Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Lessons from launching a #2 Product of the Year on Product Hunt – for product managers. Today we are talking about getting attention for your product launch. Joining us is a co-founder who got his product to #1 Product of the Day, #1 Product of the Week, and a finalist for Product of the Year on Product Hunt.

Product launches 94

Product launches Development Team Review Technical Review Customer Feedback 94

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

Engineering 204

Engineering Software Review Technical Review User Testing 204

Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Do you consider customer feedback? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? You may have realized how customer feedback has become a huge focus in recent years.

User Testing 76

User Testing Feedback Software Data Visualization Research Software 76

Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm. Product metrics can be a leading indicator of future financial outcomes. Stay away from flashy “vanity metrics” and focus on gathering deeper insights with value metrics. Do they need it?”.

Data Visualization 88

Data Visualization Startups Analytic Tools Technical Review 88

ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January likely didn’t take global pandemics, fluctuating economies, and social unrest into account. Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Were customer relationships impacted? Were KPIs met?

Development Team Review 87

Development Team Review Technical Review Customer Feedback Onboarding KPIs 87

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies.

Technical Review 157

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. 3:15] How does Wyze compete?

Artificial Inteligence 109

Artificial Inteligence User Testing Feedback Software Customer Feedback 109

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

Development Team Review 101

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

Development Team Review 62

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.

Product Management 120

Product Management Product Manager Reporting Tools Technical Review 120

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Weak Development Team User Testing Technical Review 52

Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. It’s our job to make good decisions. Why do people switch jobs? Find a Mentor.

Development Team Review 139

Development Team Review Technical Review Weak Development Team Vision 139

UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

One of the most challenging things about being a good Product Manager is the fact that we are often charged with the responsibility of making things happen without having any direct authority to “make” them happen. Conclusion.

Development Team Review 100

Development Team Review Technical Review Customer Experience Positioning 100

Roy Madden

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

At Feedly, we care passionately about the success of our customers. With more than 1,000 organizations relying on Feedly Teams for connecting to the content they need to accelerate research, marketing, and sales, we are growing our customer success team to continue to deliver a 7-star onboarding and support experience.

Development Team Review 41

Development Team Review User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 41

The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

Analytic Tools 60

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software Data Visualization 60

The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Excited about this finding, I started to apply for product manager jobs.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Finance Research Software Feedback Software 60

Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

You must be liked, trusted, and respected to be an effective product leader 2. Being a product leader is a humbling opportunity and a privilege as you build consequential products that will impact your customers' lives. Hire from diverse communities so your teams and organization can represent your customer segments.

Leadership 52

Leadership Development Team Review Technical Review Reporting Tools 52

UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

Research Software 82

Research Software Analytic Tools Feedback Software User Testing 82

Bain Public

APRIL 25, 2022

We had some insightful discussions and they confided in me the challenges the local startups and ecosystem were experiencing regarding their roadmap development. "I I bet you're the only guys in town who values product management as much as I do." - Paul Ortchanian. Through SOAP , we are creating a new model.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Artificial Inteligence 52

ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Do you find yourself continually diverted from your product’s itinerary to delve into your boss’s new favorite subject? Are you having to explain why your product’s not using blockchain or the Internet of Things or artificial intelligence? Executives are furthest from the customers and the product itself.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Development Team Review Artificial Inteligence User Testing 69

Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery.

Product Research 141

Product Research Data Visualization Software Review Technical Review 141

ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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Roadmap Data Visualization Technical Review User Testing 72

Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. We have to encourage them to talk about their product ideas, making sure all voices are heard, not just the loudest: Where does marketing expect us to go?

Roadmap 40

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. None of her employment at that time was about product management. I liked being that interface between what the company was building and what the customer needs.”

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Feedback Software 52

Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or  Why have a request process except to approve what I need?

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Software Review 93

Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

” Without clear growth goals, your team can’t stay in sync or work at their best. The biggest cost of an out of sync team – wasted effort. Imagine you ask someone on your team to build an email campaign to promote a new feature. Goal : Improve new user activation. A Case Study from LogMeIn.

Research Software 52

Research Software Analytic Tools Reporting Tools User Testing 52

ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? In the never-ending race to ship out product updates to keep up with—or ideally, stay ahead of—the competition, it’s easy to get caught up in the flurry of activity and become a feature factory. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

User Testing 83

User Testing User Friction Development Team Review Reporting Tools 83

Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Others will fail.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technical Advisors Reporting Tools Data Visualization 52

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. Therefore, they need to have a thorough understanding of the product.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Software Review 52

ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only about five years ago that I had an important epiphany that would alter the trajectory of our company’s product strategy and my career. And our success was evident in the feedback. The Product Team’s Role in Customer Experience Strategy. Pat on back.

Customer Experience 65

Customer Experience Development Team Review Onboarding KPIs Reporting Tools 65

The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle? The Product Death Cycle emerges when we build features based on customer feedback but still see low usage.

Product Research 52

Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. It can be used for the entire building process at engineering and even product management.

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Engineering Presentation Technical Review Systems Review 178

Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Product Management for Non-Software Products. JJ Rorie is a thought-leader and practitioner who has spent her career helping companies optimize their product management and marketing functions. Listen to Masters of Product Management Podcast Episode 067. I am a product management junkie.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools Research Software Feedback Software Software Review 52

Amplitude

MAY 17, 2017

When there’s so much data to work with, it’s easy to get careless and assume that the numbers right under your nose are always telling you the truth: A new piece of code breaks your homepage , but after looking at your analytics you see that users are spending more time on it than ever —and therefore must be more engaged.

Data Visualization 71

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Software Review Technical Review 71

UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

Hired as external consultants, researchers, and product designers, sometimes we are asked to join an existing product team and help in transforming an organization from the inside. . Sadly, delivering great design doesn’t automatically translate into successful products. Base decisions on observations and insights.

Leadership 56

Leadership Research Software Development Team Review Product Research 56

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. “How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?”

User Testing 103

User Testing Engineering Product Marketing Feedback Software 103

UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Something your customers will love. Why the best SF companies work with remote UX teams. Humility versus awards.

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