Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Product managers spend an incredible amount of time digging for user insights to uncover patterns that will drive product growth. Imagine the time and resources you’ll conserve and channel to other activities instead! User insights sum up your users’ perceptions and feelings about your product or service.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If you’re wondering what different types of customer feedback are and how to collect them, you’re in the right place! In this article, we look at 13 different ways to collect feedback that product managers can leverage to gain a deep understanding of customer needs and make informed product decisions.

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Gainsight

APRIL 10, 2023

By Harshi Banka, Senior Director of Strategy, Digital Customer Success The last few months have been rough for SaaS businesses with multiple headwinds including the economic downturn, rising inflation, and decreasing investments. There’s no doubt that customer success (CS) has become existential to SaaS.

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2023

A better understanding of your users is never a bad thing and user flow analysis can be an extremely powerful tool to help you build it. TL;DR User flows are a detailed visualization of the specific steps in a path or process a user takes to finish a given task. What is a user flow? signing up for an app).

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

How to create customer feedback systems to gain insights into user needs ? TL;DR Customer feedback systems are frameworks for collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer feedback for actionable insights. It also allows them to make informed product development decisions, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Is your new user onboarding process actually helping new users engage with your product and get value from it? You can bring in all the new users you want, but it won’t count for much unless they understand how to derive value from your product and actually stick around. What is new user onboarding?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Why Difficult Emotions Matter Particularly for Product People. We may not like difficult emotions like confusion, frustration, anger, envy, sadness, and worry, but we all experience them. For us product people, however, difficult emotions are particularily relevant. Take your time to answer them. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Why Difficult Emotions Matter Particularly for Product People. We may not like difficult emotions like confusion, frustration, anger, envy, sadness, and worry, but we all experience them. For us product people, however, difficult emotions are particularily relevant. Take your time to answer them. What does it feel like?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, the scoring and weighting are still subject to bias, and the process doesn’t always reflect customer needs. Next, group criteria into positive and negative ones and assign weighting value to each of them. Before you do so, however, validate them through user interviews, surveys , fake door tests , or prototype experiments.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Consequently, you don’t know for sure how fast you are running and if you are on track to achieve your target finish time. You’ll end up guessing how well the product is doing and if it is creating the desired value. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.”

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The key results might then be “simplify user journey A” and “enhance feature alpha.”. OKRs can be used to create cascading goals—goals that are systematically linked. Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Its main goal is to bring the product to the market and ensure it’s well-received by the target customers. The product marketing manager role involves conducting customer research, developing the GTM strategy , refining product positioning and messaging , managing product launches , and creating onboarding experiences.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. They can also help product managers secure key stakeholder buy-in.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2023

TL; DR The company’s growth rate refers to the measurement of variables that indicate a company’s growth over time. Conversion rate measures the percentage of users who take a desired action, such as converting from free trials to paying customers. What is the company’s growth rate?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Consequently, a product manager and a Scrum product owner are leaders, too. They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing.

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Gainsight

MARCH 12, 2024

Kevin Costner’s famous quote from Field of Dreams , “If you build it, he will come,” still inspires millions, but it doesn’t apply to your digital customer academy. Go through this exercise—solo or with your team—for the customer segments you’re creating courses for right now. Where are they in the customer journey?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In-app communication is one of the most effective ways to engage with your users since it allows you to send contextual messages at the perfect moment. In-app messages are used to engage with users as they use the product, while push notifications are used to draw user attention back when they aren’t using the product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. While product managers are more customer and business-centric, technical PMs focus on the technical development and implementation of solutions. Product vision.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is the Product Vision? The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. You can think of it as a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) —or a moon shot—that inspires people and offers continued guidance for the next five to ten years.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. Are you ready to dig in?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

TL;DR Product optimization is a process of improving aspects of the product, like the UI, in small increments to better satisfy user needs and deliver on business goals. The process of product optimization starts with goal setting , like improving usability. After that, plan your experiment.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Listen to this article: [link].

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. The influence you exercise should therefore be a positive one, see my article Should Product People be Servant-Leaders?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Before the release, the product launch manager is involved in market and customer research. Its objective is to uncover unsolved user problems and solutions that would be worth exploring. This outlines how to launch the product to the right clientele at the right time. Product launch manager job description.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Navigating the world of product management can be overwhelming, especially when trying to understand the different roles and responsibilities. Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. What is a Staff Product Manager? Which one is right for you?

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

If you already work within a product team, a good place to start honing your technical skills is by engaging more with the development team. Find out more about how they work as well as the kinds of challenges they experience on the job. It will also require you to support and encourage your product team.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The key results might then be “daily active users are up by 20%,” “session length is increased by 10% on average,” and “the objective is achieved by 30 June 2021.”. OKRs can be used to create cascading goals—goals that are systematically linked. A product goal, finally, helps determine the right sprint goals.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

It is a diverse role that requires a mix of several skills and experience for high performance. So, what are the essential product owner skills in 2024 that enhance a PO’s effectiveness and ability to see customer needs and maximize product value? Here is a list of the essential product owner skills in 2024: 1.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2023

By screening your ideas before investing in their development, you reduce the risk of failure and can allocate resources to initiatives that satisfy customer needs and market demand. Common examples include market demand, customer willingness to pay , or scalability. This will reflect your product goals and organizational culture.

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Userpilot

JUNE 1, 2022

Want to know how the goals-signals-metrics process can be used to create a better user experience? When you’re running a SaaS business, it’s important to define what goals, signals, and metrics you’ll be setting so that everyone in your team can be on the same page. What is the goals-signals-metrics process?

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