrong. What are GPTs?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We often spend less time thinking and talking about the impact of design work – that is, what does our work truly achieve and change beyond just the artefact that it delivers. High quality design work: Is valuable to customers and solves the intended problem. Is easy to use and understandable. Is well crafted and polished.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

A practical guide for building a robust, scalable, and lean product discovery framework in your organization. So I’ve written a series of articles that I hope can provide you with a concrete and insightful guideline to take away and start implementing. Arguments about customer needs. Sound familiar? but it’s not insurmountable.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

That approach works fine until your sales team gets on the phone to tell a customer about the Next Big Thing. Sales is trying to help the customer see the value in your company. The customer gets excited because they’ve been promised a New Thing! That time is full of uncertainty and changing projects. Framework Step 1?—?Vision

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Interest rates are at all time lows. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. In The Matrix, Neo is able to defeat his most powerful enemies by wielding time. Money is cheap.

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